No Reporter next week due to spring break
The Reporter will not publish next week due to spring break. The next issue will be published on April 4.

Laychock to direct research efforts
Suzanne G. Laychock, professor and associate chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed senior associate dean for research and biomedical education at the medical school.

Laychock, a member of the UB faculty since 1989, is an accomplished researcher with more than 80 publications. In addition to serving as associate chair of her department since 1995, she was co-director of the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG).

She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and earned a doctorate in pharmacology from the Medical College of Virginia. In 1990, she was selected as the outstanding STAR alumnus at the medical college.

Laychock serves as associate editor of the journal Lipids and was associate editor of Endocrine Research from 1992-2001. She also has served as field editor for the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and on the editorial board of Diabetes.

Her research into endocrine pharmacology with an emphasis on the cellular mechanisms regulating insulin secretion has been funded since 1979. She is a member of several professional societies, including the American Diabetes Association, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the Endocrine Society.

OUI to sponsor forum
The Office of Urban Initiatives Inc. (OUI), a non-profit organization that includes as one of its members the Center for Urban Studies in the School of Architecture and Planning, will sponsor a community forum on economic development issues from 5:30-8 p.m. March 28 in the Advanced Training Center, 275 Oak St., Buffalo.

The forum will provide information about the services offered by the major economic development agencies in Western New York. Participants will include the Small Business Administration, the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corp., Erie County Industrial Development Agency and the Black Chamber of Commerce.

The cost of the forum is $10 for OUI members and $15 for non-members. For reservations, call 829-2714.

No Doubt to perform
No Doubt, the popular ska-pop band featuring lead singer Gwen Stefani, will perform on April 12 in Alumni Arena with special guest, The Faint, as part of its "Rock Steady Road Tour."

Doors will open at 7 p.m. for the concert.

Presented by MTV, UUAB/SBI, Inc., in conjunction with WKSE Kiss 98.5, the band is promoting the December 2001 release of its latest album, "Rock Steady," which already has sold more than 1 million copies, making the band's third album certified platinum.

The album's first single, "Hey Baby," featuring dancehall rapper Bounty Killer, currently is at number one on the Billboard Top 40 Chart. "Hella Good" will serve as the album's next single.

Student tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Sub Board ticket office on the second floor of the Student Union. There is a limit of four tickets to every student ID presented.

Tickets for the general public are $15 and can be purchased at any Tickets.com location, as well as from the Sub Board ticket office. There is a limit of 8 tickets per person.

Coe, Nessim to lecture
A dual lecture by artists Sue Coe and Barbara Nessim will be held at 6 p.m. April 11 in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts, North Campus, as part of the Alan E. Cober Memorial Lecture Series.

The lecture series is being held in conjunction with the exhibition "Alan E. Cober: A Retrospective Afterlife," on display through May 18 in the first floor gallery of the UB Art Gallery in the CFA.

The lecture is free of charge and open to the public.

Cober, an innovative and nationally distinguished illustrator, taught at UB from 1987-96. He died in 1998 at age 62.

Coe was to have delivered the inaugural lecture in the series on Feb. 15, but it was postponed due to illness.

Her 30-year career in the U.S. has been marked by disturbing and controversial work that illustrates her outraged stand toward various social problems.

Nessim, an artist, illustrator and educator for more than 25 years, is chair of the Department of Illustration at Parsons School of Design.

Employee Assistance Program to move into full-time office
UB's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) soon will have its own office, moving from its current location in Porter Quad in the Ellicott Complex to 101C Fargo Quad on April 1.

Don Kreger, EAP committee chair and university police officer, noted that once the new office is open, the program will offer more on-site staff during its regular business hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Although the new office won't be open for business for another two weeks, Kreger said EAP coordinators can be contacted at 645-3166.

He also announced that the UB EAP and the New York State Employee Benefits Committee are working to inform employees about a new free benefit, Life Works, designed to enhance EAP by providing an 800 number to call for referral information.

The benefit was negotiated by the unions representing SUNY employees as part of the last bargaining agreement, he said.

Anyone seeking more information about Life Works can call the EAP office at 645-3166.

The EAP, available to employees, retirees and their families, offers confidential, highly professional assistance, information and referral services for a variety of problems and concerns, ranging from marital problems, medical concerns and on-the-job issues to depression, alcohol and substance abuse, stress, financial problems, child/elder care and grief and loss counseling.

The service is free and always confidential.

Kreger said that monthly contacts range from a few people per month to as many as 20, with contacts typically dropping off in the summer months.

After Sept. 11, Kreger said EAP circulated a message on the university's list serve and did receive a number of calls as a result. "We did get people calling us, although we didn't get any calls directly related to Sept. 11. A lot of people who called were already on the edge of crisis. It (Sept. 11) triggered a lot in everybody; a lot people needed help. Telephone calls at crisis services went through the roof," he added.

EAP also offers a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week answering service. To contact EAP, call 645-2398 or 645-3166. Emergency crisis help also is available by calling 834-3131.

Asian films to be screened
"We Are Not Just Documenting History, We Are Making It," a program of two provocative independent documentary films, will be presented by the Asian Studies Program at 6:30 p.m. today in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The program is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Associations of the English, American Studies, Art and Media Study departments.

The event, which will be free of charge and open to the public, offers an unusual opportunity to see two very different presentations, both of which not only document political and social change, but attempt to direct it.

"(Un) Suitable Girls" is a film by Prerana Reddy. It documents members of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC), a New York-based arts group for women of South Asian descent, as they prepare to present one of their startling and hilarious satirical showcases, "(Un) Suitable Girls." (The showcase shares its name with a popular film by British screenwriter and journalist Dolly Dingra)

The SAWCC presentation is a biting social commentary that challenges the age-old notion, still prevalent in parts of Asia and elsewhere, that women are commodities to be bought, sold, advertised and owned.

In the film, the women discuss their art and experience living within the desi (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) world, while at the same time being part of the larger American community.

The collective, of which Reddy is a member, was founded in 1997 to present exhibits, lectures, films and performances by South Asian women artists and to provoke conceptual strategies for disseminating their work.

The second film raises a warning and an alarm over the continuing and growing problem of environmental and personnel contamination by depleted uranium.

Jawad Metni produced and directed "Downwind: Depleted Uranium Weapons in an Age of Virtual War," a disturbing examination of American military use of penetrative weapons that employ depleted uranium in warfare and then leave massive amounts of it behind on foreign soil.

These weapons have been used extensively from Hiroshima to Iraq, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Their principle function is to destroy personnel by penetrating protective armor. It doesn't end there, however. The use of penetrative weapons can create localized areas of heavy contamination by particles small enough to be inhaled, which can result in serious physical consequences not only for enemy military personnel, but for civilians and the very soldiers who deploy the weapons. The toxic material remains on the ground, presenting a long-term danger long after the American army departs.

In a 1999 broadcast, "60 Minutes" reported that more than 600,000 tons of depleted uranium remain on and in the ground in Iraq, and that many tons of dust and contaminants remain in the former Yugoslavia.

UB Green launches new Web site
UB Green, the university's environmental stewardship office, has launched a new Web site, http://wings.buffalo.edu/ubgreen, that is designed to serve as a resource to members of the UB community, as well as those outside the university, who are concerned about UB's impact on the environment.

The site features information about UB's various green campus programs, including the "Think Green" environmental awareness campaign, the university's environmental policies, and energy conservation, green building design, recycling and the buy-recycled-paper programs.

Also featured is information about UB's nationally recognized energy conservation program, which is credited with energy savings of more than $60 million since the program's inception. The site also contains information on campus energy-awareness programs and offers energy-saving tips.

UB Green is part of University Facilities.

Dance company to perform in CFA
The Center for the Arts will conclude the 2001-02 KeyBank Dance Series with a performance by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at 8 p.m. April 20 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA on the North Campus.

Media sponsors for the KeyBank Dance Series are Adelphia Media Services and 96.1, WJYE-FM.

The company will be in residence at UB from April 1-20, with the dancers offering lecture-demonstrations, workshops for UB dance students, master classes for dancers from UB and the community, and performances for school children. The company will perform in several area high schools, as well as present the public dance concert on April 20.

Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is the product of an 11-year collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. It emerged onto the scene in 1982 with the world premiere of "Intuitive Momentum." Since then, the 10-member company has performed its ever-increasing repertoire—currently more than 50 works—in more than 130 American cities and 30 countries.

The company's work often has been described as a fusion of dance and theater. The repertoire is highly diverse in subject matter, visual imagery, and length of each dance, which can range from 15 minutes to two hours.

Tickets for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company are $20, $16 and $12 for the general public and $10 for UB students. Discount coupons are available at all area KeyBank locations. Tickets are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and at all Ticketmaster locations. For more information call 645-ARTS.

Long-time UB employees to be recognized at reception, lunch
President and Mrs. William R. Greiner will host a service-recognition reception and luncheon on April 12 honoring faculty and staff members who have completed 30 and 40 years of service to UB.

To be honored for 40 years of service will be Paul Binette, Medicine; Harvey Breverman, Art; Emma Johnson, Food and Vending Services, and George Lee, Civil Engineering/Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.

To be recognized for 30 years of service will be Lawrence Chlebowy, Facilities Planning and Design; Michael Cohen, Neurology; Arlene Collins, Microbiology; Kenneth Dauber, English; Stephen Dunnett, International Education/Learning and Instruction; John Ellison, Informatics; Carol Flaugher, Nursing; David Gerber, History, and Jorge Gracia, Philosophy.

Also, Keith Henry, African-American Studies; Voldemar Innus, Chief Information Officer; Hubert Jockin, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences; Michael Kibby, Learning and Instruction; Carolyn Korsmeyer, Philosophy; Florence Limina, Auxiliary Services; Oren Lyons, Center for the Americas; Ann McElroy, Anthropology, and Joyce McIntosh, Research Foundation Employment Services.

Also, Carol Puma, State Purchasing; Mya Swanson, Social and Preventive Medicine; Jacquelyn McGuire, Classics; Vita Milisauskas, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences; David Pendergast, Physiology and Biophysics; Anthony Rozak, Art; James Sondel, Nuclear Medicine; Phillips Stevens, Anthropology; Thomas Warzel, Facilities Operations; Scott Williams, Mathematics, and Wolfgang Wolck, Linguistics.