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Volume 62 No. 50
Monday, February 11, 2013
Retired Coca-Cola CEO sets up UB scholarship Story on page 2
Bruce Jackson’s new photo exhibit opens at Burchfield Penney Art Center Story on page 5
School of Pharmacy prepares for new dean Dean Anderson to step down at end of academic year TONG MENG Staff Writer
Nyeri Moulterie /// The Spectrum
Hong-biao “Hank” Liu, M.D. Ph.D., hopes his medical expertise will be useful to UB students, faculty and staff. His new clinic in The Commons uses high-tech equipment to ensure efficient health care.
Just your common doctor Experienced medical professional opens new clinic in The Commons BRIAN JOSEPHS Senior Managing Editor Hong-biao “Hank” Liu, M.D. Ph.D., is a busy man. The doctor is currently splitting time as a house physician for Brylin Hospital, a primary physician for the Medical Care of Western New York at Buffalo and as a medical officer at the VA Hospital in Buffalo. He’s losing hair at 45, but he still glows with excitement as he’s talking about his latest innovation: his new medical center in The Commons.
Last December, Liu expanded his medical clinic, Luna Medical Center, to a suite in The Commons. It is the first clinic of its kind to open on North Campus. The center offers a variety of services despite its location in a small office tucked deep in The Commons’ second floor. Liu said the clinic revolves around 10 services, which include primary care, pain management and anxiety counseling. Liu noted the new, more relaxed location was quite the change from Luna’s busy setting in its first location on Elmwood Avenue. It’s not about relaxation, though. A study done last year by the General Hospital PsychiaContinued on page 2
After 18 years at the helm of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SoPPS), Dean Wayne Anderson is stepping down. A national search committee is finding his replacement. Provost Charles Zukoski formed the committee and Dean of the School of Dental Medicine Michael Glick is heading it. It consists of a diverse group of people, including faculty members from both SoPPS and non-SoPPS schools, a Ph.D. student in pharmaceutical sciences and an associate professor from the Roswell Park Graduate Division at UB. Russell Reynolds Associates, a consulting firm, has also been recruited to facilitate the search process. Anderson, who is effectively stepping down at the end of the academic year, said SoPPS is in a very strong position to bring in a new dean. It was ranked the 17th-best pharmacy school in America in 2012, according to U.S. News & World Report. “This is a perfect time to step down from the deanship and allow new leadership to continue our growth,” Anderson said in an email. “The school is in a very strong position now -- nationally ranked, in a strong fiscal position and growing.” Anderson is carrying on his responsibilities as dean until a new one is found, Zukoski said in a letter addressed to the university community. Zukoski hopes the new dean will be inaugurated before the beginning of the fall, according to UB Reporter. He expects
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Wayne Anderson, dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is stepping down from the position. Provost Charles Zukoski has formed a national search committee to find a replacement.
the search to be carried out during the spring semester. Selected candidates will come to UB for campus visits as the semester concludes. Continued on page 6
More than freedom
Professor examines Civil War’s black soldiers in award-winning essay KELSEY BENNETT Staff Writer Thousands of African-American men lined up for battle to claim their rights as United States citizens during the Civil War. Carole Emberton tells their story. Emberton, an assistant professor of history, received the George and Ann Richards Prize, presented by the Civil War Era Center of Pennsylvania State University. It is given to the best article of the year published in The Journal of the Civil War Era. The board voted unanimously to award the honor to Emberton. “[Experts] are all convinced it is going to make a big impact in the field,” said Erik Seeman, director of the UB Humanities Institute. A kind woman with a soft southern accent, the grisly depictions Emberton portrays are a shock to even the most studied historians. “Her piece is powerful, beautiful, mindexpanding, almost philosophical, and it is a model not merely of Civil War scholarship but of what historians can do when they are working at the top of their game,” said Stephen Berry, the Amanda and Greg Gregory chair in the Civil War Era in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, in an email. Emberton’s essay, “Only Murder Makes Men: Reconsidering the Black Military Experience,” elaborately explores the trajectory of black masculinity for men who served in the Civil War, as they went from slaves to freemen.
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Carole Emberton, an assistant professor of history, received the George and Ann Richards Prize, an award given to the best article of the year published in The Journal of the Civil War Era.
The essay is part of a book set to come out in June titled Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War. Emberton said her book and essay sought to “challenge some of the most basic assumptions of American historiography and complicate the story of freedom that we like to tell about this period.” She argues what the nearly 200,000 black Union soldiers experienced in the Civil War created a hyper-masculine culture that would later have deadly affects on the freed slaves in the Reconstruction South.
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“[The essay] explores how definitions of black manhood took root in the abolitionist response to slavery as an emasculating institution that made black men too weak and passive to be ‘real’ men,” Emberton said. Glorification of war is an unfortunate result of the monumental nature of the slave emancipation, according to Emberton. She said the United States has a tendency to “overlook the pain and suffering [war] caused the very people it was supposed to liberate.”
The liberation dealt not only with the desire for equality among races but also with what Emberton called gender dynamics. “I’m interested in how ideas of masculinity – what it meant to be a man – intersected with ideas of race,” Emberton said. Berry agrees Emberton’s work highlights how individuals in the 19th century assigned a synonymy between citizenship and masculinity, as well as masculinity and violence. “[Emberton] has given more careful thought than anyone to the violence and threats of violence that form the bedrock of our unconscious and reflexive understanding of citizenship,” Berry said. Emberton was shocked to win the award. She said she is deeply honored to receive the recognition and she intended her essay to demonstrate the various erroneous conclusions many individuals have come to regarding the Civil War and its AfricanAmerican participants. Seeman, who is also a history professor and Emberton’s colleague for six years, believes her work speaks to an important era, but its themes are still prevalent in today’s society. “It is important for our era today and how we think about manhood, how we think about race, how we think about gun culture of the United States,” Seeman explained. “It is rare for a historical article to speak both to the past and have an important resonance about the present.” Seeman finds the essay impressive. He said he is not surprised by her success. He said Emberton is hardworking, intelligent and dedicated to her students and research. Continued on page 6
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