Final issue of Reporter for semester will be published next week

The May 11 issue of the Reporter will be the final one of the spring semester. Due to budgetary and staffing considerations, the issue will not be the traditional "commencement issue."

The Office of News Services will issue hometown news releases on student award winners. Send that information, along with students' hometowns, to Sue Wuetcher at .

The Reporter will publish summer issues on June 22 and July 20.

Doran receives national award recognizing teaching

The 30-year career of Rodney L. Doran, which has been dedicated to teaching teachers innovative techniques to "turn students on" to the wonders and mysteries of science, has earned the UB educator a national teaching award.

Doran, professor of learning and instruction in the Graduate School of Education, received the Distinguished Service to Science Education Citation by the National Science Teachers Association at its conference held last month in Orlando.

His research involves expanding and improving assessment options and formulating new approaches for science teachers.

Doran is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Service Award from the New York Science Mentor Network and an outstanding service award to science education by the New York State Science Supervisors Association. He also has been named Outstanding Science Educator by the Association of Education for Teachers in Science.

Doran, who joined the UB faculty in 1969, received a doctorate in science education from the University of Wisconsin. He previously had taught science at the high-school level in Minnesota.

Each spring, Doran works with UB and area science teachers and local community-based scientists to draw more than 1,000 students to an annual "show and tell" Science Exploration Day on the North Campus.

He also coordinates the popular and competitive summer Science Research Institute, where local high school students who are interested in science careers are taught the tools, methods and techniques of conducting research projects by UB faculty mentors.

Nancy Welch Awards recognize students

Daniel B. Sandberg has received first-place honors in the 21st Annual Nancy Welch Awards recognizing residential students at UB who have made significant contributions to the university community during the current academic year.

The award is given annually in honor of the Nancy Welch, the former residential coordinator of Rachel Carson College.

Sandberg was honored for his effort to educate residence-hall residents about sexually transmitted diseases. He organized workshops for approximately 2,500 residence hall students and faculty members through his work with the UB Aids Coalition.

Tied for second-place honors were Marie L. Balfour for her "Experience Japan" round-table discussion between American students who have studied in Japan and Japanese students studying at UB, and Takiyah N. Amin and Winter Watson for their "Breaking the Barriers: Deconstructing Race in America" workshop.

Andrea Douglas and Richard Porcaro shared third-place honors for their Halloween program for young trick-or-treaters in Clement Hall.

Honorable mention went to Julie M. Fahey for her workshop presentation on homosexuality.

"Business Days 2000" to be held in June

"Business Days 2000," sponsored by University Business Services, will be held June 27 and 28 in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

Highlights of the two-day program will include presentations on current business topics, a guest speaker addressing "Humor in the Workplace" and information tables sponsored by such university departments as Campus Mail, Employee Assistance Program, Procurement Services and University Print Services.

The event also will feature vendor displays of such items as computers, document imaging and office furniture and supplies.

In addition, a luncheon benefiting the State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) will be held.

For further information, check the University Business Services Web site at .

CISP formalizes grant application process

The Council on International Studies and Programs (CISP), a committee of faculty members that advises the provost on international activities and programs at UB, has announced the introduction of new procedures that will formalize and regularize the CISP competitive grants program for the academic year 2000-2001.

The council will provide grants of up to $500 to supplement funding received from the primary sponsor of an event, activity, program or project that supports on-campus international events and activities to take place during the 2000-2001.

John Wood, council secretary, English Language Institute, says the council expects to make awards for the 2000-2001 grant cycle in September, February and April. Grants may not be used retroactively.

Events and activities eligible for the grants include on-campus international cultural events; visiting speakers who present in a public forum on an international topic of broad interest, and international conferences, seminars or colloquia and research projects with a significant international dimension.

Recent UB activities that received funding support from CISP grants include the Conference on African Art, Ritual and Religion; master classes and performances of Indian classical dance by Pandit Jagdish Gangani; UB Women's Club International Committee activities on behalf of international students; the international conference "Crossing Boundaries: German and American Experiences with the Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities," and the international film festival "About Women."

Applications must be complete, meet stated criteria and include a line-item budget, and must be received by the deadline stipulated for each funding period-Sept. 1, 2000 and Feb. 1 and April 1, 2001.

Further information and an application form are available at http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/provost/intl/cispgrant.html or in the Office of International Education, 411 Capen Hall. Questions may be directed to John Wood at 645-2077 or jjwood@buffalo.edu.

Foundations support signal expansion of WBFO repeater

WBFO 88.7 FM, a National Public Radio affiliate and a major public service of UB, has received grants totaling $55,000 from three foundations to support the expansion and improvement of the signal of WUBJ 88.1 FM, its repeater station serving the people of Jamestown and Chautauqua County.

The station has received a $25,000 grant from the Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation, a $20,000 grant from the Hultquist Foundation and a $10,000 grant from the Johnson Foundation.

"These generous grants will help us bring quality radio to a much larger segment of the people of Jamestown and Chautauqua County, and will further enhance the cultural vitality of this great region of the state," said Carole Smith Petro, associate vice president for university services and WBFO's acting general manager.

The station is in the process of seeking additional community and foundation support to finance the $133,000 project, which could be completed by late fall if sufficient funds are raised.

The project to expand its signal will involve moving the WUBJ transmitter to a more central location and increasing its power approximately seven-fold.

The signal will be extended to reach a potential audience of 90,000 in Mayville, Chautauqua, Cassadaga, Sinclairville, Brocton and Panama in New York and Sugar Grove and other areas in northwestern Pennsylvania.

The signal strength will improve throughout the present service area in and around Jamestown, with improvements particularly noticeable around Chautauqua Lake. There will be a greatly improved signal in the area along Lake Erie from Westfield to Fredonia, which will receive a secondary area signal for the first time.

Emeritus Center to recognize 93 members for 3,400 hoursof volunteer service to UB

Ninety-three members of the Emeritus Center will be recognized for more than 3,400 hours of volunteer university service performed during the past year during the 10th annual Retired Employee Volunteers-University Program (REV-UP) recognition ceremony and reception, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

The event will be held during a meeting of Emeritus Center members in the South Lounge of Goodyear Hall on the South Campus. Since the start of the REV-UP program in 1990, Emeritus Center volunteers have provided more than 30,000 hours of university service.

The recognition ceremony, which will feature remarks by Susan M. Hough, assistant vice president for Human Resource Services, will include representatives of the 27 university departments that have benefited from REV-UP.

Students receive art awards

Eight students in the Department of Art have received 1999-2000 departmental awards for their work.

Karisa Centanni, a junior in the photography BFA program, was selected by the art department to receive the Rumsey Award.

Established through the generosity of Buffalo painter Evelyn Rumsey Lord, the award is to be used for travel for artistic and personal enrichment or for tuition assistance for a summer studio art program outside UB.

Centanni will use the $2,500 award to return to Russia, where she spent two semesters last year.

Roseanne Lazar, a junior in the painting concentration, has received the Sally Hoskins Potenza Memorial Scholarship. The Potenza scholarship was established by the family of Sally Potenza, who was a promising young painter pursuing graduate studies in the UB art department at the time of her death.

Matthew Quirk, a BFA candidate in the painting concentration, was selected to receive the Philip C. and Virginia Cuthbert Elliott Painting Scholarship.

The scholarship was established with a grant from Virginia Cuthbert Elliott. She and her late husband, Philip C. Elliott, served for 30 years as artists and art educators in Western New York.

Brianna Sylver, a junior in the communication design program, is this year's recipient of the Julius Bloom Memorial Scholarship for excellence in typographic study.

Toby Bloom Schoellkopf established the Bloom Scholarship in memory of her father, who worked for several well-known printing companies, had a lifelong interest in the typographic arts and helped organize the first international conference of typographical arts in the mid-1960s.

Tullis Johnson and Sarah Mortenson, both of whom will graduate this month, are the recipients of the Eugene L. Gaier Printmaking Awards established last year by Gaier, UB professor emeritus of counseling and educational psychology.

Jon Michael Hallock, Jr., a junior in the printmaking program, is the recipient of the Eugene L. Gaier Excellence in Drawing Award.

Tiffany Stark, a BFA candidate in the painting program, received the Carl E. and Virginia W. Sentz Memorial Award.

Kenneth Garee, a junior pursuing a BFA in computer art, received the Dennis Domkowski Memorial Scholarship, awarded to juniors in the communication design or computer art program who show excellent potential for design. The award was established by Professional Communicators of Western New York.