October 27, 1994: Vol26n8: HUD grant will fund Applied Public Affairs Center

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
The UB Center for Applied Public Affairs Studies has been awarded a
$150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development to fund five community-development graduate-study
assistantships for 1994-95.
	The award, made under HUD's Community Development Work Study
Program, will fund five graduate assistants for this academic year:
	Felicia R. Beard, who holds a bachelor's degree in legal
studies from UB and plans to pursue a career in human services to
children and families.
	Salvadore Roman, Jr., who holds a bachelor's degree in geology
from UB, and has spent the past four years working in the field of
teaching, vocational counseling and job placement for Buffalo's
Clarkson Center for Human Services.
 	Mary Anne Coyle, a Buffalo State College graduate who has
completed graduate-level course work in planning, housing and public
policy and development planning at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
	Serina Ting, who received a bachelor's degree in legal studies
from UB in February and, while in Buffalo, has been active with the
Community Action Corps, Habitat for Humanity and the Gloria J. Parks
Community Center. Ting was vice president of the UB Asian American
Student Union for two years.
	 Kimberly E. Johnson, who received bachelor degrees in both
English and history from UB in May, has done considerable research
into the writings of the historically marginalized, ignored and
destroyed. Her work has included a collaborative student effort to
revise the syllabus used in a popular women's studies course and work
as a family-life educator for the Girl Scout Council of Buffalo and
Erie County.
	She will work toward a master's degree in 	social
sciences with a concentration in applied public affairs studies in
preparation for professional and administrative work in a public
agency or institution.
	The UB Center for Applied Public Affairs Studies, directed by
Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., associate professor of American Studies, is
one of three interdisciplinary graduate programs in the UB Faculty of
Social Sciences.
	It offers two master of science degree programs and promotes,
develops and coordinates interdisciplinary research and education in
urban studies and public policy. The center's activities focus on
economic and community development in the central city and city
neighborhoods, as well as on a metropolitan level.
	Researchers are developing a body of knowledge with which to
inform the design of public policy through the study of problems
encountered by discrete social groups with special needs. Among them
are the elderly, women, African Americans, the working poor, Native
Americans, Hispanics, the disabled and the homeless.