Hires/Promotions/ Honors

Travers Collins and Co., a Buffalobased integrated marketing communications firm, promoted Bill Zulewski to creative supervisor. With the firm since 2001, Zulewski earned his bachelor’s degree in design from Buffalo State College.

Phillips Lytle attorney Taylan Sen was recently named to the board of directors of infoTech Niagara for a one-year term. infoTech Niagara is the trade association of Western New York’s information technology industry.

Cohen and Lombardo associate Timothy J. Altieri will deliver the keynote address at the eighth annual Scholarship Banquet of Phi Iota Alpha fraternity’s Lambda Chapter in December in the Buffalo Banquet Lodge Center.

Company items

Niagara County FCU was selected to receive the 2009 Ralph W. Hillman Marketing Award from Universal Sharing Network. The award recognizes a participating USNet credit union for best exemplifying the spirit and enthusiasm consistently exhibited by Hillman in his support of the shared branching network.

BigLDistributors of Buffalo was named the 2008 recipient of the Gorell Five Star Award for outstanding achievement in sales of Gorell windows and doors, as well as an extremely high level of customer satisfaction.

Contributing

Lake Shore Savings presented $10,000 to Fredonia State College in support of the new SUNY Fredonia Business Technology Incubator, slated to officially open in downtown Dunkirk later this fall. The gift is in response to a $300,000 challenge grant received by Buffalo’s Oishei Foundation that will match $100,000 of giving received per year over each of the next three years to aid this economic development project.

Patterson Dental, a national provider of dental products, equipment and software, turnkey digital solutions and other services to dentists and dental laboratories throughout North America, donated state-of-the-art dental instruments totaling nearly $14,000 to the Sheehan Health Network’s Kaleida Family Dental Clinic. Patterson Dental has an Amherst branch at 405 Crosspoint Parkway, Suite 110. The Kaleida Family Dental Clinic at Sheehan, located at 425 Michigan Ave., is a collaboration of Kaleida Health, Sheehan Health Network, University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine and Women& Children’s Hospital.

Patents

Title: “Use of molecular sieves for the removal of HFC-23 from fluorocarbon products” No.: 7,597,744 Inventors: Thomas, Raymond H. (Pendleton); Singh, Rajiv R. (Getzville); Morris, Thomas W. (Mendham, N. J.); Robinson, Roy P. (Cheektowaga)

Assignee: Honeywell International (Morristown, N. J.) Date issued: Oct. 6, 2009

Title: “Azeotrope-like compositions of tetrafluoropropenes and bromofluoropropenes”

No.: 7,597,818 Inventors: Singh, Rajiv R (Getzville); Wilson, David P (East Amherst); Shankland, Ian (Randolph, N. J.); Pham, Hang T. (Amherst) Assignee: Honeywell International (Morristown, N. J.) Date issued: Oct. 6, 2009