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  • Correction

    Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, editors of “Go, Tell Michelle,” were misidentified in the cover photo of last week’s UB Reporter. Brooks-Bertram is on the left, Nevergold on the right.

  • Digital Humanities Initiative sponsors talk

    Louis Suárez-Potts, community manager at Sun Microsystems for the open source project OpenOffice.org, will address "The What, Why and How (not to Mention Who) of Open Source—and Why It Is Important" during a lecture at 2 p.m. Jan. 29 in 904 Clemens Hall, North Campus.

    The lecture, which will be free and open to the public, is presented by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo (DHIB).

    A Berkeley Ph.D. in English who served for four years as editor and researcher with the Mark Twain Project, Suárez-Potts speaks frequently on the open document format (ODF), OpenOffice.org, education and open source, and community development throughout the world.

    “This promises to be a fascinating presentation from someone who understands both the scholarly concerns of humanists and the rapidly growing prominence of open source approaches to computing,” notes Maureen Jameson, chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and director of DHIB.

  • UB faculty members to join tribute to Foss

    “A Musical Feast” featuring a concert and panel discussion in tribute to composer Lukas Foss will be presented at 2 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium in the Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.

    The event is part of RendezBlue, a Burchfield Penney Art Center initiative consisting of four-day mini-festivals designed around common themes. The programs include films, lectures/symposia, musical presentations, poetry readings, and workshops.

    The “Musical Feast” program will include performances of Foss’ “Renaissance Concerto for Flute” (1985), “Solo” (1982) and “Time Cycle” (1960), and Nils Vigeland’s “3 1/3 Dances” (2005). Among the performers will be UB faculty members Jonathan Golove, cello, and Tom Kolor, percussion, and UB voice student Amanda DeBoer, soprano. Edward Yadzinsky, a saxophonist and lecturer in the Department of Music, will moderate the panel discussion.

    Admission is $7 for the general public and $4 for students ages 6-18 and seniors; Buffalo State College students, faculty and staff will be admitted free.

  • Gifted Math Program seeks nominations

    The Gifted Math Program is looking for outstanding sixth-grade mathematics students for its fall 2009 entering class. Nominations from school officials and parents for the nationally recognized program will be accepted until Monday.

    The program, administered by the Department of Learning and Instruction, Graduate School of Education, offers advanced mathematics courses that replace mathematics classes in students’ home schools and are designed to challenge students who are proven high achievers. Students enter the program as seventh graders and continue their studies throughout their high school years.

    Informational meetings for the families of nominated students and others interested in the program will be held in February.

    For more information, call Anne Szczesny, Gifted Math Program administrator, at 645-2455, ext. 1045, or click here.