Browner to speak

Carol M. Browner, administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration, will be the keynote speaker during the Earth Day Environmental Science Colloquium to be held April 20 in the Student Union Social Hall and Theatre, North Campus.

	Browner

The event, which will be free of charge and open to the public, will run from 9 a.m. through a 4 p.m. screening and discussion of the film "Erin Brockovich," and will feature oral presentations, an awards presentation and a roundtable discussion, "Charting UB's Environmental Responsibility-Academic and Service."

Browner, now a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, will speak at 1:30 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre.

The colloquium is sponsored by the Environment and Society Institute, the Environmental Health Sciences Graduate Group and the Environmental Studies Program in the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Program; the UB Green Office, and Westinghouse.

WBFO sets record for spring membership

WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB, has recorded its best spring membership drive, raising $150,955 in the drive that ended March 23.

That amount included $43,290 pledged online, also a record amount, noted Jennifer Roth, WBFO general manager. Roth said 520 pledges were made online, a 26-percent increase over the 412 recorded during last fall's drive.

More than 500 new members joined the station.

"We're grateful that the community has come through once again for UB's public radio station, and we're thrilled to see the family of WBFO members continuing to expand," Roth added.

David Benders, WBFO program director, said: "It was another wonderful team effort-our programming and development staffs working along with a valiant volunteer crew to raise essential operating funds for WBFO."

Noting that "online pledging has really taken off," Benders added: "It was great fun to hear from Web listeners as far away as Kalamazoo and Honolulu who pledged for WBFO."

Revenue obtained through fund-raising comprises 56 percent of WBFO's operating budget, Roth noted, with membership contributions making up 38 percent and local business contributions 18 percent.

“UB Today” presents lineup for April shows

An interview with a group of UB students from the Newman Center about their unconventional spring break will be among the highlights of the April edition of “UB Today,” the monthly Adelphia Cable television program showcasing UB faculty, staff, students and programs.

The show is sponsored by the UB Alumni Association.

The show also will feature interviews with Robert Wahler, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice, about the Geriatric Pharmacology Initiative in Western New York that he oversees; Sargur N. Srihari, director of the Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition, about a computer-software program designed at UB that is 98 percent effective in determining authorship of handwritten documents, and Cort Lippe, assistant professor of music, about interactive computer music.

Each new program runs throughout the month at 6:30 p.m. on Sundays on Channel 18 International and Channel 10 in Lancaster, Clarence, Orchard Park and Elma, and at 9 p.m. on Mondays on Channel 18 International.

Mazon to speak at emeritus meeting

Patricia Mazon, assistant professor of history, will speak at the next meeting of the Emeritus Center at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the South Lounge, 102 Goodyear Hall, South Campus.

A UB faculty member since 1996, Mazon will discuss “Academic Citizenship and the Admission of Women to German Universities, 1865-1914.”

The program is open to all members of the UB community.

Legislative brunch planned for nurses

Nursing students at UB, in conjunction with the Nurse Practitioner Association of Western New York, will sponsor a legislative brunch from 9-11 a.m. Monday in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

Legislators will be in attendance to answer questions concerning current issues that nurses and nurse practitioners face regarding practice and patient care.

For more information, contact the School of Nursing at 829-3323.

Local art workshop set

“Buffalo Bred/Buffalo Bound: Artists with a Connection,” a series of programs designed to explore and generate awareness of local cultural treasures, will be held April 19-21 at various sites in Buffalo.

The event, which will be free and open to the public, will be presented by the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in partnership with UB’s Lockwood Memorial Library and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.

Activities will kick off with a panel discussion from 6-7:30 p.m. April 19 in the Mason O. Damon Auditorium of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo.

Panelists, who will examine how the visual arts contributed to and/or changed Buffalo’s evolution from the perspective of past Buffalo artists-residents, will be Charles Clough, a New York City painter, photographer and sculptor; Charlotta Kotik, curator of contemporary art for the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Milton Rogovin, a Buffalo photographer, and Claire Schneider, associate curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

The discussion will be preceded by a welcoming reception at 5:30 p.m.

The event will continue from 6-7:30 p.m. April 20 in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts, North Campus, with a roundtable discussion featuring Buffalo artists who will share their views of the area’s cultural climate.

Panelists will be Lawrence F. Brose, filmmaker and executive director of the CEPA Gallery; Patricia Carter, a painter and printmaker; Jackie Felix, a painter and printmaker; Caroline Koebel, a media and installation artist, and Ted Pietrzak, director of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center.

The series will conclude April 21 with a children’s workshop scheduled for 1-3 p.m. in the Niagara branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.

Designed for children ages 8-12, the workshop will be led by Lillian Mendez, and artist and longtime art educator.

For further information about Buffalo Bred/Buffalo Bound, call 858-7181.

Cornell medical provost to give Stockton Kimball Lecture

Antonio M. Gotto, provost for medical affairs at Cornell University, will deliver the annual Stockton Kimball Lecture April 28 as part of the Medical Alumni Association’s 64th annual Spring Clinical Day.

The event will begin at 8 a.m. in the Buffalo-Niagara Marriott.

In addition to his position as provost, Gotto is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and professor of medicine at the Joan and Stanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell. The topic of his lecture at 10:15 a.m. will be “Perspective on the Role of Statins in Health and Disease.”

In keeping with this year’s program theme, “The Healthy Heart,” other topics and speakers will be:

• “Exploring the Power of Cardiac PET in Mainstream Clinical Practice: Assessing CAD Reversal of Microcardiac Viability,” Michael E. Merhige, clinical associate professor of nuclear medicine and director of the Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship Program, UB Department of Nuclear Medicine

• “Interventional Cardiology in the Year 2001,” John C. Corbelli, lipid clinic and research director, Buffalo Cardiology and Pulmonary Associates

• “Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery,” Paul C. Kerr, clinical instructor, UB Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Gotto, who will receive the Stockton Kimball Award at the noon luncheon, and his colleagues were the first to achieve the complete synthesis of a plasma apolipoprotein (apo C-I), and also determined the complete cDNA and amino-acid sequence of apo B-100, one of the largest proteins ever sequenced and a key protein in atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

Memorial service is planned for physiologist Blake Reeves

A memorial service for Robert Blake Reeves, professor emeritus of physiology and an activist in environmental organizations, will be held at 2 p.m. May 5 in Amherst Community Church, Washington Highway, Snyder.

A reception will follow the service.

Known as Blake Reeves, Reeves died Jan. 31 of prostate cancer in his Amherst home. He was 70.

A faculty member in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics for 28 years, he was an authority on the effect of temperature on acid-base regulation and the kinetics of red blood cell oxygen exchange.

After his retirement from UB in 1995, Reeves became involved in field botany.

He had co-founded the Niagara Group of the Sierra Club in 1967, and in recent years was committed to the work of the Nature Conservancy, for which he served as a trustee of the Western and Central New York chapter.

He also served on the Erie County Environmental Management Council.

Senior art theses to be displayed in CFA

The Department of Art will present its Senior Thesis Show 2001, two exhibitions of works by senior art majors, during the month of April in several locations in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The first exhibition will open today with a reception scheduled for 5-7 p.m. and will run through April 15. The second exhibition will open April 19 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. and will run through April 29. Work will be displayed in the UB Art Gallery, the Art Department Gallery and the Center for the Arts atrium.

The senior thesis is a year-long investigation by students to develop a personal and unique body of work. This exhibition will highlight the work of 44 students in computer art, communication design, illustration, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture, as well as a number of multimedia approaches.

Human brain to be topic of lecture

Terrence Deacon, an associate professor at Boston University and best known for his work on the evolution of human language abilities, will speak on “Human Brains: The Difference That Makes The Difference” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The lecture, which will be free and open to members of the university community, is part of the Distinguished Speakers Series presented by the Center for Cognitive Science. Co-sponsors are the departments of English, Anthropology, Psychology, Computer Science and Engineering, Linguistics and Philosophy; the English Language Institute, and the Cognitive Science Graduate Student Association.

Deacon directs the expanding biological anthropology component in the BU Department of Anthropology. His research, which focuses on the evolution of the brain, is summarized in his new book, “The Symbolic Species.”

Events planned for “Take Our Daughters to Work Day”

UB will host a slate of events to celebrate “Take Our Daughters To Work Day” on April 26 on the North Campus.

Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi will give the keynote address at 9 a.m., and will be joined by the Cassatt String Quartet.

Participants then will take part in one of three events offered between 10:30 -11:30 a.m.: a bus tour of the North and South campuses, and workshops focusing on “Women in Sports Professions” or “Body Image and Self-Esteem.”

The cost is $4 for each participant.

To register, visit the Web site at http://iMedia.buffalo.edu/todtw or call 645-3580 by April 13.

Theater students to present seldom-seen play “Interview”

“Interview,” a segment from the rarely produced play “America Hurrah,” will be presented by students in the Department of Theatre and Dance tonight through Sunday in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The play will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday.

The first of three segments of the off-Broadway hit “America Hurrah,” a play by Jean-Claude van Itallie, winner of the Vernon Rice Award, “Interview” involves an employment interview treated in a satirical, imaginatively stylized, mordantly comic way.

“This is a rare opportunity for students and faculty to experience and enjoy a rarely done play, says Saul Elkin, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance and director of the play. Elkin calls the play “one of the most interesting theater pieces of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s.”

Tickets for “Interview” are $3 and can be purchased in the Center for the Arts box office.

For more information, call 645-ARTS or visit http://www.arts.buffalo.edu.

Volunteers needed for Senior Breakfast

The Office of Student Unions & Activities is seeking faculty and staff volunteers to help with the Senior Celebration Breakfast, a UB tradition where faculty and staff members honor graduating seniors by cooking and serving a breakfast in their honor.

This year’s Senior Breakfast will be held from 9-11 a.m. April 27 in the Student Union Lobby, North Campus. Volunteers are needed to greet students, and cook and serve breakfast.

Anyone interested in participating should contact Sonia Cinelli at 645-6125 or at cinelli@acsu.buffalo.edu by April 13.

Applications sought for minority award

Applications are being accepted for the Minority Faculty and Staff Association Academic Achievement Award. The fund awards $500 annually to a sophomore or junior meeting high academic standards, and is supported largely—though not exclusively—by donations of minority faculty and staff members at UB.

Students applying for the Fall 2001 award—the deadline for which is 5 p.m. May 4—must be an underrepresented person of color, a full-time UB undergraduate carrying a 3.0 GPA or better, and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident who has exhibited community and/or university service.

Applications can be obtained in 208 Norton Hall.

For more information, contact Roland Garrow or Denise Hood at 645-3072.

Stuttering workshop planned for April 21

New ways of coping with stuttering will be presented at a workshop April 21 at UB by two recognized experts in the field.

Designed for adults, teens and children who stutter, the interactive workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Biomedical Education Building on the South Campus.

The cost of the workshop, sponsored by the Buffalo chapter of the National Stuttering Association and UB’s Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic, is $40 for adults, $15 for students and $20 for a parent and child.

Conducting the workshop will be Gary Rentschler, director of the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at Duquesne University, and Robert Quesal, a professor at Western Illinois University (WIU).