IREWG to salute women's scholarship

By MARA McGINNIS
News Services Editor

The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG) will present its "Second Annual Celebration of Women's Scholarship Across the Disciplines" from noon to 4 p.m. on April 16 in 105 Harriman Hall on the South Campus.

The event, which includes a lunch buffet and poster exhibition and presentation, is a celebration of the quality and diversity of work being done at UB. More than 30 poster submissions will be on display at the event, which is free and open to the public.

Margaret Acara and Isabel Marcus, co-directors of IREWG, will welcome the participants. Ellen Grant Bishop, commissioner of the Erie County Department of Mental Health and clinical instructor of psychiatry and family medicine in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will present opening remarks.

Bishop, who formerly served as vice president of Buffalo General Hospital, holds a bachelor's degree in sociology, a master's degree of social work and a doctoral degree in communication, all from UB. Author of the book, "Managing in Black and White," she also has written for prestigious psychiatric journals.

From 1:30-3 p.m., the following selected poster submissions will be presented:

- "Brains and Language: Does Sex Make a Difference?" by Jeri J. Jaeger, associate professor of linguistics, and co-authors Alan Lockwood, professor of neurology, and Robert Van Valin, professor of linguistics

- "Interdisciplinary Women's Health Microscopy" by Patricia McCartney, clinical assistant professor of nursing, and co-authors Patricia Orsini, a medical lab technician in the Department of Microbiology, and Peter Johnson of SUNY Stony Brook

- "Women Writing Women: How Do We Reconcile Official History versus Fictional History?" by Janine Santiago, doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences

- "Role of Estrogen in Blood Pressure Regulation at Rest and During Stress," by Bong Hee Sung, research associate professor of medicine, and co-authors Marilou Ching, clinical instructor of pharmacy, and Michael F. Wilson, professor of medicine and nuclear medicine.

For more information, contact IREWG at 829-3451.