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Zimmerman named to NBPTS committee
Nancy P. Zimmerman, assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Studies and coordinator of its School Library Media Program, has been named to the Library Media Standards Committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).

A nonprofit, nonpartisan and nongovernmental agency created in 1987, the NBPTS establishes high and rigorous standards for accomplished teachers, develops and operates a national voluntary system to assess and certify teachers who meet these standards and advances related education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools.

Zimmerman, who joined the UB faculty in 1993, also is a candidate for president of the New York State Library Association.

CFA to present "A Conversation with Gregory Peck"
Academy-Award-winning actor Gregory Peck will appear at 8 p.m. on April 30 in the Mainstage theater, Center for the Arts, for "A Conversation with Gregory Peck."

The one-man show will include a video montage of memorable moments from his 50 years of filmmaking, his own stories about his career, family and colleagues, and a question-and-answer session.

Tickets are $50, $45, $40 and $30 for the general public and $15 for students, and are available at TicketMaster locations and the Center for the Arts box office.

Sociologist to discuss 'Theming of America'
Americans' obsession with themed environments will be discussed by Mark Gottdiener in a "UB at Sunrise" program from 7:30-9 a.m. on April 28 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

In his lecture, "The Theming of America," Gottdiener, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, will discuss how American businesses and cities have become obsessed with themed environments-such as Disney World, Las Vegas and the Mall of America-because of the increased competition for consumer dollars.

The price of the program, which includes a full breakfast, is $10 for members of the UB Alumni Association and $12 for all others. For more information, contact the alumni association at 829-2608. Ticket orders must be received by April 24.

UB to co-sponsor conference on microbial pathogenesis
The Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Group of UB and the Western New York Branch, American Society of Microbiologists will co-sponsor the 10th Annual Buffalo Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis on April 29 in the Sheraton Inn, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. The conference will begin at 7:45 a.m. and run until 5 p.m.

Other sponsors include the Pharmaceutical Division of the Bayer Corp. and Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics, as well as the Office of Conferences in the Disciplines, vice provost for graduate education, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Department of Microbiology and Micro Club of the Graduate Student Association, all at UB.

Registration is $25 and includes lunch. For more information, call Theresa Kruse at 829-2459.

Burkman to speak at Fulbright conference
Thomas W. Burkman, director of Asian Studies at UB, will be the keynote speaker at a conference titled "Opportunities and Challenges in Cross-Cultural Exchange."

Sponsored by the Western New York Fulbright Association, the conference will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on April 25 in Moot Hall, Buffalo State College. The program is free and open to the public.

In addition to Burkman, representatives from the Fulbright program in Washington, D.C., will be available to discuss scholarship and fellowship possibilities. Registration for the conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. For more information, call 878-5331.

Faculty and Staff Appeal will continue through May
The 1998 Faculty and Staff Appeal is under way, with a goal of raising funds to support research, education and community-service missions throughout the university.

Robert J. Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Oral Biology and volunteer chair of the appeal, said that in addition to raising needed funds, the appeal, which runs through May, sends an important message to donors from outside the university.

"Every day that we come to work, our faculty and staff show their support for the university and belief in its missions of education, research and public service," added Genco, chair of the Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine.

"The Faculty and Staff Appeal is a chance for the UB community to give that extra vote of confidence to this university, and to show what a difference it makes in their lives and in this city."

The appeal allows faculty and staff members to donate-either with a single gift or through payroll deduction-to a general fund to benefit the university as a whole or to any department, division or unit on campus.

Money raised by the appeal in past years has, for example, gone toward undergraduate student scholarships, operating support for the Division of Athletics and University Libraries, and other university services.

"We can send a strong signal to the university's other donors if we have strong participation among faculty and staff," said Genco. "Significant participation is an especially powerful message to alumni who have been thinking about giving something back to the school but haven't acted yet."

For additional information on the appeal or to receive a pledge card or payroll-deduction form, contact UB's Annual Appeal office at 829-2630, ext. 228. To find out more about the university's development efforts, visit the Office of University Development Web site at http://www.buffalo.edu/giving

Time to submit graduation, student honors for Reporter Commencement Extra
The Reporter will publish its annual "Commencement Extra" edition on May 14. If you have not done so already, please send us lists of students receiving graduation or other honors, identifying honors concisely. Information must be received no later than May 1.

Because of production requirements, the Reporter only will accept information electronically. No fax submissions will be accepted. Information may be submitted on disk, specifying the program in which it is written and including a printout of all information contained on the disk, or by e-mail: reporter@ubnews.buffalo.edu

All submissions must include a contact name, department, campus address and daytime telephone number. Disks may be delivered to 136 Crofts Hall, North Campus. For more information, call Christine Vidal, Reporter editor, at 645-2626.

GA position available at the Reporter
The Office of News Services is looking for a graduate assistant for the 1998-99 academic year to write for the Reporter. Applicants must have excellent writing skills; newspaper experience is preferred.

Applicants should mail resumes and writing samples to Reporter editor Christine Vidal, 136 Crofts Hall, North Campus. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For more information, call 645-2626.

Prominent anthropologists to join conference on Mayan culture
Prominent anthropologists Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase have been added to the list of experts who will speak at "Mayan Culture at the Millennium: Retrospect and Prospect," a major international conference on Mayan culture to be held at UB on April 25 and 26.

The husband-and-wife team has conducted archeological research at Caracol, Belize, since 1985. Their research has received more than $1 million in funding and the Chases, both professors of anthropology at the University of Central Florida, have been featured in several projects for National Geographic and PBS, including the PBS program, "Searching for the Maya."

Arlen Chase will speak at 9:30 a.m. on April 25 in 170 Fillmore Quad. Diane Chase will speak in 170 Fillmore Quad at 9:30 a.m. on April 26.

David Pendergast, vice president of collections and research at the Royal Ontario Museum and field director of the museum's archaeological expedition to a number of Mayan ruins in Mexico and Belize, will present the conference's keynote address at 4 p.m. on April 25 in 170 Fillmore Quad. The day and time of Pendergast's address previously were reported incorrectly in the Reporter.

All conference sessions will take place in the Fillmore Quad in the Ellicott Complex, with the exception of a dinner to be held on April 25 in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 North Forest Road, Amherst.

Haitian Student Association to celebrate Rara Ayiti Week
The Haitian Student Association will present a concert, dinner and cultural show this week in celebration of Rara Ayiti. The celebration also will include information tables and art exhibits on the first floor of the Student Union.

The concert, to be held from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. tomorrow, will take place in the Augustin Pucho Olivencia Community Center, 261 Swan St. in downtown Buffalo. Advance tickets are $10 for students and $15, general public; at the door, tickets will be $12 for students and $17, general public.

The dinner and cultural show, to be held Saturday in Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Ellicott Complex, will begin at 5:30 p.m. Advance tickets are $6 for students and $8, general public; at the door, tickets will be $7 for students; $10, general public.

Tickets for both events will be available at $15 for students and $20, general public. Tickets may be purchased at the UB Ticket Office or by calling the Haitian Student Association office at 645-6643.

Exhibit featuring history of women in Lockwood Library
"An Abundance of Riches: Resources on Women in Lockwood Library," an exhibit of materials from around the world documenting the experiences of women past and present, is on display through April 30 in Lockwood Library on the North Campus.

The library hours are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 10:45 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m.

The exhibit, which went up in celebration of Women's History Month, is a collection strong in historical materials and includes several major microform collections. It also demonstrates the unlimited material relating to women's issues available on the Internet.

The most notable is the History of Women Collection that covers topics from suffrage to child rearing and a full spectrum of 19th-century American periodicals drawn from several special collections, including the comprehensive American Periodicals Series.

For more information, call 645-2816.

Symposium to focus on shaken baby syndrome
"Shaken Baby Syndrome" will be the focus of the 5th Annual Childhood Violence Symposium to be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road, Amherst.

Children's Hospital of Buffalo and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are the symposium's sponsors. Featured speakers will include experts from the Medical College of Wisconsin, SBS Prevention Plus in Florence, Colo., Children's Hospital and UB medical school. Mark Dias, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at UB and Children's Hospital, will report on the incidence of shaken baby syndrome in Buffalo.

The registration fee is $75 for physicians, who receive six hours of CME credit, and $45 for all others. Contact Barbara Whiteside at 878-7109 for registration and information.

ASCE to hold annual concrete-canoe, steel-bridge contests
They'll be putting their "shoulders" to the metal and their "oars" in the water during the American Society of Civil Engineers' regional concrete-canoe and steel-bridge competitions to be held on Friday and Saturday at UB.

More than 200 engineering students from 14 colleges and universities in New York and Canada, including UB, will demonstrate their brains and brawn at the events on UB's North Campus.

The competitions on land and in the water will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, with the canoes being tested in Lake LaSalle and the bridges being built on the Alumni Tennis Courts. Awards will be presented at a banquet at 7 that evening in the Center for Tomorrow.

Student teams in the bridge competition will assemble their designed, fabricated, scaled-down versions of bridges to "replace" an antiquated, heavily traveled hypothetical one crossing a river valley in a mountainous area.

The bridge competition is sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, co-sponsored by the American Iron and Steel Institute, the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation and the National Steel Bridge Alliance.

Guiseppe Andres to deliver Witebsky Memorial Lecture
Extending and enhancing human life through organ transplants will be the topic of the 28th Annual Ernest Witebsky Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and the Ernest Witebsky Center for Immunology, it will be free and open to the public.

Guiseppe A. Andres, who was a member of the UB medical faculty from 1970 until his retirement in 1990, will deliver the lecture in Farber Hall's Butler Auditorium on the South Campus.

A professor emeritus and former researcher at UB, Andres is an immunopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, visiting professor of pathology at Harvard University Medical School and clinical professor of pathology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Andres' lecture will focus on the importance of and progress on allografts-human organ transplants between individuals other than identical twins-and xenografts-cross-species transplants from animals to humans.

Investor education conference to be held Saturday
"The Prudent Investor," an investor education conference, will be held Saturday in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road, Amherst. Sponsored by the Securities Clinic, the conference is a collaborative program of the UB schools of Law and Management, and the Gerald and Sandra Lippes Endowment for Entrepreneurial Law and Strategy. It will begin at 8 a.m. and continue through 5 p.m.

Topics to be discussed include investing for retirement and education, factors to consider before investing, how taxes affect investment strategies, the Roth IRA, how capital markets operate and are regulated, and how to resolve securities brokerage account disputes through arbitration and mediation.

Securities fraud, including fraud on the Internet, will be addressed at the noon luncheon by keynote speaker Edwin H. Nordlinger, deputy regional director for the Northeast Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in New York City.

Guest speakers will be Valerie Bailey Johnston, senior attorney, National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Regulation Inc., New York City, and David R. Robbins of Kaufmann, Feiner, Yamin, Gildin & Robbins LLP. Johnston will discuss "Dispute Resolution Through Arbitration and Mediation." Robbins' topic will be "Evaluating Your Securities Arbitration and Mediation Case."

Speakers from UB will be Joseph P. Ogden, chair of the Department of Finance and Managerial Economics in the School of Management, who will discuss "The Basic Factors to Consider Before Investing," and Cheryl C. Nichols, clinical instructor of law, on "The Regulatory Framework of the Securities Market."

A panel discussion of general investment opportunities moderated by Ogden will include Suzanne M. Novelli, financial consultant with Moldenhauer and Associates; Patrick J. Carmody, Private Client Group, Merrill Lynch, and David E. Mickey, investment executive with M&T Securities, Inc. Donald G. McGrath of Falk & Siemer LLP will moderate a panel on investing for retirement and education. Panelists will include Ann Burstein Cohen, UB adjunct assistant professor of accounting and law; Stephen Horan of St. Bonaventure University; Novelli; Carmody, and Mickey.

Ogden and Nichols are co-directors of UB's Securities Clinic, which will become fully operational in the fall. It will be one of three pilot securities arbitration clinics sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Student alumni board receives three District II awards
The UB Student Alumni Board (USAB), the student affiliate of the UB Alumni Association, recently was recognized for its program, leadership and enthusiasm at the Spring 1998 District II Student Alumni Association/Student Foundation (SAA/SF) Conference held at Albright College in Reading, Pa.

USAB was recognized as the Most Spirited Organization in District II, its annual Oozfest event received the award for Most Outstanding Program in District II and Anna Furgiuele, a senior and USAB president, was honored as the Most Outstanding Student Member of District II.

A business major concentrating in marketing, Furgiuele is an admissions intern, a resident advisor, an orientation aide and a selected participant in the STARS (Student Admissions and Recruitment Specialists) program. She also tutors international students in the UB English Language Institute.

Furgiuele, a nominee for the National Paper Clip Communications Resident Advisor of the Year Award, recently was accepted into UB's College Student Services Development Graduate Program for Fall 1998.

Oozfest, now in its 14th year, is the largest, continuous volleyball-in-the-mud tournament on a college or university campus.

Furgiuele served as chair of Oozfest '97, which included 96 teams made up of more than 1,000 UB students, as well as representatives from area businesses and organizations.