VOLUME 32, NUMBER 9 THURSDAY, October 19, 2000
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send this article to a friend School of Pharmacy changes its name

The School of Pharmacy has changed its name to the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to more accurately reflect the school's mission to educate pharmaceutical scientists, especially through its graduate division, as well as community and hospital pharmacists.

The former Department of Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is now the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a title that department Chair Ho-Leung Fung calls "more user-friendly and less arcane." Fung said that pharmaceutics is a British term that generally refers to the preparation of dosage forms, but that UB's department, like most in the United States, has expanded to a much broader scope to include pharmacogenomics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug delivery.

In addition, two of the four departments in the school have moved to other units of the university: the Department of Medicinal Chemistry has been integrated into the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Biochemical Pharmacology has been integrated into the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Nominations sought for teaching awards

The Office of the Provost is seeking nominations for candidates for SUNY Distinguished Teaching and Service professors, as well as the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The Distinguished Service Professor must have achieved a reputation for service, not only to the campus and the university, but also to the community, the state or even the nation.

The Distinguished Teaching Professor must have consistently demonstrated outstanding teaching over a period of years.

Individuals nominated for consideration must have held the rank of full professor for five years—for service—and three years—for teaching—and must have completed at least 10 years of full-time service in SUNY.

The primary criterion for the Chancellor's Award is an extensive record of consistently superior teaching.

All full-time instructors, regardless of academic rank, are eligible, provided they have completed at least three years of full-time teaching at UB prior to this semester.

The deadline for nominations for the Distinguished Service and Teaching professors is Nov. 15; deadline for the Chancellor's Award is Dec. 15.

PSS to give away football tickets

The Professional Staff Senate has 50 free tickets for the UB football game against Kent State on Nov. 4.

Members of the professional staff interested in obtaining tickets also must attend a tailgate party for the game that the PSS will co-host with the Blue and White Club.

The tailgate tent, to be located inside the ticket gate on the north end of UB Stadium, will open at 11:30 a.m. for the 1 p.m. kick-off.

Food will be available for purchase at a cost of $2 for hamburgers, sausage, chili and soup; $2.50 for chicken sandwiches; $1 for soda, candy, coffee, hot chocolate and water, and $2 for beer.

Anyone interested in obtaining tickets or attending the tailgater should email Anna Maria Kedzierski at pssenate@acsu.buffalo.edu by noon on Oct. 27.

Tickets must be picked up by noon on Nov. 1 from the PSS Office, 543 Capen Hall, North Campus.

PSS sets meeting

A Professional Staff Senate senators' meeting will be held at 8 a.m. Oct. 26 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

Jaylan Turkkan, UB's new vice president for research, will speak.

For further information, contact the PSS Office at 645-2003.

GSE plans roundtable with former deans

Former deans of the Graduate School of Education will meet to offer retrospectives of their tenures and share fond memories at the first Deans' Roundtable, to be held from 3-5 p.m. tomorrow in 280 Park Hall on the North Campus.

The event will feature former deans Robert S. Fisk, Rollo Handy and Hugh Petrie, and former interim deans Roy Callahan and Stanley Cramer.

Former Dean Walter Petty, who is unable to make the trip to UB from his home in Rogers, Ark., will provide his comments via an audio tape.

A reception honoring the former deans will be held immediately after the roundtable.

Irvine G. Reinig named "Engineer of the Year"

Irvine G. Reinig II, an engineering consultant and graduate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will receive the UB Engineer of the Year Award at the engineering alumni dinner being held tomorrow night.

The dinner also will honor the engineering school's graduating classes of 1950, 1975 and 1990.

Reinig has been a private consultant and an assistant professor of engineering science at Erie Community College since 1996. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1969 and a master's degree in 1970 in engineering, both from UB.

The award is presented annually to a UB engineering alumnus who has distinguished himself or herself in alumni, community, business and professional activities.

Reinig is well-known for his professional contributions and achievements, as well as for his efforts to acquaint and encourage young people to pursue education and careers in the field of engineering through the Engineering Expressions and the Engineering Opportunities programs.

His contributions to commercial projects include the geotechnical design for the Norstar building, the Buffalo General Hospital/Kaleida Health Systems tower, Dunn Tire Park and the Buffalo airport expansion.

In addition, he worked on a number of environmental projects, including the Batavia landfill, the Stuart-Oliver-Holtz Superfund site, the Love Canal dredged-material-containment facility and the oil-spill-containment designs at the Niagara Falls air base.

Reinig began his career in 1970 as a civil engineer with the New York State Department of Transportation and from 1971-80 owned a geotechnical instrumentation business.

He also was a geotechnical engineer/project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo district; chief geotechnical engineer with Thomsen Associates/Empire Soils Investigations in Orchard Park, and senior project manager and board member with GZA GeoEnvironmental of New York.

Reinig has received the Association of Civil Engineers Buffalo Section Award and the Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) program award.

SEFA auction scheduled

Operational Support Services in CIT will hold a raffle auction to benefit the SEFA campaign from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 26 on the first floor of the Computing Center, North Campus.

There will be a wide variety of items raffled, ranging from restaurant certificates to a hotel getaway to Buffalo Sabres tickets, all of which have been donated by area businesses and vendors. The items range in value from $5 to $100.

Tickets for the raffle can be purchased during the auction hours on Oct. 26 in 106 Computing Center.

The drawings will start at 4:30 p.m. Participants need not be present to win.

For further information, contact Betty Schaertel at 645-6600.

"Take Back the Night" to march off campus on Oct. 26

"The Aftermath—Take a Stand—Eliminate the Shame" will be the theme of "Take Back the Night, the annual event held by the Anti-Rape Task Force to increase awareness of rape and sexual assault.

The event, to be held on Oct. 26, will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a march from Hayes Hall on the South Campus to Cloud 9, a bar located at Main Street and Minnesota Avenue in University Heights.

The formal program will begin at 7 p.m. in Cloud 9, and will include speakers and poetry readings. A moment of silence will be observed in memory of victims of rape and sexual assault, followed by an "open mic" for any members of the audience who wish to speak.

The event also will feature displays presented by community and university groups offering services to victims of rape and sexual assault.

For more information, contact the Anti-Rape Task Force at 829-2584.

Ailey II to perform

The Center for the Arts will present the internationally known dance troupe Ailey II as the first performance in the 2000-01 KeyBank Dance Series.

A professional dance company that merges the spirit and energy of the country's best young talent with the passion and creative vision of today's most outstanding emerging choreographers, Ailey II will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

In 1974, Alvin Ailey began a workshop comprised of the most promising scholarship students from his American Dance Center, the official school of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. This hand-picked group of dancers became the original members of the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble-now known as Ailey II. The ensemble, which emphasizes a balance of repertoire, technique and performance, has grown into one of the most popular and critically acclaimed dance companies in the United States, and its performance last year at UB played to a sold-out crowd.

The 2000-01 KeyBank Dance Series will continue with performances by Margie Gillis on Feb. 23 and Doug Varone and Dancers on April 7.

Tickets for Ailey II are $18, $15 and $9 for the general public and $7 for UB students. Discount coupons are available at all area KeyBank locations. Tickets are available in the Center for the Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and all Ticketmaster locations. For more information, call 645-ARTS.

Clarkson chair to deliver lectures

Mark Wigley, director of advanced studies at the Columbia University School of Architecture, will deliver two public lectures on "The Architecture of Prosthetics" when he visits UB next week as Fall 2000 Clarkson Visiting Chair in the School of Architecture and Planning.

The lectures will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 27, both in 148 Diefendorf Hall, South Campus.

The Clarkson Visiting Chair is an endowed visiting position that is awarded annually to a distinguished scholar or professional in the disciplines of architecture, planning and design.

Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Wigley was director of graduate studies in architecture at Princeton University.

He has published numerous books and articles on modern architecture and contemporary theory.

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