Reporter Volume 25, No.20 March 10, 1994 Geriatric Psychiatry Conference Set The seventh annual "Current Issues in Geriatric Psychiatry" regional conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 8, in the Sheraton Inn Buffalo Airport, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. The conference is designed to inform health-care professionals of state-of-the-art mental-health assessments and treatments, update them on methods of overcoming barriers to mental-health care in later life, and strengthen their empathy and confidence in addressing the mental and physical concerns of older adults and their families. The conference is geared toward psychiatrists, physicians, psychologists, nurses, adult-home administrators, nursing-home administrators and others in health-related disciplines working in, or interested in, geriatric psychiatry or geriatrics. It is sponsored by the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; the Western New York Geriatric Education Center and the Primary Care Resource Center, both at UB, and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. The cost to register for the conference is $90, which includes tuition, program materials, refreshments and lunch. Discounts are available for groups of four or more, for UB faculty and for those only attending half the day. Deadlin e for registration is March 31. For more information or to register for the conference, contact Patricia M. Krupp at the WNY Geriatric Education Center at 829-3176. Candino speaker at Sunrise Series Paul M. Candino, chief executive officer of the Erie County Medical Center, will discuss "Health Care: A Report From the Front Lines" during UB's Sunrise Speakers Series March 22. The series, which will be held from 7:30-9 a.m. in the Center for Tomorrow, is sponsored by the UB Office of Conferences and Special Events and the UB Alumni Association. Candino, formerly with Wyoming County Community Hospital, joined ECMC in his current position on Feb. 14. Admission to the series, which includes breakfast, is $7 for UB Alumni Association members and $8 for the general public. To make reservations, call 829-2608. WomenUs Club to elect new officers The UB Women's Club will hold its annual election meeting on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus. The slate of officers for 1994-95 is: President-Shirley Buckle; Vice President-Janet Fedor; Treasurer-Dawn Halvorsen; Recording Secretary-Bernadette Privitera; and Corresponding Secretary-Winifred Doran. Three members-at-large will also be elected. Ian Buckle, professor of civil engineering and deputy director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, will speak on REarthquakes, Real or Imagined Threats for Eastern United States.S Norma Shatz-Rubin and Carmella Hanley, Hospitality chairpersons, will be in charge of refreshments. Barbara Meehaghan and Joan Sprowl, chairs of nominating, will conduct the election. Of Interest Art Fellowship The Rumsey Lord Traveling Fellowship is a $1,900 stipend available to junior Art History majors who will be enrolled in the fall semester of 1994. Eligible majors are invited to submit proposals for a travel-research project for the summer of 1994. It is expected that the project will involve travel outside the United States, but this is not ironclad. Deadline for the proposals, which should be two to three typewritten pages and should include an itinerary and expenses is Monday, March 14. Submit three copies of your proposal to the Art History office (606 Clemens Hall). Students entering the competition should confer with as many Art History faculty members as possible in preparing the statement. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, April 6. The winner is expected to give a presentation of his or her experience during the Fall of 1994 to the faculty and students of the Art History Department. Poetry Contests The Undergraduate Library is pleased to announce the 1994 annual poetry contests sponsored in cooperation with the Department of English and the Friends of the University Libraries. Two prizes of $100 each are offered for the best poems submitted by University at Buffalo students. The Academy of American Poets contest is open to both graduate and undergraduate students; the Friends of the University Libraries prize is for undergraduates only. Entries should consist of one or more typewritten, double-spaced poems, not to exceed a total of six pages. The studentUs name should not appear on the poems, but on a cover sheet with the name of the prize, the writerUs name and class, address and phone number. Entries should be sent to Glendora Johnson-Cooper, Acting Director, Undergraduate Library, 107 Capen Hall, North Campus, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260-2200. The deadline is Friday, March 25. Winners will be announced at a poetry reading to be held on Monday, April 25. Folkman to deliver Harrington lecture Judah Folkman, Julia Dyckman Andrus professor of pediatric surgery at Harvard Medical School whose research led to the development of the contraceptive Norplant, will deliver the D.W. Harrington Lecture at 4 p.m. March 23, in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall. Folkman's lecture on "Clinical Applications of Angiogenesis Research," is free and open to the public. Folkman, who is also professor of anatomy and cell biology at Harvard, is credited with discovering the mechanisms of angiogenesis, a field of research now pursued worldwide. It holds that solid tumor cancers may develop as a result of chemical signals released by tumor cells that cause the blood vessels in surrounding tissue to grow. Research is currently under way investigating angiogenesis and its relation to many other diseases in addition to cancer. A graduate of Ohio State University, Folkman received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and began his research career while a student there, helping to develop the first atrio-ventricular implantable pacemaker. He served a two-year term in the U.S. Navy at the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. In Bethesda, research by Folkman and a colleague led to the development of Norplant, an implantable contraceptive now used widely. Folkman joined the Harvard faculty in 1965, and was named chair of pediatric surgery in 1968. He spent six months at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital under C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general, before returning to Boston to become surgeon-in-chief at Children's Medical Center in Boston, a position he held for 14 years. Appointed professor of anatomy and cellular biology at Harvard in 1980, Folkman left the surgery chairmanship in 1981 to conduct research full-time. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Folkman counts among his many honors a 10-year Merit Award from the National Cancer Institute in 1989, the American Cancer Society's Medal of Honor for basic science and the Christopher Columbus Discovery Award in Biomedical Research from the National Institutes of Health. Earthquake teams to discuss Northridge quake The Northridge earthquake, the most destructive earthquake in the United States since 1906, is the subject of a briefing for engineers to be held today in the United Engineering Center, 345 East 47th St., New York City, from 9 a.m. to noon. The earthquake's engineering implications for California and other regions in the U.S., including the Northeast, will also be discussed by the panel of experts. Ian Buckle, deputy director of NCEER and professor of civil engineering at UB is one of the speakers: Organized by the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, headquartered at UB, the briefing is being sponsored by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) in Oakland, Calif. Leading engineers, seismologists and search-and-rescue experts who visited Northridge following the quake as members of reconnaissance teams will discuss damage to structures and lifelines, geotechnical effects and socioeconomic impacts.