Next Reporter is July 26

The next summer issue of the Reporter will be published July 26. The publication of weekly issues for the fall semester will resume Aug. 23. Away from campus this summer? Stay in touch by reading the Reporter online at www.buffalo.edu/reporter.

Breverman, Creeley honored by SUNY

SUNY Distinguished Professors Harvey Breverman and Robert Creeley were honored recently by SUNY at a dinner held in Albany to recognize some of the system's top researchers in the humanities, arts, social sciences and the professions.

SUNY Chancellor Robert L. King has championed research in the SUNY system, setting the goal of doubling sponsored research within five years-to $1 billion annually.

A similar dinner was held earlier this year honoring top researchers in science and medicine. Among the attendees were Christina Bloebaum, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Bruce A. Holm, senior associate vice president for research in the health sciences.

A member of the UB art department faculty since 1961, Breverman ranks among some of the most important artists of the 20th century. His prints, paintings and drawings are included in the permanent collections of more than 150 museums and galleries worldwide, including the British Museum in London, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

He has had more than 70 solo gallery exhibits.

Creeley-pioneering American poet and Samuel P. Capen Chair in Poetry and the Humanities-has been a member of the university's English department faculty for more than 30 years. As the 1999 recipient of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from the Yale University Library-one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world-he joined an elite group that includes W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, James Merrill and John Ashbery.

Creeley is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and of the Board of Chancellors of the American Academy of Poetry (AAP). In 1988, he received the Walt Whitman Citation from the New York State Writers' Institute and, in accordance with the citation, was named New York State Poet Laureate for 1989-91.

Computer camp offered by MFC

If you think Web masters are spiders and mice live in mousepads, you should plan to attend one or more of the computer courses being offered this summer by Millard Fillmore College.

The classes, designed for adults with little or no microcomputer experience, will meet in the public computer lab, 206 Baldy Hall, North Campus. They are open to the public, as well as members of the UB community.

There's a choice of morning sessions from 8:30-11:30 a.m. or afternoon sessions from noon to 3 p.m.

Continuing education units and certificates will be awarded upon successful completion of each of the credit-free courses.

The courses cost $149 each, and payment may be made by check, money order, MasterCard or Visa.

The registration deadline is 10 business days prior to the first day of class for each session.

To register or for more information, contact Millard Fillmore College at 829-2202 or by e-mail at mfcstaff@buffalo.edu.

The courses being offered are:

• "The Internet—What's All the Fuss About?" describing how to use the Internet, its jargon and its practical uses, July 16-20.

• "Beginning Microsoft Office 2000" focusing on Microsoft Word, one of the most popular word-processing office packages on the market, July 23-27

• "Advanced Microsoft Office 2000" designed for experienced users of Microsoft Office, July 30-Aug. 3

Creative Craft Center to offer workshops

The Creative Craft Center in the Ellicott Complex on the North Campus is offering summer workshops beginning the week of July 9.

Workshops are scheduled in photography, pottery, quilting, around-the-world embroidery, and knitting and crocheting.

Workshops will run from 7-10 p.m. one night a week for six weeks.

For further information, contact the Creative Craft Center at 645-2434 from 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 7-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Booklet lists Pan-Am events

Free lectures on hygienic cookery. Demonstrations in wireless telegraphy. Visits to heaven and hell for 25 cents, with a trip to the moon at half price. Moving pictures or ostrich-watching, a dime apiece.

Not surreal enough? How about water sports on the midway, with plunging elks, horses and hounds—and a realistic wild boar chase?

Just as the Pan-American Exposition brought its patrons daily programs to keep them current on activities and exhibits—the aforementioned activities took place on Oct. 19, 1901—so, too, is UB, which has published a souvenir program marking "UB Pan-Am 2001 Days."

Modeled after the original format—a new program was circulated every day from May 1 to Nov. 2, 1901—the brochure listing UB events marking the centennial of the Pan-American Exposition boasts a similar red cover, with advertisements, illustrations and quotes taken from 1901 publications.

But unlike the programs of 1901, these won't cost you a dime—or, as was the case in 1901, a nickel.

The "Official Daily Program of the University at Buffalo Pan-American Exposition Celebration" offers a free, comprehensive look at events in and around the university community.

Michele Gallant, special projects assistant in the College of Arts and Sciences who is coordinating the publication, says she hopes that like the 1901 programs, UB's souvenir edition will become a collector's item.

The booklet notes that UB in 1901 played an integral role in the Pan-Am, from having its own "University of Buffalo" theme day, to its football team providing plenty of winning entertainment in the exposition stadium, and its medical-school faculty tending to President William McKinley after he was shot Sept. 6.

Among the highlighted events listed in "UB Pan-Am 2001 Days:"

• "Tangible Memories: Souvenirs of Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition," Aug. 1 through Sept. 30, Center for the Arts, North Campus. More than 60 collectors will display their Pan-Am memorabilia in the UB Art Gallery on the first floor of the CFA.

• "2001 Wheelmen National Meet," Aug. 11, old UB stadium, North Campus. The League of American Wheelmen, the only group at the Pan-Am returning for the centennial, will convene in the stadium for a parade and demonstration of bicycle history.

• "The Importance of Being Oscar," Aug. 22, Center for the Arts. Vincent O'Neill, chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, and founder and artistic director of the Irish Classical Theater Company, will spotlight, in a dramatic reading, the life and work of 19th century poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, whose cultural crusade largely foreshadowed the Pan-Am's integration of architecture, art and the natural landscape.

• "Pan-Amania Celebration—The Light Continues!" Sept. 22-23, Center for the Arts. Pan-Am collectors will be on hand to conduct an "Antiques Roadshow"-like assessment of the public's Pan-Am artifact stash. Enthusiasts are invited to partake in the toys and games of 1901, live music, food, a 3D virtual tour of the Pan-Am grounds and buildings, and much more.

The free brochures can be obtained at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, the Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, all in Buffalo; the Center for the Arts at UB, and the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum in Orchard Park.

African educators visit

For the second consecutive year, the English Language Institute (ELI) is conducting a summer institute for educators from sub-Saharan countries designed to strengthen English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) programs in secondary schools in the participants' home countries.

Sixteen educators from Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal and Togo are taking part in the six-week program, which began June 4 and will run through July 15.

Funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. State Department, the institute attempts to enhance participants' management and organizational skills; familiarize them with email and the Internet; broaden their understanding of U.S. institutions and culture, and assist them in identifying, analyzing and solving the practical problems in administering EFL programs in their home countries.

The participants, which include high school principals and headmasters, inspectors of secondary-education systems, ministry of education officials, directors of English-language programs, and regional teacher advisors and teacher trainers, undertake 30 hours per week of instructional activity, including seminars, workshops, lectures, computer classes, field trips and visits to local schools and language institutes.

Among the topics being addressed in the coursework are managing teaching staff, student development, managing resources, and computer skills for professional networking and development.

Instruction is provided by faculty members from the ELI and the departments of Learning and Instruction, and Educational Leadership and Policy, and the program in American Studies, as well as by staff from the Office of the Vice Provost for International Education.

Businessman funds scholarship

Joe Y. Chuang, a UB alumnus and international businessman, has pledged $30,000 to establish a scholarship fund for undergraduate students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Chuang is president of Delta Fine Chemicals in Los Angeles, which has controlling interest in a Chinese pharmaceutical factory that is the largest producer of natural progesterone in the world, and also is the exclusive distributor of its products worldwide, at present predominantly in Europe.

"We're proud of Joe's accomplishments and extremely grateful for his commitment," said Mark H. Karwan, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

The Chuang Family Scholarship will be awarded to undergraduate engineering students based on academic merit and financial need.

"In Buffalo, you could do any type of research work you wanted," said Chuang, a native of Taiwan. "I really enjoyed and prospered from the free atmosphere the program at UB provided."

After earning his doctorate in chemical engineering from UB in 1972, Chuang joined the Max Planck Institute to teach and do research in Dusseldorf, Germany. In the mid-1970s, he returned to the United States, working for Armco Steel Corp. until 1979, when he left the company to pursue his own career in business.

ESI seeks proposals

The Environment & Society Institute is seeking proposals for projects to be funded under the Environmental Management Alternatives Program (EMAP) and the Environmental Science Interdisciplinary Research Program (ESIRP).

The EMAP provides seed funding for interdisciplinary research and analysis on environmental problems relevant to the regional community and shares that work with groups and organizations capable of translating it into policy.

The ESIRP provides seed funding for interdisciplinary research and analysis in environmental science relevant to the regional, national and global environmental research and education priorities. Projects funded under this program must be targeted to develop preliminary results for submission of extramural grant support.

Both projects should provide valuable research, teaching and learning experiences to members of the UB community.

All UB faculty members are eligible to apply for funding. Applicants should become faculty affiliates of the institute if they have not done so already. Interdisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged to apply.

Projects can be up to one year in duration, with a start date of Sept. 1, 2001.

Proposals must be received no later than 5 p.m. Aug. 10. All submissions should be in digital form, as Word files attached to email messages sent to ESI Director John Vena at jvena@buffalo.edu. Proposals on floppy disks may be mailed or delivered to the Environment and Society Institute, 272 Farber Hall, South Campus.

For more information on the EMAP or the proposal format, contact Ann B. Salter at salter@acsu.buffalo.edu.

Memorial set for Huddleston

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday for John V. Huddleston, professor emeritus in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, who died Feb. 18 in his Williamsville home. He was 73.

The service will take place in Central Park United Methodist Church, 216 Beard Ave., Buffalo. A reception will follow.

A UB faculty member from 1967-1994, Huddleston was the recipient of two Fulbright fellowships to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He wrote 10 books on engineering and computer language, and also owned a Buffalo computer business called Exchange Computing Systems.

An avid outdoorsman and jogger, Huddleston sang bass in a number of local church choirs, and enjoyed woodworking, golf and travel.

NPR show focuses on Buffalo

National Public Radio's popular "Weekend Edition Sunday" will spotlight the City of Good Neighbors this Sunday with a two-hour show focusing on Buffalo and its surrounding areas as the city marks the centennial of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.

Airing from 8 to 10 a.m. on WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's NPR affiliate, the show will use the Pan-Am as the backdrop to dialogue about the history, evolution and future of the "City of Light."

"Weekend Edition Sunday" host Liane Hansen will look at Buffalo's socioeconomic shift over the past century during the show's first hour. The second half will focus on a series of stories compiled by NPR reporters highlighting Buffalo's surrounding areas, including Lackawanna and the Niagara Falls region. Hansen and the show's producers also spoke to a number of Western New York's own for the broadcast—including business owners, students, historians, recent immigrants and longtime residents, as well as Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello and UB President William R. Greiner.

WBFO will re-broadcast the show from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, and an airing of the major segments and stories specifically about Buffalo will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. Monday.

HRP, MDA to host golf fund-raiser

The School of Health Related Professions and the Muscular Dystrophy Association will host a fund-raising golf tournament and dinner in tribute to physical therapist Alfred T. Caffiero, a role model for students, faculty, patients and friends alike.

The inaugural ATC Golf Classic and Dinner will be held Monday at the Lancaster Country Club, 6061 Broadway, Lancaster. The day will begin with a continental breakfast at 7 a.m. and tee times in the morning and afternoon. A reception at 6 p.m. will be followed by dinner at 7 p.m.

Proceeds will be split between funding for research done by the Muscular Dystrophy Association in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and funding for an annual scholarship for a UB student who has "demonstrated academic excellence, public service and promise to the field of physical therapy."

Caffiero, a man who maintains his patience and humor while personally battling ALS, continues to dedicate his life to research, treatment, education and advocacy within the field of physical therapy.

A clinical instructor in the School of Health Related Professions and a physical therapist who has practiced for more than 40 years in Western New York, Caffiero has treated hundreds of patients, including professional athletes, the elderly and the disabled. He also has mentored dozens of UB physical-therapy students who worked with him as interns or came to work for him as new physical therapists.

Caffiero graduated from Ithaca College with his bachelor's degree in 1960 and began practicing at South Buffalo Mercy Hospital in 1961. In 1962, he moved to St. Joseph's Intercommunity Hospital, where he directed the physical-therapy program for 25 years. In 1980, Caffiero and two partners founded Western New York Physical and Occupational Therapy Group.