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UB takes kids to work
UB is celebrating Take Your Kids to Work Day on April 23 with a special program titled “Work Hard to Achieve Your Goals.”
The free program, recommended for children ages 8 to 18, is presented by University Human Resources and the Division of Athletics.
It will begin at 9 a.m. in the Main Gym in Alumni Arena, North Campus. Guest speakers will include Scott Nostaja, interim vice president for human resources and chief of staff for President John B. Simpson; Warde Manuel, director of athletics; and Turner Gill, head football coach.
After the speakers’ remarks, participants will take group tours of Alumni Arena led by student-athletes. After that, employees are encouraged to give their children a tour of all the UB campuses and/or return to their workplaces for departmental celebrations, if applicable.
Interested employees should click here to register for the program. For more information, email HR-WorkLifeBalance@buffalo.edu.
WBFO to present ‘Swing’ retrospective
As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, WBFO-FM 88.7 will air a “Rossberg Retrospective” featuring 20 hour-long episodes of the “Sound of Swing,” the big-band program hosted by longtime WBFO personality and UB faculty member Robert H. Rossberg.
The programs to be rebroadcast first aired on WBFO, UB’s National Public Radio affiliate, from 1982-84, and were nationally syndicated on stations across the country. The original reel-to-reel analog tapes of “Sound of Swing” have been digitally remastered for this retrospective.
The programs will air at 10 a.m. April 13-16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. to midnight April 17, and from 8 p.m. to midnight April 18 and April 19.
Rossberg, a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, died in 1996. Since 1977, he had produced and hosted several popular radio programs focusing on the history of jazz, including the “Sound of Swing” and “The Jazz Singers.” Since his death, longtime WBFO listeners have often requested that the station again offer similar programs.
Choreographers to present work
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the Emerging Choreographers Showcase April 24-26 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The Emerging Choreographers Showcase presents new works by advanced-level UB choreography students. The concert, directed by Melanie Aceto, assistant professor of theatre and dance, features works by Shana Bonetti, Lauren Green, Elena Greenspan, Christopher Howard, Amanda Lydon, Nicole Pavone, Katie Pecora and Angela Todaro. The works explore such themes as public transportation, small and large group dynamics, and personal struggle, and draw inspiration from texts that include “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Solitaire Mystery,” as well as the comedy sketches of Bill Cosby, Abbot and Costello, and George Carlin.
Tickets for the Emerging Choreographers Showcase are $9.50 and are available at the Center for the Arts box office and at all Ticketmaster outlets, including Ticketmaster.com.
Blumberg to deliver Graham lecture
Baruch S. Blumberg, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the hepatitis B virus (HBV), will present a talk on “The Adventure of Science and Discovery,” at 5 p.m. April 16 in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall, South Campus.
The lecture, part of the Saxon Graham Lectureship series sponsored by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, is free and open to the public.
Blumberg, professor of medicine and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Scientist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, has had a major impact on worldwide public health throughout his career. He and his colleagues were responsible for developing the HBV vaccine, which has decreased HBV infection dramatically, along with the incidence of liver cancer that can be caused by HBV.
The virus is an important cause of disease and death in many populous nations, especially Asia and Africa. The vaccine and the diagnostic tests that followed the discovery of the virus have saved millions of lives.
More recently, Blumberg has been involved in research at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, where he is director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. The institute concentrates on studying the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
Blumberg will discuss both his work with HBV and his work on astrobiology during his lecture.
Art topic of next Climate Talks
“Greening the Canvas: Art and Design’s Response to a Changing Planet,” the next session in the UB Green Climate Talks series of campus dialogues on important environmental issues, will be held at 7 p.m. April 16 in the Allen Hall Theatre, South Campus.
The session will be moderated by Stephanie Rothenberg, assistant professor, Department of Visual Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. Panel members will include Omar Khan, associate professor, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning; Laura Garofalo, assistant professor, Department of Architecture; Sarah Rychcik and Jessica Wauhkonen, students in “Art 422, Contemporary Design Issues;” and local artist Dennis Maher, professor, School of Architecture and Planning
For more information, contact Jim Simon at 829-3535.
RIA lecture set for April 17
Research Institute on Addictions’ spring seminar series on addictions-related topics will continue on April 17 with a lecture titled “Evidence for and Against an Internalizing Pathway to Substance Use Disorders.”
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 10 a.m. on the first floor of the RIA building at 1021 Main St. on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
The lecture will be given by Andrea Hussong, professor of clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Hussong investigates the internalizing pathway to substance-use disorders in children of alcoholic parents.
For more information, contact RIA at 887-2566.
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