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Performance-enhancing drugs topic of HSL lecture
Monica Spaulding, professor of medicine, chair of the Institutional Review Board and an expert in drug testing, will speak at a meeting of the Friends of the Health Sciences Library, to be held March 20 in the Health Sciences Library, South Campus.
Spaulding, who has been involved in drug testing at several winter and summer Olympics, will discuss "Performance Enhancing Drugs in Elite Sports." The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. in the Roswell Park Room, B15 Abbott Hall. A buffet will be served from 6-7 p.m., with dessert and coffee following the lecture at 8 p.m.
The cost of the event is $16 for members of the Friends of the Health Sciences Library, $18 for nonmembers and $9 for students. The cost to attend the lecture only is $5 for all. Those interested in attending should R.S.V.P. by March 12. For more information, contact Linda Lohr at 829-3900, ext. 136, or at lalohr@buffalo.edu.
A graduate of Radcliffe College and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Spaulding completed her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a hematology fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine.
After becoming certified by the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1993 as a crew chief for its doping-control program, Spaulding developed the drug-testing program for the swimming events at the World University Games held in Buffalo that year. As a lead medical officer at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, she supervised drug testing for aquatic and track-and-field events. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Spaulding was lead doping-control medical officer for figure skating, short-track skating and some long-track skating events. She also was involved in drug testing for several events at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Spaulding currently tests 10 to 12 events a year for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, including the Boston Marathon and several Olympic trials. She has been accredited to test at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Women’s Club to hold elections
The UB Women’s Club will hold elections for club officers 2009-10 at 10 a.m. March 21 in the Center For Tomorrow, North Campus.
The following slate of officers will be presented: President, Ellen Pierino; Vice President, Lois Kelly; Treasurer, Linda Eaton; Recording Secretary, Marion Schultz; Corresponding Secretary, Joyce Lenda; and Members at Large, Terri James, Connie Rao and Nickki Shanley.
In addition to elections, the meeting will feature a talk by Tom Burrows, executive director of the Center for the Arts, who will discuss the Arts in Healthcare Initiative that is making an impact on the lives of patients, their families and caregivers.
Coffee or tea and pastries will be served.
The Women’s Club will hold its annual Chinese Banquet at 6 p.m. April 19 in the Golden Duck Restaurant, 1840 Maple Road, Williamsville.
Proceeds from the dinner will benefit the Grace Capen Academic Awards. Reservations are required.
For more information about the UB Women’s Club or the Chinese Banquet, call Joan Ryan at 626-9332.
Exhibitions to open
Solo exhibitions by UB M.F.A. candidates Naomi Marine and Kara Newbauer will open March 19 in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts with public receptions from 5-7 p.m.
Both exhibitions are on view through April 11.
Marine's installation, “Nothing of Significance,” explores the fantastical intermingling of perceptual and material transformation. Guided by her sensual relationship to color and texture, Marine reconfigures hair, flooring insulation, textiles, paper trash and other materials culled from her domestic environment into whimsical arrangements that seem uncanny in their perverse familiarity.
A native of Arizona, Marine received a B.F.A. in painting from Arizona State University. She has exhibited her sculptures, paintings and installations commercially and independently in the greater Phoenix area and Western New York, and her work is included in numerous private collections.
“Kara Newbauer: Color Stacks & Painted Pictures ” uses observational painting, reproductions of paintings and found images to create a space that allows the viewer to discover relationships within the surrounding world, as well the very way the world is represented, re-represented and validated through the historical record. In this case, she pursues her imagery in stacks of art history books.
Newbauer, a native of St. Paul, Minn., received a B.F.A. from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Grant to support CDS Clinic
The Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $16,169 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (CFGB) to support materials acquisition and personnel costs needed for the UB Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic to continue and expand its services with two Buffalo Head Start programs.
The UB Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic has provided free hearing screenings at the Bethel Head Start Centers—a total of 11 sites in Buffalo and surrounding communities—for more than 10 years. Additionally, the clinic has provided speech-language and hearing screenings free of charge at 18 Bethel and Community Action Organization Head Start centers since 2003. The screenings identify children who have speech, language and/or hearing difficulties. Early identification and remediation of delays in these areas have a high correlation to later success in school performance.
“We are pleased to be able to lend our support to this exceptional program,” said Jean McKeown, senior program officer of the CFGB. “This program is the only one of its kind in Buffalo that is able to provide consistent, comprehensive speech, language and hearing screenings for multiple Head Start programs with appropriate monitoring and follow-up.”
The grant allows the clinic to reach some 850 children who would otherwise be underserved. The program also trains UB students who are majoring in speech pathology and audiology.
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