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Town hall meetings planned

President John B. Simpson and Provost Satish K. Tripathi will discuss the impact of the state budget on UB, progress on the university's legislative agenda and moving forward with UB 2020 in a time of uncertainty at two town hall meetings for faculty and staff.

A question-and-answer session will follow their remarks.

The meetings will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus, and at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 105 Harriman Hall, South Campus. . Simpson and Tripathi will hold a separate town hall meeting for students at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Union Theatre, North Campus.

All members of the university community are encouraged to attend. No pre-registration is required. Questions can be submitted in advance to simpson@buffalo.edu.

Mathias to open RIA seminar series

Charles W. Mathias, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio, will discuss “When Every Day Is Friday: Behavioral and Cognitive Performance in Adolescent Marijuana Use” in the opening lecture of the Research Institute on Addictions’ spring seminar series.

Mathias, whose specialty is development psychopathology among adolescents, will speak at 10 a.m. March 20 at RIA, 1021 Main St., on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

The seminar series is free and open to the public.

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

Exhibitions to open in Anderson Gallery

Public receptions for three exhibitions in the UB Anderson Gallery will be held from 6-8 p.m. March 21 in the gallery at One Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore avenues.

“David Munson: Too Big to Fail” will be on view through April 26. Munson, a printmaker who is completing a master of fine arts degree from the UB Department of Visual Studies, follows a long tradition of political commentary. He works almost exclusively in black and white, pen and ink washes, and stone lithographs. “Too Big to Fail” is a show about the economy—where we are and how we got here.

“Andrew Engl: Passing Moments” is on view through April 12. The paintings and drawings are based on Engl's living and teaching in Russia during the summers of 2007 and 2008. The artist, a native of Buffalo is completing an M.F.A. degree from UB. 
 


“Wall Buildings: Projects by First-Year Undergraduate Students of Architecture from the UB Department of Architecture” also is on view through April 12.

In this project, students concentrated on the conception of form and space through a set of built and environmental parameters. The students programmed and designed a 20-foot cube, elevating a viewer at least 10 feet above ground level onto two lookout stations providing views along a cliff.

Formosa Quartet to perform

The Formosa Quartet will perform the fifth concert in this year’s Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle at 8 p.m. March 27 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.

The concert, presented by the Department of Music, will feature two of Beethoven's string quartets: Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5, and Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130.

As part of its first appearance at UB, quartet members will hold a master class at 7 p.m. March 26 in Lippes Concert Hall. The class is free and open to the public.

Formed in 2003 when the four founding members came together for a concert tour of Taiwan, Formosa Quartet has made an impressive name for itself, winning such awards such as the First Prize and the Amadeus Prize at the 10th London International String Quartet Competition in 2006, as well as top prizes in the Primrose, Paganini and Naumburg competitions.

Advance tickets for the concert are $12 for general admission, $9 for UB faculty/staff/alumni and senior citizens, and $5 for students. Tickets at the door are $20, $15 and $8.

Future of human research topic of talk

“The Future of Human Research: Concerns and Possibilities” will be the topic of a presentation by James A. Weyhenmeyer, senior vice president for research for the SUNY Research Foundation, scheduled for 2 p.m. April 1 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

The lecture, which will be free and open to the public, is part of the UB Human Research Protection Program Distinguished Speakers Series. It will address important current and emerging trends and issues concerning research on human beings that will change the face of human research enterprise.

A cell biologist/neuroscientist, Weyhenmeyer has published extensively on degenerative brain disorders. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, American Heart Association and the PHARMA Foundation.