Annette Cravens, MSW '68, enabled the creation of Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic by her donation of 1,100 ethnographic and archaeological objects gathered from around the world. Objects in the collection date back as far as 4500 years ago and come from diverse cultures all over the world. Annette Cravens comes from a family with a long tradition of philonthropy with the University at Buffalo, going back over 75 years. In 1984 she donated the original renderings of the Lockwood Library to the University. She has also worked with university administrators to establish a lecture series in the poetry collection in honor of her mother; as well as a collection of antique medical instruments, spanning a time period form the Roman Empire to the 19th century, in honor of her father. In 2007 she recieved the Capen Award,the UB Alumni Association's highest honor, in recognition for her history of donating to the university.