Former President Bush to speak at UB Sept. 29
Former U.S. President George Bush will kick off UB's 12th Annual Distinguished Speaker Series at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 in Alumni Arena on the North Campus.

Other speakers slated to appear during the 1999-2000 series are Bill Moyers, television host and program producer, journalist and author, Nov. 3; political analyst, professor and author George Stephanopoulos, March 22, and Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple," April 26.

General admission tickets for the Bush lecture are $36, $28, $20 and $10. The cost for UB faculty, staff, alumni and students is $34, $26, $18 and $8. Tickets are available through the Center for the Arts box office, 645-2787, and TicketMaster, 852-5000.

Barbara Bono named chair of English
Barbara J. Bono, associate professor of English, has been named chair of the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.

An established scholar of Shakespeare, Elizabethan-Jacobean drama and English-Renaissance literature, Bono joined the UB faculty in 1984 following a Mellon fellowship at Harvard University.

In 1996, she was one of four scholars who taught Shakespeare to secondary teachers from around the U.S. at the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D.C. She since has begun an outreach program in Buffalo high schools employing techniques presented at the institute.

Singer work cited by sociological association
Simon Singer, professor of sociology, has received the 1999 Albert J. Reiss, Jr., Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Sociological Association, for his book "Recrimina-lizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform."

The book reports Singer's ground-breaking study of the failure of New York State's 1978 Juvenile Offender Law to deter violent juvenile crime.

The Singer study demonstrated that the statute, which sends violent juveniles to criminal court instead of to juvenile court, has neither eliminated the need for juvenile justice nor reduced the incidence of violent juvenile crime in New York State. Singer found that few young offenders are ever tried as adults, and that if they are, they are rarely conv

Serbian opposition leader to speak
Svetozar Stojanovic, noted Serbian philosopher and a leader of the democratic opposition to Slobodan Milosevic, will speak at 4 p.m. on Sept. 9 in 280 Park Hall on the North Campus.

Stojanovic's lecture, which will be free of charge and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences and The Center for Inquiry.

In his lecture, Stojanovic will present his philosophical views on Serbia, Kosovo and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) World Order.

Director of the University of Belgrade's Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, he and his wife lived through the recent NATO bombings.

MBA students to hear bank president
William J. McDonough, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will visit UB on Sept. 9 to speak with MBA students and to meet with School of Management Dean Lewis Mandell.

McDonough, who also is a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, will have breakfast with Mandell and members of the local business community. He will address first-year MBA students enrolled in the program's Economics for Managers course at 9:30 a.m. in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

His discussion will focus on domestic and international trends in monetary policy, E commerce, market globalization, banking modernization and the likely impact of Y2K computer glitches on the financial industry.

McDonough was appointed the eighth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1993. In that capacity, he serves as vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee, the group responsible for formulating the nation's monetary policy.

McDonough also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements and chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Gao named to NIH study section
Jiali Gao, professor of chemistry, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Members of study sections grade grant proposals submitted for funding. They are appointed based on their competence, significant professional activities, honors and achievements within their fields of expertise.

Gao's research is concerned with computational chemistry, and ultimately could lead to the design of new drug compounds. He currently is an investigator on grants totaling $1.5 million.

Gao's areas of expertise include the development and application of theoretical and computational methods in chemistry, and computer simulation of liquids, solutions and biopolymers using empirical and combined quantum mechanical and classical potentials.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling and advisory editor of the publication Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.

Gao also serves as a reviewer for more than 20 professional and scientific publications and is a member of numerous professional organizations and NIH and National Science Foundation committees.

He received a bachelor's degree from Beijing University and a doctorate from Purdue University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before joining the UB Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1990.

Suzanne Miller elected to executive committee of Conference on English Education
Suzanne Miller, associate dean in the Graduate School of Education, has been elected to serve a four-year term on the executive committee of the Conference on English Education (CEE).

With major interests in the area of language literacy and qualitative research, Miller's research includes classroom learning in literature and literacy in the sixth through 12th grades.

She is editor of "Multicultural Literature and Literacy," a text used in teacher-education classes, and serves on the editorial board of the State University of New York Press.

Miller, an associate professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction, joined the UB faculty in 1994.

She is co-director of the school's regional Collaborative Research Network, which links UB faculty with educators in the field who want to pursue education-related problems.

Miller is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and earned a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.

CEE, a 2,500-member constituent group for teacher educators within the 77,000-member National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), provides a forum for sharing ideas on pre- and in-service education for teachers of English in the U.S. and Canada.

Collins elected president of Medical Alumni Association
Richard Laurence Collins has been elected president of the UB Medical Alumni Association for 1999-2000.

Other officers elected are: vice president, John J. Bodkin II, and treasurer, Stephen B. Pollack.

A primary-care internist with the Buffalo Medical Group, Collins is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at UB.

He graduated from the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 1983 and earned a bachelor's degree from Boston College in 1979.

Collins formerly was medical director of the Northwest Buffalo Community Health Care Center and a staff physician with Health Care Plan.

A former treasurer of the association, Collins has been involved in many activities at the school and in the community. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, Phi Beta Kappa and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Bodkin, president of the Highgate Medical Group, specializes in family practice.

A 1976 graduate of the UB medical school, he is an assistant professor of family medicine at UB and is affiliated with Kaleida Health, Millard Fillmore Hospitals. He earned a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College.

Pollack, who received his medical degree in 1982, is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at UB.

Affiliated with Kaleida Health, Millard Fillmore Hospitals, he earned his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University.

Department of Music to open 1999-2000 season on Sept. 9
The Department of Music will offer several distinctive programs during its 1999-2000 season, three of which will feature UB's prestigious resident ensembles.

The Amherst Saxophone Quartet, with guest pianists Stephen and Frieda Manes, will open the season on Sept. 9 with "American Variations," a program that will highlight variations on a normal saxophone quartet, including Steve Reich's Clapping Music, which does not use any saxophones at all.

The Slee Sinfonietta chamber orchestra, conducted by Magnus Martensson, will open on Sept. 14. The performance will begin with Ives' Three Places In New England, a piece typical of Ives in its programmatic nature, as well as its irregular rhythmic and melodic character. The program also will include two songs by legendary rock icon Frank Zappa: G Spot Tornado and Dupree's Paradise, both in special arrangements for chamber orchestra.

The program also will feature the seldom performed Brahms Serenade No. 2, an orchestral piece that excludes the violin sections.

The Cassatt String Quartet, returning after a successful inaugural year as the Slee Quartet-in-Residence, will perform its first program of the season on Sept. 24 with the opening horn call of Mozart's famous "Hunt" quartet. Their performance also will feature Shostakovich's 7th String Quartet in a minor key and Schubert's highly romantic Quintet in C Major.

Each of the three performances will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 to $12, and are available at the Slee Hall and Center for the Arts box offices, as well as at TicketMaster outlets.

For a complete schedule of the 1999-2000 concert series, visit www.slee.buffalo.edu. For more information, call Phil Rehard at 645-2921.

Art Department Gallery exhibit to feature printmaking
New print work by UB undergraduate and graduate students, recent alumni and participants in ePIC (experimental Print Imaging Center), will be on display Sept. 9-30 in the Art Department Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

The exhibit, which will include intaglio, lithography, screenprint, relief and monotype, will open with a reception from 5-7 p.m. Sept. 9 in the gallery on the lower level and in the main-floor atrium of the Center for the Arts. It will be free and open to the public.

"Printmaking at UB addresses a uniquely rich vocabulary of artistic expression," said Jeff Sherven, printmaking technician and a coordinator of UB's Printmaking Program in the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences. "Ranging from abstraction to representation, these works were selected for their emotional drive and strong visual impact that reveal an inventive marriage process and individual vision.

"Crossing boundaries between painting, drawing and photography, the works confront themes and issues central to artmaking today: gender and ethnicity, ancestry and heritage, the reinvention of private mythologies and the essential 'materiality' of the creative processes utilized in making prints," he added.

For more information on UB's Printmaking Program, ePIC or the exhibit, email Sherven at jsherven@acsu.buffalo.edu or call him at 645-6878.

Goldhaber to speak Sept. 16 at senior alumni luncheon
Gerald Goldhaber, associate professor in the UB Department of Communication, will give tips on how to be a savvy opinion poll-watcher when he speaks at a senior alumni luncheon at noon on Sept. 16 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

With an eye on upcoming polls during what promise to be high-profile political campaigns, Goldhaber will discuss techniques used to gather data and how to intelligently interpret poll results.

The cost of the luncheon, designed for UB senior alumni, their spouses and guests, is $10 per person.

For more information or to make reservations, call the UB Office of Alumni Relations at 716-829-2608.

Troubled children to be focus of "UB at Sunrise" program
Thomas T. Frantz will discuss troubled children in a "UB at Sunrise" program at 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 17 in UB's Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

Frantz, associate dean in UB's Graduate School of Education and chair of the school's Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, will discuss "Our Troubled Children: Identifying and Helping the Suicidal and Violence-Prone."

He notes that more teen-agers are killing themselves and others than ever before. His lecture will address the following questions: Are there patterns in these teens lives that could identify them before it's too late? What can be done to prevent a young person from reaching the desperation of a violent act? If preventive steps are identified, are we ready to take them?

Frantz has spent 25 years researching and practicing in the areas of bereavement, mourning, death, dying and coping with cancer and other serious illnesses. He is the founder of Compassionate Friends, a support/counseling group for bereaved parents with chapters in seven cities, and author of two books, "When Your Child Has a Life-Threatening Illness" and "Death and Grief in the Family."

"UB at Sunrise," presented by UB's Office of Alumni Relations, is supported by UB's offices of University Development, News Services, Publications, and Public Service and Urban Affairs. Corporate sponsors are Adelphia and the Sheraton Four Points Hotel.

The cost of the program, which includes a full breakfast, is $12 for UB staff and alumni association members and $15 for all others. Tickets may be obtained by calling 829-2608. The deadline for ordering tickets for the program is Sept. 14.

Other topics and speakers scheduled for "UB at Sunrise" program this fall are:

- "Pets' Role in Reducing Stress" with Karen M. Allen, psychologist and research scientist, UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Oct. 21

- "Hearing Loss: How It Happens and What to Do," with Richard J. Salvi, UB professor of communicative disorders and sciences, and otolaryngology and co-director of UB's Center for Hearing and Deafness, Nov. 16