FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
Nobel Prize
Winner Herbert Hauptman Joins Buffalo International
Film Festival
Science Film Competition Advisory Board
BUFFALO, N.Y. –
January 30, 2007 — The Buffalo International Film Festival (BIFF)
announces the newest member of the board
of advisors for How Science Works: The Film & Video Competition:
Herbert A. Hauptman, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in 1985 for Chemistry.
Hauptman is President of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical
Research Institute, an independent, not-for-profit, biomedical research facility
located in the heart of downtown Buffalo's medical campus, dedicated to
improving human health through study, at a molecular level, of the causes and
potential cures of many diseases.
Hauptman, a mathematician, is interested in the
development of mathematical methods to determine the structures of substances of
biological importance. On top of overseeing the Institute, Hauptman is a
Biophysical Sciences Research Professor at the State University of New York at
Buffalo, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the NYS Institute on
Superconductivity, an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Computer Science
& Engineering and a Distinguished Professor for the Department of Structural
Biology.
How Science Works: The Film & Video
Competition will be a part of the upcoming BIFF. It will award prizes to the
best films or videos explaining the classic Scientific Method in a clear and
entertaining way: how it works, how it is applied, why it is more accurate than
"guessing" and how it helps humanity. Submission guidelines and deadlines for
the competition will be announced soon.
The Buffalo International Film Festival, Inc., a
501(c)(3) not for profit corporation in New York State, was established as a
public charity and depends upon contributions from the public at large,
corporations, foundations, government grants and other beneficiaries. The
festival highlights the cultural, artistic and scientific contributions of
Western New York and world cinema.
For information about How Science Works: The Film and
Video Competition:
visit: www.HowScienceWorks.org
For more information about the Buffalo International Film
Festival,
visit: www.buffalofilmfestival.org or www.buffalofilmfestival.com,
Yahoo! at groups.yahoo.com/group/BuffaloFilmFestival/,
Myspace at
www.myspace.com/buffalointlfilmfest.