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Farmers market to open May 19
The University Community Farmers Market on the South Campus will open for its sixth season on May 19 with a variety of vendors selling fresh food and local products.
The market, located on the Main Street sidewalk at Kenmore Avenue, will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 13. Attendees can park for free in the Allen, Main and Bailey parking lots on the South Campus, directly behind the market across from the University Plaza.
For more information, contact the Office of Community Relations at 829-6145.
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SUNY’s head trustee gets Law School tour
New York State’s public law school last week entertained a visitor with deep roots in public service to the state—and by all reports, he liked what he saw.
H. Carl McCall, the former state comptroller, current member of the state’s fiscal control board for the city of Buffalo and chair of the SUNY Board of Trustees, toured UB Law School on May 2. He met with Dean Makau W. Mutua, who spoke to him at length about significant recent developments that have moved the school toward academic excellence. These include a large cohort of excellent faculty hires, the rising caliber of incoming classes of students, the school’s increased support for faculty scholarship at the highest level, and successful efforts aimed at fundraising and mobilizing the school’s 10,000 alumni across the nation and worldwide.
The dean also laid out for McCall some of the challenges facing law schools in general, and detailed an upcoming program, “Panel on Legal Education Excellence,” that would bring four nationally recognized experts to UB to meet with key stakeholders to assess the school’s current status and recommend how best it can move forward.
McCall’s visit also included a tour of the Law School’s newly renovated facility in John Lord O’Brian Hall, with such improvements as a new student lounge, a revamped and more welcoming first floor, and improved teaching technology in classrooms.
He also spoke with students and senior Law School administrators and staff.
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TAG to hold conference at UB
The Theoretical Archaeology Group—TAG—has been debating archaeological theory since 1979, first at universities throughout the UK and Scandinavia, and since 2008 at American institutions like Columbia, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and UB, where it will hold its 2012 annual meeting May 17 to 20.
The conference, “Bridges to New Worlds,” will bring scores of international scholars and feature panels and academic sessions across the UB campus on topics like “The Earth Divine,” “Archaeology of Contemporary Protest” and “Theories of European Prehistory.”
In conjunction with the TAG conference, the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts will present “Excavating Art,” an archaeological performance piece by artist Charles Clough, UB graduate and co-founder of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. See related story in this week’s UB Reporter.
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CSTEP celebrates 25th anniversary
To mark its 25th anniversary, the Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) hosted a Scholarship and Alumni Gala on May 4 to recognize the class of 2012, outstanding alumni, faculty mentors, research interns, and scholarship recipients.
The dinner featured a motivational keynote by Pamela McCauley Bush, author of “Winners Don’t Quit: Today they Call Me Doctor.” The night also featured a silent auction and live band.
CSTEP provides a value-added undergraduate experience by offering high-impact activities, including research experiences, academic enrichment programming, graduate school preparation, community service and service learning for students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as well as the licensed professions, including law, pharmacy, medicine and dentistry.
CSTEP is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the state Department of Education to support talented undergraduate students from underrepresented groups, particularly the university’s African-American, Latino-American and Native American populations.
From the name of the program, many assume CSTEP is geared toward students in the STEM fields, but the program also provides the services for those interested in the allied health majors and licensed professions such as law, accounting, social work, and architecture.
“A hallmark of UB CSTEP is the combination of academic and social support networks we provide for the program participants to achieve their academic and professional goals,” says Shanna Crump-Owens, program director. “These services are intended to complement a student’s major degree program.”
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Flags at half-mast honor fallen soldier
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings—including those at UB—be flown at half-mast on May 11 in honor of two Fort Drum soldiers who died in Logar province, Afghanistan, on May 2.
Spc. Junot M. L. Cochilus and 2nd Lt. David E. Rylander died of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. Both soldiers were assigned to the 7th Engineer Battalion of the 10th Mountain Division’s 10th Sustainment Brigade based at Fort Drum.
Cuomo has ordered that flags on all state buildings be lowered to half-mast in honor of and tribute to New York service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.
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Conference addresses domestic violence
“Domestic Violence and Public Health: The Domino Effect” is the title of a conference that will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 15 at the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
The conference will features speakers from local social service agencies, academia and law enforcement, as well as domestic violence victims, who will address a broad range of public health issues related to domestic violence.
The keynote speaker is Casey Gwinn, president of the Family Justice Center Alliance of San Diego. Mary Travers Murphy, executive director of Buffalo’s Family Justice Center, will deliver opening remarks.
UB speakers include Susan A. Green, clinical associate professor, School of Social Work, who will discuss “Trauma and Trauma Informed Care”; Suzanne E. Tomkins, clinical professor, co-director of the Program for Excellence in Family Law and co-founder of The Women, Children & Social Justice Clinic, UB Law School, who will discuss “A Comprehensive Look at the Costs of Domestic Violence”; and Carol Webster of the Department of Family Medicine and the Family Justice Center, who will discuss “Domestic Violence and the Role of Forensic Medicine” with Rachel Newton, chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau of the Erie County District Attorney’s Office.
Buffalo’s Family Justice Center organized the conference in collaboration with the Empire State Public Health Training Center, a federally funded public health training partnership between UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions and the University at Albany’s School of Public Health.
Donald W. Rowe, director of the UB Office of Public Health Practice, has been the lead developer and organizer of the conference.
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Society to hold inaugural meeting
The Upstate New York Pharmacology Society (UNYPS), a new regional organization founded in 2010 by UB faculty members, is holding its inaugural meeting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 14 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus
UNYPS is a regional affiliate of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, whose members develop new medicines and therapeutic agents to fight existing and emerging diseases. It was founded in 2010 by Margarita Dubocovich, professor and chair of the UB Department of Pharmacology and Toxicolog, and Peter G. Bradford, associate professor in the department, to serve pharmacologists and toxicologists at institutions and companies in and around the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, as well as Canada and the neighboring states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The theme of the meeting is “Signaling Pathways as Targets for Drug Discovery” and it will feature talks by scholars from the U.S. and Canada, as well as symposia focusing on presentations by graduate students and junior scientists. Presentations will cover therapeutics for a broad range of conditions, from brain disorders to cancer and heart disease, as well as new techniques in the drug-discovery process.
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