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Published on March 28, 2003
Author: STEPHEN WATSON - News Staff Reporter
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The memorial service for Leslie Fiedler, the nationally renowned UB literary critic, has been postponed from Sunday to sometime this fall.
The timing of the service became awkward, said Bruce Jackson, a UB English professor. Jackson is organizing the service with his wife and fellow English professor, Diane Christian. And, he said, some people invited to the service from out of town feared traveling now. "It just seemed to us inappropriate to be doing it" at a time when bombs are falling, said Jackson, who writes the online "Buffalo Report" Web log that includes anti-war commentary. Fiedler died Jan. 29 in his North Buffalo home after a long illness. The decision was made March 19, the day airstrikes against Iraq began, after hundreds of invitations had been mailed, Joseph Conte, chairman of UB's English department, said. When author Amy Tan spoke at UB on Wednesday, she complimented the university on being great hosts and marveled at her trip to the famous cataracts. "There is no way someone could imagine something quite as spectacular as Niagara Falls," she said. Tan also revealed she has a Buffalo connection: Her assistant, Ellen, is a UB alumna. The new list of State University of New York faculty honored as distinguished professors doesn't include anyone from UB. The 10 new SUNY distinguished professors come from Stony Brook -- eight of them -- Binghamton and the Health Science Center at Brooklyn. They were named by the SUNY board of trustees this week. But one UB faculty member did receive a high honor recently. HPCwire, the top Internet publication devoted to news about high-performance computing, has named Russ Miller one of 19 "people to watch" in the field in 2003. Miller directs the Center for Computational Research, the eighth-largest supercomputing site in the world. HPCwire said Miller has "carved out a very nice niche in supporting computation and visualization." e-mail: swatson@buffnews.com<
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