UB faculty members named Distinguished Professors

Three University at Buffalo faculty members and a former dean, have been named SUNY distinguished professors - the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system - by the SUNY Board of Trustees.

Of the eight distinguished professors appointed by the trustees, four have ties to UB.

The designation - a rank above full professor - denotes exceptional contribution in an academic field. It has three co-equal designations: distinguished professor, distinguished service professor and distinguished teaching professor.

Named SUNY distinguished professors are: Rodolphe Gasché, Eugenio Donato professor of comparative literature in the department of comparative literature, College of Arts and Sciences; Claes E. Lundgren, professor in the department of physiology and biophysics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Frederick Sachs, UB distinguished professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics; and Maurizio Trevisan, former dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions.

Trevisan left UB in October to become vice chancellor and chief executive officer of the University of Nevada Health Sciences System.