Reporter Volume 25, No.11 November 11, 1993 Social Work Alumni Honor Sara Murphy Sara A. Murphy, supervisor of the school intervention service and dropout programs for Catholic Charities of Buffalo, has received the Alumni Association Award from the Social Work Alumni Association of the UB School of Social Work. Murphy, who received the award at the alumni association's 28th annual Social Work Day Dinner on Oct. 21, was honored for her work in the community and her commitment to the Social Work Alumni Association. Murphy, who joined Catholic Charities in 1961, received a master's degree in social work from UB in 1967. The alumni association also installed new officers at the Oct. 21 meeting. They are President, Donna Phillips (MSW '82) a social worker with the Alden school system; Vice President, Joseph Monaco (MSW '73) a social worker in the West Seneca Developmental Center; Secretary, Sandra Bunkley (MSW '89) an employee with the Erie County Department of Social Services, and Treasurer Sarlyn Tate (MSW '85) an employee with Erie County Community Mental Health Services. Social Work Deans appointed Bertha Skinner Laury and Wilburn Hayden, faculty members in the UB School of Social Work, have been appointed associate deans in the school by Dean Fredrick Seidl. Laury, director of field education and clinical associate professor, has been named associate dean for community relations. Hayden, associate professor, has been named associate dean for academic affairs. As director of field education, Laury annually places more than 200 students in social work positions in WNY as part of their clinical training. A UB faculty member since 1972, she has special interests in adolescent pregnancy, mental retardation and developmental disabilities. This spring, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Western New York YWCA. Laury received a bachelor's degree from Paine College in Augusta, Ga., and a master's degree in social work from Atlanta University. Nationally known for his research on blacks in Appalachia, Hayden is also a recognized photographer who has an exhibition on tour. He was a visiting faculty member and head of the Department of Social Work and Sociology at Western Carolina University in Culhowee, N.C., before joining UB in 1992. Hayden received a bachelor's degree from St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, S.C.; a master's degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctorate from the University of Toronto. Workshop Set on Physician-Patient Communications The Miles Physician-Patient Communication Workshop will be held Dec. 7 from 1:15-4:30 p.m. in the Lippschutz Room (Room 125) CFS Addition, North Campus. The program aims to enhance the teaching skills of primary care faculty as well as residents. Sponsored by the Primary Care Resource Center and Presented by the Teaching Effectiveness Program, it will be presented by Richard Sarkin, M.D., director, Pediatric Medical Student Education Co-ordinator, Teaching Effectiveness Program, Primary Care Resource Center. The program, sponsored by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, qualifies for 3 hours of Category 1 credit toward the PhysicianUs Recognition Award of the AMA. It is acceptable for 3. prescribed hours by the American Academy of Family Physicians. A $15 fee will be charged. For more information call 829-3176 or fax 829-2927. UB's National Newsmakers Charles Liebow, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, was quoted about a report he presented on a new procedure to detect and treat mouth cancers in USA Today on July 20. Ben Agger, professor and chair of the UB Sociology Department, discussed how Americans like losers who are graceful about losing on a national radio call-in talk show on CBS Radio. Two UB faculty members were featured in syndicated feature stories distributed to 50 television stations nationwide by Medstar Communications Inc. The stories focused on a multi-center study headed by Patricia K. Duffner, professor of neurology and pediatrics, showing that very young children with brain tumors can be treated successfully with chemotherapy immediately after surgery, and research on a new scoliosis assessment technique that cuts dramatically patientsU exposure to X-rays during treatment for the spinal deformity by Josette Bettany, assistant professor of physical therapy and exercise science. The study led by Duffner also was reported in Medical Tribune on July 8. David Nyberg, professor of educational organization, administration and policy, discussed his new book, "The Varnished Truth," in which he says truth-telling is morally overrated and lying is necessary for mental health and social well-being, in interviews on WHYY Radio and WWDB Radio, both in Philadelphia; KOA Radio in Denver, KIRO Radio in Seattle and QR77 Radio in Calgary, Alberta. The book was reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer on July 18. Paul James, director of the medical school's office of rural health, and Geoffrey Markowski, program director of the Buffalo Rural Healthcare Campus in Cuba, N.Y., were interviewed in an article in American Medical News on July 26 about how videoconferencing is bringing medical expertise from urban medical centers to rural areas. A study by Peter Jusczyk, professor of psychology, and an international group of colleagues that focused on how infants recognize speech patterns was featured in articles in several newspapers, including The Boston Globe on July 22 , Chicago Tribune on July 25 and the Edmonton Journal on Aug. 10. A tribute to the late Renaissance music scholar Howard Mayer Brown by David Fuller, professor of music, was discussed in "Classical Notes" in the Music Section of The Boston Globe on July 2. Qcompiled by the UB News Bureau Network News: Off-Road Excursions on the Net The Internet provides access to extraordinary amounts of information. Of its most heavily used information resources are the vast number of electronic discussion groups and bulletin boards. Yet, if you have already subscribed to discussion groups on the Net, you may have found that your incoming mail is overflowing! And what about groups that may not be the focus of your research, such as hobbies, offbeat curiosities, and alternative concerns? Enter Network News. Network News provides access to over 1400 newsgroups including UseNet and local groups, on a range of topics as diverse as the imagination itself. Here you can read postings and participate in discussion in areas as varied as adoptions (alt.adoption), alien visitors (alt.alien.visitors), cyberpunk (alt.cyberpunk), poetry (rec.arts.poems), books (rec.arts.books), Italian culture (soc.culture.italian), and movies (rec.arts.movies). You can even visit an Relectronic garage saleS to see what used items are for sale by members of the UB community (sunyab.forsale). Network News postings are ideal for browsing because they allow you to peruse vast numbers of newsgroups with no commitment to have to receive everything they post. You will find important items of interest suited to many areas of research in popular culture, as well as items of avocational, social and cultural interest, listed under broad categories of interest such as alternative (alt), computer science (comp), recreation and the arts( rec) and science (sci). In addition, a number of newsgroups specific to UB are available under the heading sunyab. Network News is available on your UB mainframe account. To enter Network News, at your system prompt simply type nnr on the IBM, vnews on the vax, and trn on the unix system. For more information consult the Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology RJump StartS handouts for each of these systems available at computing sites throughout the campus. You can also telephone (645-3542) or E-mail the ASCIT Help Desk (address E-mail; to CONSULT) with specific questions. -QGemma DeVinney and Loss Pequeo Glazier, Lockwood Library Maxine Seller to lecture on historical perspectives of immigration Maxine Seller, a professor of social foundations in the Graduate School of Education, will offer an historical perspective on recent concerns about immigration in a lecture to be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 18, in 209 Baldy Hall on the North Campus. The lecture, entitled "Closing the Gate...Again," is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the UB Graduate School of Education Alumni Association. Seller is a faculty member in the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy in the Graduate School of Education. Her research has focused on the history of education, immigrants and the education of minorities and women. Gengo crosses finish line in Marine Corps Marathon Fran Gengo, associate professor of pharmacy and neurology, School of Pharmacy, was a participant in the 18th annual Marine Corps Marathon Oct. 24 in Washington, D.C. Gengo crossed the finish line in the race, which had 11,854 finishers. He was running in honor of his son, Michael, 8, in the event which was a fund-raiser for the Leukemia Society. Mike was diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia in 1988 and successfully completed several years of chemotherapy. He now starts at right wing for his Amherst hockey team. The 11 runners with the Leukemia Society of WNY raised just over $25,000 for research with the goal of identifying a cure for all forms of leukemia by the year 2000. Pharmacy School to give diabetes program The UB School of Pharmacy will present a program to update pharmacists on diabetes mellitus from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 13, in the Sheraton Inn Buffalo Airport, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. The program, "Update on Diabetes Management," will focus on the role of the pharmacist in caring for the diabetes patient and a review of the treatment principles for types I and II disease. The latest advances in the treatments of diabetes also will be discussed, including a recent study that found that tight control of blood glucose results in significant reduction in the risk of retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. Faculty members will include Condit F. Steil, clinical and institutional manager of Pharmacy Corner Enterprises, Raymond A. Eder, coordinator of quality assurance and education at Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh and an associate professor of pharmacy at Duquesne University, and Pat Kreuzer-Adams, a registered nurse with the Boehringer Mannheim Corp. For more information, contact the UB Pharmacy Continuing Education Office at 645-3931.