Reporter Volume 25, No.17 February 17, 1994 Joint Committee details health/safety services The Joint Labor/Management Committee on Health and Safety deals with any issue relating to the health and safety of employees at UB, according to Albert Ermanovics, chair of the committee. "The committee represents the various bargaining units on campus," Ermanovics says. "Although our role is advisory, we have a direct link to President Greiner, and can motivate departments directly. "One project the committee has been involved in is encouraging the administration to establish a smoke free campus," Ermanovics says. According to their mission statement, the committee serves as a conduit between employees and Senior Administration and the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, and relays concerns and recommendations to the appropriate people. The mission statement also calls for the committee to check periodically on the progress of corrective measures, if so warranted, and to pursue grant funds in order to pursue research or educational programs which would benefit the employees of UB. "We wish to stress that we are a labor/management committee of peers, easily accessible, and willing to serve the employees," the mission statement reads. "We are not, however, policy makers, nor will we address any issues that are in a formal grievance process." UB law student named fellow in SUNY program Nicole Holder, a UB law student, is one of eight graduate students placed in policy-making offices of the New York State legislature and state agencies, as part of the Fellowship Program on Women and Public Policy of the Center for Women in Government. Holder will work in the New York State Department of Transportation. Now in its 12th year, the fellowship program seeks to encourage the increased participation of women in the public policy process and to develop public policy and leaders. The program draws graduate students from a variety of academic disciplines, combines a 30-hour per week placement with graduate-level studies on women and public policy at the University at Albany, SUNY Graduate School of Public Affairs. The eight 1994 participants join more than 100 program alumnae now working in government, education and advocacy positions. Dental student conference set for March 1 A tiny camera that takes color photos inside the mouth, lasers used to treat certain oral lesions and innovative research projects by UB dental students will be featured at a conference to be held March 1 in the Grand Island Holiday Inn. The first annual Dental Student Association Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m More than 500 UB-affiliated dental faculty, students, alumni, staff and clinicians are expected to attend. The conference promises to be the most comprehensive student research program of its kind in the nation, said Ophir I. Alalouf, fourth-year student in the UB School of Dental Medicine. He said the conference will be an annual event to encourage students to engage in dental research and give them a forum to discuss their projects with their colleagues. Awards will be presented to the top three student projects. Two nationally known researchers at UB will be keynote speakers. At 9 a.m., Robert J. Gencowill discuss "Dental Research: The Engine Behind Change." Genco is chair of the UB Department of Oral Biology. Robert E. Baier, UB professor of biomaterials, will discuss "Biomaterials, Bananas and Chewing Gum" at 1 p.m. Some 30 student research projects will be presented. El-Khawas, Mingle speak at Breakfast Seminars Elaine El-Khawas, a vice president of the American Council on Education (ACE), and James R. Mingle, executive director of the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), will speak as part of the 15th annual Breakfast Seminars for Western New York's Higher Educators. El-Khawas will speak March 18, in the Moot Hall of Buffalo State College. Mingle will speak April 29, in the College Center at Hilbert College in Hamburg. The seminars are sponsored by the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy in the Graduate School of Education at UB. Vice president for policy analysis and research for ACE, El-Khawas is well-known as an analyst of broad trends affecting higher education. She also has focused on issues related to the professoriate, including the implications of the changing supply and demand for academic staff, the experiences of college faculty at different stages of their career and changing ideas about how college faculty use their time. Mingle was appointed in 1984 as the first executive director of SHEEO, an organization representing the executive officers and staffs of the statewide coordinating and governing boards of the 50 states. He has served as an advisor and consultant to numerous states and institutional boards, as well as national and professional associations. Among his book subjects are black students on white campuses, retrenchment, and management flexibility and state regulation. The cost of each seminar is $5, which includes breakfast. For more information, call 645-2471. Adults needed for antihistamine study Adults age 65 or older who are in good health are needed to help UB researchers evaluate new antihistamines that are used to treat allergies without making patients feel drowsy. While researchers know that these drugs do not make younger patients feel drowsy, less is known about how older patients react to them. The study is designed to determine if these medications are as non-sedating in older patients as they have been in younger ones. Participants will undergo testing from 7 a.m.-11 p.m. once each week during the two-month study. Subjects will receive complete physical examinations and allergy and other tests prior to beginning the study. They will receive $1,000 upon completion of the study. Anyone interested in participating should contact Fran Gengo, UB associate professor of pharmacy, at 887-5281 or 887-4799. Animal liberation subject of lecture A lecture addressing the similar treatment of animals and women in a patriarchal society will be held at 4 p.m. March 2, in 108 O'Brian Hall. "Animal Liberation Through a Feminist Lens" will be presented by Batya Bauman of Feminists for Animal Rights, a New York City-based group. The lecture, which is free of charge and open to the public, is sponsored by Students of Law for Animal Rights (SOLAR) in the UB School of Law. Greiner takes part in Strategic Alliance forum President William R. Greiner will be among community leaders who will participate in a Strategic Alliance Forum focusing on entrepreneurship in Western New York, to be held from 8-9:30 a.m. Feb. 24, in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 North Forest Road, Amherst. The forum, presented by the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Alumni Association at the University at Buffalo, will examine the innovative steps being taken in education, business and the community to support entrepreneurship in Western New York. The session will be moderated by Charles Mitschow, chairman of the Marine Midland Western Region Board of Directors. In addition to Greiner, the panel will feature Andrew Rudnick, president of the Greater Buffalo Partnership, and Robert Bennett, president of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County. A registration fee of $15 includes a continental breakfast, to be served starting at 7:30 a.m. For more information, contact the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, part of the UB School of Management, at 645-3200.