Meacham, Newman named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors
Two UB faculty members have joined the ranks of distinguished professors appointed by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.

Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, and Jerry M. Newman, professor of organization and human resources, have been named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors in honor of their outstanding teaching at the graduate, undergraduate and professional levels. The rank of distinguished professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, is an order above full professorship and has three co-equal designations: distinguished professor, distinguished service professor and distinguished teaching professor.

Meacham, an internationally recognized scholar in the area of human development, is an authority on undergraduate general education. He is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Milton Plesur Award for excellence in teaching from the undergraduate Student Association.

A member of the Department of Psychology since 1972 and an adjunct professor of African-American studies, Meacham's research interests include theories in developmental psychology, multicultural education, race and racism. He serves as director for undergraduate studies for the psychology department. He earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan.

Newman, an authority on the management of human resources, is director and founder of the School of Management's Center for Team Performance and a charter member of the Society for Human Resources Management in Buffalo. Co-author of "Compensation," a top textbook in the field, he has authored or co-authored chapters in many other texts.

He has received numerous teaching awards, including the management dean's Distinguished Teaching Award, and is a five-time recipient of the Graduate Professor of the Year award from the management school. A member of the management-school faculty since 1974, Newman has taught at the Singapore Institute of Management and was a visiting professor at the National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management Development in Dalian, China. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Emeritus Center to honor 87 volunteers
Eighty-seven members of the Emeritus Center will be recognized for more than 3,500 hours of volunteer service performed at UB during the past year during the annual REV-UP Recognition Program, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday during a meeting of the Emeritus Center members in Goodyear Hall on the South Campus.

Lee Baker, manager of the REV-UP program, will preside over the recognition ceremony, which also will include representatives of the 30 UB departments that benefited from REV-UP-Retired Employee Volunteers-University Program.

Melanie Koch, coordinator of volunteer placement for the Buffalo chapter of the American Red Cross, will speak.

The Emeritus Center meeting also will include the election of new board members for the center. A meeting at 1 p.m. of the center's current board of directors will precede the general meeting.

UB Women's Club installs officers at luncheon
Katerina Smith was installed as president of the UB Women's Club at a luncheon held Saturday in Daffodil's restaurant. Other officers installed are Meena Rustgi, vice president; Meena Chainani, treasurer; Eugenia Smith, recording secretary, and Marilyn Pautler, corresponding secretary.

Board members at large are Maria Coburn, Ardis Stewart and Irene Swiatowy.

Entertainment at the luncheon was provided by The Royal Pitches, UB's all-female a capella ensemble.

Two more issues of the Reporter this semester
The Reporter will publish two more issues during the spring semester-next week's issue, the annual Commencement Extra featuring student achievements, and a final issue on May 20.

Two summer issues will be published.

Student Comprehensive Fee increase under consideration
The university is considering a modest increase in the student Comprehensive Fee for 1999-2000 in order to further enhance student technology programs and improve the quality of campus life.

The annual Comprehensive Fee for full-time undergraduates could increase by $155 to $1,140-from the 1998-99 fee of $985-under a university budget plan being considered.

The fee for full-time graduate and professional students would increase by $75 per year to $860 annually, up from the 1998-99 fee of $785.

Fees would continue to be prorated on a credit-hour basis for part-time students and the current waiver policy would be maintained.

The Comprehensive Fee includes the SUNY College Fee and support for technology, student health, transportation, campus life and intercollegiate athletics (undergraduates only). Individual student government activity fees are not part of the Comprehensive Fee.

The proposed increases would support increased technology, maintain parking and transportation systems, enhance cultural arts programs and contribute to the upgrade and expansion of intercollegiate athletic programming.

Although the state and SUNY budgets are not yet final, it is not expected that the budgets will include additional state support, says Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs. The fee increases are being considered to enable the university to continue investments in programs and services that are essential to delivering a high-quality educational experience, Black says.

The final decision on the fee increase will be made after consultation with students and later in the state budget process, he says, adding that state support has been sought to reduce the need for some of the increases.

In addition, he notes, Barbara Ricotta, dean of students, will meet with the Council of Student Government Presidents this summer and fall to develop recommendations for wider campus consideration of future Comprehensive Fee increases.

If adopted, the Comprehensive Fee adjustments would be reflected in student account statements distributed to all returning and new students in mid-July.

"While slightly increasing the cost of attendance, UB remains one of the nation's best buys in higher education," Black points out. "With increased investments in technology and campus life, UB will continue to be a major public university and the premier public institution in the Northeast."

More information on the Comprehensive Fee, the proposed increases and the waiver process is available at http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/compfee.

Comments on the proposed fee adjustments can be made via email to compfee@vpsa.buffalo.edu.

Tango to be focus of guitar duo's UB at Sunrise presentation
The tango-that romantic, Latin American dance form-will be the focus of a "UB at Sunrise" program by the Castellani/Andriaccio Duo to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. May 27 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

In the presentation, titled "With Strings Attached: Breakfast with the Acclaimed Castellani & Andriaccio Guitar Duo," Joanne Castellani, a lecturer in the UB Department of Music, and her husband, Michael Andriaccio, will take participants on a remarkable journey with the tango as this illusive dance form makes its way around the globe.

One of the foremost guitar duos in the world today, the Castellani/Andriaccio Duo has performed to enormous critical praise on three continents. It has been the recipient of many awards and distinctions, including the National Endowment for the Arts' prestigious Solo Recitalists Fellowships.

Both Castellani and Andriaccio are alumni of the UB music performance program.

The cost of the "UB at Sunrise" lecture, which includes a full breakfast, is $10 for UB Alumni Association members and $12 for the general public. For more information or to make reservations, call 829-2608.

The Alumni Association, UB's Office of Conferences and Special Events, Office of News Services and Office of Publications produce "UB at Sunrise." It also is supported by the Office of University Development and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Urban Affairs.

Four win Medical Alumni Lifetime Achievement Awards
Four alumni of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences received Lifetime Medical Alumni Achievement Awards at Spring Clinical Day, the annual gathering sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association, held Saturday in the Buffalo Marriott.

This year's recipients were:

- Elizabeth Olmsted Ross, a 1939 graduate and ophthalmologist in private practice in Buffalo since 1944

- James E. Youker, a 1954 graduate and professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

- Lawrence W. Way, a 1959 graduate and vice chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California at San Francisco. He is also director of UCSF's Videoscopic Center in the Department of Surgery.

- Stephen C. Scheiber, a 1964 graduate and professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University. He is also an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Awardees received an engraved pewter cup and a framed certificate.

International Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization to be held at UB
The 3rd World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, an international conference that focuses on research into all aspects of the optimal design of structures and systems, will be held May 17-21 in the Natural Sciences Complex on the North Campus.

The conference, which is being held in the U.S. for the first time ever, is sponsored by UB and the UB Center for Advanced Design.

Co-sponsors include the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The general chair of the conference is Christina Bloebaum, associate professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Other members of the organizing committee are Kemper Lewis, assistant professor, and Roger Mayne, professor, both of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Papers will be presented by hundreds of researchers from institutions around the world.

Structural optimization involves optimizing the performance of structures, such as minimizing stress in a concrete bridge or determining the best topology for beams in a bridge. Multidisciplinary optimization is concerned with optimizing the design of complex systems, such as aircraft and cars, that may involve multiple disciplines, such as structures, controls and aerodynamics.

UB researchers will present papers on a range of issues, including how the Internet and computer visualization can be used in the field, as well as how concurrent engineering practices have influenced the bottom line in several Western New York and Ontario companies.

A case study conducted by UB researchers of optimal resource allocation in the expansion of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport also will be presented.

Astronaut to speak at UB on Science Exploration Day
More than 1,000 high-school students from Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties will visit the North Campus on May 18 during the 16th annual Science Exploration Day.

Presentations, which will range from preparing for natural disasters to weather forecasting using state-of-the-art technology, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Most sessions will be held in Baldy, Norton, O'Brian and Capen halls.

A major speaker will be Lockport native and NASA astronaut William Gregory, who served aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 1995.

His presentation will be given at 9:15 and 10:15 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. in 20 Knox Hall.

Currently spacecraft-operations branch chief at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Gregory is a graduate of Lockport Senior High School and the U.S. Air Force Academy. He also is an alumnus of Columbia University and Troy State University.

Science Exploration Day is sponsored by the Niagara Frontier Science Supervisors Association (NFSSA) and the Western Section of the Science Teachers Association of New York State.

Also, the UB College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Admissions, Graduate School of Education, Educational Technology Services and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

In addition, the New York Sea Grant/Great Lakes Program, Wilson Greatbatch, Ltd. and West Valley Nuclear Services Co., Westinghouse.

The program is being organized by Bob Sorensen, chair of the Science Department at Springville-Griffith Institute and Central School and program coordinator for NFSSA, and Rodney L. Doran, UB professor of learning and instruction and campus coordinator for NFSSA.

Large-group demonstrations will feature such topics as new techniques on weather forecasting by Don Paul, WIVB-TV's chief meteorologist; science in everyday life by Donald L. Birdd, associate professor of science education at Buffalo State College, and the cold world of cryogenics by Robert McClellan, a technologist at Praxair.

Other topics will include the humane care and the role of laboratory animals in cancer research by Mike McGarry, director of Laboratory Animal Resources at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the history of radioactivity by Ronald Palmer, principal scientist at West Valley Nuclear Services.

Rounding out the large-group sessions will be presentations on protecting endangered species by Andrew Steelman, wildlife inspector for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and preventing head and spinal-cord injury by Krisann Piazza, coordinator of the Think First program in the Department of Neurosurgery at Millard Fillmore Hospital.

Some 30 additional sessions also will be held on such topics as the physics of sound, digital processing and a simulated veterinary medicine surgical procedure.

Brodka to receive PSS Outstanding Service Award
Edward F. Brodka, assistant director of the Leadership Development Center in the Office of Student Development, has been selected to receive the Outstanding Service Award from the Professional Staff Senate. He will receive the award during the PSS' annual awards luncheon, to be held at noon May 19 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

The award is given each year to a member of UB's professional staff who is making outstanding community-service contributions. Winners receive a cash award and a certificate of recognition. Winners of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service also will be recognized at the luncheon.

A UB professional staff member since 1987, Brodka has served as assistant director and student activities associate in the Office of Student Life. He has been involved in a variety of student programming, including student leadership programs, off-campus services, parents weekend, Inter-Greek Council and residence life.

Brodka received a bachelor's degree in psychology and communication and a master's degree in organizational communication, both from UB.

PSS to present review workshop on change
The Professional Staff Senate will present a review and feedback workshop, "Building Personal Commitment to Change," from noon to 2 p.m. May 27 in Daffodils restaurant, 930 Maple Road, Williamsville.

The workshop is designed for members of any organization or department who want to adapt to changes in the workplace. Feedback gathered from a previous PSS symposium held March 12 will address such topics as why change is needed and how to assess the value of that change, the change process and change theory, the importance of functioning effectively as team members and why it is necessary to partner with our associates to work through change.

The May 27 workshop will be led by Jackie Stroh, president of Jackie Stroh Personal and Professional Development.

Registration will begin at noon, followed by lunch and the review-and-feedback session from 1-2 p.m.

The cost of the workshop is $12, which will include lunch. Checks should be made out to UBF/Professional Staff Senate and mailed to the Professional Staff Senate Office, 543 Capen Hall, North Campus, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260. For more information, call 645-2003.

Business Days to be held June 15-16
The fifth annual presentation of Business Days, sponsored by the Office of the Associate Vice President and Controller, is scheduled for June 15-16 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

Topics to be discussed will include the redesign of the associate vice president and controller's organization, continuous quality improvement, introduction of the new Office of Special Events and impact of the Year 2000.

The SEFA committee will organize a hot dog/hamburger roast at lunchtime on the patio, with proceeds benefiting the SEFA campaign.

More information will be available soon at http://www.avpc.buffalo.edu.