Reporter Volume 25, No.23 April 7, 1994 Engineering students receive Jarvis Scholarships UB students Kimberly R. Vail and Brendan P. Barry have been awarded 1994 Gregory B. Jarvis Memorial Scholarships by the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Vail, a junior majoring in aerospace engineering, and Barry, a junior majoring in electrical and computer engineering, each will receive a $1,000 scholarship. The scholarship fund was established from individual and corporate gifts in memory of Jarvis, a 1967 UB graduate in electrical engineering who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion. The awards have been given annually since 1987 to students with outstanding academic records who "best exemplify the enthusiasm Jarvis had for engineering." Adults sought for antihypertensive drug study Adults ages 18-65 who have high blood pressure and/or elevated markers for kidney impairment, including elevated serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen (BUN), are being sought to participate in a UB study at Millard Fillmore Hospital-Gates Circle. The study involves evaluation of an investigational antihypertensive combination drug. Those selected to participate cannot be on hemodialysis and must be able to make 12 clinic visits and spend 48 hours at the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Center at the hospital. They will receive free physical exams, electrocardiograms, and kidney function, blood and urine tests. In addition, they will be reimbursed $500 upon completion of the study. Anyone interested in participating should call 887-4584 and leave his or her name, address, zip code, phone number and the words "study 1058" on the answering machine. Blanchard to speak during UB Alumni Sunrise Series Thomas D. Blanchard, Jr., president of the Horizons Waterfront Commission, Inc., will provide an update on the organization's waterfront plan during the UB Sunrise Series, set for 7:30-9 a.m. on Thursday, April 21, in the Center for Tomorrow. The series is sponsored by the UB Alumni Association. Blanchard was named in 1989 to head the subsidiary of the state Urban Development Corp. responsible for the coordination of waterfront planning and development activities. He previously had been executive vice president of the Greater Norfolk Corp., an organization of corporate executives dedicated to the community and economic development of Norfolk, Va. Cost of the program, which includes breakfast, is $7 for alumni association members and $8 for the general public. Reservations are required and may be made by contacting the UB Alumni Association, 109 Allen Hall, 3435 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y., 14214. Call 829-2608. Alumni Relations sponsors re-employment workshop for alumni The UB Office of Alumni Relations will offer a re-employment workshop for recently unemployed alumni, May 20-23 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in The Commons, North Campus. The workshop will be presented by Nicholas J. Boccolucci, Ph.D., a 1992 graduate and managing director of Right Associates, an international human resources consulting firm specializing in career transition management. Participants will be guided through the steps of a systematic job search including r sum preparation, letter writing, interviewing and developing a marketing plan. Registration fee is $50 for Alumni Association ; $75, non-members. To register or for more information, call the Alumni Office at 829-2608. Registration is strictly limited to 25. conferences Antioxidants and Flavonoids: Role in Membrane Function and Disease Prevention April 20 Roswell Park Cancer Institute Sponsors: UB Biomembrane Graduate Group and Roswell Park Cancer Institute For information, call 845-2339. Smashing the Glass Ceiling May 6 Center for Tomorrow Sponsor: Western New York Regional Committee of the American Council on Education/National Identification Program Keynote: Virginia L. Radley, author, educator, former president of SUNY College at Oswego As the first woman president of a SUNY college and the first woman board member of Century Life of New York, Radley has experienced firsthand the trials of reaching the Rglass ceilingS and ultimately breaking through the barriers woman face. With more than 30 years in higher education, Radley has written hundreds of articles concerning women in management, literature and modern society. She is author of books on Coleridge and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and serves as a consultant for business and educational institutions. Radley has taught or served in key administration posts at Russell Sage College, Nazareth College, and SUNY at Albany. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Syracuse University; M.A. from the University of Rochester and B.A. and L.H.D. from Russell Sage College. For information, contact Dr. Marian Meyers, Canisius College. Carnegie Mellon dean to discusses technology easing computer use Raj Reddy, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, will discuss a new technology expected to make using computers easier for non-experts during a talk scheduled for 3:30-4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, in the Student Union Social Hall, Room 330 of the Student Union on the North Campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Reddy, who is Herbert A. Simon professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon, will talk about his research on new technologies in the area of speech recognition and understanding. He also will discuss the "Giga" personal computer, a new product expected to be on the market by 1999, that should be capable of performing one billion operations per second. At present, only the most powerful machinesQmassively parallel computersQcan attain these speeds, and then only with difficulty. Today's workstations and PCs operate at speeds that range between one-tenth to one-hundredth of the Giga PCs. Reddy will address how this new technology will affect the use of computers by non-experts and how newly developed interfaces will make computers more accessible. A reception will follow the speech in 224 Bell Hall on the North Campus. For further information, contact Jin-Yi Cai, UB associate professor of computer science, at 645-3006. M.I.T. dean to lecture on design technology William J. Mitchell, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present a lecture, "The Design Studio of the Future" at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 8, in 147 Diefendorf Hall on the South Campus. Mitchell will address the application of current communications technology to the architectural design and planning field. The talk is free of charge and open to the public. He notes that current technology is already leading to the development of "virtual design studios." These are computer networked facilities that provide access to the organization's data bases and computation resources to project participants who may be widely dispersed across space and time. These new studios also provide efficient messaging and data exchange and sophisticated video teleconferencing in a highly integrated fashion. Mitchell's talk also will look closely at how enabling technologies, research issues and physical space design, in relationship to other trends in design and planning practice, inform university teaching programs. One idea he proposes is the development of intensive, sustained, long-term teaching and research collaborations among universities via an "electronic Red Line," a reference to the Red Line subway connection between Harvard and M.I.T. A prototype of such a collaborative venture is a 1993 virtual design studio pilot project conducted among architecture faculty and students at M.I.T., Harvard, Washington University, the University of British Columbia and the University of Hong Kong in which students worked together on a two-week sketch problem using Internet as a primary means of communication. Cornell archivist to discuss preservation issues in SILS forum Anne Kenney, digital projects director for Cornell University, will discuss RThe Use of Digital Technology for the Preservation of and Access to Library and Archival Collections,S April 14 at 10:15 a.m. in 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus. The School of Information and Library Studies is sponsoring the event. Past President of the Society of American Archivists, Kenney is a member of the Commission on Preservation and Access Joint Task Force on Text and Image. That group is exploring the use of digital technology for reformatting illustrated materials. Currently, she is directing the RMaking of AmericaU Project which will digitize approximately 100,000 volumes chronicling the development of transportation, communications, and buildings in America in 1860-1960. This library could then be remotely accessed for display on a computer screen or reprinted on demand. Many of the original volumes are on deteriorating and brittle paper. Pre-registration is requested. For more information, contact Dr. Joseph W. Palmer, 303 Baldy Hall, North Campus, 645-3068. Gaming enthusiasts to invade UB April 8-10 "The Siege of Washington," "Babes in Munchkinland" and "Eggs in the Arctic" are among the more than 120 games to be played April 8-10 at the university's fifth annual gaming convention, UBCon '94, to be held on the North Campus. The event is expected to draw more than 800 aficionados of role-playing and board games and miniatures competitions, from beginners to experts. Competitions will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday, April 8; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10. Registration and information counters will be located on the first floor of the UB Student Union. Gaming events will be held in the Student Union and in Clemens Hall. Other attractions include "Trekkie" events, new games and paraphernalia from vendors, a discount auction and more. UBCon '94 is sponsored by the UB Strategists and Role-Players Association. The cost is $7 for students and $10 for the public. Per-day fees are $6 for students and $7 for the public. For more information or to obtain registration forms, write UB-SARPA, Suite 363 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260, or call 631-0367, or 837-1821. Environmental scientist "Johnny Biosphere" to lecture at UB Well-known environmental scientist Jack Vallentyne, a.k.a. "Johnny Biosphere," will discuss the International Joint Commission's recommendation to develop timetables that would "sunset" the use of chlorine-containing chemicals as industrial feedstocks, April 12 at 1 p.m. in 140 Ketter Hall on the North Campus. Later that day, at 4:15 p.m. in the science auditorium at Williamsville South High School, Vallentyne will present a seminar on environmental issues related to the Great Lakes ecosystem for area science teachers. Both lectures are sponsored by the Great Lakes Program and the Canadian-American Studies Committee, both at UB, and the Canadian Embassy. The New York State Sea Grant and the Western Section of the Science Teachers Association of New York State are co-sponsoring the Williamsville South presentation. A popular speaker and author, Vallentyne is scientist emeritus at the Canada Center for Inland Waters in Burlington, Ont.