Notable Faculty
This list includes both present and former faculty members.
| Name | Known for | Relationship to University at Buffalo |
|---|---|---|
| John Barth | American author known for postmodern style and winner of the National Book Award | Former Professor (1965–1973) |
| Ronald H. Coase | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1991) | Former Professor (1951–1958) |
| Roswell Park | Founder of Roswell Park Cancer Institute | Former Professor of Surgery |
| J.M. Coetzee | South African author and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2003) | Former Professor (1968–1971) |
| Robert Creeley | poet | Winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry |
| Sir John Carew Eccles | Australian winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1963) for discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane (synapse). | Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Biophysics (1968–1975) |
| Carl Dennis | poet & winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | Current Professor |
| Irving Feldman | poet & MacArthur Foundation Fellow | Former Professor (1962-2004) |
| Michel Foucault | Historian and philosopher | Visiting Professor (early 1970s) |
| René Girard | historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science | Distinguished Professor (1971–1976) |
| Herbert A. Hauptman | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985) | Research Professor of Biophysical Sciences, Director of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo |
| Charles Haynie | Longtime faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Degree Programs. | An award is granted in his name after his death at age 65 in 2001. |
| Stephen McKinley Henderson | Tony Award nominated stage and screen actor. Recognized as a veteran performer of playwright August Wilson's ouvre. | Professor and former chair in the Department of Theater and Dance. |
| Robert L. Ketter | Professor | first chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and President of the University from 1970 through 1981. |
| Paul Kurtz | Founder and chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, the Center for Inquiry and Prometheus Books. | Professor Emeritus of Philosophy |
| Charles Mingus | American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader and pianist. | Slee Professor of Music (1971) |
| Emanuel Parzen | Statistician, pioneered the use of kernel density estimation (Parzen window) | Former Professor (1970–1978). |
| Jayant Patel | Nicknamed "Dr. Death" by the Australian media | Former Assistant Professor of Surgery in the 1980s |
| David Riesman | Law scholar and sociologist | Visiting Professor (1937–1941) |
| Albert R. Shadle | Professor | Chairman of Biology Department (1919–1953) and Professor of Biology |
| Bill Siemering | Manager, University-sponsored radio station WBFO | Founding Program Director, National Public Radio and recipient, MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 1993. |
| Leo Smit | Composer of contemporary classical music | Former professor |
| Craig Venter | American geneticist, founder Celera Genomics | Former Professor |
| Ernst Witebsky | Former Professor and Department Chair of Bacteriology and Immunology (1941–1967), and Director of the Center for Immunology (1967 until his death in 1969). | |
| Ta-You Wu | Chinese physicist known as "Father of Chinese Physics" and President of Academia Sinica (1983–1994) | Former Professor and Department Chair of Physics (1968–1983) |
| Stephen Schanuel | Mathematician known for discovering "Schanuel's lemma" | Current Professor of Mathematics |
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