Final
issue of semester
This week's issue is the Reporter's final issue of the spring
semester. Summer issues will be published on June 27 and July 25. Publication
of the newspaper for the fall semester will resume Aug. 29.
Granger
honored as "health care hero"
Carl Granger, professor and chair-emeritus of the Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, received the Lifetime Achievement Award
last month at the third Annual Health Care Heroes Breakfast sponsored
by Business First.
Granger
was honored for his role in developing the Functional Independence Measure,
or FIM, an easy-to-use rehabilitation-assessment tool that allows
trained personnel to assign a numerical valuethe FIM ratingto
a patient's ability to function, based on performance of 18 physical
and mental tasks that represent a basic daily routine of personal-care
activities.
The
federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly called
the Health Care Financing Administration, recently selected the FIM
as the assessment instrument to be used by rehabilitation hospitals
to document requests for prospective payment for rehabilitation treatment.
In
conjunction with the FIM, Granger established a non-profit business,
the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation to provide reports
and store the data for their FIM users. That database now holds
information on more than 4 million patients, comprising the largest
database of medical rehabilitation-treatment outcomes in the world.
Jayaraman
named chair of CSE
Bharat Jayaraman, professor and interim chair of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, has been named department chair for a three-year
term.
A
UB faculty member since 1989 and coordinator of The Language Research
Group (LRG) at UB, Jayaraman's research focuses on programming languages
and software systems, with a special emphasis on languages that support
high-level, declarative and visual modeling of complex systems. He is
pursuing research projects with UB colleagues and students in the areas
of object-oriented modeling, constraint-based design, interactive program
visualization and domain-specific languages for applications in engineering
and organizational modeling. This work has been funded by the National
Science Foundation and the Xerox Foundation.
REV-UP
volunteers to be honored
The Emeritus Center and Human Resource Services will host the 12th annual
Retired Employee VolunteersUniversity Program (REV-UP) Recognition
Program, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the South Lounge of Goodyear
Hall, South Campus.
Eighty-seven
members of the Emeritus Center will be recognized for more than 3,100
hours of community service during the past year.
Since
its inception in 1990, REV-UP members have contributed more than 36,000
hours of volunteer service to the university.
Treatment
offered for PMS symptoms
The BioBehavioral Program is offering free treatment for women with
severe PMS or PMDD.
The
treatment is a drug that currently is marketed in Europe as a contraceptive
and has shown in preliminary studies to provide relief for severe PMS
symptoms.
In
addition to the treatment, participants will receive free medical, clinical
and laboratory evaluations for severe PMS. They will be compensated
for their time.
To
qualify, participants must be between the ages of 18-40 and not taking
oral contraceptives.
For
more information, call 898-5089.
Shulman
to receive Hyman L. Levin Award
Lawrence Shulman, dean of the School of Social Work, will receive the
2002 Hyman L. Levin Professional Award for Outstanding Professional
Service of the Mental Health Association of Erie County, Inc.
The
award will be presented at the association's 41st Mental Health Association
annual meeting on May 22.
The
award is presented in recognition of individual dedication to the furtherance
of mental health in the community, and an exceptionally high degree
of humanitarian devotion and use of professional skills to help those
with mental illness as individuals and members of the community.
Shulman
was nominated for "his vision, energy and commitment (that) has inspired
students, faculty and administration to achieve all that they are capable
of being."
Comments
sought on Lee Road master plan, draft ESI
The university is soliciting comments from members of the UB community
on the master plan and draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for
the Lee Road development project.
Both
documents can be viewed at http://www.ub-housing.buffalo.edu/leeroad.shtml.
Comments on the draft EIS should be submitted on or before May 22; master
plan comments are welcome at any time.
The
ambitious plan would turn the relatively untouched stretch of land along
Lee Road between the Ellicott Complex and the Student Union into a "college
town center." The proposed town center would be a 52-acre urban corridor
of retail shops, housing, campus amenities and student services located
along the shoreline of Lake LaSalle, adjoining Ellicott with the academic
spine. The development would be accessed by an expanded Lee Road that
could extend north of the James J. Audubon Parkway and south to Putnam
Way.
The
master plan was developed by Stieglitz Snyder Architecture through a
stakeholder-based process. The process included a needs assessment,
analysis of site conditions, conceptual design alternatives and plan
recommendations.
The
draft EIS was prepared by Environmental Design and Research, P.C.
The
Lee Road project is being developed in response to a need identified
by the university, selected stakeholders, and the existing student population
to create an enhanced campus experience through the attraction of a
larger on-campus student population, the creation of a campus atmosphere
and community, the promotion of social gathering opportunities and the
establishment of convenient retail and service-oriented facilities within
the campus property, says Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs.
Another
critical objective of the master plan, Black says, was to develop a
safe, convenient pedestrian connection between Ellicott and the spine.
Other goals of the project include enhancing the student-life opportunities
and quality of the student-life experience, he says, adding that the
university maintains that in addition to campus and program improvements,
increasing the population of students who reside on campus would serve
to create a more cohesive campus community.
Concrete
canoe places second
"General Lee," the concrete canoe designed and built by UB civil engineering
students, placed second overall in the American Society of Civil Engineers/Master
Builder's Regional Upstate New York Competition, held recently in Syracuse.
The
team also won first place in the men's endurance race.
UB's
performance was the best it's had at the regional level in several years,
notes team member Jean M. Balent.
The
team from Rochester Institute of Technology took the overall first-place
prize. Clarkson University was third.
UB
engineering students each year participate in the annual competition
sponsored by ASCE and Master Builders, where civil engineering students
design and build a canoe entirely of concrete. The teams must submit
a technical report, perform an oral presentation and answer questions
from a panel of professional engineers, build a 10' x 10' x 10' display,
and compete in five racesmen's and women's sprints, co-ed sprint,
and men's and women's endurance.
Each
school is required to develop a theme for its boat, with the UB team
naming its canoe "General Lee" as part of a "Dukes of Hazzard" theme.
Rooney
to be honored by PSS
Barbara J. Rooney, assistant director in the Office of Admissions, will
receive the Professional Staff Senate's Outstanding Service Award at
the PSS's annual awards luncheon, to be held from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday
in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
The
recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Professional Service also
will be honored at that time. SUNY had not announced the winners of
the Chancellor's Awards as of Reporter press time.
Rooney,
a UB professional staff member since 1990, is a quiet, yet effective
leader in the workplace and an empathetic provider of various community
service efforts, says her nominator, Jennifer Hess, assistant director
for external relations in the Office of Admissions.
"As
the assistant director for processing in the Office of Admissions, she
oversees and manages the highly efficient movement of nearly 20,000
freshman and transfer applications and ensures timely coordination for
review. These processes directly influence our aggressive recruitment
and enrollment initiatives, targets and yields," Hess wrote in her nominating
letter.
Rooney
is a member of the Intercollegiate Athletics Board (IAB), the primary
oversight body for intercollegiate athletics.
"This
service ties in nicely to her experience as a former UB athlete, the
athletic liaison for the Office of Admissions and to her longtime love
and support for women's athletics," Hess wrote.
Rooney
also is a member of the Educational Advisory Board and Home School Association
at Sts. Peter and Paul School in Williamsville, and serves as treasurer
for a local scouting group.
UB
to hold conference on post-genomic research
Western New York scientists working in the areas of genomics, proteomics
and bioinformatics will share their findings and innovations at the
first Buffalo-Niagara Post-Genomic Research Conference on Wednesday.
Sponsored
by the Office of the Vice President for Research at UB, the conference
will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 105 Harriman Hall, South Campus.
It will be followed by a reception.
Presenters
will include geneticists, pharmaceutical scientists, computer scientists,
biologists, chemists and physiologists from UB, Roswell Park Cancer
Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. Post-genomic
research refers to research in the life sciences resulting from the
mapping of the human genome.
Speakers
will discuss their results and innovations, including the best ways
to design experiments in the post-genomic era, new computational approaches
to managing the data such experiments generate and new techniques to
speed the identification of promising compounds, such as a genomics-based,
high-throughput, drug-discovery system.
The
keynote speaker will be Gregg Morin, vice president of MDS Proteomics,
one of the leading companies in the field that is bridging the gap between
genomics and drug discovery.
"This
is a critical time for post-genomic research in Western New York," said
Kenneth Tramposch, associate vice president for research at UB and one
of the conference organizers.
"A
lot of excellent post-genomic research is going on in Western New York,
but it tends to stay hidden in the laboratories of individual scientists,"
he noted.
"This
conference will provide an opportunity for the area's leading researchers
from all three institutions involved in the Buffalo Center of Excellence
in Bioinformatics, as well as people from local life sciences companies,
to interact and to share ideas with each other."
Tramposch
expects to make the conference an annual event.
While
the conference will be free, those planning to participate must register
by completing the online registration form at http://www.specialevents.buffalo.edu/postgenomics,
or by calling Joseph Cusker at 645-3321.
Alexander
quartet to perform
Following in the footsteps of such renowned string quartets as the Juilliard,
Emerson, Cleveland and Budapest, the Alexander String Quartet will perform
the three concerts comprising the second half of the 46th annual Beethoven
String Quartet Cycle on May 30-June 1 in Slee Concert Hall, North Campus.
Concerts
will begin each night at 8 p.m. The programs for the series, the only
one of its kind in the world:
- May
30th: Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 ("Serioso"); Quartet in B-flat Major,
Op. 18, No. 6, and Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
- May
31: Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5 and Quartet in B-flat Major,
Op. 130
- June
1: Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4, Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
and Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
The
UB performances by the Alexander String Quartet will be the last with
first violinist Ge-Fang Yang, who will leave the quartet after a 10-year
tenure that saw, among other triumphs, the ensemble's recordings of
the complete Beethoven String Quartets and multiple U.S. and European
tours. Zakarias Grafilo will succeed Yang at the conclusion of the quartet's
2001-2002 season this summer.
Since
1981, the Alexander String Quartetcomprised of Yang and Frederick
Lifsitz, violins; Paul Yarbrough, viola, and Sandy Wilson, cellohas
performed in the major music capitals of four continents, securing its
standing among the premiere ensembles of its kind.
Its
international career was assured in 1985, when it won both First Prize
and Audience Prize at the London International Competition.
Widely
admired for its interpretations of Beethoven and Bartók, the
quartet also has established itself as an important advocate of new
music through more than 25 commissions and numerous premiere performances.
In
1999, BMG Classics released the quartet's nine-CD set of the Beethoven
cycle on its Arte Nova label to tremendous critical acclaim. The quartet
also has recorded works of Mozart, Brahms, Dvor‡k and others on the
Foghorn label.
At
home in San Francisco, quartet members have a major artistic presence,
serving as Ensemble-in-Residence of San Francisco Performances and as
directors of the Morrison Chamber Music Center in the College of Creative
Arts at San Francisco State University. Recognized as innovative educators,
the quartet also serves as the resident ensemble of Baruch College,
Allegheny College and St. Lawrence University.
Tickets
for each concert of the second half of the Beethoven String Quartet
Cycle are priced at $12 for the general public and $9 for UB faculty,
staff, alumni and senior citizens, and $5 for students. Tickets can
be obtained between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Slee
Hall box office, between noon and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at the
Center for the Arts box office, or at all Ticketmaster outlets.
Department
of Art names award winners
Fourteen students in the Department of Art have received 2001-02 departmental
awards for their work.
George
Jorgensen, Clifford Borress, Joseph Brittain and Linda Beth Flack, all
juniors in the Department of Art, were selected to receive the Rumsey
Award.
Established
through the generosity of Buffalo painter Evelyn Rumsey Lord, the award
is to be used for travel for artistic and personal enrichment or for
tuition assistance for a summer studio art program outside of UB.
Flack
also is the recipient of the Sally Hoskins Potenza Memorial Scholarship.
The scholarship was established by the family of Sally Hoskins Potenza,
a painter and graduate student in the Department of Art at the time
of her early death.
In
addition, Flack was selected to receive a Morrison Scholarship, established
by Louis Morrison and his family to assist talented art majors in the
completion of their degree.
Other
Morrison Scholarship winners are Maria Sanchez, a junior in the illustration
program; Scott Walker, a senior in the photography BFA program; Heather
Feeney, a junior in the communication design BFA program; Richard Lang,
a junior in the photography BFA program, and Alexander Morse, a junior
in the Communication Design Program.
Morse
also has received the Dennis Domkowski Memorial Scholarship, awarded
to juniors who show excellent potential for design.
Sarah
Brill, a junior in the painting concentration, was selected to receive
the Philip C. and Virginia Cuthbert Elliott Painting Scholarship for
outstanding ability and interest in the area of artistic painting. The
cash award is based on the ability and overall merit of the student.
Priya
Patel, a junior in the communication design program, is this year's
recipient of the Julius Bloom Memorial Scholarship for excellence in
typographic study.
Amy
Chapman, a senior in the painting concentration, is the recipient of
the Eugene L. Gaier Printmaking Awards established two years ago by
Gaier, UB professor emeritus who has had a long-time interest in the
arts.
Julie
Homa, a sophomore in the sculpture program, is the recipient of the
Eugene L. Gaier Excellence in Drawing Award.
James
Halloran, a freshman in the painting concentration, received the Carl
E. and Virginia W. Sentz Memorial Award.