Faculty Honors and Awards

Globally recognized for world-class research, we offer students a wide variety of excellent instruction from a growing body of award-winning faculty.

photo of SUNY Chancellor's award medal
Two from SEAS receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
5/16/18
Kui Ren and Terri Nusstein from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been named recipients of the 2018 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence.
SUNY Distinguished Professor Medal
Two SEAS faculty named SUNY Distinguished Professors
4/20/18
Two SEAS faculty members were among the five UB professors to be appointed to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty achievement in the SUNY system.
John Crassidis
Crassidis named Samuel P. Capen Professor
3/14/18
"Being back at my alma mater is my obvious inspiration. I know that UB is one of best in the world. Every day when I leave my office, I think to myself, 'I hope what I did today made UB a better place,' said John Crassidis, who was recently recognized with the celebrated Samuel P. Capen professorship. 
Amit Goyal in front of UB's Solar Strand
Amit Goyal elected to National Academy of Engineering
2/8/18

Director of UB’s RENEW Institute and SUNY Empire Innovation Professor, Goyal was cited for advances in materials science and superconducting materials.

Aidong Zhang portrait photo
Zhang named ACM Fellow
2/7/18
Aidong Zhang, a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is one of 54 computer scientists named a 2017 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Zhang is being recognized for her contributions to bioinformatics and data mining.
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Su elected Fellow of IEEE
2/1/18
Weifeng Su, a professor in UB’s Department of Electrical Engineering, has been elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).