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Fireworks display set for North Campus
The annual Independence Day Celebration sponsored by the Town of Amherst Recreation Department will be held Sunday evening at Baird Point on the North Campus.
The fireworks display, sponsored by Northtown Automotive Companies, is scheduled to begin at approximately 9:45 p.m.
The celebration will open with a performance by the Lee Ron Zydeco Band at 7 p.m. The Erie County Wind Ensemble will perform at 8:45 p.m.
In case of inclement weather, the fireworks display will be held on Monday.
Students preview accounting careers
The School of Management and the Foundation for Accounting Education of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) are collaborating to introduce minority high school students to career opportunities in the accounting profession during a five-day program taking place this week at the School of Management.
Approximately 30 students from area schools are attending the fifth annual Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession (COAP) program, which features a comprehensive series of breakout sessions designed to provide participants with insights into all the components of an accounting education and career.
A number of area accounting firms are giving presentations on campus, and students are making off-site visits to Lumsden & McCormick, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Rich Products, where they are taking company tours and speaking with accounting representatives from those firms.
The program also includes a wide variety of professional development opportunities, including a business lunch called “Putting Your Best Fork Forward,” featuring etiquette tips for working meals; a “dress for success” session; a “speed-meeting” event; a résumé-writing workshop; and sessions on job-search strategies, interviewing techniques, public speaking and ethics.
“The goal of the program is to increase awareness of the many opportunities that an accounting education and career can provide,” says Ann Burstein Cohen, associate professor of accounting. “It is our hope that if minority students realize early on that the accounting profession has a variety of interesting opportunities, we can increase the number of candidates who enter the field.”
Poetry Collection wins award for catalogue
The Poetry Collection of the UB Libraries has received an honorable mention in the 2010 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition Awards competition.
Michael Basinski, curator of the UB Poetry Collection, said the collection is being recognized for “Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection,” the illustrated print catalogue edited by James Maynard, the collection’s assistant curator. The catalogue accompanied a major 2009 exhibition of the same name mounted at UB’s Anderson Gallery.
The Leab awards are given by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a major division of the American Library Association (ALA) for catalogues associated with library exhibitions in one of four cost categories. They recognize outstanding exhibition catalogues issued by American or Canadian institutions in conjunction with library exhibitions, as well as electronic exhibition catalogues of outstanding merit issued within the digital/Web environment.
The awards were presented June 27 during the RBMS’s annual membership meeting and information exchange, held during the ALA’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
The UB catalogue garnered great praise from Richard Noble, Brown University rare book cataloger and chair of the RBMS’ exhibition awards committee.
“This catalogue is an indispensable guide to and demonstration of the scholarly possibilities of this particular collection,” Noble said. “It’s also a visual feast, the complexity of its design properly representing the variousness of the many items on view, but with the clarity necessary to the understanding of all that variety: Each element of the page has a distinct function, and everything is brought into clear relation,” he explained.
“The challenge to the makers of this catalogue was the variety and depth of the materials: the Joyce family collection, which includes books by Joyce, as well as his personal library, manuscripts, photographs and memorabilia, together with the collection of Sylvia Beach, publisher of the first edition of ‘Ulysses.’”
The catalogue includes essays by Luca Crispi, lecturer in the University College Dublin School of English, Drama and Film and its Centre for Research for James Joyce Studies, and a former James Joyce scholar-in-residence in the UB Poetry Collection; Michael Groden, professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, director of the “‘Ulysses’ in Hypermedia” project and a scholar who, for decades, has conducted research in the UB Joyce Collection; Sam Slote, lecturer in James Joyce studies and critical theory at Trinity College, Dublin, and a former James Joyce scholar-in-residence at UB; and the late Oscar Silverman, professor and chair of the UB Department of English and director of the UB Libraries, an avid Joyce scholar instrumental in acquiring many of the materials in the UB Joyce Collection. It also includes an exhibition checklist and a foreword by Basinski.
Kristopher Miller, the UB Libraries’ Web/graphic designer, designed the catalogue and served as print manager; James A. Ulrich, a photographer for Academic Services, UBIT, contributed photography.
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