Clinton's speech in Alumni Arena on the North Campus
originally was scheduled for 4 p.m., but has been moved up one hour
to accommodate his calendar. Tickets printed with the 4 p.m. time still
will be valid.
Clinton, who has waived his honorarium for the speech,
was invited to speak by UB and the Student Association, which is sponsoring
his appearance.
He will be speaking to a student audience since UB
students, who were offered the 7,000 free tickets available on a first-come
basis, picked up all tickets within two days of their being made available
on March 6. No tickets remained for faculty and staff.
Doors will be open to those holding tickets at 1:30
p.m.
All individuals attending the speech will be subject
to search and will not be allowed to bring backpacks, large purses or
other large containers into the arena.
Stephen Carter lecture is rescheduled
Stephen L. Carterscholar, author and William Nelson Cromwell Professor
of Law at Yale Universityhas been rescheduled by UB to speak at
8 p.m. April 18 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts,
North Campus.
Carter originally was scheduled to speak on March 13
at the 25th Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration as part of UB's 15th
annual Distinguished Speakers Series, but had to cancel because of illness.
Tickets printed for March 13 will be valid for Carter's
speech on April 18.
Seating for the event still is available. Tickets may
be purchased at all Ticketmaster locations and at the CFA box office.
Called "one of the nation's leading public intellectuals"
by The New York Times, Carter teaches constitutional law and
law and religion at Yale.
His work is informed by his faith and experience, as
well as his scholarship, as defined in his first book, "Reflections
of an Affirmative Action Baby." His other books include "Civility: Manners,
Morals and the Etiquette of Democracy," "Integrity," "The Culture of
Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion"
and "God's Name in Vain: How Religion Should and Should Not Be Involved
in Politics."
Ludwig to speak at Emeritus meeting
Jeannette M. Ludwig, associate professor of French in the Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures, will discuss "Darshan: Seeing and
Teaching the GodsWorld Religions in Theory and Practice on Campus"
during a meeting of the Emeritus Center at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear,
South Lounge, on the South Campus.
The program will be free and open to all members of
the UB community.
Ludwig has a master's degree in theology from Christ
the King Seminary and teaches courses in the Religious Studies and American
Pluralism courses.
For further information, call the Emeritus Center at
829-2271.
Dance-a-thon to benefit Gilda's Club
The UB Chapter of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society will hold its
first dance-a-thon from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. April 13-14 in the Student
Union, North Campus, to benefit Gilda's Club Western New York.
As part of the Hawaiian-themed event, "Dance-A-Thon
2002: Dancing for Gilda," participants will raise money from sponsors,
with a prize awarded to the dancer who brings in the most sponsorship
money.
Gilda's Club, named for former "Saturday Night Live"
cast member Gilda Radner, who died from ovarian cancer, provides free
emotional and social support for cancer patients and their families
through lectures, workshops and social events held in a homelike setting.
The local chapter recently bought a house in which to hold its activities.
For more information, call 645-6469 and leave a message.
Volunteers needed for Senior Brunch
The Office of Student Unions and Activities is seeking faculty and staff
members to volunteer their time at the annual Senior Celebration Brunch
on April 24.
Volunteers are needed to greet students and serve brunch,
which will be held from 10 a.m. to noon in the Student Union Lobby,
North Campus.
Anyone interested in working at the brunch should contact
Sonia Cinelli at cinelli@acsu.buffalo.edu
or 645-6125 before April 12.
Pataki to receive award
UB will present Gov. George E. Pataki with its "Igniting Ideas Award"
for his efforts to build a new economy in Western New York based on
high-technology economic development.
The award will be given to Pataki on May 9 at Industry
University Day, an event that will be attended by hundreds of Western
New York business representatives and university officials. It will
be presented during a luncheon at noon in the atrium of the Center for
the Arts, North Campus.
President William R. Greiner praised Pataki's "outstanding
efforts to revitalize the Western New York economy through the establishment
of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics with UB, Roswell
Park Cancer Center and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute,
and which will be the basis of a new economy in Western New York."
"The governor's pioneering efforts to foster public
and private-sector collaborations will translate cutting-edge research
into jobs for the region and upstate New York," Greiner added.
David H. Langstaff, president and chief executive officer
of Veridian, and Michael D. Capellas, chairman and chief executive officer
of Compaq, also will received Igniting Idea Awards in recognition of
their efforts in the Buffalo region and tremendous investment in the
Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics. Veridian and Compaq
are providing a total of more than $95 million toward the center. Pataki
recently announced initial state support of $50 million for the center.
"Igniting Idea Awards" are presented annually by UB
and its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to honor business
and civic leaders who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and support
for the university and for economic development in Western New York.
Successful economic development requires commitment
and energy from both the public and private sectors. Igniting Idea Awards
are presented to civic leaders who have played key roles in strengthening
the state's economic development policies, improving its tax and regulatory
climate, encouraging the creation of new business enterprises, the creation
of new jobs or enhancing coordination of the state's economic development
efforts.
The awards are presented to business leaders in recognition
of accomplishments in driving the growth and profitability of their
companies and a commitment to building world-class organizations, to
continued improvement of the technical skills of their employees and
to effective partnerships with UB and New York State government.
Alumna to give Levy Lecture
Kathleen Giacomini, a UB alumnus and noted national researcher in the
field of biopharmaceutical sciences, will be the first speaker in the
recently established Gerhard Levy Distinguished Lecture series.
Sponsored by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Sigma Xi,
the international science honors organization, Giacomini's lecture is
titled "Pharmaceutical Sciences in the New Millennium: Human Genetics
Converges with Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics." It will be held
at 12:30 p.m. April 11 in 121 Cooke Hall, North Campus. It will be free
and open to the public, as well as on http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/webcast/.
Giacomini is professor and chair of biopharmaceutical
sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. In 1979,
she received her doctorate in pharmaceutics from UB, working under Gerhard
Levy, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pharmaceutics.
From 1979-81, Giacomini was a post-doctoral fellow in clinical pharmacology
at Stanford University and in 1981 she joined the University of California
at San Francisco.
Giacomini's research focuses on targeting and disposition
of drugs and on genetic variation in drug response. She is the principal
investigator of a recently awarded grant from the National Institutes
of Health entitled "Pharmacogenetics of Membrane Transporters."
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences established
the Gerhard Levy Distinguished Lectureship in 2000 to honor Levy, who
is considered the father of pharmacodynamics, for his role as a pioneer
and principal contributor in the fields of biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics,
clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
In conjunction with the Levy lectureship, the School
of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is trying to raise $1.5 million
to establish the Gerhard Levy Endowed Chair.
IREWG to hold celebration of gender
scholarship
The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender will hold
its annual "Celebration of Scholarship on Women and Gender" from noon
to 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Atrium and Mainstage theater in the Center
for the Arts, North Campus.
The event will feature a talk, entitled "The Lag in
Women's Leadership," by Nora Bredes, director of the Anthony Center
for Women's Leadership at the University at Rochester.
The program also will include reports from IREWG's
2001-02 research grant winners, as well as poster sessions from faculty
and graduate students on a wide range of topics.
For further information, contact IREWG at 829-3451.
Homebuyer sessions set for April,
May
Homebuyer education workshops for UB employees will be held from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. April 13 and May 18 in the Gloria J. Parks Community Center,
3242 Main St., Buffalo.
The workshops, which are presented by the University
Community Initiative (UCI) and the Office of the Vice President for
Public Service and Urban Affairs, are designed to educate and prepare
first-time buyers for homeownership.
Participants completing either session will receive
a certificate that can be used to satisfy the homebuyer-education requirement
for assistance from various local lenders, a certificate waiving $100
from the mortgage-origination fee by M&T Bank for qualified buyers purchasing
a house within the UCI project area, a coupon for a discount on a pre-purchase
home inspection for any house within the UCI project area and a $50
family membership for the Gloria J. Parks Community Center.
Registration is $25 per person. For more information,
call Alyce Cuddy at 832-1010.
Proposals sought
The Canadian-American Studies Committee is seeking proposals for projects
and activities that are designed to encourage and promote increased
awareness and understanding of Canada and of relations between Canada
and the United States.
The committee encourages individuals to submit proposals
for projects that have not been funded previously, that offer promise
for eventually securing external funding or that establish and strengthen
collaborative ties with colleagues in Canada.
Funds from this program, which have been provided by
the Canadian Studies Grant Program of the Canadian Embassy in Washington
and by the College of Arts and Sciences, may be used to pilot or plan
larger projects, particularly those targeting the Canadian Embassy grant
program.
Proposals are welcome from full-time faculty and graduate
students who have faculty sponsorship for the proposed project or activity.
Due to the relatively small amount of funding available, priority will
be given to requests that do not exceed $500. Grants are provided to
help defray direct costs only. Support generally is limited to research-related
activities, such as travel, graduate assistance and acquisition of data,
documents and surveys; honoraria and travel costs for speakers or artists,
and support for conferences and/or workshops.
The application deadline is noon on April 19.
Application forms are available on the Canadian-American
Studies Committee Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/pol-sci/can-am/home.htm,
or from Jennifer Regan at 645-6000, ext. 1217, or at loak@buffalo.edu.
RIA sets screening program for alcohol
To Help individuals get the facts on alcohol, the Research Institute
on Addictions will offer a free, anonymous education and screening program
as part of National Alcohol Screening Day.
Screenings will be offered from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today
at 1021 Main St., Buffalo, between North and Goodrich streets. Appointments
are not necessary. A screening will take approximately 30 minutes.
As part of the program, participants will hear an educational
presentation on alcohol problems, complete a brief written self-test
and have the opportunity to talk privately with a health professional.
An educational video, pamphlets, brochures and flyers will be available,
as well as referrals to treatment and support resources.
National Alcohol Screening Day is held in April as
part of Alcohol Awareness Month, a program of the nonprofit Screening
for Mental Health held in collaboration with the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
Seniors display art
"782 Kg.," the Department of Art's senior thesis exhibition, will take
place Tuesday through April 25 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The exhibition, whose name derives from the collective
weight of all the pieces in the show1,724 lbs. or 782 kilogramswill
be free and mounted at several sites in the center, all of which can
be viewed from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
Sites include the second floor of the UB Art Gallery,
the CFA atrium, rooms 208 and B13, the Art Department Gallery and the
student lounge. A map of exhibition areas will be provided to visitors.
The general themes addressed by the artists are "Alienation
and the Gendered Body," "Rupture and Family Memory," "Sex as Tool,"
"Transient Cultural Spheres" and "Institutional Power."
The media used range from oilincluding Renaissance
techniques using gold leaf inlayto computer art, video projection,
pop culture kitsch, photography, constructed "pseudo wonders" of the
natural world and electronic soundscape.
The show will open Tuesday with a reception from 5-9
p.m. in the UB Art Gallery.