James Wyche, PhD, provost and chief academic officer at Howard University, was honored speaker at the undergraduate and graduate biomedical sciences commencement.

Teachers in pediatrics, pathology and anatomical sciences, family medicine and surgery received Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards at this year’s ceremony.

The $400,000 award furthers Gabriela Popescu’s efforts to find drugs that allow NMDA receptors to perform essential brain functions while stopping signals that are toxic to brain cells in stroke and neurodegenerative disease.

Ryan McCarthy, a doctoral student in biochemistry, won a travel grant to present at the International Workshop on Iron and Copper Homeostasis.

Two students researching brain receptors in the lab of Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD, have received funding from UB’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.

Dr. Popescu is one of five researchers profiled in the Fall 2010 issue of UB Today.

Thomas Melendy, PhD, says the HPV vaccine is safe and effective.