Feal
named executive director of MLA
After a nationwide search, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has
appointed Rosemary Feal, professor of Spanish and chair of the Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences,
to succeed Phyllis Franklin as executive director of the association.
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The MLA,
founded in 1883, has 30,000 members in 100 nations and fosters scholarship
and teaching in modern languages and literatures, folklore and linguistics.
It is among
the most eminent and well-known scholarly societies in the world.
Feal, who
joined the UB faculty in 1999, will take a leave from her current position
and assume the executive directorship this summer when Franklin retires.
Feal's
active involvement with the MLA began in 1988 when she was appointed
to the association's delegate assembly. She later was elected to several
other positions, most recently to chair the association's Committee
on the Status of Women in the Profession.
She is
senior consulting editor of the Latin American Literary Review
and associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review and serves on
the editorial boards of Latino Cultural Studies, New Centennial Review
and Letras Femenina.
Zagora
to head HR
Paula E. Zagora has been appointed assistant vice president for human
resource services at UB.
In her
new position, Zagora will be responsible for all aspects of Human Hesource
Services at the university, including State Employment Services, Research
Foundation Employment Services, Employee Relations, Benefits/Time and
Attendance, Information Resources, Customer Service and Classification/Recruitment/Staffing
Services/Salary Administration.
Zagora
previously was director of human resources for Tops Markets, where she
was responsible for managing employment, legal compliance, employee
relations, training and human resource policy development. She also
coordinated several strategic planning and re-engineering initiatives
during her 17-year career with Tops.
She earned
a bachelor's degree in communication from UB.
Correction
Faculty member Lois Weis was misidentified in an article in last week's
Reporter.
Weis is
a professor of the sociology of education in the Graduate School of
Education.
Nominations
sought for senate secretary
Nominations are being sought, including self-nominations, for the position
of secretary to the Faculty Senate.
This is
the second call for nominations; the first call produced nine nominations,
none of whom were willing to stand for election.
The secretary
to the Faculty Senate is responsible for providing minutes for the monthly
Faculty Senate meetings and for the weekly meetings of its executive
committee. In the absence of the chair of the senate, the secretary
presides at Faculty Senate and FSEC meetings.
The secretary,
ex officio, also chairs the Faculty Senate Elections Committee. The
office of the Faculty Senate provides support for the secretary.
Second-round
nominations are due in the Faculty Senate office, 543 Capen Hall, North
Campus, by Feb. 15.
"American
Airborne" to be presented
The Department of Theatre & Dance will present a faculty workshop production
of Douglas Delaney's "American Airborne," Feb. 7-10 in the Rehearsal
Workshop, Room B83, in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Performance
times are 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday and
2 p.m. Sunday.
Written
by Douglas Delaney, "American Airborne" tells the story of three women
from various socioeconomic backgrounds who find themselves together
in a court-ordered detox facility serving sentences for a variety of
crimes that they have committed while under the influence of alcohol.
The play
was first produced as a one act in 1988 under the auspices of Working
Stages, a New York City theater company dedicated to the development
of new American plays. Since then, "American Airborne" has been produced
in various venues across the country.
The production
will be directed by Greg Natale and will feature a student cast.
Tickets
for "American Airborne" are $5 and are available at the Center for the
Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and at all
Ticketmaster locations. For more information call 645-ARTS.
Lecture
series offering insight on events of Sept. 11 to be held
A special lecture series offering "Perspectives on September 11th and
its Aftermath" will be presented this spring by the Council on International
Studies and Programs and the Office of the Vice Provost for International
Education.
The series
is designed to address the need in the university community for access
to a variety of informed perspectives on the terrorist attacks, the
subsequent war on terrorism and the implications for both the United
States and the rest of the world. The lectures, which will be free of
charge and open to the public, will serve to highlight the increased
importance of international education and exchange in the post-Sept.
11 world.
The series
will open with a talk on "Bioterrorism: What is Our Risk?" by Richard
V. Lee, UB professor of medicine, pediatrics and gynecology-obstetrics,
at 3 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Student Union Theatre on the North Campus.
The remainder
of the schedule:
- "September
11: Views from the Arab World," 3 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Student Union
Theatre. The talk will be given by Bader Dweik, a UB alumnus and former
Fulbright scholar now serving as professor of English linguistics
at Al-Zaytoonah University in Jordan.
- "The
Kashmir Issue in International Politics," 2 p.m. Feb. 21 in 330 Student
Union. The speaker will be Saleem Kidwai, visiting Fulbright scholar
at Villanova University and a visiting fellow at the Center for Western
and European Studies at Jawaharial Nehru University in New Delhi.
- "The
Islamic Movement in Uzbekistan," 3 p.m. Feb. 27, Student Union Theatre.
Guli I. Yuldasheva, a visiting Fulbright scholar at Indiana University
and leading scientific fellow at the Institute for Strategic and Regional
Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, will speak.
- "International
Education Post 9/11," 3 p.m. March 6, Student Union Theatre. The lecture
will be presented by Allen E. Goodman, president and chief executive
officer for the Institute of International Education and former executive
dean and professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University.
- "The
War on Terrorism and Its Impact on Civil Liberties," 3 p.m. March
21, Student Union Theatre. The talk will be given by Lee Albert and
David Filvaroff, UB professors of law, and a representative from the
U.S. Department of Justice.
For further
information about the lecture series, contact John Wood, secretary of
the Council on International Studies and Programs, at jjwood@buffalo.edu.
CATE
bridges the miles via interactive Internet hookup
On Jan. 18, hundreds of high school students from Western New York and
Central America got into a real-time discussion about education, technology
and the environment, despite the 2,200 miles that separated them. They
engaged one another, along with distinguished primatologist Jane Goodall
and Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica and winner of the 1987
Nobel Peace Prize.
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(Left
to right) Don Jacobs, Jane Goodall, Oscar Arias, Fred Mednick and
Jack Bimrose pose at the Lincoln School in Costa Rica, where Bimrose
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The live
event, which focused on "Peace, Human Progress and the Environment,"
involved students at Clarence, Grover Cleveland and Ellicottville high
schools and four Costa Rican high schools.
It took
place via an interactive Internet video hookup made possible by UB's
Center for Applied Technologies in Education (CATE). It was carried
to area students over Buffalo CityNet, a distance-education, video-conferencing
network developed and administered by CATE that links 18 Western New
York schools and community organizations.
Goodall
and Arias first addressed comments to the students, as did Fred Mednick,
director of the Seattle-based organization "Teachers Without Borders,"
and Donald Jacobs, associate dean of the UB Graduate School of Education
and founder and director of CATE. All of the speakers then discussed
issues covered in the talks.
The event
was broadcast live from Lincoln School in San Jose, Costa Rica, which
houses a state-of-the-art, video-conferencing network designed by the
UB center. The site is part of a global initiative called HopeNet that
was developed jointly by Jacobs and Goodall to create distance-education
sites in Asia, Africa, Europe and across Latin America.
Jacobs
said this was the first trip to Central America by Goodall, an environmental
educator whose work with chimpanzees in Tanzania changed the way in
which we view the relationship of humans with the natural world and
with primates in particular.
She and
Jacobs were on a speaking tour of Costa Rica, during which they addressed
development and use of advanced communication technologies to enhance
international understanding and cultural exchange.
Grants
available for research in Vietnam
Mark Ashwill, director of the World Languages Institute, is encouraging
eligible UB faculty members to apply for five-month research and curriculum
development grants from the Asia Foundation for work undertaken in Vietnam
at any time between September 2002 to December 2003.
The program,
developed through generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, is
designed to promote the development of Vietnamese studies in the U.S.
Each grantee
will be placed as a visiting scholar at an appropriate research or educational
institution in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. Upon return to his/her home
institution, the scholar will be expected to teach the material developed
during the five-month field research in Vietnam.
Applicants
must have a doctorate and hold a regular teaching position in international
relations, political science, economics, sociology or Asian Studies.
"There
is no better way to learn about a country than to spend time there working,
traveling, and developing lasting personal and professional relationships,"
Ashwill says. "It's a cliché but also a sad reality that Vietnam
is still synonymous with war in the minds of most Americans, including
our students.
"This is
a golden opportunity for U.S. faculty members to learn firsthand about
Vietnam. After returning, they can either incorporate that knowledge
into existing courses or develop new Vietnamese studies courses."
The application
deadline is March 31. Details can be found on the Asia Foundation Web
site at www.asiafoundation.org/programs/prog-asia-viet-research.htm.
King
scholarship deadline extended
The deadline has been extended to tomorrow to apply for the Martin Luther
King Jr. Scholarship Award, established by the Minority Faculty and
Staff Association to honor a junior or senior who demonstrates high
academic standards and leadership ability, and who exemplifies personal
characteristics that advance the spirit and philosophy of King.
The $1,000
annual award is supported by Kenneth Gayles, clinical assistant professor
of medicine, local cardiologist and UB graduate, in honor of his late
mother, Lula Gayles.
To be eligible
for the scholarship, applicants must be underrepresented persons of
color, full-time juniors or seniors at UB, possess at least a 3.3 grade-point
average and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Applications
are due in 208 Norton Hall, North Campus, by 5 p.m. tomorrow.
For more
information, contact Roland Garrow or Denise Hood at 645-3072, or Kevin
Ragland at 882-2400.
"Network
New York" opens doors
To serve the career needs of its students in a poor national job market,
the School of Management organized a networking session with more than
30 well-placed UB alumni employed in New York City for 75 of its MBA
and business-administration students earlier this month.
The idea
behind "Network New York" was to give students a chance to consult with
alumni from 25 top New York City firms like Kraft Foods, Merrill Lynch,
NBC, Prudential, Ernst & Young and Andersen.
Held at
the Manhattan headquarters of Andersen, located on the Avenue of the
Americas, the event included resume-critiquing sessions with alumni
and "realistic job previews" of various careers and industries.
"Reaching
out to influential alumni is one way to generate opportunities in a
tight job market," said event organizer Michael Paolini, associate director
of the School of Management's Career Resource Center. "This wasn't meant
to be a recruitment event, but we are hoping it will open doors for
our students."
In addition
to job advice, the students got a primer on living in New York City.
UB alumni Carlos Rey Martin, vice president of finance at BBVA Bank
in New York, and Paul Houghton, a senior associate at Andersen, provided
pointers on apartment hunting, subway riding and safety precautions
after dark.
"These
things are second nature to New Yorkers, but they can be tricky for
newcomers," explained Martin.
Andersen
donated space for the event in recognition of the many UB graduates
the company has hired over the years. Andersen partner Gary Koster,
a UB alumnus, was an organizer of the event.
"Asia
at Noon" sets first lecture
The Asian Study Program's first "Asia at Noon" brown-bag lunch gathering
of the semester will take place from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow in 280
Park Hall, North Campus.
Michael
Frisch, professor of history, will discuss "The Problematic Past and
Promising Future of American Studies in Asia: Report on a Recent Visit
to Japan and Korea."
The convener
will be Ruth Meyerowitz, professor in the Center for the Americas.