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  • REV-UP program to recognize volunteers

    The 19th annual REV-UP Recognition Ceremony and Reception will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear Hall, South Campus, in conjunction with the May meeting of the Emeritus Center.

    Emeritus Center members also will elect new members for the board of directors at the meeting.

    The speaker will be Marsha S. Henderson, vice president for external affairs, who will talk about how Emeritus Center members can become UB Believers.

    Henderson also will assist Jennifer Bowen, assistant vice president for human resources, in presenting REV-UP members with certificates of appreciation, as well as recognizing representatives from departments benefiting from REV-UP volunteers.

    The ceremony will recognize 64 REV-UP members who together contributed more than 3,000 hours of volunteer service to 13 UB departments from May 2007 through April 2008.

    Since the inception of the REV-UP program in March 1990, more than 58,000 hours of volunteer service have been given to UB by its retirees.

    REV-UP (Retired Employee Volunteers—University Program) is a joint program of the Emeritus Center and Human Resources.

    For further information about the REV-UP program, contact Leila (Lee) Baker at 829-2271 or bakerl@buffalo.edu.

  • Drinking in bars topic of lecture

    UB’s Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will conclude its spring seminar series on May 15 with a discussion of “Drinking in Bars: The Risks of Girls Just Wanting to Have Fun.”

    The lecture by Kathleen A. Parks, RIA senior research scientist whose expertise focuses on women’s substance use and related negative consequences, will begin at 10 a.m. on the first floor of the RIA building at 1021 Main St. on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

    The lecture is free and open to the public.

    For more information about the seminar, contact RIA at 887-2566.

  • Law alumni honors five graduates, Townsend

    The UB Law Alumni Association honored five UB graduates and Justice Sharon S. Townsend, administrative judge of the Eighth Judicial District, at the 47th annual UB Law Alumni Association meeting and dinner on May 5.

    Receiving Distinguished Alumni Awards for their valuable contributions to the legal profession and community were the Hon. Jeffrey S. White ’70, U.S. District Court Judge, Northern District of California; Brent L. Wilson ’76, partner in Elarbee, Thompson, Saap & Wilson LLP in Atlanta; Elizabeth B. Mensch ’79, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, UB Law School; Lynn A. Clarke ’83, principal court attorney, New York State Supreme Court; and Anna Marie Cellino ’81, president of National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.

    The Law Alumni Association also honored Townsend, the first woman to be named administrative judge of the Eighth Judicial District and the first Family Court judge in the state to be appointed administrative judge, for outstanding service to the community by a non-alumna.

  • Graduate School to present postdoc symposium

    The Office of Postdoctoral Scholars in The Graduate School will host its first Postdoc Research Symposium from 2-5 p.m. May 12 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

    The event will feature poster presentations by postdoctoral scholars, the presentation of the first annual Distinguished Postdoc Mentor Award and a talk, “Designer Materials for Sensor Applications,” by Frank Bright, SUNY and UB Distinguished Professor, A. Conger Goodyear Professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences.

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