Reporter Volume 26, No.1 September 1,1994

Lundine, Berdahlr of the Institute for Research in Higher and Adult
Education at the University at Maryland at College Park, will speak
this fall as part of the Breakfast Seminars for Western New York's
Higher Educators series. Both seminars are open to the public.
	Lundine will speak Sept. 9 in the Center for Tomorrow. Berdahl
will speak Oct. 14 in the Fireside Lounge in the Canisius College
Student Center. The seminars are sponsored by the Department of
Educational Organization, Administration and Policy at UB.
	Lundine is overseeing the state's "Career Pathways" education
reforms that will help prepare young people for the 21st-century
workforce. 
	Berdahl has served on the faculties of UB, San Francisco State
University and the University of Maryland. A political scientist, he
specializes in the study of relations between higher education and
governments at the national and state levels.
Noonan, Kaars namedde two appointments in the area of undergraduate
education. Karen K. Noonan has been named associate vice provost for
undergraduate education. Janina Kaars has been appointed director of
academic advisement.
	Noonan will oversee the operations of university undergraduate
academic services, including academic advisement, the  and the
University Honors Program. She joined the UB staff in 1985 as
assistant to the dean in the Office of Graduate and Professional
Education. She also has served as assistant director for admissions in
the School of Dental Medicine, director of the Office of Research in
Dental Education and executive assistant to the vice president for
sponsored programs.
	Most recently, Noonan has served concurrent appointments as
interim dean of undergraduate academic services and director of
academic advisement.
	She is a member of the American Higher Education Association,
the Society for the Study of Higher Education, the National Academic
Advising Association and the New York State Transfer and Articulation
Association.
	She has been active in community service as a member of the
Development Council of Studio Arena Theatre and as a trustee of the
Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst and the Williamsville Central
School District Board of Education.
	Noonan received her doctoral degree in higher education and a
master's degree in anthropology from UB.
	In her new position, Kaars will oversee the effectiveness of
the undergraduate academic advisement program and implement a system
of faculty advisement. She recently served as interim director of
academic advisement and previously was a senior staff associate for
resource management in the Office of the Provost and assistant to the
vice provost for undergraduate education.
	She began her career at UB more than 20 years ago as a
research assistant in the Department of Physiology. For almost 10
years, she was an instructor in the Department of Biochemistry and
coordinator of the undergraduate program in biochemistry. She has had
a particular interest in building faculty mentoring relationships
through undergraduate research opportunities. Kaars was a
co-investigator on a $50,000 National Science Foundation project to
integrate the use of microcomputers in teaching laboratories.
	She received a master's degree in science education from UB
and a bachelor's degree in biology from SUNY Stony Brook.
Superconductivityture superconductivity, Nobel Laureate J. Georg
Bednorz of the IBM Corp. (Zurich) and C.W. (Paul) Chu of the Texas
Center for Superconductivity and Applications at the University of
Houston, will participate in the Seventh Conference on
Superconductivity and Applications, to be held in the Buffalo Hilton
Sept. 7-9.
	Sponsored by the New York State Institute on Superconductivity
(NYSIS), located at UB, the international conference will focus on
methods of developing high-temperature superconducting materials. More
than 200 researchers from across the United States and more than 10
foreign countries are expected to attend.
WBFO seeks musict discs for its annual Vinyl Madness fund-raiser on
Oct. 1. Station music director Lydia Kulbida is looking for all types
of musicQfrom jazz to rock to "plush" or "night of romance"-type
music.
	Donors should call 829-2555 to arrange for a convenient
drop-off time between now and the event, which will be held in Allen
Hall on the South Campus. Donations are tax-deductible. WBFO members
will be admitted to a free, sneak preview of the sale beginning at 10
a.m. All others will be admitted at 11 a.m. for a $2 admission fee.
Free balloons will be handed out to the first 100 children, and live
bands will perform as attendees search the boxes for that perfect
bargain for their record, tape or CD collection. Kulbida says more
than 500 people combed through 10,000 records, tapes and CDs at last
fall's Vinyl Madness.
Scholarships offered in nursing rehabilitation
The UB School of Nursing is offering five full scholarships to the
graduate program in nursing rehabilitation to nurses who have
completed their bachelor's degrees. The scholarships are funded by a
$98,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, awarded to UB to
promote rehabilitation nursing by attracting qualified people to the
field.
	For more information, contact Sharon Dittmar, project director
for preparation of advanced practice nurses in rehabilitation, at
829-2088.
Management deanives have been named to the new Dean's Advisory Council
at the UB School of Management. The council has been assembled by
School of Management Dean Frederick W. Winter to assist the school in
its goal of achieving preeminence in the areas of management education
and research.
	The council will be chaired by Sal H. Alfiero chairman and
chief executive officer of Mark IV Industries, Inc.
	Other council members are Tanri Abeng, managing director,
Wisma Bakrie, Jakarta, Indonesia; Frank L. Ciminelli, chairman, The
Ciminelli Companies; James H. Cleave, president and CEO, Marine
Midland Bank, N.A.; Frank J. Colantuono, president and CEO,
Independent Health Association, Inc.
	Also, James A. Eskridge, president, Fisher-Price; Gale
Fitzgerald, president, Computer Task Group, Inc.; Anthony H. Gioia,
chairman, Gioia Management, Inc.; Patricia L. Higgins, group vice
president, NYNEX; Edgar G. Hotard, president, Praxair, Inc.
	And, Luiz F. Kahl, president, The Carborundum Company; Victor
A. Rice, chairman and CEO, Varity Corporation; Paul L. Snyder, Sr.,
chairman and CEO, Snyder Corporation; William M. Steul, vice president
for finance and chief financial officer, Digital Equipment
Corporation.
Thomas Rosenthal is chair of family medicine
Thomas C. Rosenthal, associate professor of family medicine at the UB
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and a 1975 graduate of the
UB medical school, has been named chair of the Department of Family
Medicine.
	Rosenthal had served as interim chair for the past year. A
member of the department since 1978, he was instrumental in
establishing the division of rural health, the medical school's rural
health campus in Cuba, N.Y., and its residency program in rural
health. Through his initiative, UB was named a New York Rural Health
Research Center in 1992, and in 1993 became one of five U.S.
universities designated as national rural health research centers.
	Rosenthal also was founding director of UB's Primary Care
Resource Center.
	He is project director of a $1 million Generalist Physician
Initiative grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, co-principal
investigator of a $1.1 million federal grant to investigate
rural-health policy issues, and co-principal investigator of a
$250,000 federal grant to document rural health services for persons
with HIV.
Wolf returns from a member of the UB English Department since 1967,
has returned after spending two years as a visiting professor at the
University of Hong Kong and lecturing in Japan this year as a
Fulbright Scholar in American literature and culture.
Management sets roundtable sessions
The Center for Management Development in the UB School of Management
has scheduled a "Management Roundtable," with sessions from 8-9:30
a.m. monthly through November in Fanny's Restaurant, 3500 Sheridan
Dr., Amherst.
	The schedule: Sept. 22, "Pratt and Lambert and the Quality
Advantage," speaker: Julie M. Graffeo, quality advantage coordinator,
Pratt and Lambert, Inc.; Oct. 27, "The New Standards of Excellence in
Customer Satisfaction," speaker: Michael J. Billoni, vice president,
Rich Baseball Operations; Nov. 17, "The People Side of Total Quality
Management," speakers: Thomas J. Dixon, manager of human resources,
AlliedSignal Inc.; Joan M. Horrigan, vice president of compensation,
Marine Midland Bank; Robert W. Miller, human resource and TQM manager
for Wendel, an architectural/engineering consulting design firm, and
Robert K. Freeland, interim superintendent, Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda
Public Schools.
Three receive Righteous Awards for saving lives
Three individuals affiliated with UB and who helped save Jews and
others from the Nazis during World War II received The Righteous Among
the Nations Humanitarian Award from the Buffalo chapter of the
American Jewish Committee.
	Honored were Carel J. van Oss, professor of microbiology;
Krystyna Kielan Rybicka, senior research associate in the UB
Department of Physiology; and Doris Sorensen, lecturer in the World
Language Institute at UB.
	Sorensen was among the many Danes who aided their nation's
Jews to escape to Sweden, smuggled aboard fishing boats in 1943; van
Oss, a teen-ager in the Dutch Resistance during World War II, saved
Jews, downed Allied pilots and other citizens at risk by forging
identification papers for them; Rybicka and her family saved two
teen-aged girls by hiding them in their home in Poland and are
credited with helping to save many other Polish Jews.