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Reporter Summer, Fall Schedules
This issue of the Reporter-both print and electronic-is one of two to be published during the summer. The next issue will be July 23. The publication of weekly issues for the fall semester will begin on Aug. 27.

Faculty, staff, students and alums can stay in touch with what's going on at UB by reading the Reporter on the World Wide Web at .

Fischman honored for work with HIV patients
Stuart L. Fischman, professor emeritus of oral diagnostic sciences, recently was honored by the New York State Health Department/AIDS Institute for his outstanding achievement and commitment in providing services and care for individuals with HIV and their families. The Dr. Linda Lauberstein Clinical Excellence Award was presented to Fischman during the institute's annual HIV/AIDS Statewide Policy Conference in Albany.

Fischman, the upstate recipient of the award, is coordinator of the oral health care program for the Immunodeficiency Designated Clinic at the Erie County Medical Center. He joined the dental faculty in 1961and retired last year from UB and as director of the Department of Dentistry at ECMC.

During his career at UB, he presented continuing-education programs and lectures on such topics as the epidemiology of AIDS, forensic and hospital dentistry, and oral lesions.

Fischman is a diplomate of the American Academy of Oral Pathology and the American Board of Oral Medicine and a fellow of the International College of Dentists and the American College of Dentists.

EOC wins statewide achievement award
The Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) at UB has earned a statewide award for "outstanding achievement in occupational education/guidance in transitioning students into the workforce."

EOC placed third in the citation category in the annual awards program of the New York State chapter of the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security (IAPES).

The category recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of employment security, including occupational education, helping youth transition to the workforce, bettering health or welfare of workers and service to the disabled. IAPES is an international professional organization involved in employment and training.

UB Alumni and Friends Golf Outing is June 30
The UB Alumni Association will present the seventh annual UB Friends and Alumni Golf Outing on June 30 at Rothland Golf Club, 12089 Clarence Center Road, Akron. The event will start at 11 a.m.

Tickets are $70 per person, which includes golf, a golf cart, refreshments at the turn, open bar reception, a sumptuous buffet, a gift and a door prize for everyone. A hole in one will earn a substantial prize. For cocktails and buffet only, the cost is $35.

To register, call Mary Lou Nelson at 829-2608 or fax at 829-3901. Tickets can be charged by calling 1-800-BUILD UB or by sending a check (payable to UB Alumni) or credit card information to UB Alumni Relations, Allen Hall, Room 109, 3435 Main St., Building 33, Buffalo, N.Y. 14214-3003. Reservations deadline is June 26.

Six students receive Chancellor's Awards
State University of New York Chancellor John W. Ryan has presented six UB students with the 1998 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. Award recipients have received national or international recognition. The winners and their accomplishments are:

- Michael Tackett, Goldwater Scholarship Award winner

- Modi Wetzler, Goldwater Scholarship Award winner

- Mark Grimaldi, Goldwater Scholarship Award winner

- Keith Dalvey, National Science Foundation winner and U.S. Department of Defense fellow

- Bemina Atanacio, National Science Foundation winner

- Warren Lewis, Fulbright fellow.

UB's central e-mail system to be upgraded in July
Attention e-mail users: Computing and Information Technology has announced that the university's central e-mail system will be unavailable one weekend in July.

The e-mail and Unix systems will be unavailable from 6 p.m. July 10 to 8 a.m. July 13 to allow CIT to upgrade the central system. All incoming mail will be stored and delivered when service is restored and outgoing mail from Unix clients will be delivered normally.

During the change in infrastructure, an automatic transfer will occur for each user. The incoming e-mail spool will be moved from the current system to the new e-mail server. Each home directory will be scanned for directories named "mail" and any folders found in these directories will be moved to the new server. "Procmail" forwarding rules, ".qmail" files that contain forwarding rules and "vacation" forwarding information will be transferred to the new system. Users will receive an e-mail message containing a log of what transpired regarding folder moves and forwarding transfers.

The upgrade will allow CIT to build an e-mail infrastructure to support the increasing demands, as well as provide the flexibility and scalability that will be required to keep up with future information-technology development.

According to CIT, the new e-mail infrastructure will support many features of LAN-based mail systems, including file attachments, address books and access to the online campus directory. Mobile users will be able to access e-mail from a variety of platforms and locations.

Central e-mail users may see changes in their service. Older e-mail programs, such as elm, rmail and UCB mail, will not work in the new client/server environment. More information on how these changes may affect specific utilities is available at http://www.cit.buffalo.edu/mail or by calling the CIT Help Desk at 645-3542.

HUBNET e-mail system to shut down June 30
The HUBNET electronic mail system will be deactivated on June 30, affecting individuals in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and affiliated teaching hospitals. Those who still maintain an e-mail account with HUBNET will have to replace it with another account immediately.

Individuals affiliated with any of the teaching hospitals, but who otherwise have no formal affiliation with UB, will have to contact their institution's library or information systems department to obtain account information. As each teaching hospital has its own criteria for e-mail account eligibility, some individuals may find it necessary to contract with an Internet service provider, or sign up with one of the free e-mail utilities through the World Wide Web (e.g.,http://www.hotmail.com).

Students, staff, faculty, fellows, residents and adjunct faculty of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences should contact the Office of Medical Computing (OMC) at 829-2106 to establish a new e-mail account or visit its Web site at http://lata.med.buffalo.edu/OMC/index.html. UB students, staff and faculty not affiliated with the medical school should contact UB-CIT, User Liaison Office at 645-3542.

For personal workstations, the new e-mail system administered by the Office of Medical Computing will support any IMAP4-compatible client, e.g., Netscape Communicator, MS Outlook, Eudora, etc. For public workstations running Windows '95 or Macintosh operating systems, OMC will support a mail program called "Mulberry." A list of affiliated teaching hospital libraries with telephone numbers for information about the new e-mail system can be found at: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/HUBNET/help.html.

CIT asks university community to update E-Directory information
The university community is being asked to update the information that is listed in the UB E-Directory, the online directory of faculty, staff and students.

The directory, which can be accessed at http://ldap.buffalo.edu, is a comprehensive and searchable electronic source of information that includes names, titles, campus addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Computing and Information Technology is asking for the university community's cooperation in making sure that the information contained in the directory is up-to-date.

Updating information in the directory is simple. After logging in, click on "update" to bring up the form that will allow users to update personal information and insert their preferred e-mail address. A UNIX password is needed to make changes; users who do not know their password can have it reset by calling 645-3540.

Instructions for updating information are available online. Persons who need more assistance can call the CIT help desk at 645-3540.

UB names director of Polish Academic Information Center
Tomasz Goban-Klas, an international authority on the sociology of communication in Poland, has been appointed the director of the UB Polish Academic Information Center (PAIC).

PAIC, a Web-based clearinghouse of information about Poland and Polish studies, opened formally in April 1997 and logged approximately 2,000 visitors in its first year. The site provides the most extensive and comprehensive coverage of topics and activities relating to Poland available on the World Wide Web. Funding and administrative support is provided by the Faculty of Arts and Letters Dean's Office.

Goban-Klas, professor and chair of communication and media studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, expects to work at UB until September. He succeeds Piotr Pienkowski, the center's founding director, who has returned to Poland.

Goban-Klas plans to build on the foundation established by Pienkowski by making the site more comprehensive and adding new electronic resources useful to those seeking information about Poland and Polish studies. For more information about PAIC, visit its Web site at .

Attention deficit disorder program begins June 29
The Summer Treatment Program for children with ADHD and other behavioral and developmental disorders will be offered again this year at UB from June 29 through Aug. 21.

The program is for children ages 5-12, with sessions to be held weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A child may benefit from this program if he/she:

- Has difficulty paying attention and concentrating

- Needs constant reminders to finish school tasks or home chores

- Often gets into trouble because of being excitable and impulsive

- Has difficulty getting along with other children and adults.

The program, which has been cited as a model by the American Psychological Association, is offered through the Psychological Services Center and the ADHD Program at UB, in conjunction with its Language Development Program. For information and enrollment, call 645-3697.

Dental study to evaluate treatments for TMJ disorders
Dental researchers at UB are looking for adults ages 18-60 who have facial pain or headaches associated with temporomandibular jaw joint (TMJ) disorders to participate in a new study that will begin July 1.

The study, to be conducted by Richard Ohrbach, assistant professor in the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences in the School of Dental Medicine, will evaluate two forms of treatment for the condition. Neither of the treatments, which will be free of charge, involves medication.

Participants must come to the dental school on the South Campus for two one-to-two-hour sessions spaced about three weeks apart. For information on participating,call Maureen at 829-2241.

New York State Education Dept. approves six-year doctor of pharmacy program
The School of Pharmacy's six-year, entry-level doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program has been approved by the New York State Department of Education. The new program, which is now in place, follows a directive from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy approving the six-year Pharm.D., or doctorate of pharmacy, as the field's only professional degree.

The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education, the accrediting body for schools of pharmacy, says that the last bachelor's degree in pharmacy class it will accredit is the Class of 2004.

Any third-year student in the school's baccalaureate program can track into the doctoral program; the first two years of the baccalaureate and doctoral programs are identical.

The switch from the baccalaureate to the doctoral degree is driving one of the most dramatic shifts in emphasis the profession has seen, according to Wayne K. Anderson, dean of the school, because it will produce graduates who will spend far more time on patient-care management than they will on dispensing drugs.

Students in UB's doctoral program must select, and be accepted into, one of four "tracks" that will allow them to specialize in a particular area: ambulatory, which is community pharmacy practice; clinical, which is primarily hospital practice; industrial, which involves working with clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry, and research, which involves drug discovery and analysis, quality control and research in both industrial and academic settings.

At UB, the Pharm.D. program features:

- An increased clinical emphasis, including 40 weeks of full-time, clinical clerkships, up from 18 weeks in the bachelor's program.

- New courses, such as ambulatory and in-patient disease-state management and clinical pathways courses, in which students learn algorithms, or decision points; how to manage drug therapy for different diseases, and pharmacoeconomics, which involves determining the economic impact of drug therapies on patients.

- A modular, rather than a departmental, approach, in which one subject, cardiology, for example, is team-taught by faculty from several disciplines.

Students who complete the doctoral program will have had more than 1,600 hours of clinical clerkship, more than satisfying the eligibility requirement for taking the New York State board exam.

Students interested in applying to the doctoral program should contact Cindy Konovitz in the school's Office of Admissions at 645-2825 or by e-mail at konovitz@acsu.buffalo.edu.

UB to offer new summer language program for elementary-school children
Multilingual proficiency promises to become more and more important to all of us as we enter the new century. Such proficiency, experts tell us, begins with the exploration of new languages at a young age.

This summer, UB will offer new, two-week introductory courses in five languages for children in first through sixth grades. The Language Exploration Program will give elementary-school children an opportunity to develop a familiarity with Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish or Irish Gaelic.

The courses will be taught through UB's World Languages Institute. They will run Monday through Friday, July 6-17, on the North Campus.

Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish will be taught from 9-11 a.m. Irish Gaelic will be offered from 2-4 p.m.

The cost of each course is $150 per child. The program capacity is limited. For more information, call the UB World Languages Institute at 645-2292, or send e-mail to ub-wli@acsy.buffalo.edu.

The World Languages Institute offers a broad range of long- and short-term programs in more than 20 critical languages from Arabic to Haitian Creole.

Visit the institute's Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/world-languages/.

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Pranikoff honored at ECMC event
Kevin Pranikoff, associate professor of urology and rehabilitation medicine and vice chair of the Department of Urology, was honored June 13 at Springfest, '98, the Erie County Medical Center's Lifeline Foundation annual event held in the Center for the Arts on UB's North Campus. The event benefits ECMC's Department of Urology, the employee education fund and the Lifeline Foundation.

Pranikoff, clinical director of ECMC's Department of Urology, joined ECMC in 1979. He recently co-developed the ECMC Women's Bladder Center of Western New York, a multidisciplinary service for treating a variety of women's bladder problems.

UB graduate receives dissertation award
Kara Latorella, who received her doctorate from the Department of Industrial Engineering in 1997, has been named the 1998 winner of the Stanley N. Roscoe Award for the best doctoral dissertation in a research area related to aerospace human factors.

The award, which included a plaque and an honorarium of $500, was presented to Latorella by the Aerospace Human Factors Association, a constituent organization of the Aerospace Medical Association.

She completed the dissertation, "Investigating Interruptions on the Flightdeck," under the advisement of Colin Drury, professor; Joseph Sharit, associate professor, and Valerie Shalin, former associate professor, all of the UB Department of Industrial Engineering.

Latorella is an aerospace engineer in the Crew/Vehicle Integration Branch at NASA's Langley Research Center.

Children with juvenile arthritis needed for study
Children with juvenile arthritis are needed for a UB research study on the effects of an exercise program on the disease, being conducted by the departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Pediatrics and Physical Therapy, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences.

Researchers are looking for children between the ages of 6 and 12 for the eight-week program, to be conducted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to noon in UB's rehabilitation research laboratory at Erie County Medical Center. It will begin as soon as school ends. There is no charge. Children participating will receive prizes and awards. For more information, call 898-4322.