Jill K. Singer, Buffalo State College professor of earth sciences and director of the Undergraduate Research Office, was honored Thursday with the State University of New York’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities for 2008 at the college’s academic convocation in Rockwell Hall auditorium. The award was for her service to Buffalo State and SUNY. Singer, who for more than two decades has researched river restoration and sediment dynamics, has received grants totaling nearly $3.5 million from agencies including the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
***
Jane Cole Godin, a leader in Buffalo’s Jewish community for more than 40 years, received the Nathan Benderson Community Service Award at the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo’s United Jewish Fund Campaign 2009 Kick-Off Community Dinner on Monday in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
Jewish Federation President Arthur A. Glick noted that the award is for extraordinary service and commitment to the Jewish community. Past recipients include: Nathan Benderson, Ann H. Cohn, Harold S. and Fanette) Goldman, Gordon
R. Gross, Irving M. and Marilyn C. Shuman, Ruth Kahn Stovroff, Haskell Stovroff, James Stovroff, Milton and Amy Zeckhauser, Rose
H. and Leonard H. Frank, Donald S. Day, Shirley T. Joseph, Larry and Sharon Levite, Janet Desmon and Richard Zakalik. Godin was chairwoman of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Fund Campaign in 1981 and over the years has served as a Federation board member, officer and member of the executive committee. She currently is secretary of the Federation’s board. She and her husband, William Godin, headed the 2007 UJF Kick-Off Dinner and were co-chairmen of the 2006 dinner.
She has been one of the chairwomen of the Women’s Philanthropy Lion of Judah Team and is now serving on the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies board for the second time. Godin has also been director of volunteers at the Rosa Coplon Home.
The UJF Campaign Kick-Off Dinner was headed by Marilyn and Irving Shuman, Julie Kianoff and Ray Fink, and featured political analysts Paul Begala and William Kristol.
***
James Olson, professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, is leading research studies on exposure to pesticides, the potential for adverse effects associated with exposures in certain populations and genetic susceptibility to the pesticides. The studies are funded by $1.5 million in new grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The three-year EPA grant focuses on the activation and detoxification of the most commonly used pesticides in the U. S. and worldwide. These pesticides can stop the action of an enzyme essential to nerve function in humans.
UB will lead studies assessing human exposure to these pesticides in the study population.
Matthew Bonner, of the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions’ department of social and preventive medicine, and James Knaak, of the UB department of pharmacology and toxicology, are co- investigators on the UB portion of both grants.
UB co-investigators on the EPA grant are Aiming Yu, of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Richard Browne, department of biotechnology and clinical laboratory sciences; and Paul Kostyniak, department of pharmacology and toxicology, both in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
***
James Dunlop, senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Catholic Health System, has been chosen as a “rising star” by Modern Healthcare magazine.
Dunlop is one of a dozen health-care executives in the nation profiled as a rising health care management star in the publication.
The magazine’s annual recognition program drew a near-record 134 applicants from all sectors of the health care industry, according to magazine officials. An editorial review board composed of the magazine’s senior editors reviewed the nominations and selected Dunlop.
(c) 2008 Buffalo News. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.
Comments