Donald S. Faber, professor emeritus and chair of the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience (1999-2012), focused his research on the properties and regulation of synaptic transmission and on understanding how neuronal activity controls sensorimotor behavior.  Don received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physiology from the University at Buffalo. He received postdoctoral training in Buffalo and at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1972, Don began his independent career as an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. In 1974, he moved back to the University at Buffalo, where he remained for nearly 20 years. In 1992, he became the chair of neurobiology and anatomy at MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia, which later became part of the Drexel University College of Medicine. In 1999, he joined the faculty at Einstein as the Florence and Irving Rubinstein Professor and chair of Neuroscience and the director of the Rose F. Kennedy Center.  Among his other roles, Don was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1999.  He also had a strong association with Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he served as co-director of the Neurobiology Course and on the MBL Science Council.