Barlow elected president of medical alumni
Jared C. Barlow has been elected president of the Medical Alumni Association of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for 1997-98. Also elected were Elizabeth L. Maher, vice president, and Richard L. Collins, treasurer.

Barlow, an anesthesiologist, is medical director of the Millard Fillmore Surgery Center in Williamsville and chair of anesthesiology for the Millard Fillmore Health System. A UB clinical associate professor of anesthesiology, he graduated from the medical school in 1966.

Maher is a 1985 graduate of the medical school and a UB clinical instructor of medicine. A specialist in family medicine, she is an emergency-department attending physician at Medina Memorial Hospital.

Collins, a primary-care internist with the Buffalo Medical Group and a UB clinical assistant professor of medicine, graduated from the medical school in 1983.

UB at Sunrise to hear Cuthbert Simpkins
A UB associate professor of surgery who has established a pioneering intervention program aimed at keeping trauma patients who are victims of violence from repeating their mistakes will speak in a "UB at Sunrise" program at 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

Cuthbert Simpkins, a trauma surgeon at Erie County Medical Center, says it's not enough just to patch the wounds that result from violence, that there is a need to treat the underlying causes. The program he established at ECMC provides victims of violence with support on the physical, social and psychological levels.

The program, which includes a full breakfast, is $10 for UB Alumni Association members and $12 for all others. For more information, call 829-2608.

Child Care Center receives award
The University at Buffalo Child Care Center, Inc. has received the 1997 Child Care Coalition Program Award from the Child Care Coalition of the Niagara Frontier, Inc.

The award recognizes "the outstanding leadership the center has shown as a child-care provider and the quality of programming," according to Peg Agnello Kulu, executive director of the coalition.

It will be presented on Oct. 25 during the Fall Training Program of the WNY Association for the Education of Young Children.

Rogovin to lecture on documentary photography
Nationally recognized documentary photographer Milton Rogovin will present a slide lecture on his photographs at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, in screening room 112 in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

Rogovin's lens usually has been turned on the diurnal lives of working people and has been published in many national magazines, journals and newspapers.

Rogovin was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Award in documentary photography and his work has been exhibited in major national and international museums and art galleries. In 1993, he was the subject of a featured segment on "CBS Sunday Morning" with Charles Kuralt.

Malaysian government honors UB researchers
The Physics Department researchers who developed the world's first flexible semiconductor chip were honored last week by the Malaysian government. Hong Luo, assistant professor of physics, and Myunghee Na, a doctoral candidate in physics, visited New York's Malaysian Consulate where they were honored by government representatives, and where Na was presented with a $10,000 scholarship from the Malaysian company, TL Technology Research.

The company is one of several that have expressed interest in licensing the rights to the new technology. A patent has been filed on the invention. The research team was headed by Luo and Athos Petrou, physics professor.

Memorial service set for Carlos Olivencia
A memorial service will be held at noon on Thursday, Oct. 9, in the Student Union Theatre on the North Campus for Carlos Olivencia, an Educational Opportunity Program counselor who died Sept. 8 after a short battle with cancer.

An EOP counselor since 1972, Olivencia supervised the EOP summer program for many years and recruited hundreds of Hispanic students to UB, providing advice on academic, personal and financial matters.

MacLow to give birthday poetry reading, lecture
Jackson MacLow, one of the great American poets of the 20th century, will celebrate his 75th birthday with a short stay at UB this month, during which he will lecture and read from his work.

He will give a birthday poetry reading at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Center for the Arts Screening Room. He will lecture on "Intention/Nonintention/Chance/Choice/Other" at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, in 438 Clemens Hall. His appearance is part of Wednesdays at Four Plus, whose events are free and open to the public.

MacLow has been writing and composing music since 1937 and is widely associated with the second-generation Black Mountain poets like UB's Robert Creeley; with the international Fluxus movement, which influenced many art forms in the 1950s and '60s, and with postmodern literary forms, especially language poetry. He began his career using what he now describes as "quasi-intentional" methods involving subliminal choices among word choices arising in both the outer and inner environments, later moving into "reading through," techniques. MacLow has traveled extensively with his wife, Anne Tardos, performing at many international venues.

He has been awarded fellowships by New York State's Creative Arts Public Service Program for multimedia art and poetry. In 1986, he received a Fulbright travel grant to New Zealand, where he was the keynote speaker at the Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association conference at the University of Auckland.

MFC awards two Lorraine Saban scholarships
Two students enrolled in Millard Fillmore College (MFC) have been awarded Lorraine Saban Memorial Scholarships. The $500 scholarships, established in memory of the late wife of former Buffalo Bills' coach Lou Saban, were given to RoseMarie Romano and Maureen Miller. The scholarships are designated for women enrolled in MFC who have exhibited high academic scholarship and above-average community service. Mrs. Saban had been an MFC student.

Both Romano and Miller have held jobs while working toward degrees.

Miller, a medical office assistant with the Cleve-Hill Family Health Center, earned an associate's degree in business through MFC and is working toward a bachelor's degree. A 20-year volunteer with the WNED-TV auction, she has been involved in fund-raising to benefit the spinal cord and rehabilitation units at Erie County Medical Center.

Coordinator of surplus equipment at UB who formerly worked in the financial aid office, Romano is working toward a bachelor's degree. She has been involved with The Buffalo News Neediest Fund and serves meals at the Buffalo and Niagara Falls city mission. She also has served on the board of directors for Upstage, a not-for-profit theater company.

Management alum donates $25,000 to honor professor
An alumnus of the School of Management has donated $25,000 to the school in appreciation for the education and guidance that he and his son, also a former student, received from one of its professors.

S. Arthur Lowe of Ellicottville, a 1950 graduate of the school, and his wife, Carolyn, made the donation in honor of retired professor Robert F. Berner, who taught managerial statistics and was dean of Millard Fillmore College during a 36-year career at UB.

The gift will be used to establish the Robert F. Berner Management Science and Systems Excellence Fund, which will help advance cutting-edge curricula within the school's Department of Management Science and Systems -the successor to the Department of Statistics and Insurance in which Berner taught.

An instructor and faculty advisor to Lowe, Berner became a friend of the family and later helped Lowe's son, Peter, enroll in the business curriculum at UB. Peter Lowe, a 1970 graduate of the management school, is vice president of the aerospace division of Huck International in Tucson, Ariz.

Diabetes to be topic of seminar Oct. 4
A day-long seminar, "Update in the Management of Diabetes, Insulin Resistance and Obesity," will be held Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. in the Radisson Hotel and Suites, 4243 Genesee St., Cheektowaga.

The seminar is sponsored by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York at Millard Fillmore Hospital, Gates Circle. It will provide health professionals with information about the most recent advances in the treatment of diabetes and its complications.

Paresh Dandona, professor of medicine, head of UB medical school's Division of Endocrinology and director of the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York, is director of the seminar and will be a presenter.

For registration information, call 887-4523.

School of Pharmacy to host pharmacy fair
The School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Pharmacists' Association of Western New York and the Western New York Society of Health Systems Pharmacists, will present a Pharmacy Fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19, in the Walden Galleria.

The fair is free and open to the public.

Visitors may bring their medications for personalized evaluation by registered pharmacists and pharmacy students.

Information on diabetes; hypertension, including a free blood-pressure measurement; smoking cessation, and over-the-counter drugs, such as cough, cold and flu medicines, also will be available.

The event will include a video puppet show for children that focuses on poison prevention.

Perry lecture to focus on health workforce
Leonard J. Finocchio, associate director for state programs for the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, will deliver the 1997 J. Warren Perry Lecture at UB. He will speak at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 10, in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts.

Associate director of the Pew Health Professions Commission, a program of The Pew Charitable Trusts, Finocchio will discuss "The Health Professions Face the Millennium."

The Perry lecture, sponsored annually by the UB School of Health Related Professions, is supported by an endowment established in honor of Perry, a former dean of the school. The lecture is free and open to the public.

At the Center for Health Professions, Finocchio researches and writes about health-professions regulation, the allied-health workforce, community health workers, medical education and health workforce policy.

He also has worked as a primary-care analyst for the U.S. Public Health Service and as a wilderness emergency-care instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he designed, implemented and evaluated wilderness first-aid and technical-rescue curricula for the Outdoor Adventures program.

UB center to sponsor photonics workshop
Leading researchers in the field of optical technologies will speak at a workshop on "Photonic Materials and Devices: Issues and Opportunities" to be held Oct. 24 in the Natural Sciences Complex on the North Campus and Oct. 25 in the Buffalo Hilton.

The workshop will be sponsored by the Center for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials (CAPEM) and the Photonics Research Laboratory. It is the kickoff event for CAPEM, formed last year to foster collaborations on campus between researchers working on compound semiconductors, polymers and novel conductors, including superconductors. Bruce D. McCombe, professor of physics and director of CAPEM, and Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and director of the Photonics Research Laboratory, are workshop coordinators. For more information, call 645-6475.

Hirsch to discuss use of color materials in photographic art
Noted photographer and photographic historian Robert Hirsch, director and curator of CEPA, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, will give an informal slide talk on "Recent Color Photography" at 4 p.m. Oct. 23 in the Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts. The presentation will be free and open to the public.

Hirsch will discuss work by photographers who incorporate traditional photographic methods into unusual contemporary forms or who work with digital imaging, scanners and other technologies.

He is the author of two textbooks, "Exploring Color Photography" and "Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes." A new text on the history of photography is to be published by McGraw-Hill in association with the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester. More information on CEPA and the artists associated with the center and with Hirsch's talk can be found on the CEPA Website http://cepa.buffnet.net.