Carter to speak at UB at King commemoration
Stephen L. Carter—scholar, author and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University—will speak at UB on March 13 at the 25th Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration.

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Carter will speak as part of the 15th annual Distinguished Speakers Series at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

Called "one of the nation's leading public intellectuals" by The New York Times, Carter grapples with the nation's thorniest political, social and business challenges in a manner that speaks to Americans of every race, class and ideology. He teaches constitutional law and law and religion at Yale.

His work is informed by his faith and experience, as well as his scholarship, as clearly defined in his first book, "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby." In his book "Civility: Manners, Morals and the Etiquette of Democracy," he argues that civility is disintegrating because people have forgotten the obligations we owe each other, and are consumed with self-indulgence. "Integrity," praised by such leaders as the late John Cardinal O'Conner and Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, was written with his children foremost in his mind.

In "The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion," Carter argues that religion can play a role in the nation's politics, law and culture while maintaining its separation from state. Its sequel, "God's Name in Vain: How Religion Should and Should Not Be Involved in Politics," maintains that American politics is unimaginable without America's religious voice.

Carter's books are so highly revered in both the publishing and the book-reading world that Knopf Publishing Group, in an unexpectedly intense and high bidding auction among 12 publishing rivals, recently acquired the rights to publish two novels by Carter.

A graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School, Carter clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He recently was named by President George W. Bush to the President's Council on Bioethics.

UB and the Don Davis Auto World Lectureship Fund will present the King lecture. Lecture sponsors are the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration and The James Fenton Lecture Foundation.

Tickets at prices ranging from $12-$22 are available at the Center for the Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and at all Ticketmaster locations.

Law school panel to address ethics
"The Lawyer's Conscience:" A Panel Discussion on How Lawyers and Judges Deal with 'Real Life' Moral and Ethical Issues" will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 27 in 545 O'Brian Hall, North Campus.

The discussion is open to members of the university community. A simple soup luncheon will be served at no charge.

Featured on the panel will be the Hon. Kevin M. Dillon, New York State Supreme Court justice; the Hon. George M. Hezel, Town of Aurora justice, clinical professor of law and director of the Affordable Housing Clinic in the UB Law School; Diane M. LaVallee, assistant state attorney general, and Terrance M. Connors, a partner in the law firm of Connors & Vilardo, LLP, and a noted Western New York defense attorney.

Susan Vivian Mangold, associate professor of law, will serve as moderator.

The discussion is sponsored by the Newman Center, Catholic Campus Ministry, and the St. Thomas More Guild Inc.

Abstracts sought for gender symposium
Abstracts are being sought for the Graduate Student Symposium on Gender, to be held at UB on March 16.

The theme for the symposium is "gender in the new millennium."

The symposium is a biannual event of the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG), which promotes gender-inclusive research and teaching. It provides a forum for graduate students to present their work and contribute to the expansion of such research and teaching. Women in the sciences are encouraged to present their work, even if it does not have a gender focus, as part of "Emerging Women Scientists" panels.

Abstracts on research related to the symposium theme should be mailed, emailed or faxed to the IREWG office in Harriman Hall, South Campus, by Monday.

For directions on submitting abstracts, go to www.womenandgender.buffalo.edu and look for the Graduate Symposium Link.

UB supporters travel to Albany
Local backers of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics traveled to Albany Tuesday to ask legislators to support funding proposals for the center.

"Bioinformatics: Generating a New Economy" was the theme of the day as more than 60 UB administrators, faculty and staff members, students and alumni, as well as bioinformatics corporate partners and members of the local business community, attended nearly 50 legislative appointments.

These bioinformatics backers were eager to report on the progress that's been made since plans for the center were announced in January 2001.

More importantly, they emphasized how the center's work will create in Western New York a "new economy" through world-class research and discoveries, and how commercialization of these discoveries will lead to job creation and economic opportunity, said Janet Penksa, associate vice president for university services and director of government affairs.

"UB Day gives us the opportunity to bring UB's cutting-edge research to Albany," said Penksa. "Many important members of the legislature have never been to UB and rarely have opportunities to travel to Buffalo, so we brought UB to them."

Meetings were scheduled with Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno; Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Jeff Lovell, deputy secretary to Gov. George Pataki, and top officials from the New York State Office of Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). The day concluded with a reception attended by some 300 legislators and their staffs, and other state officials.

"Our goal was to make sure that when Albany decision makers think academic excellence and world-renowned research, they think UB, and when funding decisions are made on which universities get what in the state budget, they think UB then as well," said Penksa.

In addition to the legislative visits, several of UB's research centers set up interactive displays in the Legislative Office Building, including the Center for Computational Research (CCR), the New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII) and the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics.

Exhibits focused on such topics as working with the human genome, high-performance visualization, molecular characterization, virtual reality, medical imaging and DNA microarray technology—all part of the research that will be conducted by the bioinformatics center.

Teaching workshop offered
The Center for Teaching and Learning Resources will present a live satellite broadcast of a teleconference on "Teaching and Assessing for Critical Thinking and Deep Learning" from 2-3:15 p.m. Feb. 22 in 31 Capen Hall, North Campus.

Leading the discussion will be Thomas Angelo, associate provost for teaching, learning and faculty development, and professor of education at the University of Akron.

Designed for educators in all disciplines, the teleconference will provide participants with ideas and strategies they can use immediately; provide actual classroom examples of critical thinking, teaching and assessment, and demonstrate how to promote transfer of critical thinking across the curriculum.

Although participation in the teleconference is free of charge, room capacity is limited and reservations are required and will be taken on a first-come basis. Anyone interested in participating should e-mail Jeannette Molina, associate director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Resources, at jmolina@buffalo.edu by Wednesday.

The Center for Teaching and Learning Resources also is promoting a one-day workshop on program assessment that will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 25 in at the SUNY Training Center in Syracuse.

Entitled "Academic Program Assessment Workshop: Creating a Quality Program Assessment," the workshop will address such topics as differentiating assessment vs. evaluation, differentiating classroom assessment from program assessment and defining the essence of a program

For further information and/or to register for the workshop, go to the SUNY Training Center Web site at www.tc.suny.edu.

CFA to present "Pinocchio"
The Center for the Arts will present Fanfare Theatre Ensemble's original musical production of "Pinocchio," based on the classic tale by Carlo Collodi, at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Mainstage theater in the center on the North Campus.

Free kids activities will be provided an hour before the performance.

Part of the CFA's Family Adventure Series, "Pinocchio" is co-sponsored by Adelphia Media Services and WJYE-FM.

Fanfare Theatre Ensemble's adaptation follows the hair-raising adventures of Pinocchio from the puppet stage to the belly of a whale. The show, which features lively songs and rousing dances, is recommended for children ages 8 and under.

Tickets for "Pinocchio" are $12 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. They are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations. For more information, call 645-ARTS.

Indigo Girls to sing in CFA March 3
Grammy Award-winning singers/songwriters Indigo Girls will perform in a special acoustic duo setting at 8 p.m. March 3 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The concert is presented by the Student Association and co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts and the Division of Athletics as a UB Athletics Special Event.

While they came into prominence as part of the late-'80s folk-singer/songwriter revival, the Indigo Girls have had staying power where other artists from the same era quickly faded. Their two-women-with-guitars formula may not seem very revolutionary on paper, but the combination of two distinct personalities and songwriting styles provides a tension and an interesting balance. Emily Saliers, hailing from the more traditional Joni Mitchell school, has the gentler sound, is more complex musically and often leans toward the abstract and spiritual, while Amy Ray draws heavily from the singer/songwriter aspects of punk rock. In more than a decade of recording, they have managed respectable mainstream success, as well as keeping their rabid core following.

Saliers and Ray first took the name Indigo Girls while living in Atlanta in 1985, although the pair had been performing together since the early '80s. In 1986, the duo recorded an independent self-titled EP and followed in 1987 with the full-length "Strange Fire." Things changed quickly in 1988, when they were signed to Epic Records.

"Indigo Girls," released in 1989, was an excellent national debut, giving them initial college radio credibility and the hit single "Closer to Fine." The album eventually broke the Top 30 and earned a Grammy for Best Folk Recording that year. A live EP, "Back on the Bus, Y'All," was released in 1991 and was certified gold and nominated for a Grammy.

In 1992, they released the platinum-selling "Rites Of Passage." Two years later, "Swamp Ophelia" was released and entered the charts at number nine; it went gold by the end of the year. Their latest recording, "Become You," will be released in March.

The opening act for their performance will be the acoustic duo the Cash Brothers.

Tickets for Indigo Girls are $29.50 for the general public and $24.50 for UB students. Tickets are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations. For more information call 645-ARTS.

Capaldi to address senior alumni lunch
Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi will offer her vision of UB's future as a research university during the March 6 Senior Alumni Luncheon Program, to be held at noon in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

Capaldi, UB's chief academic officer, has had an enormous impact since she arrived at the university in the summer of 2000, transforming the way UB sees itself and is seen by the community.

The cost of the luncheon, which is sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations, is $14 for UB Alumni Association members and $16 for nonmembers.

For further information or to make reservations, call the alumni office at 829-2608.

Show of Weill songs set
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present Kurt Weill's "Berlin to Broadway" Feb. 20-24 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Presenting 40 of Weill's songs, among them "The Threepenny Opera," "Happy End," "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," "Lady in the Dark," and "Knickerbocker Holiday," "Berlin to Broadway" marks Weill's musical voyage spanning 20 extraordinary years—from Von Hindenburg and Hitler in Germany, where Weill became an outstanding theater composer by the time he was 30, to Roosevelt and Truman in the U.S., where he became a renowned citizen and a master of the Broadway musical.

The music for the songs in the production was written by Weill, with lyrics by Maxwell Andersen, Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Jacques Deval, Michael Feingold, Ira Gershwin, Paul Green, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Ogden Nash, George Tabori, and Arnold Weinstein.

"Berlin to Broadway" will be directed and choreographed by Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, with musical direction by Michael Hake. The cast will feature students from the Department of Theatre and Dance.

Tickets are $5 and are available at the Center for the Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations. For more information call 645-ARTS.