On the Record / June 23, 2009
Hires/Promotions/ Honors
The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy honored Dr. Tammie Lee Demler with the Orville C. Baxter Memorial Professional Practice Award for 2009 which goes to an outstanding practicing pharmacist who exhibits high ideals of professionalism and whose practice of pharmacy displays genuine concern for patients. Dr. Demler, director of the Psychiatric Residency Program at UB, is host of Lockport Community TV’s “WNY Tonight,” which airs at 8 p. m., every Wednesday night on LCTV Channel 20.
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Medaille College associate professor of mathematics and sciences Dr. Brenda Fredette was selected to participate in the annual reading and scoring of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Examinations this June in chemistry.
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Synacor, a Buffalo-based technology company, named Jesse Griffis integration developer and Tim Lenk a NOC operator. Also, the company named Steve Burr a Web architect and David Bishop a senior systems administrator. Also, the company named Eric Shields a GUI developer.
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Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute’s executive director and CEO Dr. Eaton E. Lattman will serve as a co-organizer and speaker for the 2nd Conference on Drug Development for the Third World at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy in June.
Company items
BCS, a Tonawanda-based Energy Services Company, received re-certification as an Energy Services Company by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of General Services.
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Northwest Bancorp overhauled the Web site for subsidiary Northwest Savings Bank to make it more streamlined and simplified.
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OtherWisz Creative Corp., a Buffalo marketing and design firm, created new marketing collateral for Independent Nursing Care, a health care organization located in West Falls.
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FB Displays and Designs designed and produced new displays for the University at Buffalo School of Management’s MBA, MS and PhD programs.
Contributing
The Verizon Foundation awarded a $10,000 grant to the Police Athletic League to support Mayor Byron Brown’s Read Rules! Summer Reading Challenge. The program is open to approximately 12,000 students attending 41 area schools.
Patents
Title: “Method of making high performance heat sinks” No.: 7,537,151 Inventors: Bhatti, Mohinder Singh (Amherst); Griffin, Patrick Mitchell (Lake Orion, Mich.) Assignee: Delphi Technologies (Troy, Mich.) ) Date issued: May 26, 2009
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