The 5K U.S.A. Track and Field certified course, part of The Buffalo
News Runner of the Year Series, will start and finish near Alumni Arena.
Held in memory of a UB student who was assaulted and murdered while
jogging on a bike path near the North Campus, the event promotes personal-safety
awareness and supports campus-based, crime-prevention programs.
Advance registration is $15 per person if postmarked by Monday. Registration
on race day is $18. The cost for students is $10. Checks should be made
payable, in U.S. funds only, to the UB Foundation, Inc.
Pre-registration application forms and race packets will be available
from 4-7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 in Alumni Arena. Packets also may be picked
up at the arena from 8-9 a.m. on race day.
Awards will be given to the overall male and female finishers in the
open division, the top-three male and female finishers in five-year
age and wheelchair categories, the top race walkers and the top UB male,
female, faculty/staff, student and alumni finishers.
Picnic rescheduled
Due to a university scheduling error, the International Committee of
the UB Women's Club has rescheduled the date of its September Welcome
Picnic for new international students and families. The picnic now will
take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept 25 in 210 Student Union, North
Campus.
The International Committee will offer a variety of programs during
the upcoming year geared toward making international students feel welcome
at the university, including English conversation groups and brunches
and social programs
For further information regarding the picnic or any event offered
by the committee, please call Meena Rustgi at 632-5768 or Norma Rubin
at 688-7062.
Reception to welcome new female faculty
The fourth annual "Old Girls/News Girls" Reception to welcome new women
faculty members will be held from 4-6 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Center for
the Arts Atrium on the North Campus.
The reception is sponsored by the Institute for Research and Education
on Women and Gender (IREWG) and the Association of Women Full Professors
at UB.
For further information, contact IREWG at 829-3451.
Tap Dogs to open KeyBank Dance Series
The 2001-02 KeyBank Dance Series presented by the Center for the Arts
will open on Oct. 3 with Tap Dogs, 90 minutes of rough, tough, rocking
theatrical entertainment that turns tap dancing upside down.
The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the
CFA on the North Campus.
"Tap Dogs" is composed of six dancers from Australia, the United States,
England and Canada, along with two-time Olivier Award-winning choreographer
Dein Perry, eclectic designer/director Nigel Triffitt and composer Andrew
Wilkie.
Tickets for Tap Dogs are $35.50, $30.50, $25.50 for the general public,
and $30.50, $25.50, $20.50 for UB students. Discount coupons are available
at all area KeyBank locations. Tickets are available at the CFA box
office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster
locations.
MBA enrollment up 40 percent
MBA enrollment in the School of Management is up 40 percent this fall.
A total of 258 new students have enrolled in the full-time, Professional
and Executive MBA programs in the management school, compared to 184
students last fall.
The increase can be attributed largely to the school's rise in national
ranking, complemented by its strategic marketing and recruitment efforts,
says Jerry M. Newman, interim dean of the School of Management.
"We certainly have benefited by recognition we've received from The
Wall Street Journal and Business Week as one of the world's
top business schools," says Newman, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor.
"Not only are we enrolling greater numbers of students, we're also enrolling
more students who have outstanding academic and professional backgrounds."
According to Newman, 165 new students have enrolled in the school's
full-time MBA program, an increase of 39 percent from last year. The
students hail from 16 countries and four U.S. states. Their average
score on the Graduate Management Admissions Test is a very competitive
609.
"We truly have become a global business school, which means our students
play an important role in educating one another about how business is
conducted around the world," Newman says.
The school's Professional (part-time) MBA program, for managers with
at least one year of professional experience, has enrolled 63 new students—an
increase of 65 percent from last year. Possessing an average of five
years of managerial experience, the students are employed at a host
of companies throughout the area, including M&T Bank, Casino Niagara,
HSBC, Rich Products, Tops Markets and Computer Task Group.
The Executive MBA program for high-level managers has enrolled 30
new students—up 11 percent from last year. Possessing an average
of 13.5 years of managerial experience, the students are employed at
Praxair, Niagara Mohawk, EDS, Independent Health, Bison Products, Sterling
Fluid Systems and Peerless Environmental, among other area companies.
In addition to its Buffalo-based MBA programs, the School of Management
offers two Executive MBA programs in Beijing and another in Singapore.
Collectively, 353 students are enrolled in those programs.
Japanese program goes online
A Japanese language/culture training program for business executives
offered by UB has proven so successful that the university has put it
online for the fall semester.
"E-Business Japanese," a unique version of the popular "Japanese for
Business Executives" course, is a 16-week certificate program in which
participants acquire basic conversational skills and develop the intercultural
competence necessary to interact confidently and successfully with Japanese
colleagues.
The classroom version of the program is offered at UB on a demand
basis and in the past year has trained employees of Delphi Automotive
Systems; McGard Inc. of Orchard Park, which manufactures wheel locks
for automobiles, and Fujisawa Healthcare Inc., of Grand Island, which
does business with Japanese colleagues in the U.S. and/or Japan.
The program was developed by the World Languages Institute (WLI),
a unit of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures that specializes
in language and cultural instruction in 12 less commonly taught languages.
The WLI promotes global awareness and inter-cultural sensitivity and
helps local companies become more competitive in international markets.
"The E-Business Japanese program is designed to help participants
develop practical intercultural and interpersonal skills that they can
use when dealing with Japanese peers, particularly in a business setting,"
says WLI director Mark Ashwill.
The one-semester course, which began last week, costs $950 per participant.
It will involve 160 hours of coursework and weekly call-in assignments
to practice with a native-speaking tutor. It also will include five
on-campus instructor-led workshops. The class is limited to 20 participants
each and students will have the availability of 24-hour, seven-days-a-week
online interaction with their classmates and instructor.
Ashwill says that the fact that the program is mostly online means
it is more flexible and convenient than those held on campus, but no
less rigorous.
"Participants should be able to work independently, be disciplined
and self-motivated, have excellent time-management skills, a strong
commitment to their education and a willingness to stay actively involved
in the course," he says.
"We expect to partner with other academic institutions to attract
students from various geographic regions," Ashwill says. "Like Western
New York students, distance-learning students would take the course
online but we would fly an instructor in to a local learning site to
present the on-campus workshops."
The course coordinator and instructor is Keiko Kuriyama, the WLI coordinator
of non-credit Japanese programs and a doctoral candidate in linguistics
at UB. Kuriyama is a native Japanese-speaker who worked for several
years as a stockbroker in a major U.S. securities company.
Diversity workshop to be held
A workshop program entitled "Diversity, Social Justice and Identity:
Possible Campus Solutions" will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 15
in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
The program is sponsored by the University Committee for the Promotion
of Respect for Diversity.
The workshop will be conducted by Charles F. Behling, professor of
social justice and director of the Intergroup Relations Program at the
University of Michigan. Behling, a former member of the UB psychology
faculty, is a founding member of the Committee for the Promotion of
Respect for Diversity, which was created in 1993 to foster a supportive
educational environment for all faculty, staff and students.
Following Behling's presentation, participants will break into discussion
groups.
The workshop will conclude with a performance, "A Tango Music Experience,"
featuring Lorena Guillén and Alejandro Rutty. The duo will revive
tango as a listening musical pleasure, as it often is performed in the
nightclubs of Buenos Aires. Guillén will sing—accompanied
by Rutty on the piano—songs of the golden era of Argentine tango
from the 1920s to the 1950s.
The cost of the workshop, which includes lunch and refreshment breaks,
is free for students and $5 for faculty and staff.
Seating is limited. To register, contact Ellen Christensen at 829-2584,
or the Office of Student Affairs at 645-2982.
Bullough lecture set
Pamela S. Hinds, director of nursing research at St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital in Memphis and a specialist in end-of-life decision-making
for children and adolescents, will present the fifth annual Bonnie Bullough
Lecture, to be held at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Center for Tomorrow,
North Campus.
Her lecture will be titled "When Is Enough, Enough? Helping Patients
Decide About Care."
The lecture, named for the late dean of the School of Nursing, is
free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
Hinds came to the University of Tennessee in 1985 as an assistant
professor in the College of Nursing and coordinator of nursing research
at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She was promoted to associate
professor in 1988 and in 1994 became associate director for research
in behavioral medicine at St. Jude's.
Hinds was appointed director of nursing research at the hospital in
2000. She also has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Memphis,
the University of Tennessee College of Nursing in Knoxville, and the
University of Pennsylvania College of Nursing.
She is principal investigator on a $1,065,090 National Institute of
Nursing Research grant to investigate the effects of the drug dexamethasone
on sleep and fatigue in children with leukemia. Her research, centered
on treatment and outcomes of pediatric cancer, has been funded continually
since 1980 and has resulted in the publication of eight book chapters
and 107 papers in scientific journals.
Hinds was editor of the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing
from 1992 to 1998 and currently is a reviewer for four professional
journals.
For reservations, call 829-2533.
Fall Fest set for Friday
The band 3 Doors Down will headline Fall Fest 2001, set for Friday
in the Baird Point Amphitheater on the North Campus.
The concert will be moved to Alumni Arena in the event of inclement
weather.
Spectators will be admitted beginning at 3 p.m. UB students will be
admitted for free; a limited number of tickets for the general public
will be sold on the day of the show for $15.
In addition to 3 Doors Down, the bands Everclear, Nickelback and Seven
Channels will perform.
