Harold, Anne Brody to receive award

Brody

Harold Brody, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and his wife, Anne, active in the UB Women's Club, will receive the Lynn Millane Community Service Award from the Amherst Senior Citizens Foundation, Inc. at a luncheon tomorrow in the Park Country Club. The award is presented to individuals who, through volunteer and/or professional involvement, have helped maintain and support senior programs that provide socialization, educational and cultural activities, social support and wellness.

The Brodys were selected to receive the award for their many years of dedication to improving the quality of life for senior citizens.

They are co-chairs of the Town of Amherst Advisory Committee for Adult Day Services.

Fellowship will fund book on the politics of hospitality
Andrew J. Shryock has received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Social Sciences Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the ACLS. The fellowship includes a stipend of $25,000.

An assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, Shryock will write a book, "Civility and Power: The Politics of Hospitality in Tribal Jordan," during the fellowship.

The book will be based on three years of research by Shryock examining how the hundreds of tribes in Jordan use feasts as politics and policy.

Graduation, student honors for Reporter Commencement Extra
The Reporter will publish its annual "Commencement Extra" edition on May 13. Please send lists of students receiving graduation or other honors, identifying honors concisely. Information must be received no later than April 30.

Because of production requirements, the Reporter can only accept lists electronically. No fax submissions will be accepted. Information may be submitted on disk, specifying the program in which it is written and including a printout of all information contained on the disk, or by email to wuetcher@buffalo.edu.

All submissions must include a contact name, department, campus address and daytime phone number. Disks may be delivered to 136 Crofts Hall, North Campus. For more information, call Sue Wuetcher, Reporter editor, at 645-2626.

Fulbright grant competition opens
The U.S. Information Agency (USIA), the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Institute of International Education (IIE) have opened the 1998-99 competition for Fulbright and related grants for graduate study abroad in academic fields and for professional training in the creative and performing arts.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application and hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent by the beginning date of the grant. Creative and performing artists are not required to have a bachelor's degree, but they must have four years of relevant training or study. Candidates in medicine must have an M.D. or equivalent, (e.g., D.D.S., O.D., etc.) at the time of application. Applicants are required to have sufficient proficiency in the language of the host country to carry out their proposed study or research.

Full grants provide round-trip international travel, maintenance for the tenure of the award, a research allowance and tuition waivers, if applicable. Travel grants provide round-trip international travel and are available to selected countries to supplement maintenance awards from other sources that do not provide funds for international travel or to supplement the applicant's personal funds. All grants include supplemental health and accident insurance.

Complete program and application information is contained in the brochure, "Fulbright and Related Grants for Graduate Study and Research Abroad, 2000-2001." UB students should contact Mark Ashwill, Fulbright program advisor, in 224 Clemens Hall, North Campus, or call 645-2292 for brochures, application forms and more information. Deadline for receipt of applications is Sept. 24.

Speech and Hearing Clinic to hold open house
The Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences will hold an open house from 4-6 p.m. tomorrow in the south wing of the Biomedical Education Building on the South Campus to introduce the public and the South Campus community to the new location of its Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic.

The clinic provides a variety of services to children and adults in the evaluation and treatment of speech-language and hearing disorders. The department and its clinical program moved to its present location in January from Park Hall on the North Campus.

The open house will include tours of the clinic facilities and the department's research laboratories. Refreshments will be served.

The department educates specialists and conducts research in a variety of areas involving speech production, language comprehension, and the physiology and functioning of the auditory system.

In addition, the following services are offered at the clinic: hearing tests, hearing aid selection and dispensing, aural rehabilitation and counseling, and evaluation and treatment of such conditions as central auditory processing disorders, cleft palate, autism, augmentative communication, phonological development, language and learning problems, aphasia and related neurogenic disorders, voice and laryngectomy, dysfluency/stuttering, and articulation and dialect differences.

UB Securities Clinic to offer investment workshops
Afraid your investment portfolio won't provide for your retirement? Don't know whether to practice "do-it-yourself" investing or use a professional? Intimidated by investment terminology?

Then you'll want to attend three workshops scheduled from 8-11:30 a.m. May 1, 8 and 22 in Room 112 of Jacobs Management Center on the North Campus. Designed for the general public, the workshops are being offered through the UB Securities Clinic, one of only four of its kind in the U.S. The clinic, a unit of the Center for the Study of Business Transactions, is a collaborative effort between the Law School and the School of Management.

The workshops are sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Center for the Study of Business Transactions.

The investment-education workshops are part of the Securities Clinic's multidimensional outreach services that include independent evaluations of individual investor portfolios and specific financial products, as well as dispute-resolution services.

Speakers will be Joseph Ogden, associate professor and chair of the Department of Finance and Managerial Economics in the School of Management, and Cheryl Nichols, assistant professor in the law school.

Nichols, an NASD Regulation, Inc. arbitrator and a former senior enforcement attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has more than eight years of experience in the financial-services industry.

Ogden has testified in litigation cases involving investor-broker disputes, has written extensively on various topics concerning the financial markets and has won several research awards, including the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Award of the Financial Management Association for Best Paper in Investments.

The first workshop on May 1 will focus on mastering investing basics. The second session on May 8 will concentrate on how to choose mutual funds for retirement and allocate assets in a pension fund. The final workshop on May 22 will address managing investments.

Team members will be available for one-on-one consultations.

Individual workshops are $15 per person and $35 for the series. Space is limited. To register, call Beverley Prendergast at 645-2167.

Registering for University Commencement '99
Undergraduate candidates in the College of Arts and Sciences, including those in interdisciplinary programs, special and individualized majors, biophysics and statistics, and those earning associate degrees, are urged to register now to participate in the University Commencement ceremony May 16.

The deadline for registration is May 3. Registration forms are available at the Student Union Information Desk on the North Campus or by registering online at http://www.specialevents.buffalo.edu.

Candidates scheduled to graduate with other academic units should consult the specific registration procedures with the appropriate commencement coordinator. The full commencement schedule and coordinators for each unit are listed on the above Web site.

Conference to focus on rehabilitation science
The field of rehabilitation science will be the subject of a one-day conference Wednesday in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 North Forest Road, Getzville, sponsored by the UB doctoral program in rehabilitation science.

The conference theme will be "Issues in Graduate Education and Research." Presenters will include Kate Seelman, director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and Marcus Fuhrer, former director of the National Center on Medical Rehabilitation Research of the National Institutes of Health. Cost of the conference is $75, which includes lunch. The registration fee is waived for UB faculty, staff and students, who will be charged for lunch only. For reservations, call Shari Wilson at 829-3141.

Female adolescence subject of symposium
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor at Cornell University, will speak at UB Monday at a morning roundtable and an afternoon symposium on female adolescence.

Brumberg is the author of numerous books and articles, including "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls" (Random House, 1997). A roundtable with Brumberg will be held from 9:30-11 a.m. in 280 Park Hall, North Campus. At the symposium, to be held from 1-4 p.m. in 330 Student Union on the North Campus, Brumberg will speak on "From Corsets to Body Piercing: An Historical Perspective on Female Adolescence." Susan Cahn, UB associate professor of history, will speak on "In the Interests of Citizenship: Adolescent Sexuality, Race and Compulsory Sterilization in the South."

Earth Day activities today will feature special meals
Today is Earth Day! To celebrate the nationally recognized day founded to increase environmental awareness, two UB groups are inviting members of the campus community to share a meal with them today.

The UB Environmental Network (UBEN) is hosting a vegetarian picnic outside the Student Union on the North Campus, beginning at 11 a.m. The picnic is open to all members of the UB community for $2 per person and will include a rock-climbing wall, music from a drum circle and nutritious, vegetarian foods served on reusable dinnerware, which means no paper, plastic or Styrofoam!

In addition, the Buffalo Animal Rights Coalition (BARC) will sponsor an all-vegan-no meat, fish, dairy or any other animal products-potluck dinner at 6 p.m. in Pistachio's in the Student Union. BARC is asking that attendees bring their own place settings to reduce waste. The cost of the dinner is $2 with a vegan dish and $4 without one.

Earth-Day activities at UB also will include an exhibit in the Undergraduate Library on the North Campus featuring books on a wide variety of environmental topics. The exhibit, on display on the first floor of the UGL until May 3, was organized by Aprille Nace, a student in the School of Information and Library Studies.