February 9, 1995: Vol26n16: FACULTY & STAFF BILLBOARD

Ambrosone receives
Research Award
Christine Ambrosone, research scientist in the Department of Social
and Preventive Medicine, is the recipient of the Women in Cancer
Research Brigid G. Leventhal Trainee Award from the American
Association of Cancer Research (AACR). Ambrosone will present her
abstract, N-acetyltransferase (NAT), Cigarette Smoking and Breast
Cancer Risk, at the AACR annual meeting in Toronto, Ont., March 19-22.
UB filmmaker will judge "Big Muddy"
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Sarah Elder, UB professor of media
study and co-director of the Alaska Native Heritage Film Center, will
serve as one of three judges for the 17th annual Big Muddy Film
Festival, an international competition and exhibition sponsored by
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
	The festival, which presents $3,000 in prizes, will take place
from Feb. 25 through March 5 at Southern Illinois University.
	Elder will join Milcho Manchevski, Gold Lion recipient at this
year's Venice Film Festival for his feature-length film, "Before the
Rain," and a distinguished Illinois-based filmmaker, in judging a wide
range of entries in the categories of animation, experimental,
narrative and documentary work.
	The Big Muddy Film Festival offers independent film and video
makers an opportunity to present works that challenge the traditional
boundaries of the visual media.
UB aids victims
of Kobe quake
About $900 has been raised by students, faculty and staff at UB to aid
victims of the recent earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
	The funds were raised through combined efforts of Lisa
Dalfonso, the UB law student who survived the Kobe earthquake; Lisa
Felix of International Student Scholar Services; Hiroshi Ikehata,
president, and members of the Japanese Student Association as well as
the student bar association.
	Felix reported that a total of $2,000 has been raised in the
community to date, including amounts donated to Kobe earthquake relief
through M&T Bank. She noted that donations may still be made to the
Student Bar Association and to International Student Scholar Services
at 210 Talbert.
Feb. 15 is deadline
for application to 
Phi Beta Kappa
Feb. 15 is the deadline for application for election to Phi Beta
Kappa, the national honorary society for students in liberal arts
degree programs.
	Chief sources for nominations are departmental nominations,
self-nominations and a computer printout from Records and Registration
indicating students who meet the credit hour and GPA thresholds. Send
nominations accompanied by the relevant student transcripts by Feb. 15
to Dr. Barbara Bono, President, Phi Beta Kappa; Attn: Ms. Mili
Sidorski, The Undergraduate College, 220 Talbert Hall.
	To be eligible for election, a candidate should:
	o Be a senior graduating in the liberal arts degree programs,
generally speaking, B.A. and B.S. (but normally not B.F.A.) programs
in Arts and Letters, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and
Undergraduate Education (special and individualized majors). A small
number of juniors in these programs are also elected annually.
	o Have achieved breadth in the liberal arts (meaning, at a
minimum, satisfaction of the university's current general education
requirements).
	o Have a grade point average of 3.75 or higher (with 90 hours
completed) or 3.50 or higher with 110 hours completed. For students
with transfer credits, the UB average as well as the overall average
must meet these minima and at least 32 hours must have been taken at
UB.
Conference to focus
on rebuilding
Jewish community
First- and second-generation survivors of the Holocaust will be among
the speakers at the ninth annual Arthur & Louise Wasserman Conference,
to be held on Sunday, Feb. 12, in Baldy Hall on the North Campus.
	The conference, which will focus on "Fifty Years of Rebuilding
the Jewish Community" since the end of World War II, is sponsored by
Hillel of Buffalo. The conference is open to the public at a charge of
$2 for students and $6 for all others. Co-sponsors are the American
Jewish Committee, the Holocaust Resource Center, the Jewish Student
Union, Israeli Student Organization and ARI newsletter.
	Keynote speaker will be James M. Lodge, executive director of
the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo. He will discuss "The Future
of the Jewish Community" at 2 p.m. in the Kiva of Baldy Hall. Benjamin
Simon and Mark Waldman will speak for UB students.
	Workshops will be held from 3-5:30 p.m. throughout Baldy Hall
on such topics as healing the psychological scars of the Holocaust,
faith during and after the Holocaust, and whether  remembering the
dead helps the living. A room  in which attendees may meditate in
silence or recite the Kaddish will be reserved near the workshop
areas.
Management profs
edit new volume
Hejamadi R. Rao and Ramaswamy Ramesh, associate professors in the
School of Management, are joint editors of a volume on the theme,
Interface between Information Systems and Operations Research.
	"The fields of IS and OR have advanced tremendously over the
years in their respective individual tracks; however, the links
between these two tracks are now becoming increasingly important, due
to the rapid advances in information technology and the growing
outreach of OR to solve practical problems in a variety of
disciplines," Rao says.
	"The volume addresses two broad developmental
issues...providing effective IS support for practical OR applications
and providing efficient OR modeling support in configuring optimal
informational systems. The volume consists of four issues, with a
total of 400 pages," Rao says.
UB's TCIE helps
Enidine obtain grant 
Enidine Inc. of Orchard Park has obtained an Economic Development
Skills Training Grant with the assistance of The Center for Industrial
Effectiveness (TCIE) at UB.
	Enidine, a manufacturer of industrial shock absorbers, will
receive $6,050 under the grant from the Western New York Development
Corp. and the New York State Department of Economic Development. The
grant will allow the company to improve the design and analytical
capacities of its engineering service and increase its competitive
edge in the global marketplace by upgrading its software.
	TCIE is a program of the UB School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences that assists local industry in efforts to improve
competitiveness and productivity.
UB to sponsor women's health conference
 A conference designed to provide an update on primary-care topics for
providers of health care to women will be held on March 10-11 in the
University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road, Amherst.
	The conference, targeted toward physicians and other health
care providers in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology, internal
medicine and family practice, is sponsored by the Department of
Gynecology-Obstetrics in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences, in conjunction with the Departments of Internal Medicine and
Family Medicine.
	The conference will cover a wide range of women's health
issues, from contraception management to hormone-replacement therapy
to mood disorders.
	 It will feature both faculty and staff from UB, as well as
visiting faculty.
	The program, which has been approved for 9.5 hours of AMA/PRA
Category 1 credit, was developed by Lawrence J. Gugino, UB clinical
assistant professor of medicine and gynecology-obstetrics, as part of
a $35,000 IME Demonstration Project Grant.
	 The grant will provide retraining for generalist ob/gyn
physicians in primary-care topics that are of concern to women.
	The cost of the conference is $120 for physicians and $60 for
nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other health professionals
and residents. Brochures and registration forms are available by
calling Pat Prior at 845-1834.
Cheerleaders place second in nationals
The UB cheerleading squad jumped, yelled and pyramided its way to
second place in the all-female division at the National Cheerleading
Association Competition held last month in Dallas. The award-winning
performance will be shown later this year on Primetime sports network,
says coach Nancy Costantino.
	Sporting red, white and blue uniforms, the UB team competed
against 30 other squads.
	The UB cheerleaders brought home a 5-foot trophy and $750 from
Cheerleaders Dance Team Co., a major supplier of cheerleading
equipment and uniforms.
	Costantino, coach for the UB cheering squad for six years, is
assisted by her daughter, Andrea. The judging criteria for the
competition included precision and creativity, she said.