Reporter Volume 25, No.22 March 24, 1994 UB to host piano pedagogy festival The UB Department of Music will host a Piano Pedagogy Festival April 6-8 featuring world-renowned group piano instructors Joseph Rezits and Eloise Kornicke. Under the direction of J. Terry Gates, department chair, and Frina Arschanska Boldt, keyboard coordinator, UB's music department has expanded in the area of piano instruction to meet a growing enrollment in the secondary piano division. The current curriculum, more stringent in its piano proficiency requirements, includes an added emphasis on music education. Rezits, professor emeritus at the Indiana University School of Music, is an internationally-known clinician and lecturer who has presented workshops on piano pedagogy throughout the world. Kornicke is an authority in the field of class piano using computer software, synthesizers and electronic keyboards. All events, which will be held on the North Campus, are free and open to the public. Law students win fellowships Two first-year students at the UB School of Law have been awarded Environmental Law Minority Fellowships by the New York State Bar Association. Kristen B. Jones and Grant W. Jonathan each will receive a stipend of $5,000 while spending the summer working on environmental cases for government or non-profit law offices. "Minority communities are disproportionately affected by environmental hazards, but there are very few minorities represented in the practice of environmental law," said Michael B. Gerrard, vice chairman of the bar association's environmental law section. "The fellowship program is a means to help redress this imbalance by encouraging more minority law students to enter this growing field." Jones was co-editor of the "Black Law Students Association" newsletter. She has worked as an intern with the state Senate and Assembly. Jonathan is a member of the Tuscarora Nation's Bear Clan. He has served as an intern with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The fellowship program is co-sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Funding is provided by the state and city bar associations, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Edward John Noble Foundation and the George Perkins Memorial Foundation. UB to hold summer directing workshop The Department of Theatre and Dance at UB will hold a directing workshop this summer designed to instruct participants in the basic methods and skills needed to direct theater productions, community events, shows and concerts. The workshop, to be held during UB's second summer session from June 27 through Aug. 5, will be led by Kazimierz Braun, UB professor of theater and dance who has 30 years experience as a director. Major topics to be addressed in the workshop include development of text; production-space design; the role of the director with the cast, crew and community, and auditioning, recruiting and rehearsing. The workshop is geared toward university students; young directors, designers and actors; teachers and instructors of drama, and high-school students with a background in theater and drama. It will take place from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the second summer session in the rehearsal studio in the Fine Arts Center. Students will receive three academic credits upon successful completion of the course. For more information or to enroll, contact Braun at 645-6898, or Millard Fillmore College, which runs the summer sessions, at 829-2202. UB student selected for national photography seminar Charles Agel, a second-year graduate student in photography/digital imaging at UB, has been selected as a 1994 fellow of the American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar. He is among 20 fellows selected from 93 finalists nominated by 51 schools across the nation to participate in an intensive two-week program June 5-18 at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The seminar was established at NYU to create an annual forum for the discussion of photographic issues among outstanding graduate students, scholars and artists. Participants will meet and study with other students under the tutelage of scholars in the field. The texts of theses sessions will be collected into a proceedings journal that will be distributed to photography programs across the U.S. Agel recently has had work accepted in the 1994 Western New York Exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His first exhibit outside the country will take place in April at the Native Indian and Inuit Photographers Association Gallery in Hamilton, Ontario. Agel holds a bachelor's degree in studio art from the University of Maryland at College Park. WomenUs Club to hold Chinese Banquet April 10 The UB WomenUs Club will hold a Chinese Banquet on Sunday, April 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Dynasty II in Southgate Plaza, Cheektowaga, to benefit the scholarship fund. Seating is limited for the 12-course banquet, to include Peking duck. Cost is $26 per person (includes tax, tip and contribution). Send checks payable to The WomenUs Club by April 1 to Dorothy Soon, 249 Wellingwood Drive, East Amherst, N.Y. 14051. For additional information, call Anne Brody at 834-5596. PSS Outstanding Service Award Call for Nominations Nominations are now being accepted for the 1994 Outstanding Service Awards. Unlike the Chancellor's Award, which is given in recognition of extraordinary achievement within one's professional capacity, these awards were created to give recognition to members of the professional staff who go beyond the normal scope of their responsibilities to make outstanding community service contributions. These awards are an important opportunity for us to acknowledge the many outstanding members of UB's professional staff who make valuable service contributions that benefit the university and/or community. The Outstanding Service Award is presented annually by the Professional Staff Senate of the University at Buffalo. Funding is provided by the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc. and made possible through the generosity of university alumni and friends. Winners of the award receive $1,000 and personal certificates of recognition at the PSS Awards Luncheon, Wednesday, May 25 at the Center for Tomorrow. To be eligible for the award, an individual must be a current full-time professional staff employee of the University at Buffalo, the Research Foundation, the UB Foundation or the Faculty-Student Association. Nominees must have served in a full-time capacity for a continuous period of at least two years. Winners of this award will not be eligible to receive this award again for at least five years. Past recipients over the last five years were John Bis, James Gerland, Elsie Pacheco, Nelson Townsend, Darleen Hummert, Charles Sonntag, Ruth Bryant, Merle Hoyt, William Barba and Ronald Stein. Criteria for selection include: Service: the scope and depth of the individual's past service to the university and/or to the community that is distinct from service expected in his or her job description. This may include religious, charitable, scientific, educational, artistic, literary or civic involvements that enhance the quality of life. Excellence: specific evidence indicating the individual's excellence within his or her professional staff position. Grounds for distinction could include, but are not limited to: evidence of leadership, commitment, creativity and initiative. Materials supporting the individual candidate must include clear and detailed examples of both service and professional excellence. For further information, nomination packets and detailed guidelines, contact the Professional Staff Senate Awards Committee Chair: Frederick Kwiecien, 342 Abbott Hall, South Campus, 829-2946. Deadline for completed dossiers is Thursday, April 21, 4:30 p.m.