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.

More than 3,000 accepted students and their families are expected to participate in the annual, universitywide event held to introduce them to the wealth of academic programs, variety of student services and numerous state-of-the-art learning resources available at UB. Preview Day is coordinated by the Office of Admissions.

UB President William R. Greiner will present the opening address. In addition, Preview Day will feature academic presentations, exhibits, demonstrations, campus tours, financial-aid information, residence-hall tours and a reception "In Celebration of Diversity."

Take Our Daughters to Work Day is April 26

Daughters of UB faculty and staff will have the opportunity to take a first-hand look at campus life as the university, in conjunction with the Ms. Foundation for Women, celebrates Take Our Daughters to Work Day on April 26.

The day will begin with check-in, refreshments and gifts at 8:30 a.m. in the lobby of Slee Hall on the North Campus. Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi will present the keynote address at 9 a.m., followed by a performance by the Cassatt String Quartet, UB's all-female string quartet in-residence.

The morning also will include a choice of three workshops: "Women in Sports Professions," "Body Image and Self-Esteem" or a campus bus tour. Individual university units also will host afternoon sessions for participants.

Sponsors include the Buffalo Health Sciences Chapter, United University Professions, President and Mrs. Greiner, Donna Rice, Stanley Spurgeon, Staples, UB Bookstore, the UB Card Office, UB School of Dental Medicine, UB Division of Athletics, undergraduate Student Association and the UB Women's Health Initiative.

For more information, call 645-3580.

Workshop to focus on feminism, corporate law, economic policy

Connections between feminism, corporate law and economic policy will be explored during the "Feminism, Corporations and Capitalism: Policy and Protest Workshop" to be held Friday and Saturday at the UB Law School.

The workshop will be held in the law school's faculty lounge, 545 O'Brian Hall, on the North Campus.

It will be sponsored by UB Law School's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Cornell Law School, which sponsored a first workshop on the topics last June at Cornell.

A panel discussion on "Local and Global Perspectives on International Trade" will be held from 4-6:30 p.m. on Friday.

Panel discussions scheduled for Saturday are "Markets, Cultures and Identities," 9:30-11:30 a.m.; "Critical Perspectives on Corporate Governance," 1-3:15 p.m., and "Corporations Political and Social," 3:30-5:30 p.m.

For registration or additional information, contact the Baldy Center at 645-2102 or baldyctr@acsu.buffalo.edu.

Special event-parking in effect April 26

Beginning at 3 p.m. on April 26, parking lots located on the south side of the North Campus spine will be closed and reserved through 7:45 p.m. for the Doris Kearns Goodwin Distinguished Speakers Series lecture.

Affected lots include the Baird A and B, Slee A and B, Special Events and Lake LaSalle parking lots.

All normal vehicular traffic between 3 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. will be directed to lots on the north side of the spine and to the lots at the Center for Tomorrow and Crofts Hall. At 7:45 p.m., the parking lots on the south side of the spine will reopen for the university community.

Handicapped parking will be augmented beginning at 3 p.m. by reserving the Arena Lot for handicapped-parking permit holders.

Continuous shuttle service will be available throughout the North Campus from 3-11 p.m. to transport people to their destinations.

UB to offer doctoral program in Library and Information Studies

The School of Information Studies will open a new avenue for doctoral study in library science in the Fall 2001 semester.

The new 72-credit hour Ph.D. degree will be offered jointly by the school's Department of Library and Information Studies and Department of Communication. It will extend the existing communication doctoral program by including an optional cognate in library and information studies.

The program of study will begin with courses required for the doctorate in communication, followed by a nine credit-hour minor in library and information studies and 24 credits of electives in librarianship, communication or related disciplines.

Candidate dissertations will be in an area of library and information studies related to the communication field. The new program's three-member dissertation committee will be composed of faculty members from both departments.

Applicants for the program must have a master's degree in library science. Further information is available at http://www.sis.buffalo.edu/phd.htm.

IREWG to hold Celebration of Scholarship on Women, Gender

The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender will hold the Fourth Annual Celebration of Scholarship on Women and Gender from noon to 3 p.m. Friday in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

Opening remarks will be presented by Pat Swift, a recently retired Buffalo News reporter and columnist for more than two decades of the weekly Womanscope column. Swift, who also has held offices in the Buffalo Newspaper Guild and served on the board of the Buffalo Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, will speak on the role of the media in disseminating news, research and policy developments concerning gender issues.

The program also will include presentations by faculty members who have received IREWG's Curriculum Award for new courses they developed and taught during the 2000-01 academic year. The award winners will speak on the contributions their courses have made to enriching the curricula of their respective departments and to UB's overall course offerings. They are Meghan Cope of the Department of Geography for her course, "Gender and Geography;" Monica Jardine of Women's Studies for "Women in the Global System," and Ruth Meyerowitz of American Studies for "Women and Public Policy."

In addition, the program will include poster presentations on topics that include "Folic Acid Awareness for Women: Health Promotion in the University Community," "Male Circumcision among the Soruwe of North Benin," "L'égalité des Hommes et des Femmes or the Importance of Feminist Discourse in de Gournay's Writings," "Can Behavior be Used to Sex Non-human Primates? A Case Study of a One-Year-Old Japanese Macaque" and "Latino/as in Education: A Struggle Beyond Ethnic and Gender Equity."

For more information, call IREWG at 829-3451.

Performance to benefit the UB Community Pan-Am Partnership

The UB Community Pan-Am Partnership, Irish Classical Theatre and The Baird Foundation will present Vincent O'Neill in a reading of "The Importance of Being Oscar" at 7:30 p.m. on May 16 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.

"The Importance of Being Oscar"—Micheál MacLiámmóir's tribute to the genius of Oscar Wilde—took the theatrical world by storm during the '60s and '70s. Performance material ranges from Dorian Gray to De Profundis, from The Importance of Being Ernest to Reading Gaol. But it is through the addition of a commentary—cunningly disguised as comedy—that "Oscar" weaves a tapestry that reaffirms Wilde as a master of English letters and the greatest wit of his generation.

The Irish Classical Theatre originally produced "The Importance of Being Oscar" in 1991. The production starred Vincent O'Neill and was directed by his brother Chris O'Neill.

The event will be followed by a special reception for those who purchase a $30 patron ticket. Proceeds from this performance will benefit the UB Community Pan-Am Partnership. Call Michele Gallant at 645-2711 for more information.

The Pan-Am Centennial Celebration 2001 is a grassroots, community-wide initiative commemorating the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. The celebration features events and activities highlighting the spirit and legacy of the Pan-American Exposition, as well as Buffalo's rich history and numerous cultural and architectural treasures. Additional information on the centennial celebration is available at the official Web site, http://www.panam2001.org.

Tickets for "The Importance of Being Oscar" are $30 for patrons, $15 for the general public and $5 for UB students. Tickets are available from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday in the Center for the Arts box office and at all Ticketmaster locations. For more information, call 645-ARTS.

Traynor, Allen receive Emeritus Center's Weinstein Awards

The Emeritus Center has presented the 2001 Rose Weinstein Award to Oscar Séamus Traynor, a recent graduate of the School of Architecture and Planning, for his M.Arch. thesis, "Letchworth Village: Assisted Living Housing in a Multilevel Care Community."

The award, which carries a cash prize of $500, was presented for Traynor's work, based on an analytical survey of the design and function of several homes for seniors in Western New York, in which he set forth plans for a comparable project suitable for the UB North Campus.

The Rose Weinstein Selection Committee also awarded a Certificate of Exceptional Accomplishment and a prize of $250 to Cayla Marilyn Allen, a candidate in the MAH degree program in theatre and dance, for her community project, "OASIS Tappers: A Tap-Dance Performance Company for Seniors."

The awards will be presented at 2 p.m. on May 8 during the Emeritus Center's regular monthly meeting. The meeting agenda also includes recognition of REV-UP volunteers and a musical performance. All meetings are free and open to the public. For further information, call the center at 829-2271.

The annual awards are competitive and made in memory of Rose Weinstein, who taught psychology at UB for many years and was one of the founders of the Emeritus Center in 1982. Announced annually in the fall, the competition rewards substantial achievement by undergraduate or graduate students at UB in research in their disciplines or artistic activity relating to the phenomena of human aging in a context of social and cultural change.

Law panel to examine cross-border practice

The Canada-U.S. Legal Studies Center of the UB Law School will sponsor a panel discussion, "Cross-Border Legal Practice: The U.S.-Canadian Connection," from 3:30-5 p.m. today in the Law School Faculty Lounge, 545 O'Brian Hall, North Campus.

The panel discussion will include a general overview of cross-border practice and the special provisions that relate to it, such as the "foreign legal consultant designation." Specific practice-area topics will include immigration, trade and customs, and corporate issues. The current and future impact of NAFTA also will be considered.

Panelists will include Gerard M. Meehan of Hodgson Russ LLP, Toronto; Kathryn Bryk Friedman of Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo; Lauren Rachlin of Kavinoky & Cook LLP, Buffalo and Toronto, and Kim Solar of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy PC, Buffalo.

For more information, call 645-2102 or email lmangen@acsu.buffalo.edu.

College of Arts and Sciences to honor "top students" in each academic department

Twenty-five students will be honored for being the outstanding graduating senior in departments within the College of Arts and Sciences in a ceremony and reception to be held at 2 p.m. May 1 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

Each student will receive a medal to be worn at the university's 155th general commencement ceremony on May 13.

Two students will receive two medals and be honored for taking top honors within two departments.

Todd S. Bindig will be honored as outstanding graduate for the departments of History and Philosophy.

Karen A. Kopecky will be honored as top student in the departments of Economics and Mathematics.

Other students being honored and their departments are:

Department of African American Studies: Danielle L. Bullock.
Department of Anthropology: Jeffrey Wescott.
Department of Art: Roseanne Lazar.
Department of Art History: Sarah McLean-Plunkett.
Department of Biology: Daniel Lighthouse.
Center for the Americas: Tracy Park.
Department of Chemistry: Brendan C. Mort.
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences: Ariana Duke.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: David Givone.
Department of English: Ji-Hyae Park.
Department of Geography: Kevin A. Green.
Department of Geology: Michael Dunlap.
Department of Linguistics: Nicholas Schwartzmyer.
Department of Media Study: Siew-wai Kok.
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Jennifer Broderick.
Department of Music: Colin A. Renick.
Department of Political Science: Andrew Sreniawski.
Department of Psychology: Micah Geer.
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary: Melissa Shepherd.
Department of Sociology: Sean Nealon.
Special Major Program: Christine Kowalski.
Department of Theatre and Dance: Joseph Celej.
Department of Women's Studies: Christina Wilson.

Psychology to offer ADHD summer treatment program

The Center for Children and Families in the Department of Psychology will hold its annual Summer Treatment Program for Children and Adolescents from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays from June 25 to Aug. 17 on the UB South Campus.

The nationally recognized, award-winning program offers a comprehensive treatment program for children ages 5 to 15 with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and associated learning and behavior problems.

For more information and an application, call 829-2244.

Student poetry contest winners announced

Award-winning poetry in competitions sponsored by the University Libraries and the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences have earned seven students cash prizes and honorable mentions.

Jill Rosso, a junior in the Department of Psychology, won the Academy of American Poetry Prize, with honorable mentions awarded to Gabrielle Foley, a sophomore majoring in Health and Human Services, and Shane Jones, a sophomore majoring in English.

Ric Royer, a senior majoring in English and theater, and Jessica Smith, a junior majoring in English, are the winners of the Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize.

Mia Albana, a senior majoring in English, is the recipient of the Scribbler's Prize. The prize was established in 1939 by the Scribbler's Club, which organized in 1893 to encourage local women writers, as a counterpart to the Press Club, which was not open to women.

Chong Yean Matthew Tan, a senior majoring in English, is the winner of the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Award. The award was established in 1975 through the English department by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Axlerod, the parents of Arthur Axlerod, an undergraduate in the English department.

Trolley tours to visit historical Pan-Am sites

The Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning will hold "Roam Buffalo" trolley tours of landmark buildings and historical sites of the 1901 Pan-Am Exhibition beginning May 12.