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Flags at half-mast
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings—including those at UB—be flown at half-mast in honor of state Trooper Kevin Dobson, who was killed on March 26.
Dobson, a father of three and 14-year veteran of the New York State Police, was killed during a traffic stop on the I-290.
Memorial service set for Barry White
A celebration of the life of Barry White, a longtime lecturer in the UB Department of American Studies, will be held from 6:30-10 p.m. March 25 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Family, friends, colleagues and community members are invited to attend and share their memories of White, who died on Jan. 27 at the age of 60.
A member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians, White earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UB. He taught Native American studies and other courses in the Department of American Studies for more than 30 years.
The event is presented by the Department of American Studies, Native American Community Services, the Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies Research Group and the Native Graduate Student Association.
For further information and to RSVP, send an email to a HonoringBarryWhite@gmail.com.
UB Police supporting Special Olympics
Members of University Police are volunteering at a Law and Orders event on Saturday to raise money for the Special Olympics. Officers will be at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, 4080 Maple Road, Amherst, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 4-8 p.m. March 26 assisting the restaurant staff and collecting donations for the Special Olympics.
UB faculty and staff are encouraged to stop by for a burger and to support a great cause.
Organists’ concert rescheduled
The annual Eastman Organists’ Day, postponed from its originally scheduled date of Feb. 25 due to inclement weather, has been rescheduled for March 26.
The concert, featuring students from the Eastman School of Music performing on UB’s renowned Fisk pipe organ, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Students Jonathan Wessler, Shinon Nakagawa, Malcolm Matthews and John A. Morabito will present pieces that stretch from the Baroque, to the Romantic, to the 20th century.
Tickets for the concert, presented by the Department of Music, are $10 for general admission; $5 for UB faculty/staff/alumni, senior citizens and non-UB students; and free for UB students with ID.
Lecture to address situation in North Africa
Robert R. Gosende, SUNY’s John W. Ryan Fellow in International Relations, will talk about recent developments in North Africa and the Middle East during a lecture at UB next week.
Gosende, who spent more than 30 years as a career U.S. Foreign Service officer, will speak at 3 p.m. March 28 in the Jeannette Martin Room, 567 Capen Hall, North Campus. His topic: “Re-setting U.S.-Muslim Relations: A Time for Expanded Emphasis on Educational and Cultural Affairs.”
The talk is free and open to the public.
SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher appointed Gosende the Ryan Fellow for 2010-11 following his retirement as associate vice chancellor for international programs. Based at the University at Albany, where he teaches and collaborates with students and faculty colleagues, his focus is on the crucial role that university education plays in the public diplomacy of the United States and how SUNY can be more broadly engaged in this process through its international education programs.
Gosende’s Foreign Service experience with the U.S. Information Agency and the U.S. Department of State included tours of duty as a cultural affairs officer in Libya, Somalia and Poland, and as minister-counselor for public affairs in South Africa and Russia. He served as President Clinton’s special envoy for Somalia—with the personal rank of ambassador—at the height of the security and humanitarian crisis in that country in 1992-93.
He also was the senior state department official supervising U.S. voter education activities in South Africa leading up to the election of Nelson Mandela as president in 1994.
Nostaja resigns
Scott Nostaja has resigned as senior vice president for operations, Officer in Charge Satish K. Tripathi has announced.
On an interim basis, UB departments that previously reported to Nostaja now will report to the Office of the President, with Robert J. Wagner, senior advisor to the officer in charge, responsible for managing day-to-day operations.
Wagner served as senior vice president and UB’s chief financial officer before retiring from the university in 2005. He has returned to UB to assist with the presidential transition.
“I extend my thanks and genuine appreciation to Scott for his many contributions to UB,” Tripathi said.“During Scott’s tenure at UB, he was instrumental in helping to move our university forward.”
Homelessness expert to speak
“Cost of Homelessness: Collecting Data to Effect Change” will be the topic of a presentation at UB next week by Dennis Culhane, a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and leading national expert on issues of homelessness and assisted housing policy.
Culhane will speak at 3 p.m. March 28 in the Student Union Theater, North Campus. His talk is presented by the Civic Engagement and Public Policy Initiative of UB 2020 and the Homeless Alliance of Western New York. Co-sponsors are the UB departments of Family Medicine, Geography, Sociology and Urban and Regional Planning; the Graduate School of Education; and the School of Social Work. A reception will follow the presentation at 4:30 p.m.
Culhane’s talk will focus on his research on the cost of homelessness as it affects local communities, as well as best practices to serve the homeless.
Culhane holds multiple faculty appointments at Penn, including professor of social policy (School of Social Policy and Practice), professor of psychology (School of Medicine) and professor of policy research and evaluation (Graduate School of Education). In addition, he is faculty co-director of the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, which applies spatial analysis to model the impact of the social and built environments on health, development, and behavior. He also serves as senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Center for Public Health Initiatives, and research associate in the Center for Population Studies.
In addition to his work at Penn, Culhane is director of research for the National Center on Homelessness among Veterans in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and co-director of the Intelligence for Social Policy Initiative, a MacArthur Foundation-funded project to promote the development of integrated database systems by state and local governments for policy analysis and systems reform.
Project Tandem topic of lecture, exhibit
In 2008, Alan Winslow, BA ’07, a graduate of the environmental studies and photography programs at UB, and his friend, Morrigan McCarthy, rode their bicycles 11,000 miles around the United States, photographing and interviewing hundreds of people about their opinions on the environment.
Winslow and McCarthy will be in Buffalo next week to talk about the product of that trip—Project Tandem—and open a show of portraits and a looping audio track of people from all over America speaking candidly about the environment and climate change.
The pair will speak about the project and their experiences on the road at 6:30 p.m. March 31 in 104 Knox Hall, North Campus.
The gallery opening will take place from 7-9 p.m. April 1 in Buffalo Big Print Gallery, 78 Allen St., Buffalo.
The pair’s visit to Buffalo is sponsored by UB Green, the Interdisciplinary Degree Program in Environmental Studies and the UB Environmental Network, with support from Buffalo Big Print, Buffalo CarShare, Merge Restaurant and the Elmwood Village Inn.
Geology to present lecture series
Rayola Dougher, senior economic advisor for the American Petroleum Institute, will discuss “Natural Gas and the Energy Future of the United States” during a talk at 8 p.m. March 31 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is the inaugural offering in the Marcellus Shale Lecture Series presented by the Department of Geology.
The series, organized around the theme of unconventional natural gas drilling in New York state, is designed to provide an objective presentation and assessment of the nature of unconventional gas drilling, regulation and potential socioeconomic and environmental impacts.
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