2021 Achievements

Elizabeth Otto's "Haunted Bauhaus" has won the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association’s 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize.

The Department of History's Sarah Handley-Cousins received the Disability History Association's 2020 Outstanding Book Award for "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North."

The Department of Biological Sciences researcher and senior associate dean for research and sponsored programs is among 65 individuals elected to the American Academy of Microbiology’s 2021 Fellowship Class.

College of Arts and Sciences faculty member Mitsuaki Shimojo is one of this year’s winners of the President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, the highest university award for undergraduate mentoring.

This is awarded to any member age 40 years or younger for outstanding achievement in science or public policy relating to risk analysis and exceptional promise for continued contributions to risk analysis.

Nereson was selected from a robust pool of applicants to explore the complex relationship between dance and democracy.

Aga, director of the UB RENEW Institute and Henry M. Woodburn Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, will travel first to Portugal and then to the Philippines to complete her Fulbright Global Scholar Award.

Yige Dong received a 2021 early career fellowship from the American Council of Learned Studies (ACLS) Luce program for China Studies.

The honor recognizes Prasad’s groundbreaking contributions to the development of multiphoton materials and technologies.

The support provided by the 20th Century Club funding will allow Green to continue her research activity while also serving in the key administrative chair role.

The award recognizes truly exceptional faculty mentoring of graduate students at UB.

Only 10 are awarded annually by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.

Julie Bowker, Larry Hawk, Jamie Ostrov, Michael Poulin, Jen Read and Mark Seery were awarded.

The UB communication professor has been recognized for her work in risk analysis.

Silk Roads Songbook is a socially driven, interdisciplinary, multilingual project that weaves songs into the land, broadcasting unruly voices on a major ancient Eurasian migration route, challenging Orientalist exoticism, cultural tourism, and censorship.

The prestigious award is given for exemplary leadership, scholarship and/or artistry and philanthropy or service to dance education.