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Criteria for selection as a fellow includes scholarly and community activities, educational skills, local and national impact on the field of nuclear medicine, voluntary continuing education and special certification by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.

Nuclear medicine is the medical specialty that uses small amounts of radioactive materials for diagnosis and larger ones for treatment of certain diseases.

Program director of the residency training program in the UB Department of Nuclear Medicine, Abdel-Nabi is also medical director of the nuclear medicine technology program in the UB School of Health Related Professions.

Abdel-Nabi earned a medical degree from the Alexandria (Egypt) Faculty of Medicine and a doctorate in radiation biology from The Ohio State University. He joined the UB faculty in 1988.

STUDENTS TO TESTIFY AT WELFARE LAW HEARING
A group of UB students, who studied and analyzed welfare reform in a course at UB Law School, will present individual and collective testimony based on their coursework today during a public hearing from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Buffalo Museum of Science auditorium, 2020 Humboldt Parkway.

The hearing will allow speakers to present issues implementing in New York State the Federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

This Federal welfare law, enacted last August, gives each state discretion in determining its own policies.

The law students' testimony will include aspects of welfare benefits relating to domestic violence, workfare, educational requirements, immigrants and job requirements.

UB law students took the course on welfare reform with UB law professor Frank Munger.

KENNEDY CENTER THEATER FESTIVAL HONORS FINNEGAN
Gerald Finnegan, assistant professor, Theatre and Dance, has been honored by a meritorious achievement award from The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Finnegan received the award, presented in January, 1997, for his work as director of Cabaret at UB.

UB, BELLE CENTER TO GIVE WELLNESS WORKSHOPS
"Spring into Wellness" will be the focus of a series of free workshops and a Health and Wellness Fair to be held during February and March at the Father Belle Community Center, 104 Maryland St., Buffalo.

The programs, which will be free and open to the public, will be held in conjunction with the Living Well Center at UB. Instructors are associated with the Living Well Center.

The schedule for the workshops, which will be held from 2-3 p.m., are:

· Feb. 27: Introduction to Good Nutrition

· March 5: Nutrition for Infants and Children

· March 6: HIV/Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention Strategies

· March 13: Basic Strategies for Physical Fitness

Blood-pressure screening, fitness assessments, exercise and relaxation demonstrations and distribution of materials on a variety of health topics and prevention, will be among the highlights of the Health and Wellness Fair, to be held from noon to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25.

Among the goals of the neighborhood wellness-center program, which is funded by a grant from the Office of Minority Health in the New York State Department of Health are:

· Promote the wellness concept using qualified bilingual and culturally sensitive staff

· Promote good nutrition and health and eating habits

· Provide physical fitness and other activities to reduce stress and encourage appropriate exercise programs

· Provide information on health-care access to nearby facilities

· Demonstrate how "wellness" can be achieved.

GREINER, CHEN HONORED DURING ENGINEERS WEEK
President William R. Greiner and Stuart Chen, UB associate professor of civil engineering, were honored Feb. 21 at the annual Engineers Week awards dinner sponsored by the Erie-Niagara chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers.

At the dinner, held at the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, Greiner received the Citizen of the Year Award, presented annually to a non-engineer who has made an outstanding contribution related to the goals of the engineering profession or to the Society of Professional Engineers during the past year. Chen was named Engineering Educator of the Year.

The award recognizes individuals whose activities or contributions in the field of education have broad and lasting effects on the goals of the engineering profession or the Society of Professional Engineers.

IMPACT OF MANAGED CARE TO BE TOPIC OF PROGRAM
A continuing-education program, "A Wake-Up Call for Pharmacy: The Impact of Managed Care" will be presented in March in Buffalo and Rochester by the Division of Continuing Education in the UB School of Pharmacy. The program will be held March 12, in the Rochester Thruway Marriott, and March 13, in the Buffalo Sheraton Inn.

The program at both sites will open with registration and a light meal from 6-7 p.m., followed at 7 p.m. by the speaker, Lowell J. Anderson, a pharmacist, educator and president of the Watauga Corp. in St. Paul, Minn. Anderson, who holds adjunct appointments in the departments of Graduate Studies and Pharmacy Practice at the University of Minnesota, is a past president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the Minnesota Pharmacists Association and the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy. A member of the Pew Commission Task Force on Managed Care's Impact on Pharmacy Practice and Education, he is a founding partner of a performance-based, pharmaceutical-care network of pharmacies in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.

A panel discussion will follow Anderson's talk, featuring J. Fred Bennes of Medical Partners of Western New York; John R. DiBona, director of pharmacy at Rochester General Hospital; Steven L. Giroux, co-owner of Middleport Family Health Center, and Joel Owerbach, director of pharmacy management for Finger Lakes Blue Cross and Blue Shield. For more information or to register, call the Division of Continuing Education in the UB School of Pharmacy at 645-3931, ext. 247.

UB TO HOST EXHIBITION BY YOUNG MEDIA ARTISTS
More than 150 area high school media-arts students and their teachers will present student work in video film, computer arts and photography March 7, when UB hosts the 28th annual Western Regional Show for the New York State Youth Media Arts Program.

The program, free and open to the public, will run from 9 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the UB Department of Media Study and the Media Arts Teachers Association (MATA).

The show will feature two competitions. Several exhibitors will be selected as candidates for the NYS Summer School of the Media Arts, held at Cornell University. Presentations also will be judged for an exhibition to be held in April at a conference on media arts and education at Teachers' College of Columbia University.

One of last year's summer-school students, John Glassy of Sweet Home High School, will present his work, as will film and video artist Tony Conrad, UB professor of media study.

Judges will be Michael Sladden, George Eastman House; Robert Reals, Summer School of the Media Arts; Stan Panetski, MATA; Cheryl Jackson, director of Squeaky Wheel media access center, also known as Buffalo Media Resources; Dan Calleri, photography technician, UB Department of Art, and Barbara Lattanzi, visiting professor, UB media study department.

Program chairs are Mike Townsend, Lewiston-Porter School and president of MATA, Nancy Kitchen, Clarence Central Schools and Stefanos Papazaharias, UB Media Study Department.

VARGAS TO LECTUREIN INTERNATIONAL THEATER PROGRAM
Maria Vargas, associate professor of Spanish in the UB Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, will discuss the play "Waiting for the Italian" by Venezuelan writer Mariela Romera as part of the UB International Artistic and Cultural Exchange (IACE) Program.

Vargas' talk, "Songs, Soaps, Cinema: Mixed Genres in 'Waiting for the Italian'," will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 7, in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Admission is $3 and the public is invited. The box office will be open one hour prior to the lecture. Call 645-ARTS for more information.

Romera has worked in theater as a writer, director, actress, producer and stage designer in her native Venezuela. In "Waiting for the Italian," staged in 1988 by the New Theater Group of Caracas, Romera recreates the mien of the 1940s by incorporating elements from such period genres as music, soap opera and film. The play depicts a plan by four middle-aged women to hire a discreet and ideal lover.

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT RECEIVES MICROSOFT GRANT
The Department of Management Science and Systems in the School of Management has been awarded a Microsoft Instructional Lab Grant.

The $71,900 grant is for software to support existing courses within the management school. The software includes Microsoft Office Professional, Microsoft Project, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro and Windows NT Workstation.

The competitive grant was awarded based on a proposal submitted by School of Management Ph.D. students Sudip Bhattacharjee, Sanjog Misra, Al Farooq Salam and Raghu Santanam, and H. Raghav Rao, associate professor of Management Science and Systems.

A key part of the proposal was the Interfacets website developed by Rao and the students as a sample repository of information about management information systems and its interface with other management disciplines. The website is also a repository for web-based student projects and can be found at http://wings.buffalo.edu/som/isinterface.

"The award is a good example of how students and faculty can work together for the betterment of the management school," said Rao. "It will help all students stay current on the development of information technology that aids managers in their business practices."

MEMORY TO BE TOPIC OF SENIOR ALUMNI PROGRAM
Does your memory play tricks on you? Is that elusive name, place or fact "on the tip of your tongue," only to come to mind hours later?

How memory works and ways to test and improve it will be the focus of an audience-interactive lecture to be held March 18, as part of the UB Senior Alumni Program. The luncheon program will be held at noon in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

The lecture, to be presented by Ralph H.B. Benedict, UB assistant professor of neurology, will include sample memory tests and techniques. Benedict conducts research on memory and factors that can affect it.

He earned master's and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from Arizona State University and served a postdoctoral fellowship at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Luncheon tickets are $10 each, plus a $5 enrollment charge for the Senior Alumni Program.

Graduates and individuals who have completed 12 semester hours as matriculated students in a degree program at UB are eligible to join the UB Alumni Association. The luncheon series is designed for UB senior alumni, spouses and guests.

For more information, or to make reservations for Senior Alumni Programs, call the Office of Alumni Relations, 829-2608.