PSS to present "Breakfast with Betty"
The Professional Staff Senate will present "Breakfast with Betty,"
a meeting with Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi, from 9-11:30 a.m. Nov.
8 in the Jacob's Executive Development Center in the Butler Mansion,
672 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
Capaldi will discuss her vision for UB's future. Following her talk,
a tour of the mansion, which now houses executive training courses offered
by the School of Management, will be available.
The event will feature a full breakfast buffet at a cost of $16. Registration is limited to 90 participants. The deadline is Wednesday.
For further information, contact the PSS office at 645-2003 or pssenate@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Simpson to be inducted into hall of fame
Walter Simpson, UB's energy officer and director of the UB Green office in University Facilities, will be inducted into the Association of Energy Engineers "Energy Managers' Hall of Fame" tomorrow during the 23rd World Energy Engineering Congress being held in Atlanta.
Induction into the hall of fame recognizes an individual for his or
her lifetime achievements in the energy industry.
Energy officer at UB since 1982, Simpson developed a nationally recognized campus energy-conservation program-Conserve UB-that is credited with annual energy savings of $9 million and cumulative savings of more than $60 million.
Prior to 1992, the Conserve UB program had implemented 300 energy-conservation measures and projects on UB's two campuses. Between 1992-97, Simpson brought together a diverse team of UB facilities engineers and technicians to work with Sempra Energy Services-formerly CES/Way International, a Houston-based energy-conservation company-to implement a self-financing, $17 million project responsible for annual savings of $3 million.
A certified energy engineer and certified lighting efficiency professional, Simpson also has worked in the national arena promoting campus energy-conservation, as well as campus environmental stewardship.
A long-standing environmentalist, Simpson advocates sustainable, or "green," building design for new campus construction, as well as for major, regional development projects.
Women’s Club to feast
The UB Women’s Club will hold its fourth annual International Feast at 6 p.m. Nov. 5 in Tandoori’s Palm restaurant, 7740 Transit Road, Williamsville.
The feast this year will be an Indian davat, a 12-course, sit-down dinner.
The cost is $25 per person, with proceeds benefiting the Grace Capen Academic Award Fund and the International Committee of the Women’s Club.
Meena Rustgi and Norma Rubin are co-chairs of the event.
For further information or to make reservations, contact Rustgi at 632-5768 or Rubin at 688-7062.
School of Nursing to hold open house
The School of Nursing will hold an open house from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday in 825 Kimball Tower on the South Campus.
Faculty members and students will be available to talk to those interested in the school’s baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral programs; R.N. to baccalaureate program; R.N. to master’s program; the post-baccalaureate award certificate program in case management, and the post-master’s advanced certificate programs.
The school offers master’s-degree programs in a variety of areas, including adult health nursing-adult nurse practitioner, child health nursing-pediatric nurse practitioner, family nursing-family nurse practitioner, maternal and women’s health nursing-maternal and women’s health nurse practitioner and nurse anesthetist.
For further information, contact the Office of Student Affairs in the nursing school at 829-3314.
Fun Fest planned
Fun Fest 2000, an event designed to provide UB students with an alternative to bar-hopping, will be held from 6 p.m. to midnight tomorrow in Alumni Arena.
Activities will include volleyball, three-on-three basketball, yoga, massage, soccer, a rock-climbing wall and sumo wrestling.
The event, free and open to members of the UB community, is sponsored by Recreation and Intramural Services, Residential Life, Student Life, the Wellness Center and the Student Association.
For more information, call 645-2286.
SOM to co-sponsor forum on health-care issues
The Independent Health Foundation, along with the School of Management, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and The Buffalo News will present its second health-care forum, “Finding Solutions Through Collaboration For Today’s Health Care Industry,” Nov. 8 in Adam’s Mark Hotel.
The day-long forum, which will feature national and local speakers, will continue the dialogue that began last year by addressing the health-care issues facing the nation and how they impact Western New York.
National keynote speakers will include Sam Donaldson, ABC News chief White House correspondent and co-anchor of “20-20” and “This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts;” the Hon. Patricia Schroeder, former congresswoman from Colorado, and Bruce Bradley, director of managed-care plans for General Motors Corp. Panel discussions will feature local community and business leaders, health-care providers, insurers and physicians.
“With election day around the corner, the state of our nation’s health care has become a focus of debate at all levels—locally, statewide and nationally,” said Lewis Mandell, dean of the School of Management who will serve as moderator for the forum. “We continue to struggle with the dilemma of limited resources versus unlimited health care.”
A Web site for the forum, http://www.wnyhealthforum.com, has been established for members of the community to ask questions and provide feedback. Material received will be incorporated into the panel discussions.
The forum will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The cost will be $80 per person and includes continental breakfast and lunch.
For more information or to register for the forum, contact the Independent Health Foundation at 635-7802.
MFC to present teleconference
Megaconference II, a conference dedicated to the demonstration of connectivity potential between universities and research sites using interactive videoconferencing, will take place from 10:15-11:45 a.m. and 1:30-3 p.m. on Tuesday from four sites at UB, as well as 15 others in Western New York and countless others across the globe.
The megaconference is being held in conjunction with the fall meeting of Internet2 members in Atlanta.
Bernadette Wegenstein, an instructor in the Department of Comparative Literature, will describe to teleconference participants her experience teaching the course “Body Works: Medicine, Technology and the Body in the late 20th Century.” Wegenstein team-teaches the course—in real time—with a colleague at Stanford University using a revolutionary videoconferencing system developed at UB.
Wegenstein will speak at 11 a.m. from 200G Baldy Hall. The other UB sites for the conference are 120 Clemens Hall, the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research in Red Jacket Quad in the Ellicott Complex and the Health Sciences Library.
Faculty and staff members may participate in the conference at any of the UB sites. For further information, contact Lisa Stephens at 645-6522.
GSE alumni to be honored at biennial recognition dinner
Three alumni of the Graduate School of Education will be honored for their achievements in education leadership at the GSE Alumni Association Biennial Alumni Recognition Dinner to be held on Saturday.
Thomas J. Caulfield, David A. Payton and Conrad F. Toepfer Jr. will be recognized at the dinner, at which Marion Canedo, superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools, will speak on the future of education in public schools.
Toepfer, professor emeritus in the UB Department of Learning and Instruction, was one of the five founders of the Middle School Movement and is internationally known for his work in the field of middle-level education. Past president of the National Middle School Association, he earned a UB doctorate in curriculum planning in 1962.
Payton, who also works in middle-level education, has been a supervisor with the New York State Department of Education for more than 20 years. He has helped to improve performance in urban upstate middle schools and implement new learning standards. He graduated in 1972 with a doctorate in educational administration.
Caulfield, who received his doctorate in counselor education in 1969, recently retired from his posts as professor and chair of the Department of Counselor Education at Canisius College. He was the recipient of the Kenneth L. Kessler Distinguished Professor Award from Canisius in 1997.
