Accepted students to learn about UB at Preview Day

Freshmen and transfer students accepted by UB for enrollment in the fall will have a chance to have their questions about life at the university answered on Saturday during Preview Day, to be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the North Campus.

Coordinated by the Office of Admissions, the annual, uni-versitywide event will introduce accepted students and their families to the wealth of academic programs, variety of student services and numerous state-of-the-art learning resources available at UB.

Preview Day will feature academic presentations, exhibits, demonstrations, campus tours, financial-aid information, residence-hall tours and a reception "In Celebration of Diversity."

PRB chair to hold annual faculty meeting

The annual meeting of interested faculty members with the chair of the President's Review Board on Faculty Appointments, Promotion and Tenure (PRB) will be held at 3 p.m. April 17 in 330 Student Union on the North Campus.

The PRB reviews all recommendations for promotion or appointment to the ranks of professor, research professor and librarian, and the granting of continuing appointment at any rank.

David Nyberg, PRB chair and professor of educational leadership and policy, and Kenneth Levy, senior vice provost, will discuss the promotion process and the criteria and procedures used by the PRB in recommending promotion, as well as answer questions.

The meeting is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Faculty Senate.

Flanagan named Fulbright scholar

Mary Flanagan, assistant professor of media study, has been selected by the William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to participate in the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Program.

Flanagan will be a visiting scholar at the National University of Taiwan from January-July 2001, where she will conduct research in the university's Department of Computer Science.

Flanagan also recently received the Stephen H. Coltrin Award for Excellence in Communications Education at the 30th International Radio and Television Society Foundation Faculty/Industry Seminar.

16th annual "Oozfest" set for April 29

The 16th annual "Oozfest"-billed as the largest, continuous-play, mud-volleyball tournament in North America-will be held April 29 in the Mud Pit behind UB Stadium off St. Rita's Lane on the North Campus.

UB's annual rite of spring, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., is presented by the University Student Alumni Board, the nonprofit student affiliate organization of the UB Alumni Association.

Deadline for team sign-up is 5 p.m. tomorrow in the UB Alumni Relations office in Allen Hall on the South Campus. Registration forms are available on the Oozfest Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/oozfest/.

The registration fee of $110 provides participants with commemorative programs, specially designed tee shirts, a team photograph, food and beverages.

Each local team's captain and co-captain must attend a mandatory, pre-tournament meeting at 6 p.m. April 26 in 145 Student Union on the North Campus.

Proceeds from Oozfest benefit the J. Scott Fleming Scholarship Fund, which honors students who have demonstrated positive leadership qualities at UB.

Volunteers needed for Senior Breakfast

The Office of Student Activities is looking for faculty and staff volunteers to greet students and cook and serve breakfast at this year's Senior Celebration Breakfast, to be held from 9 -11 a.m. April 28 in the Student Union Lobby on the North Campus.

The Senior Celebration Breakfast is a university tradition during which faculty and staff congratulate UB's graduating seniors by cooking and serving a breakfast in their honor.

To sign up as a volunteer, contact Sonia Cinelli at cinelli@acsu.buffalo.edu or 645-6125 by April 15.

Courses offered for librarians

The Department of Library and Information Studies in the School of Information Studies is offering two workshops to librarians and other researchers-delivered entirely via the Internet-on the basics of legislation and regulations.

The session on "Laws," to be held April 24-30, will teach students how to locate federal laws, bills and legislative histories and their accompanying documentation. Step-by-step techniques will include an introduction to the United States Code, Statutes at Large, the Serial Set and the THOMAS and GPO Access databases. The sessions also will offer tips for selecting the best resource for particular needs and finding full text of legislative branch documents on the Web.

The session on "Regulations," to be held May 1-7, will introduce students to federal rule-making and teach them how to distinguish between laws and regulations, locate regulations from law citations and find up-to-the-minute regulations for topics or citations. Step-by-step techniques for searching the free Internet Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations will be included.

Participants must have access to a computer with Internet access and a Web browser. Course modules will be posted on the World Wide Web and accessed via a password sent to students. Questions will be fielded by the instructor on a Web bulletin board during the week each course is active.

The cost is $45 per course.

For more information and registration, see the workshops' Web page at http://www.sils.buffalo.edu/faculty/robinson/ce/togohome.htm.

Workshop on human subjects to be held

A free workshop on the rules and regulations governing the use of human subjects in research will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. April 13 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

The workshop is being sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the SUNY Research Foundation.

Research universities have been on particular alert recently concerning their handling of human-research subjects following the federal government's temporary suspension of research at five universities in the past 10 months because of violations of the regulations by institutional review boards.

The workshop will be led by Jeffrey M. Cohen, associate director for education in the Office of Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) in the Department of Health and Human Services, and Paul W. Goebel, Jr., a senior member of that department and, until recently, associate director for human subject protection at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The morning session will be geared to members and administrators of institutional review boards, while the afternoon session will be directed toward principal investigators on research grants.

Fanny Howe to read from her work

Noted novelist and poet Fanny Howe will give a reading from her work at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Poetry and Rare Books Room on the fourth floor of Capen Hall on the North Campus.

The reading, sponsored by the Abbott Poetry Readings Committee and the Samuel Capen Chair in the Department of English, will be free and open to the public.

A Buffalo native and professor of writing and American literature at the University of California at San Diego, Howe has forged a notable career in fiction, children's literature and poetry since her first book was published in 1969. Since then, she has produced 14 books of poetry, nine volumes of fiction and five books for children and young readers.

WLI to sponsor study tour of Ireland

The World Languages Institute (WLI) will sponsor "Ireland Through the Eyes of the Irish," a two-week study tour of Ireland, July 13-28. Members of the general public, as well as UB students, faculty and staff, are invited to participate.

The tour will be based in Dublin, with visits to Dublin Castle, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Trinity College, as well as an excursion to the fishing village of Howth. Among the many other sites that will be included are BoyneValley, Giant's Causeway on the Ulster's scenic north coast, the Ulster American Folk Park near Omagh, the counties of Derry and Donegal, and Glenveagh National Park.

Program director Margaret McGrath, a native of Ireland and lecturer in Irish Gaelic at UB, will lead the tour.

The cost of the tour is $2,600, which includes international air fare, luxury motor-coach transportation and double-occupancy hotel accommodations.

For more information, contact WLI at 645-2292.

"Out Loud and Proud" to be held at UB April 14-16

The UB Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance (LGBA) will hold its fourth annual "Out Loud and Proud" conference April 14-16 on the South Campus to educate and promote understanding of gay issues in the UB community, the City of Buffalo and beyond.

This year's conference, "Out Loud and Proud 2000: Reclaiming Our Past," will mark 30 years of serious gay movement in Buffalo and nationwide, according to Liz Holland, LGBA past president.

Holland said LGBA founder Rick Landman will return to UB to speak on the organization's history.

Other speakers will include Wilson Cruz from MTV's "My So Called Life;" Leslea Newman, author of the children's book "Heather Has Two Mommies;" Masani Alexis DeVeaux, author and UB visiting assistant professor of American studies; Tatianna de la Tierra, author and poet, and Paddy Kilrain, a lesbian singer and songwriter.

Other events will include a talent show at 8 p.m. on April 14, a banquet at 7:30 p.m. on April 15, a drag workshop at 1:30 p.m. on April 16, and panels on safe sex and bisexuality.

For more information or to register, visit the conference Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/lgba/conference.