Briefly

Susan Cole to head Classics Department

Susan G. Cole, associate professor of classics, has been named chair of the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Cole is recognized in the field of classical Greek studies for her publications on the sacred and the feminine in ancient Greece, the literacy of Greek women, Greek sanctions against sexual assault, archaeology and religion, the changing world of classical studies, superstitions about the female body in Greece and Greek civic and religious ritual.

In the academic year 1996-97, she was named a fellow of both the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The author of "Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace" (1984), she is completing a book, "Dionysiac Inscriptions of Asia Minor."

Barbara Tedlock to head Anthropology

Barbara Tedlock, professor of anthropology, has been named chair of the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Tedlock, who joined the UB faculty in 1987, is a nationally distinguished specialist in psychological, symbolic and cognitive anthropology, the anthropology of art and aesthetics, and ethnomedicine in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica.

The immediate past co-editor of American Anthropologist, a journal of the American Anthropological Association, she is the author of three books, "Time and the Highland Mayan," "Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations" and "The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Zuni Indian Encounters."

United Way honors senior vice president

Senior Vice President Robert J. Wagner has received the United Way Leadership Award for Outstanding Public Service from United Way of New York State.

Wagner has chaired the board of United Way of New York State since 1995 and was instrumental last year in the record-breaking success of UB's SEFA campaign. During his tenure as chair, he helped create a strategic alliance, "Partners for Children," that brought the combined resources of several state agencies and United Way to bear on children's issues.

Graduate assistant wanted to write for the Reporter

Applications are open for a 20-hour-a week position writing for the Reporter, beginning in January. The position is open to graduate students only, and offers a tuition scholarship for the spring semester, as well as a salary. Applicants must have excellent writing skills; newspaper experience is preferred.

Applicants are urged to send résumés and cover letters immediately to Christine Vidal, Reporter editor, at UB News Services, 136 Crofts Hall, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260.

Colloquium set on greenhouse effect

Paul Reitan, professor emeritus in the Department of Geology, will be the speaker Monday for an environmental colloquium "The Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change: Real?" The colloquium, sponsored by the School of Law Environmental Concentration, will be held at 4 p.m. in Room 212 of O'Brian Hall on the North Campus.

Among the subjects to be discussed are: Is there sound scientific basis for the greenhouse effect and observations to support it? Is there sound theoretical scientific basis to expect the global climate to change if the composition of the atmosphere is significantly changed ?

The colloquium will be open to the public. Participation also can earn credit. For details, contact Professor Errol Meidinger. For more information, call Meidinger at 645-2159, days; Pat Costanzo at 652-2380, evenings.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Mueller to present Silverman Reading

Lisel Mueller, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist and translator, will present the 22nd annual Oscar Silverman Memorial Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. on Nov. 6 in 250 Baird Hall on the North Campus.

The event, which is part of the Poetics Program's "Wednesdays at Four Plus" literary series, will be free of charge and open to the public.

The reading will be presented in memory of Oscar Silverman, the distinguished UB scholar and teacher who chaired the Department of English and directed the university libraries. Silverman also helped to develop UB's remarkable collection of 20th-century poetry.

Mueller won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1997 for her latest collection, "Alive Together: New and Selected Poems." Critic John Taylor described Mueller's poetry as responding to "historical tragedy, to our own 'heartless age,' to familial grief, to child-raising, to love for her husband and, increasingly, to death...it is infused with intimacy, authenticity and clarity."

Mueller, who fled from Nazi Germany with her family at the age of 15, also is a translator from the German and has translated a verse play, a contemporary novel and three volumes of prose and poetry by writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz.

Other books by Mueller include "The Need to Hold Still," which was chosen for the National Book Award; "The Private Life," which was a Lamont Poetry Selection, and "Waving from Shore," which received the Carl Sandburg Award.

Her work has appeared in major literary journals, as well as in The Atlantic and The New Yorker.

Nominations sought by Nov. 12 for chair of Faculty Senate

The Elections Committee of the Faculty Senate is seeking nominations for the chair of the senate for the term beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2001.

The duties of the senate chair include setting the agenda for the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, which meets weekly, and proposing to that body the agendas for the full senate. All full-time members of the voting faculty are eligible to submit nominations to run for office, and to vote.

Send nominations, including the nominee's name and phone number or email address, to the senate office, 543 Capen Hall. Nominations must be received by Nov. 12. The Elections Committee will contact nominees in order to determine whether they are willing to run for office. Nominees will be required to furnish a campaign statement.

For more information, call the senate office at 645-2003.

Guitarists to perform in faculty recital

Internationally acclaimed duo-guitarists Joanne Castellani and Michael Andriaccio, artists in residence at UB, will perform in a faculty recital in Slee Concert Hall at 8 p.m. on Nov. 13. The duo will conduct master classes and performing at the Rome Festival, the Brevard Music Festival and the Chautauqua Institution.

The program, entitled "The Castellani-Andriaccio Duo and Friends," will feature the Lexington String Quartet, composed of Douglas Cone, Andrea-Blanchard Cone, Donna Lorenzo and Eva Herer; Barbara Cooper, mezzo-soprano; Roger Macchiaroli, double bass, and Roland E. Martin, harpsichord.

General admission is $5. For more information, call 645-2921.

David Sedaris to open national tour at UB

David Sedaris is one of the country's most popular young comedic personalities. He is a playwright, author and radio commentator who weaves his complex moral vision into acidic commentaries delivered in an eerily innocent voice.

Sedaris will open a 21-city performance tour at 7 p.m. on Sunday in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus. The program will benefit Just Buffalo Literary Center and the UB Program in Modern Greek, which will co-sponsor the event, along with the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Sedaris' appearance is a featured event in Hallwalls' 1998 Ways of Being Gay Festival.

The presentation will be preceded at 5:30 p.m. by a book-signing and reception in the University Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts to benefit Just Buffalo and the Program in Modern Greek.

Tickets for the performance only are $10, general admission and $8, students, seniors and members of Just Buffalo and Hallwalls. Tickets for the performance, reception and book-signing are $18. They are available from the Slee Hall Box Office, 645-2921, or from Hallwalls, 835-7362.

Lecturer to address science education and children in poverty

Angela Calabrese Barton, assistant professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University, will speak at UB on Wednesday, sponsored by the Urban Education Institute of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy and the UB Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Using a feminist analysis of the experiences that children in poverty have with science and science education, she will address how science itself needs to be rethought if current exclusionary practices are to be overcome. Her talks will be free and open to the public.

Barton's presentation, "Community Science Education: Lessons from Urban Girls and Their Mothers Living and Learning in Poverty," will be held at noon in 218 Baldy Hall on the North Campus. An informal seminar on "Doing Feminist Interactive Ethnography in an Urban Area: Insights from a Recent Field Study" will be held at 4 p.m. in 593 Baldy Hall.

PSS second seminar on quality set for Nov. 18

The Professional Staff Senate Development Committee will offer Part II of a luncheon seminar series on the importance of improving quality at UB on Nov. 18. The workshop, to be held from noon to 2 p.m. in Daffodil's restaurant, 930 Maple Road, Williamsville, will feature Cecelia (CeCe) Gordon, advance services manager, Xerox Business Services.

Topics will include continuous process improvement, problem-solving, the process-improvement model and process re-engineering.

Cost is $14. Lunch is included. Participants need not have attended the first workshop. To register, call 645-2003 by Nov. 13.