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75TH ANNIVERSARY COCKTAIL RECEPTION May 25th at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society from 5:30pm-7:30pm
Go Bulls!
Nearly 250 engineering school alumni, students, faculty, staff, family and friends attended a pregame tailgate party Sept. 18. The event preceded the UB Bulls-Central Florida football game in UB Stadium and was hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association (EAA). EAA board member Rick Rink, BS ’80, (left), chaired the event, and Joe Frandina, BS ’78, (right), EAA vice president, was head chef.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
ANNOUNCING THE NEW ADDITION
of a distance learning option to the School of Nursing PhD program! • Accessible Education • Innovative Technology • Compelling Research • Outstanding Opportunities
OTHER PROGRAMS AVAILABLE
• BS in Nursing • Accelerated BS in Nursing • Doctorate in Nursing Practice • PhD in Nursing
FOR MORE INFORMATION
about our programs, or to register for the reception, VISIT: http://nursing.buffalo.edu EMAIL: nursing@buffalo.edu, or CALL: Sally Sams: 716-829-3209
42 UBTODAY Spring 2011
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Awards are nothing new for Venugopal Govindaraju, PhD ’92 & MS ’88, but 2010 was a particularly stellar year for the UB professor. Founding director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) and the associate director of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), Govindaraju is a specialist in pattern recognition. He also is a UB Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and in 2010 was named a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system. For his pioneering contributions to biometric systems, Govindaraju was one of just five technologists in the world to receive a 2010 Computer Society Technical Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an organization of which he is a fellow. For the third consecutive year, he was selected for the prestigious 2010 HP Labs Innovation Research program, which is designed to encourage breakthrough, collaborative research between HP and the academic community. Award-winning UB professor Venugopal Govindaraju, PhD ’92 & MS ’88, works with computer science and engineering students.
DOUGLAS LEVERE, BA ’89
Govindaraju recognized