UB
installs phone line for closing information
The university has installed a new telephone service to provide information
when office hours and class schedules will be altered as the result
of inclement weather or for other reasons.
The
information will be available at 645-NEWS to students, faculty and staff,
as well as the public, 24 hours a day. There never will be a busy signal
since the line has the capacity to handle an unlimited number of calls
simultaneously.
The
standard recorded message will be "Offices are open and classes are
being held as scheduled today at the University at Buffalo." The message
will be changed appropriately as soon as university officials decide
to alter office hours and class schedules due to weather conditions
or other situations.
Input
sought on parking
Members of the UB community are being asked to provide their opinions
on parking and transportation services by participating in a Web-based
survey.
The
survey, part of an evaluation of UB's parking and transportation services
being conducted by the consulting firm of Chance Management Advisors
Inc. (CMA), can be accessed at http://www.chancemanagement.com/pages/Survey.html.
The survey will run through March 15.
The
results of this survey will provide UB with additional information regarding
parking, transportation and commuting patterns at the university, said
Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs. This information will
be used to impact both immediate needs and long-term parking and transportation
planning for the campus, he added.
The
CMA consultation process includes data and service review, consumer
need and satisfaction reviews, benchmarking against peer institutions,
operations and facilities audits, and analysis of management structures.
The consultants already have conducted several site visits, in which
they met with key campus constituencies and conducted fieldwork, policy
and process reviews, as well as focus groups.
"This
extensive process should provide our university community with recommendations
on critical success factors, customer satisfaction, industry standards,
possible campus systems for improved service delivery, and suggested
cost and budgeting models for the Office of Parking and Transportation
Services," Black said.
Brazeau
to serve as chair elect of AACP Council of Faculties
Gayle Brazeau, associate professor in the UB departments of pharmacy
practice and pharmaceutical sciences, will be installed as chair-elect
of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Council of
Faculties at its July 2002 meeting.
Brazeau
serves on several editorial advisory boards for scientific and educational
journals and on FDA, USP and NIH panels and committees. She is an advisor
to several organizations for professional pharmacy students.
Her
research interests focus on understanding the biochemical and toxicological
interactions of compounds such as alcohol and cocaine and drugs such
as statins, antibiotics, estrogen, and estrogen replacement therapy.
Other research interests include development of intramuscular formulations
that result in less muscle damage upon injection without altering drug
bioavailability.
She
earned her doctorate from UB and her bachelor's and master's degrees
from the University of Toledo.
Film
to be screened
The award-winning film "Follow Me Home" will be shown at 7 p.m. March
15 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Writer/director
Peter Bratt will attend and will lead a discussion after the screening.
The
screening will be presented by the Center for the Americas in the College
of Arts and Sciences.
"Follow
Me Home" takes a non-conventional look at race and identity in the United
States. Weaving together traditions of Native, African and Latin cultures,
it tells the story of four artists and their journey across the American
landscape.
The
film, which never was released nation-wide, received the Best Feature
Film Audience Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival
in 1996 and was an Official Selection of the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
It earned Bratt "best director" honors at the American Indian Film Festival
in San Francisco in 1996.
For
more information about the screening or the film, contact Kyle Wegner
at 645-2546 or kdwegner@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Cognitive
science lecture set
Ray Jackendoff, professor of linguistics at Brandeis University, will
speak at 3:30 p.m. March 14 in Slee Concert Hall, North Campus, as part
of the Center for Cognitive Science's Distinguished Speaker Series.
The
lecture will be free of charge and open to the public.
Jackendoff's
topic will be "Possible Stages in the Evolution of the Language Faculty."
The
human ability to learn language is a human cognitive specialization,
encoded—in some unknown way—in our genes, Jackendoff says.
The evident adaptivity of linguistic communication suggests that this
capacity arose through natural selection, he adds. "It is, therefore,
a challenge for linguistics to find a plausible route by which the features
of language could have evolved step by step." Jackendoff says that in
his speech, he will propose such a route, "using evidence from child
and adult language acquisition, from aphasia, from pidgin and creole
languages, from 'language'-trained apes, and from 'fossils' of earlier
forms of the language capacity still found in modern-day languages."
Jackendoff
has taught at Brandeis since 1971. He is a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, president-elect of the Linguistic Society of America,
and past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. A former
student of Noam Chomsky, he is author of "Semantics and Cognition: Consciousness
and the Computational Mind" and, with Fred Lerdahl, "A Generative Theory
of Tonal Music."
His
most recent book, "Foundations of Language," offers a new proposal in
the understanding of how language, the brain and perception connect,
and integrates linguistics with surrounding disciplines, including philosophy
of mind, cognitive and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology,
neuroscience and computer science.
The
lecture will be co-sponsored by the Samuel P. Capen Chair in the Department
of Anthropology; the departments of Anthropology, Computer Science and
Engineering, Linguistics and Philosophy; the English Language Institute,
and the IGERT grant from the National Science Foundation to the National
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.
ESI
awards research funding
The Environment and Society Institute has announced the names of researchers
who have won awards for Fall 2001 through the institute's Environmental
Management Alternatives Program (EMAP) and Environmental Science Interdisciplinary
Research Program (ESIRP).
The
EMAP provides seed funding for interdisciplinary research and analysis
on environmental problems relevant to the regional community and shares
that work with groups and organizations capable of translating it into
policy.
EMAP
award winners are Alan J. Rabideau, Department of Civil, Structural
and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
and Matthew W. Becker, Department of Geology, College of Arts
and Sciences, for a project entitled "Letchworth State Park Water Quality
Study."
The
ESIRP provides seed funding for interdisciplinary research and analysis
in environmental science relevant to the regional, national and global
environmental research and education priorities. Environmental science
focuses on the components of the environment—air, water, soil and
food. Research in the natural and social sciences that has relevance
to, and overlaps with, environmental science would be eligible, including
ecology, environmental chemistry, engineering, psychology, anthropology,
environmental toxicology and environmental health.
ESIRP
award winners are:
- James
N. Jensen, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Troy D. Wood, Department
of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, and A. Scott Weber,
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, "Methods
Development for the Analysis of Natural and Synthetic Estrogens in
Wastewater"
- Jerome
B. Keister and Janet R. Morrow, both of the Department
of Chemistry, "Water-Soluble Metal Catalysts for Biomass Conversion
to Chemicals"
- Carl
F. Lund, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, "Feasibility Data for a New Class of Environmentally-Friendly
Chlorination Catalysts"
- James
R. Olson, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Lesleyann Hawthorn, Gene Expression
Core Laboratory, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Norma J. Nowak,
DNA Microarray Facility, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, "Application
of Gene Microarrays in Environmental Health Research"
- Chris
S. Renschler, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences,
and Michael F. Sheridan, Department of Geology, College of
Arts and Sciences, "Geo-spatial Dynamic Response Assessment Tool (GeoDRAT)"
For
further information, contact ESI at 829-2975, ext. 602, or visit http://wings.buffalo.edu/provost/esi.
Nominations
sought for Welch awards
The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs is seeking nominations
for the 23rd annual Nancy Welch Award.
The
award—given annually in honor of the former residential coordinator
of Rachel Carson College—is reserved for undergraduate residential
students who have made significant contributions to the university community
through the development of creative programs or projects and volunteerism
throughout the academic year.
To
obtain an application packet, contact Caroline Puccio in Student Affairs
at 645-2982, or at cpuccio@buffalo.edu.
Completed
applications must be received in 542 Capen Hall, North Campus, by 5
p.m. on March 8.
"Peter
Rabbit" to hop into CFA Mainstage
The Center for the Arts will present the world renowned Poko Puppets
in "The Peter Rabbit Revue" at 2 p.m. March 23 in the Mainstage theater
in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, as part of the CFA's Family
Adventure Series sponsored by Adelphia Media Services and WJYE-FM.
Free
kids activities will be provided one hour prior to the performance.
"The
Peter Rabbit Revue" is a fun-filled, full-stage musical production featuring
the famous rabbit and the classic children's tales of "Peter and the
Wolf," "Tubby the Tuba" and "Peer Gynt and the Trolls."
Rabbits
abound with Poko's signature glitter-rock "At The Hop," the zany and
egg-stravagant "Easter Parade" and an "Old McDonald" sing-along with
special guest star "Super Rabbit."
This
production is made possible, in part, by a grant from The Jim Henson
Foundation. The show is recommended for ages 8 and under.
Established
in 1966 by Larry Engler, the Poko Puppets have appeared in full-stage
productions for large theaters (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Metropolitan
Opera House), concert appearances with orchestras (Philadelphia Orchestra,
Buffalo Philharmonic) and smaller shows that have toured auditoriums
from Anchorage to Atlanta and San Juan to Singapore.
Tickets
for "The Peter Rabbit Revue" are $12 for adults and $10 for children
12 and under, and are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6
p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations. For
more information, call 645-ARTS.
Exhibit
celebrates Big Orbit's 10th anniversary as gallery
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Big Orbit Gallery, the UB
Art Galleries will present "Big Orbit: Ten Years of Spin on Western
New York Art" in the Anderson Gallery, Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo.
The
exhibit will open with a reception from 8-11 p.m. Saturday and will
run through April 28.
An
artist-run, alternative arts space founded in 1991 on the West Side
of Buffalo by UB art students Katrin Jurati and Alan Van Every, Big
Orbit's mission is to promote contemporary art in all media by emerging
and established artists in Western New York.
The
exhibition in the Anderson Gallery will chronicle the history of Big
Orbit through examples of artwork that have been displayed at Big Orbit
in more than 50 solo and small-group exhibitions.
Focusing
on the gallery's visual arts program, the exhibition will include paintings,
sculptures, photographs and prints by such artists as Peter Arvidson,
Mary Begley, Mia Brownell, Jackie Felix, Josh Iguchi, Duayne Hatchett,
Patrick Holderfield, Martin Kruck, Joshua Marks, Gary Nickard, Joseph
Orffeo, Walter Prochownik, Patrick Robideau, Alberto Rey, Paul Sharits,
Peter Sowiski, Kurt Von Voetsch, Patty Wallace and Alfonso Volo. Many
of the artists are current or former UB faculty members and students.
Gallery
hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m.
on Sunday.
Task
force to present "Father Knows Best"
The Domestic Violence Task Force at the UB Law School will sponsor a
performance of "Father Knows Best" by the Theater for Change at 7 p.m.
March 19 in the Student Union Theatre, North Campus.
This
play is based on research conducted by Child and Family Services staff,
Haven House staff, victims of domestic violence, their children, former
perpetrators and others who work in the field of family violence.
The
performance will be a dramatization of the cycle of violence as it unfolds
for a victim of domestic violence. "Father Knows Best" uses the main
character, a woman who has been battered by her husband for nine years,
to take the audience through realistic portrayals of domestic violence
and how various community agencies attempt to handle it. The play features
a scene in an emergency room, and characters that include a detective,
police officers, extended family and a religious figure.
Following
the performance, the actors will remain on stage and in character for
a question-and-answer session with the audience.
In
addition, Suzanne Tomkins, research associate professor of law and director
of the Family Violence Clinic in the Law School, and a staff member
from Haven House will be available to answer questions.
Admission
is $5 for students and $10 for the general community.
The
production is designed to make audience members aware of the reasons
why victims stay with their abusers, and the psychological and physical
aspects of abuse, as well as the isolation that victims often face.
"Father
Knows Best" is supported by Sub-board I; Nils Olsen, dean of the Law
School, and the Student Bar Association.
Creative
Craft Center to offer workshops
The Creative Craft Center, now located in 29 Harriman Hall on the South
Campus, is offering spring workshops beginning the week of April 1.
Workshops
are scheduled in photography, knitting and crocheting, beginning and
advanced stained glass, and adult and teen drawing.
Workshops
run from 7-10 p.m. one night a week for six weeks.
Fees
are $30 for UB students and $60 for all others. Early registration is
advised.
For
further information, a schedule or a map, call 829-3536.
