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Published: January 20, 2010

  • Mass to be offered for Greiner

    A Mass of Remembrance for William R. Greiner will be offered at 8 p.m. Jan. 31 in St. Joseph University Church, 3629 Main St., adjacent to the South Campus.

    All are welcome.

    Greiner, UB’s 13th president, died Dec. 19 in the Cleveland Clinic due to complications from heart surgery.

    A public memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

  • West to speak at King commemoration

    Cornel West, noted intellectual, essayist, public speaker and social activist, will present the keynote address for UB’s 34th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Event at 8 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

    The commemoration is part of the Distinguished Speakers Series.

    Professor of religion and African-American studies at Princeton University, West is widely considered one of America’s most important public intellectuals. He burst onto the national scene in 1993 with his best-selling book, “Race Matters.” He has written 12 books of nonfiction for which he has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award.

    Tickets are available at the Center for the Arts box office and at all Ticketmaster locations.

    For more information, call 645-3662.

  • Candidates sought to head libraries

    The committee conducting a national search for a vice provost and director for University Libraries is seeking nominations for candidates.

    The search is seeking a successor to Stephen Roberts, who will retire at the end of the academic year as associate vice president and head of University Libraries.

    Nominations can be submitted to Bruce McCombe, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the search committee, at cas-dean@buffalo.edu.

    Joining McCombe on the search committee are:

    • Jason Adsit, director, Teaching and Learning Center.

    • Brian Becker, professor of organization and human resources and associate dean, School of Management.

    • James Bono, professor and chair, Department of History.

    • Gary Byrd, director, Health Sciences Library.

    • Robert J. Daly, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of English.

    • Suzanne Dickerson, director of the PhD program and associate professor, School of Nursing.

    • Steven T. Diver, professor and director of graduate studies, Department of Chemistry.

    • Joan P. Dorn, professor and interim chair, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences.

    • Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international education.

    • Stephen Dyson, professor, Department of Classics.

    • Elias Eldayrie, chief information officer.

    • Amy Graves-Monroe, assistant professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

    • Mary Gresham, dean, Graduate School of Education.

    • Bharat Jayaraman, professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

    • Terrence McCormack, associate librarian, Law Library, and head of the M. Robert Koren Center for Clinical Legal Education.

    • Timothy F. Murphy, UB Distinguished Professor and associate dean, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

    • Donald Pollock, professor and chair, Department of Anthropology.

    • Karen Senglaup, assistant director for access services and budget

    officer, of University Libraries.

    • Dagobert Soergel, professor and chair, Department of Library and Information Studies.

  • SOM receives gifts

    The School of Management has two new gifts to the school from accounting and law alumni.

    Michael Murray, BS ’75, MBA ’85, managing partner of Ernst & Young’s Buffalo office, and his wife, Catherine, have given $75,000 to name the Michael and Catherine Murray Mezzanine on the third floor of the School of Management’s Alfiero Center.

    In addition, eight alumni from the School of Management and the UB Law School pledged nearly $100,000 to name a newly created space—the Ernst & Young Study Center on the second floor of the Alfiero Center.

    The alumni, Lisa Filomia-Aktas, BS ’84, MBA ’85; George Brooks, JD ’86; Steven Diamond, JD ’88; Stephen Ferguson, BS ’84; Keith Feuz, BS ’93; James Frank, ’78; Gary Koster, BS ’84; John Martinkat, ’90; and Srikant Nagaraj, MBA ’91, are all employees of Ernst & Young.

    Proceeds from both gifts will support the School of Management’s Department of Accounting and Law.