Greatbatch to speak at dental school seminar
Wilson Greatbatch, a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame whose research led to the development of the implantable pacemaker, will be featured speaker at a seminar titled "The Coalescence of the Sciences," sponsored by the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences in the School of Dental Medicine.

The seminar will be held at 8 a.m. on May 14 in 357 Squire Hall on the South Campus. It will be free and open to the public.

Zapol to present Hermann Rahn Lecture
Warren M. Zapol, internationally known anesthesiologist, physiologist and researcher, will deliver the 7th annual Hermann Rahn Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. today in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the South Campus. The lecture series honors Rahn, a pioneer in respiratory physiology.

Zapol is Reginald Jenney Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, chair of Harvard's Department of Anesthesiology and chief of anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

His topic will be "Inhaled Nitric Oxide: Therapeutic Targeting of the Lung." The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, will be free and open to the public.

A specialist in the basic mechanisms and clinical applications of nitric oxide, Zapol has made seminal contributions on the use of inhaled nitric oxide for treating respiratory failure.

Mistrett honored for assistive technology
Susan G. Mistrett, education specialist in the Department of Occupational Therapy in the School of Health Related Professions, has been awarded the 1998 Service Award by the Technology and Media Division of the Council for Exceptional Children.

The award recognizes service that has enhanced the effective use of technology and media by children, youth and adults with disabilities. Mistrett has spent much of her career working on federally funded efforts to develop assistive technologies for children with disabilities.

She is project director of Let's Play!, a project in the Center for Assistive Technology that provides assistive technology to families with infants and young children with disabilities.

Asian studies conference to focus on world order
The Asian Studies Program will host an international conference, "East Asian Perspectives on World Order in the 20th Century" beginning at 9:30 a.m. Friday and continuing at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in 280 Park Hall on the North Campus.

The conference will include panels of scholars from Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and the U.S. who will focus on the ways Asians in the arts, literature and public life have perceived world patterns and adjusted to them. Topics to be discussed will include Asianism, world view, post-Pacific war world order, institutions of world order and globalization.

For more information, call 645-3474.

Entries sought for Web site contest
The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development will sponsor a contest for UB graduate students who design and implement Web-based courses in undergraduate instruction.

The contest will recognize innovative uses of information technology used in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Awards will be based on Web sites to be used in the Fall of 1998.

Prizes will be awarded in a number of categories; first-prize winners will receive $500. Sites will be judged by a committee of TAs, faculty, technical-support staff, undergraduate students and a librarian appointed by the Office of the Provost.

For more information, visit the contest Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/glazier/ta/

Reporter to publish May 14 "Commencement Extra" issue
The Reporter will publish its annual "Commencement Extra" edition, containing news of student graduation honors and awards, on May 14. The final issue of the Spring semester will be published May 21.

Monthly summer issues will be published June 18 and July 23. Weekly publication will resume on Aug. 27.

Two South Campus bus stops to be relocated in August
The Office of Campus Parking and Transportation Services has announced that effective Aug. 15, the two South Campus Blue Bird bus stops will be relocated. The stop at Bailey Avenue and Michael Road will be relocated outside Goodyear Hall. The Diefendorf Annex stop will be relocated to Main Circle, between Crosby and Foster halls and across from the Metro Rail station.

"The change is designed to better accommodate the needs of South Campus residents, students residing in the University Heights district and those members of the UB community who commute via Metro Rail," said Carmela Thompson, director of campus parking and transportation services. "It also seeks to enhance the personal safety of these users and addresses several long-range, planning objectives for the South Campus."

In addition to relocating the bus stops, a new shelter will be located at the Main Circle site, some minor roadway modifications will occur and new signs will be developed. Notices announcing the new locations will be posted in early August at the old stops.

Asthma conference to focus on WNY's respiratory health
New asthma drugs, new genetic discoveries and the influence of home and external environments on the disease will be among the topics addressed at the 4th annual Asthma and Environmental Exposure Conference, to be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

The conference will be sponsored by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Center for Asthma and Environmental Exposure, part of the Lung Biology Research Program at Buffalo General Hospital. The registration fee for the conference, which is open to the public, will be $50 for students and $75 for all others.

Topics to be covered are the scope of the asthma epidemic, drug therapy, patient assessment, the incidence of asthma in Erie and Niagara counties, asthma management and education, community-based asthma education programs and HMO asthma programs.

Speakers will include Jameson S. Lwebuga-Mukasa, UB associate professor of medicine, director of the Center for Asthma and Environmental Exposure and conference chair, as well as specialists from the UB medical school, the Lung Biology Research Program, SUNY Brooklyn Health Science Center, University of Rochester, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, New York State Health Department, Erie County Health Department, Syracuse Health Science Center, UB School of Pharmacy, UB Center for Urban Research and several community-health organizations.

UB to host Pharmacy Law Review program
The School of Pharmacy will present a Pharmacy Law Review program for pharmacists in all practice settings from 7 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on May 18, and from 7 a.m. until noon on May 19 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. The program, which will cover general as well as controlled-substance regulations, will be presented by Karl D. Fiebelkorn, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. Continuing-education credit is available.

Among the objectives of the program will be to define current scopes of practice for prescribing professionals in New York State; differentiate the practitioner's role and pharmacist's role in dispensing medications and distributing samples to patient populations; list information requirements for written and verbal prescriptions and medical orders that contain non-controlled drugs, controlled drugs, syringes and needles; compare and contrast federal and state requirements on patient counseling and patient information materials; identify public safety laws that affect pharmacy practice, and list requirements on the dispensing of listed chemicals.

Registration fees are $149 for May 18 and $75 for May 19. For more information, call 645-2828, ext. 247.

Emeritus Center to hear Paganelli, honor volunteers
Charles V. Paganelli, acting chair and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, will be the speaker at the May 12 meeting of the Emeritus Center at 2 p.m. in Goodyear Hall, South Lounge. He will speak on "Adventures in Physiology at UB: Field Studies with Hermann Rahn."

At the meeting, more than 90 REV-UP volunteers will be recognized for their more than 3,000 hours of service to UB. Representatives of more than 30 university divisions and departments who have received the benefits of the REV-UP program this past year will be present. Paganelli and Ellen McNamara, assistant vice president for human resources, will assist in the recognition of the volunteers.

Robert E. Hunt, Emeritus Center president, will be in charge of the session, at which the 1998-99 board of directors nominees will be introduced.

Craft Center Sets Early Summer Workshops
The Creative Craft Center, 120 Fillmore, Ellicott Complex, will offer Early Summer Workshops, beginning the week of June 1.

Workshops are scheduled in basic and intermediate pottery, basic black-and-white photography, basic and advanced color photography, night photography, beginning and advanced stained glass, basic drawing, weaving, aerial photography, creative photography, knitting and crocheting, quilting, textile design (intro to marbling), jewelry construction, Brazilian embroidery, intermediate photography, advanced ceramics, hand building, pottery for children and mixed-media for children.

Workshops run one night a week for six weeks from 7-10 p.m. Advanced ceramics, hand building and aerial photography are held from 1-4 p.m. Children's classes are held on Saturday morning. Fees are $30, UB students; $50, others. For more information call 645-2434 from 1-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m.

Wellness Fair to be held May 11
Personnel Services will conduct a Wellness Fair from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

Presentations will be given every half hour, beginning at 9 a.m., on topics such as stress management, exercise counseling, nutrition, health care and ways to wellness, and Health Care Plan's "Buddy Check 2," which covers important steps in early breast-cancer detection.

Participants will include AIDS Community Services, Al-Anon Family Groups, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alzheimer's Association, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, CSEA Benefits Trust Fund, Davis Vision, Employee Assistance Program, GHI Dental, Hospice Association, Living Well Center, Narcotics Anonymous, National Multiple Sclerosis Association, Roswell Park, Sickle Cell Disease Association, UB Recreation and Intramural Services and UUP Benefit Trust Fund, as well as health-insurance representatives from Community Blue, Health Care Plan and Independent Health.

The fair also will offer "Wellness on Wheels," a program that offers blood-pressure, cholesterol and glucose screening, as well as health-risk assessment, body-fat assessment and massage therapy.

Personnel representatives from Research Foundation, UBF and New York State will be on hand.

Release time will be granted to attend the event. For more information, visit Personnel Services' Web site at http://www. avpc.buffalo.edu/personnl/ or call 645-2646, ext. 108 or 114.

Chen awarded MDA's first S. Mouchly Small fellowship
Ning Chen, a research assistant at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, has been awarded the first S. Mouchly Small Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Research Fellowship at UB.

Funded by the national MDA, the fellowship honors Small, former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at UB and multi-term president of the organization. Internationally known for his research in psychiatry, he supported MDA in its formative stages, continuing until his death in 1996.

The competitive, $32,000 annual award, given for each of six years, will support a fellow whose research relates to any of the 40 disorders under the MDA "umbrella."

Chen, a doctoral candidate in the molecular and cellular biology and pathobiology program at MUSC, will begin his UB fellowship on July 1.

Chen's primary research, to be conducted with Richard Almon, associate professor of biological sciences, will focus on the effects of disuse, corticosteroids and growth hormone on muscle gene expression.

He also will work on molecular genetic studies of carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiencies in the laboratory of Georgirene Vladutiu, associate professor of pediatrics and neurology.

A graduate of Nanjing Medical University in Nanjing, China, Chen was a research associate in the Wellcome Medical Research Institute of the University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand, before coming to the U.S.