First Fall Reporter is Aug. 26
This is the final summer issue of the Reporter. The publication of weekly issues for the fall semester will begin Aug. 26.

Faculty, staff, students and alums who are away from campus can stay in touch with UB by reading the Reporter on the World Wide Web at http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter.

Email system to shut down Saturday
The university's email system will be shut down from 9 a.m. Saturday through at least Monday morning in order to double the system's capacity in anticipation of increased use with Access99.

CIT staff will split the central email server, or "Mailhub" at UB, into two servers. Having two Mailhubs will lessen the impact should one of the servers crash-cutting the number of users affected and shortening time to bring the server online. Although email service will be shut down for several days, there are things faculty, staff and students can do to alleviate any inconvenience:

- If users have other, non-acsu email accounts, they can forward mail sent to your-UB-IT-Name @buffalo.edu to another account via the @buffalo.edu forwarding mechanism. To set up @buffalo. edu forwarding, visit the Central Email Services Web site at http://www.cit.buffalo.edu/mail and follow the "Set your published email address to your-UB-IT-Name@buffalo.edu" link. Mail sent directly to your-UB-IT-Name@acsu.buffalo.edu account that is forwarded via filters will not be forwarded until after service is available.

- Users who do not have another email account can obtain one of the free email accounts available on the Web, and then forward mail sent to your-UB-IT-Name@buffalo.edu to this non-UB account. These services include Hotmail http://www.hotmail.com, Juno http://www.juno.com and Rocketmail http://www.rocketmail.com. While email services are shut down, users still will have access to the Internet and can use those email services, such as Hotmail and Rocketmail, that are Web-based.

- Contact those you regularly email, before the shutdown, to explain that the UB system will have down time. This is helpful for researchers who communicate with granting agencies via email. The "vacation rules" service that automatically sends a message back to the sender will not be working during the shutdown.

Atkinson receives Fulbright scholarship to study in Israel
Joseph F. Atkinson, professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received a J. William Fulbright Scholarship to lecture and conduct research in Israel.

Head of the environmental fluid mechanics laboratory at UB, Atkinson also is interim director and an affiliate faculty member of the Great Lakes Program. He serves on the steering committees of the university's Environment and Society Institute and the National Science Foundation-funded graduate program for Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training in geographic information sciences.

During his year of study in Israel, which will begin in August, Atkinson will collaborate with Hillel Rubin, a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, on a textbook for a graduate class on environmental fluid mechanics. Atkinson, who also plans to teach, will be involved in additional research and study on sediment transport and mixing in surface waters at the Coastal and Marine Engineering Research Institute.

Since joining the UB engineering faculty in 1984, Atkinson has been principal or co-principal investigator on funded research projects totaling more than $1.5 million. He has received the State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and a teaching excellence award from Chi Epsilon civil engineering honor society.

He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvey Mudd College, a master's degree from Cornell University and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Correction
John Fitzer is assistant director of the English Language Institute (ELI). His title was reported incorrectly in the June 24 issue of the Reporter. We regret the error.

President Greiner signs Talloires Declaration
President William R. Greiner has signed the Talloires Declaration, bringing UB into a select group of least 282 other colleges and universities around the world-including 12 AAU institutions-that pledge to take a leadership role in supporting environmentally sustainable development and advancing global environmental literacy.

Greiner signed the declaration at the urging of numerous campus constituencies, including the Faculty Senate, Professional Staff Senate, Student Association and the Environmental Task Force.

The declaration was drafted in 1990 by the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, a group of university presidents who were concerned that, as leaders of institutions of higher education, they should be taking a leadership role on one of the most critical issues facing the planet at the end of the 20th century.

Signatories agree to take actions designed to address "the unprecedented scale and speed of environmental pollution and degradation, and the depletion of natural resources." Among them are establishing programs to produce expertise in environmental management, sustainable economic development, populations and related fields; establishing institutional ecological policies and practices of resource conservation, recycling, waste reduction and other environmentally sound operations, and working with community and nongovernmental organizations to assist in finding solutions to environmental problems.

Joseph A. Gardella, professor of chemistry and chair of the Environmental Task Force, noted that UB already is recognized as a leader, both nationally and internationally, in environmentally sound and sustainable policy, practice, curriculum and research. "It makes sense that we should not only sign on to these principles, but lead this group in the forefront of educational and research institutional thought," he said.

Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science and a member of the Environmental Task Force who brought the issue to the Faculty Senate, called Greiner's signing of the declaration "an appropriate action, given the strong support given to the declaration by major university constituencies."

Three open houses planned for supercomputing center
Faculty and staff have been invited to tour UB's Center for Computational Research, one of the nation's top-10 academic supercomputing centers.

Three open houses have been scheduled to introduce the UB community to the resources of the center, which was established in January. The open houses will be held at 11 a .m. Aug. 24, 25 and 26, beginning with a presentation in 14 Knox Hall, followed by a tour of the facility in Room 9 of Norton Hall on the North Campus.

CCR resources, which are available for faculty-sponsored research projects, include a Silicon Graphics (SGI/ CRAY) Origin2000 supercomputer, an IBM SP supercomputer and a visualization laboratory featuring a Pyramid Systems ImmersaDesk, Onyx InfiniteReality systems and high-end computer-graphic workstations. Researchers outside the university may request access to the facility as a research, educational or industrial partner.

For more information, call 645-6500.

Brown-bag seminars set on PSS mentor/protege program
Brown-bag seminars on the Professional Staff Senate (PSS) mentor/protege program to enhance career development will be held next month for professional staff, with sessions planned for both campuses.

The South Campus seminar will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on Aug. 4 in the Lippshutz Room, 125 Biomedical Education Building, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The North Campus session will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Aug. 11 in 106 Jacobs Hall in the School of Management.

Professional staff members are invited to attend either session to meet campus colleagues who have participated in the program and to learn about their personal experiences as mentors and proteges.

Participants in the program can learning more about, or share skills and insights on such topics as setting short- and long-term goals, writing a better resume, confronting problems, recognizing effective vs. efficient work methods, understanding UB's culture and political environment, and recognizing and taking advantage of career-development opportunities.

Mailings have been sent to professional staff members. Anyone interested in attending one of the seminars should reply by July 30 to register. For more information, contact the PSS office at 645-2003.

Bright receives ACS Buck-Whitney Award
Frank V. Bright, professor of chemistry, has been awarded the Buck-Whitney Award of the Eastern New York section of the American Chemical Society for 1999. The award, for "outstanding contributions to chemistry," seeks to encourage and promote original research, as well as to identify chemists whose work should be brought to national attention. It will be presented at a banquet to be held Nov. 17 in Albany.

Bright, who joined the UB faculty in 1987, is the author of more than 150 scientific publications.

His research interests are in biomolecule dynamics at and in surfaces, developing new-generation biosensors, supercritical fluid science and technology, and advanced laser-based chemical instrumentation. He is being recognized for his research group's efforts in developing a molecular-level understanding of solvation processes in supercritical fluids, controlling and understanding biomolecule function within restricted spaces, and the development of advanced biosensors for simultaneous quantification of biologically relevant analytes in real time.

APS names Herreid Distinguished Lecturer
Clyde F. (Kipp) Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and academic director of the University Honors Program, has been selected as the Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecturer of the American Physiological Society's Teaching of Physiology Section. The lecture will be given April 16, 2000, during the Experimental Biology 2000 meeting in San Diego. Herreid's selection is a reflection of his scientific contributions, which distinguish him as "a world leader and a role model for younger scientists."

Herreid, who pioneered the case-study approach for science education, is the author of three books and more than 100 scientific publications. He came to UB in 1968. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he received a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1981, and in 1988, was named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor.

Bruckenstein fellow of electrochemical unit
Stanley Bruckenstein, A. Conger Goodyear chair and professor of chemistry, has been named a fellow of the Electrochemical Society. He will be recognized for his professional contributions to the field at the society's meeting in October.

A member of the UB faculty since 1968, Bruckenstein served as chair of the Department of Chemistry from 1974-83.

His research interests include electroanalytical chemistry, electrochemistry and chemical instrumentation. Author or co-author of 200 research articles in scholarly journals, he holds eight U.S. patents on electrochemical gas monitors and other apparatuses. Other honors include the Award in Electrochemistry from the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, the Faraday Medal from the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Charles N. Reilley Award of the Society for Electrochemistry and the Heyrovsky Centennial Medal.

Changes in on-campus telephone dialing to begin Aug. 2
Changes in on-campus telephone dialing to accommodate increased usage will be implemented at 7 a.m. Aug. 2.

Dormitory residents on both campuses will dial five digits instead of four for intercom and campus calls to other dorm residents. The "9" access code for outside calls for dorm residents on both campuses will not change.

As in the past, administrative users will use four-digit numbers when dialing on their own campus and the access code "8" when calling administrative numbers on the opposite campus. The only change will be in administrative calls to students in the dorms. When dialing students, an access code of "9," plus the campus prefix-829 or 645-must be added to the four digits. Such calls will not incur any local usage charges.

Student calls to off-campus numbers will remain the same-"9" plus the seven digits. Dorm residents calling other students and administrative numbers will dial "8," plus four digits for South Campus numbers and "5," plus four digits for North Campus numbers, no matter which campus they are calling from.

Calls to university police will continue to be made by dialing 2222 from either student or administrative phones on either campus.

The Buffalo News donates $50,000 to WBFO
The Buffalo News has donated $50,000 to the Local Program Fund of WBFO-88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB, to allow the station to upgrade equipment and hire another reporter/producer.

Stanford Lipsey, publisher and president of The Buffalo News, said it is important for the newspaper to be a leader in supporting local public media outlets. "We see public radio as a vital dimension of life in Western New York," Lipsey said. "We believe that WBFO has done an excellent job on behalf of its listeners and the community, and it will continue to do so with additional resources made possible by this donation."

Jennifer Roth, WBFO general manager said: "We are honored that The Buffalo News has chosen to make such a significant commitment to WBFO's local news service. It demonstrates their faith in our mission and their recognition of what we have been able to do for the community, even on a shoestring budget. This gift will enable us to provide more in-depth coverage of local, cultural and public-affairs programming for the benefit of our current audience and to reach new audiences."

Gift to endow fellowship for doctoral students in English
A bequest to the College of Arts and Sciences is providing a competitive edge for the Department of English in attracting top-notch doctoral students through increased fellowship money. Sterling and Kathryn Doubrava have given $181,000 to UB through a trust to establish the Marilyn A. Doubrava Endowment Fund in honor of their daughter, Marilyn, a 1958 graduate of the English department who died in 1995.

Marilyn's brother, Max, a 1959 graduate of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, remembered his sister as a creative musician, painter and poet, and was delighted that his parents, who died in 1997, chose to honor the university that played such an important role in her life. "My sister was very unhappy until she transferred to UB, and what she found here was a complete English department and a path for her life," Doubrava said.

Mark Shechner, professor and chair of the English department, said the gift is the first named fellowship endowment in his recollection. "This couldn't have come at a better time, as we strive to be recognized as one of the best graduate programs in the country," Shechner said. The money will be used to augment other teaching and non-teaching fellowships, he said, "enabling us to raise our fellowship offers to selected graduate applicants, and to attract those high-caliber students who might have gone elsewhere without the extra money."

The first Doubrava Fellowship recipient is Roberto Tejada, a photography museum curator at the University of Texas. He will begin his doctoral studies this fall and will receive the Doubrava fellowship for the next four years.

From golf to God: the Golfers' Mass
It's 6:45 on a glorious Sunday morning and golfers are exchanging greetings - but not on the links. They're in the Newman Center chapel on the North Campus, where Rev. Msgr. J. Patrick Keleher, director of the Catholic Campus Ministry, offers a Golfers' Mass every Sunday during the summer.

When he found that his Sunday crowd was dwindling in the summer due to a tee-time conflict, Msgr. Keleher came up with the idea of an early Golfers' Mass. The service is another example of the priest responding to the needs of specific groups, such as holding late Sunday-night Masses for students. The early-Sunday Mass has become popular, and not just with golfers.

"Welcome golfers, gardeners, insomniacs and others who aren't sure where they are," the irrepressible Msgr. Keleher quipped as he bounded into the chapel one recent Sunday. Golfers often post notices about the service in locker rooms. And Msgr. Keleher even has advertised in The Buffalo News' sports pages. "They wanted me to put a notice in the religion page, but I said no, because golfers don't read the religion page," he said. "I wanted it in the sports pages." Msgr. Keleher's admirers say that offering an early-morning service is typical of what this clergyman will do for those he meets. In fact, for him, it's just par for the course.

Law School alumna receives MacArthur "genius" grant
Law School alumna Sara Horowitz, who created a new organization called Working Today to provide benefits and services to people working in temporary, part-time, contract or independent employment, has been awarded a prestigious "genius" fellowship from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Horowitz, who graduated from the UB law school in 1992, has served as a labor attorney, union organizer and public defender in New York City.

Founded in 1995, Working Today offers more than 95,000 members such services as affordable health insurance, technical assistance, legal services and retirement investment plans. Members range from temporary, minimum-wage earners to more affluent employees in new high-tech jobs.

It is estimated that almost 30 percent of U.S. workers lack the leverage necessary to negotiate for goods and services because they are not formally affiliated with an institution.

Horowitz's efforts have established her as an increasingly important voice in policy debates on issues such as jobs, pension and health-insurance portability and social-security-tax relief for independent workers.

She is one of 32 fellows selected this year to receive unrestricted support, ranging from $200,000 to $375,000 over five years, to pursue their ideas and projects. Horowitz will receive $275,000.

Mini-Medical School offers August session
UB's Mini-Medical School will be in session for the public this summer, offering a four-session course during August on medical grand rounds.

Hundreds of "students" from teens to senior citizens have completed various courses and earned certificates through the Mini-Medical School.

The popular program, sponsored by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was developed three years ago by Harry A. Sultz, director of the Health Services Research Program and professor of social and preventive medicine. Sultz is a former dean of the School of Health Related Professions.

Using actual case histories and taught by UB clinicians and pathologists, the course will teach students how to inspect clinical and laboratory data, develop a series of possible diagnoses, confirm the diagnosis and develop treatment plans.

The classes will be held from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 10, 17, 24 and 31 in Room 144 of Farber Hall on the South Campus.

Faculty will be Frederick E. Munschauer, III, associate professor of neurology; Reid R. Heffner, professor of pathology; Alan Drinnan, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences; Monica Spaulding, professor of medicine; Hussein Hameer, assistant professor of pathology; Avery K. Ellis, associate professor of medicine, and John Wright, professor of pathology and dean of the medical school.

The cost is $30 for individuals, $45 per couple, $25 for senior citizens, $40 for senior couples and $20 for students.

Members of the Mini-Medical School Alumni Association will receive a 20 percent discount.

For more information and registration, call 829-2196. Checks and major credit cards are accepted. Advance registration is required.

Sultz, Young to teach course at Chautauqua on health-care changes
Two UB faculty members will teach a mini-course at the Chautauqua Institution this summer that is designed to clear up confusion consumers may have about changes that are under way in the U.S. health-care system.

Harry A. Sultz, professor of social and preventive medicine and director of the health services research division in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Kristina Young, clinical assistant professor of social and preventive medicine and executive director of UB's Healthcare Careers Center, will present "Understanding U.S. Health Care: Past, Present and Future" from 9-10:30 a.m. Aug. 23-26 in the Sheldon Hall of Education at Chautauqua. Topics to be discussed will include managed care, informed consent, patient advocacy and choosing health-care providers and insurers.

The cost of the course is $17 per session or $60 for all four sessions. Call 357-6348 for more information or to pre-register.

Endowment fund honors former chemistry professor
Joseph Vacca, who received a doctorate in chemistry from UB in 1983, has established the Peter T. Lansbury Endowment Fund in honor of Lansbury, professor emeritus of chemistry who was his research advisor.

The fund was created by Merck, Vacca's employer, with a $25,000 gift to UB, Vacca's beneficiary of choice.

Vacca chose UB as the beneficiary of the Director's Award-given by Merck in recognition of Vacca's work in developing an AIDS drug-because of the role the university played in his career.

"UB was where I learned to be a chemist and Dr. Lansbury was the driving force. He inspired me to be a chemist; he was a big influence on my career," said Vacca.

In addition to the initial award money from Merck, Vacca gave a $500 personal donation to UB, which was matched by Merck.

"Such a gift from a person like Joe, in the prime of his career, is unusual. We are pleased that he chose to recognize the special mentoring relationship with his research advisor," said Jim Atwood, chair of the Department of Chemistry.

The first Peter T. Lansbury Award was presented to Anand Vaidya during the chemistry department's awards ceremony last month. The award will fund summer research.

Vacca received the Director's Award from Merck in recognition of his leading contributions in the discovery of Crixivan, an HIV protease inhibitor. A Merck employee since 1981, Vacca now is executive director in the company's medicinal chemistry department. During his career, Vacca has written nearly 50 articles and has received more than 20 patents for his discoveries.

Lansbury is thrilled with the recognition from his former student. "Joe was just phenomenal, the best of the best," recalled Lansbury, who retired in 1995. "He was highly motivated and had an unbelievable scientific work ethic. I had to deal with the fact that he was frequently one step ahead of me. It's great he decided to give back to his graduate institution."

Lansbury has had a distinguished career, serving on the UB faculty for more than 35 years. During that period, he was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Lansbury has been a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal, awarded by the Western New York section of the American Chemical Society.