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Manuel to address PSS

Warde Manuel, director of athletics, will speak at the Professional Staff Senate’s first general membership meeting of the academic year, to be held from 3-5 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

Manuel will address how UB’s athletics programs are responding to UB 2020.

Also scheduled to speak is Daysi Ball of the Office of Student Life, who will talk about the upcoming diversity conference, “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work.”

All members of the UB professional staff are invited to attend.

For more information, call 645-2001.

Fischer to deliver Hourani lectures

John Martin Fischer, professor of philosophy at the University of California-Riverside, will deliver the 2008 George F. Hourani Lectures in Moral Philosophy, entitled “Deep Control: Lectures on Free Will and Moral Responsibility.”

All lectures will be held at 4 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

The first lecture, entitled “The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral of the Stories,” will take place Sept. 24. Subsequent lectures will take place Sept. 26, Oct. 1, Oct. 3, Oct. 3, Oct. 6 and Oct. 10.

Click here for more information.

The Hourani lectures are sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and endowed by the George F. Hourani Endowment Fund

Farmers market extended

The University Community Farmers Market on the South Campus has extended its season through Oct. 25. The market had been scheduled to end Sept. 27.

The market, located in the Allen Hall parking lot at Main Street and Kenmore Avenue, is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, rain or shine. Vendors sell fresh food, produce and other local products. It is a joint initiative between the UB Office of Community Relations, the University Heights Collaborative and the Eggertsville Community Organization.

Meanwhile, the North Campus Farmers Market, located in Founders Plaza, is operating on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., through Dec. 3.

WBFO airing StoryCorps interviews

WBFO-FM 88.7, UB’s National Public Radio affiliate, is airing stories completed during the recent visit to Buffalo of the national tour of NPR’s StoryCorps, one of the largest oral history projects of its kind.

More than 180 interviews with Western New York residents were recorded in the Storycorps booth during its five weeks in downtown Buffalo this summer. WBFO will air those stories during “Morning Edition” every Wednesday throughout the year.

To listen to the Buffalo stories, click here; read what the visiting facilitators from StoryCorps had to say about Buffalo by visiting their blog.

RIA seminar series to open tomorrow

The Research Institute on Addictions’ (RIA) fall seminar series on addictions-related topics will open tomorrow with a presentation titled “Behavioral Economics of Recovery and Help-Seeking in Problem Drinkers.”

The lecture, which will be free and open to the public, will be held at 10 a.m. on the first floor of the RIA building at 1021 Main St. on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

The speaker is Jalie Tucker, professor and chair of the Department of Health Behavior in the University of Alabama-Birmingham’s School of Public Health. Her research combines expertise in substance abuse with clinical and public health strategies as a coordinated system of health care.

For more information about the seminars, contact RIA at 887-2566.

Campbell to speak at UB Downtown

James E. Campbell, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss the presidential race during the first UB-Downtown program of the fall, to be held at noon Sept. 24 at Chef's Restaurant, 791 Seneca St.

The presentation is sponsored by the UB Alumni Association and the School of Management Alumni Association.

Campbell, an expert on U.S. presidential campaigns and elections, voting behavior and election forecasting, will address key elements that could decide the election, including the Senate voting records of the two candidates, ideology, history, the effect of President Bush's low approval rating and the running mates.

Chef's buffet lunch will begin promptly at noon and a 15-miute question-and-answer session will follow Campbell's presentation. Check-in will begin at 11:30 a.m.

Click here to register online or call the Office of Alumni Relations at 645-3312. The cost is $14 for Alumni Association dues-paying members, who may bring one guest at that rate, and $16 for non-members. Payment must be made at the time of registration.