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Wactawski-Wende to head IHI
Jean Wactawski-Wende, professor of social and preventive medicine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, and vice provost for strategic initiatives, has been named interim director of the Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Wactawski-Wende will be joined by Tom Furlani, chief information officer, and Timothy Murphy, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and senior associate dean for clinical and translational research, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, in working to carry out the goals of the institute.
The IHI was launched in September 2010 as a partnership between UB and Dell, which provided a $15 million investment in computer equipment and services to support the institute, located in the Roosevelt Building, 921 Main St., on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
Creation of the institute will help establish UB and the Buffalo region as a major hub for medical informatics in the SUNY system, throughout New York State and beyond.
Medical informatics is an emerging health care field centered on using information technology to analyze HIPPA-compliant, de-identified patient information among health care practitioners and across health care institutions. Such analysis leads to better monitoring of patient care, enhanced measures to prevent disease and identification of more effective treatments, which leads to better patient outcomes and reduced medical costs.
Wactawski-Wende succeeds Russell Bessette, who recently stepped down as associate vice president for health sciences and director of IHI.
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Harris to open lecture series
Lyle Ashton Harris, a key artist working at the crossroads of race and sexuality, will deliver the inaugural lecture in the Leslie Lohman Queer Art Lecture Series sponsored by the Department of Visual Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
The lecture, which will be free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Born and raised in New York City and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Harris has for more than two decades cultivated a diverse artistic practice that includes photographic media, collage, installation and performance.
His work explores the conflation between narratives of the personal and the political. In probing these social boundaries, he re-examines the ways that ethnicity, desire and masculinity operate in the broader social and cultural dynamic.
In his “Ghana series,” Harris intersects these abiding themes along with contemporary globalization and cosmopolitanism within modern day Ghana. His recent photos and collages are colorful quests uprooting the confluence between Western and Ghanaian culture.
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Craft festival set for Center for Tomorrow
The Rochester Folk Art Guild will present its annual Holiday Festival of Crafts Nov. 4, 5 and 6 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Festival hours are 4-8 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Admission is $2 per person, or free with an invitation that can be downloaded and printed out. Click on “Buffalo Craft Show” in the left-hand column of the website.
The Rochester Folk Art Guild, a community of craftspeople based on an organic farm in the Finger Lakes community of Middlesex in Yates County, has been working in traditional crafts since the late 1950s and has been coming to Buffalo since 1984.
Available for sale will be hand-crafted pottery, wooden furniture and turnings, woven items, hand-made clothing from all-natural fibers, folk toys, imported vintage and contemporary Middle Eastern rugs, and books for all ages.
For more information about the guild, visit the guild’s website or call 585-554-3539.
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Department of Music offers free concerts
Budget-conscious music lovers at UB can find much to keep them busy in November.
The free monthly Brown Bag Concert will take place at noon on Nov. 1 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Now in its 12th season, this series of free, informal concerts presented during the lunch hour allows patrons to catch a glimpse of the kind of programming offered on a regular basis by the Department of Music. Patrons are encouraged to bring their lunch and enjoy a complimentary cup of Tim Hortons coffee. Each attendee will receive a pair of complimentary tickets to a more formal concert within the following month.
Several ensemble performances and student recitals in November also are free of charge:
- UB Symphony, Daniel Bassin, conductor: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4, Lippes Concert Hall.
- String Studio Recital: noon Nov. 8, Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
- M.M. Recital, SeungSuk Park, piano: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14, Lippes Concert Hall.
- Bonne Action (contemporary ensemble): 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15, Baird Recital Hall. Sponsored by the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music.
- UB Jazz Ensemble, Dave Schiavone, director: 3 p.m. Nov. 20, Baird Recital Hall.
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