Annual meeting of voting faculty to be held Tuesday

President William R. Greiner will deliver the Annual Report of the President at the meeting of the voting faculty, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

Prior to Greiner's address, Faculty Senate Chair Peter Nickerson will review the senate's accomplishments for the past academic year and review plans for activities for the current year.

All members of the university community are invited to attend.

Janikowski named chair of Counseling and Educational Psych

Timothy P. Janikowski, associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology in the Graduate School of Education, has been named chair of the department.

A member of the faculty since 1993, he has taught graduate courses in the rehabilitation of substance abuse and addiction, tests and measurements in counseling, rehabilitation foundations and medical aspects of disability. His research interests include disability and substance abuse, client evaluation and assessment, and rehabilitation counselor training.

Janikowski is co-author of the book "The Rehabilitation Model of Substance Abuse Counseling" and has written numerous book chapters and monographs. He has published articles in refereed journals that include Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Journal of Forensic Vocational Assessment and Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling.

Wednesdays at 4 PLUS to feature Wallace

Novelist David Foster Wallace, the 34-year-old savant who has received mostly positive, but sometimes frosty, criticism and frequently is compared to literary superstars Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis, will read from his work at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Allen Hall as part of Wednesdays at 4 PLUS.

A "velvet and off-the-hook genius" with a large popular and cult following, Wallace is the author of "Conversations with Hideous Men," "Girl With Curious Hair," and many journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

He is perhaps best-known for his idiosyncratic 1996 grunge novel, "Infinite Jest."

Admission to the program is $6, $5 and $4. For further information, call 645-3810.

Pinkel to receive medical school's Distinguished Alumnus Award

Donald Pinkel, professor of pediatrics at Texas A&M University Medical School and a renowned specialist in pediatric oncology, will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UB Medical Alumni Association at a dinner tonight in the Buffalo Club.

A Buffalo native, Pinkel received a bachelor's degree from Canisius College in 1947 and a medical degree from UB in 1951. He served his residency at Children's Hospital of Buffalo, and was a research fellow at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation in Boston-now Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Pinkel returned to Buffalo in 1956 to start the pediatric department at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1961, he was appointed the founding director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, the first institution devoted solely to basic and clinical pediatric research.

Since leaving St. Jude in 1973, he has accomplished a variety of tasks, including rejuvenating Milwaukee Children's Hospital and establishing the Midwest Children's Cancer Center in the city; developing pediatric leukemia research programs at City of Hope Medical Center in California and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and, as medical director, taking a key role in rebuilding St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in its North Philadelphia neighborhood.

In addition to his post at Texas A&M, he currently serves as professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.

Pinkel has received many honors, including the Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research, the Kettering Prize for Cancer Research from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, the Zimmerman Prize for Cancer Research (Germany), the Biennial Windermere Lectureship of the British Pediatric Association and the Return of the Child Award from the Leukemia Society of America.

He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UB Alumni Association in 1974.

He is the author or co-author of 150 scholarly articles or book chapters, and has taught courses in hematology and oncology.

PSUA seeks service initiatives

The Office of Public Service and Urban Affairs will publish the third volume of its compendium of faculty-directed public-service initiatives undertaken at UB.

Faculty members are needed to assist in completing this inventory of public-service activities. The 2001 publication will highlight and report on the expertise and scholarship that UB faculty members have applied to public needs since 1998.

It is important that public higher education emphasize its involvement in, and commitment to, both the community and the society in which we live. This is the primary goal of the 2001 compendium.

Public service is service that is based on scholarship and contributes to the overall mission of the university. It includes activities that represent sustained contributions that can create new knowledge, train others in the discipline or area of expertise, aggregate and interpret knowledge so as to make it understandable and useful, or disseminate the knowledge to the appropriate user or audience.

The compendium also will include an expanded section on UB's service-learning initiatives. Service-learning initiatives foster student learning and career development and are integrated into the academic curriculum so that students are provided with faculty-supervised opportunities to apply skills and knowledge in real-life situations.

A survey and a memo asking for a description of public-service and/or service-learning projects have been mailed to members of the campus community.

Copies of the survey forms also are available at the PSUA Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/psua. The deadline for returning the survey forms is Oct. 1. Questions can be directed to the compendium project manager, Lisa C. Francescone, at 645-2097.

1,600 expected for 11th annual Linda Yalem Run on Sept. 24

More than 1,600 individuals are expected to race, run, jog, stroll or walk as part of UB's 11th Annual Linda Yalem Memorial Run, to begin at 10 a.m. Sept. 24 on the North Campus.

The 5K U.S.A. Track and Field certified course, part of The Buffalo News Runner of the Year Series, will start and finish near Alumni Arena.

Held in memory of a UB student who was assaulted and murdered while jogging on a bike path near the North Campus, the event promotes personal-safety awareness and supports campus-based, crime-prevention programs.

Advance registration is $13 per person if postmarked by Wednesday. Registration on race day is $16. The cost for students is $10. Checks should be made payable, in U.S. funds only, to the UB Foundation, Inc.

Pre-registration application forms and race packets will be available from 4-7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in Alumni Arena, and participants will receive a voucher for two tickets to the UB Bulls vs. Bowling Green football game to be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 23. Packets also may be picked up at the arena from 8-9 a.m. on race day.

Registration forms also will be available on the North Campus in 350 Student Union, at the lobby counter of the union, in 130 Alumni Arena and in 270 Farber Hall on the South Campus. In addition, they will be available in residence-hall offices on both campuses.

Customtee Active Wear will provide each participant with a free long-sleeve, mock-neck tee-shirt. Finishers also will receive a free safety item.

Awards will be given to the overall male and female finishers in the open division, the top-three male and female finishers in five-year age and wheelchair categories, the top race walkers and the top UB male, female, faculty/staff, student and residence-hall finishers.

There also will be a drawing for two trips for two and finish-line tickets to the New York City Marathon, plus other prizes, including merchandise and gift certificates.

Following the award ceremony, a kids' dash will be held.

For more information, call 645-2982 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, or visit the Web site at http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/lyr.

Finish-line results will be provided by Emery Fisher Race Crew and Don Mitchell Runtime Services. Results will be posted online.

UB sponsors are the Bulls, the Office of Student Affairs, the Anti-Rape Task Force-Sub-Board I Inc., the Student Association and the Faculty Student Association.

Community sponsors are Mrs. T's Pierogies, Tops Friendly Markets, New York Road Runners Club Inc., WJYE 96.1, Montana Mills Bread, Century Printing and Graphics Inc., Wendy's, Chek.com Internet Services and Orville's Home Appliances.

Run supporters are Starbucks Coffee, Customtee Activewear, Anderson's Custard and Roast Beef, Gordon Highlanders Pipe Band and Color Guard, Women's Health Initiative, Niagara Walkers, Runner's World, Dick's Sporting Goods, New Era, Runner's Roost, PowerAde, US Airways and New York Army National Guard.

Greiner to appear on WBFO call-in show

President William R. Greiner will be the guest for "The Talk of the University," a call-in talk show being aired at 7 p.m. Monday on WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.

Dennis R. Black, vice president for student affairs, will join Greiner for the hour of questions on topics of interest to members of the university community

WBFO is streamed live via the Internet at the station's Web site, http://www.WBFO.org.

Mike McKay will host the show.

Listeners can ask questions by calling 829-6000.

Women's Club to hold Fall Luncheon

The UB Women's Club will hold its annual Fall Membership Luncheon at 11:15 a.m. Sept. 23 in Fanny's restaurant, Sheridan Drive, Amherst.

The program will feature information about the club's service programs and 17 activity groups, which include educational, recreational and athletic activities.

Following lunch, Marilyn Ciancio, activity co-coordinator, will speak about the Women's Pavilion at Pan Am 2001.

For membership or luncheon information, contact membership co-chairs Connie Rao at 634-8428 or Marilyn Pautler at 634-2549.

Korean virtuoso, composer to perform

UB will host a performance lecture on traditional Korean music by virtuoso performer and composer Kim Jin Hi at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

It will be free of charge and open to the public. A reception for Kim, a distinguished Korean artist of international celebrity, will follow.

As a virtuoso on the komungo, an indigenous, 4th-century fretted Korean zither, Kim pioneered the fusion of Asian traditional music with Western contemporary music, often marrying voice, electronic and computer elements to the traditional sounds of flute, oboe, English horn and zither.

Her work brings prominent traditional Korean musicians together with leading American and international performers-often for the first time-culminating, in the words of one critic, in a "unique formation of one cross-cultural sonic bridge where cultural posturing fades and music breathes."

For 15 years, she has worked to international acclaim with such performers as Elliott Sharp, James Newton, Eugene Chadbourne and the Kronos Quartet, composing works that articulate the Korean idea that each tone is alive and possesses its own shape, and that "music" exists in the transitory sound-moment.

The UB lecture-performance complements a Sept. 29 concert by Kim and her performance ensemble in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.

The event will be sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Asian Studies Program, the Korean Language and Culture Program, and the Center for the Arts.

For further information, call Hye-won Choi at 645-6000, ext. 1101, or the Asian Studies Program at 645-3474.

Urban Design Project focuses on Chautauqua County issues

A second round of community planning meetings designed and facilitated by UB and Fredonia State College at the request of the Chautauqua County government ended this summer with enthusiastic support from participants.

"Analysis of the results of the five public meetings in the second series of Chautauqua County community summits is still very preliminary," says County Executive Mark Thomas, "but the meetings identify increasing economic optimism in the county and public interest in enhancing the environment in concert with economic development."

He notes that the second series also identified strong public concern about issues facing the county's youth and a desire by citizen groups and community-based organizations to take a greater role in developing and implementing plans for the county's future.

The community summits were recommended in 1998 by the Chautauqua County Planning Transition Team, a group of community leaders commissioned by Thomas to design a planning process for the county. The team indicated it wanted all the county's communities to be involved in establishing a uniform vision and mission for the county legislature to use in adopting goals and objectives.

In response to that need, the summit process was designed and is being facilitated by the Urban Design Project in the UB School of Architecture and Planning in partnership with Center for Rural Regional Development and Governance at Fredonia State College.

The first series of the Chautauqua summits was completed last November. A series of five meetings were held this summer and a third series is planned for May 2001.

So far, Thomas says, the summits have gone a long way in engaging citizen interest and consensus in the identification of shared economic and social concerns.

He says they also have helped develop public understanding and support for county initiatives designed to improve public and private investment, industrial infrastructure, the environment, government efficiency and quality of life.

Coping with breast cancer to be topic of "Mind Over Myth"

Coping with breast cancer will be the topic of "Mind Over Myth," a public-affairs program to be aired at noon Saturday on WKBW-Channel 7. Ilene Fleischmann, associate dean in the Law School, is producer and moderator of the show.

"Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer for women and is the second-leading cause of cancer death among women," Fleischmann says. "In the 1990s, death rates from breast cancer have declined significantly, especially among younger women, as a result of early detection and improved treatment. While progress is being made, coping with breast cancer can be overwhelming for the woman and her family," she notes.

Fleischmann's guests are three UB experts, all of whom have personal experience in dealing with this disease:

- Lucie DiMaggio is a physician in private practice with the R&B Medical Group in Williams-ville. She is a graduate of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and did her internship and residency in internal medicine at UB's affiliated hospitals. A clinical assistant professor in the UB Department of Medicine, DiMaggio is a breast cancer survivor.

- Christine Bylewski is a founder of Cancer Counseling Service in Buffalo, where she provides individual, family and group counseling to cancer patients, chronically ill individuals and their loved ones. She holds a master's degree in social work from UB and serves as clinical assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work.

- Cheryl Nichols is an attorney and a clinical instructor in the UB Law School. A graduate of Georgia State University College of Law, she also holds an MBA from the University of Miami. She was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.

CCR to hold open house for faculty, staff

The Center for Computational Research will host an open house for faculty and staff beginning at 5:15 p.m. Sept. 27 in 20 Knox Hall on the North Campus.

The event will include a presentation covering technology, support and programs available through CCR, as well as research supported by CCR.

A tour of the center, which is located in 9 Norton Hall, will follow the presentation.

Anyone interested in attending should contact Brenda Sauka at 645-6500, ext. 501, or bsauka@ccr.buffalo.edu.