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Published: March 10, 2010

  • Music presents free concerts

    The Department of Music is offering a variety of free concerts for budget-conscious music lovers at UB.

    The following recitals and student ensemble performances will be held in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus, and are open to the public:

    • Plosion, UB’s Flute Ensemble: 5 p.m., March 21.

    • String Studio Recital: noon, March 23.

    • Andrew Borkowski, cello, Mus.B. recital: 7:30 p.m., March 23.

    • Voice Studio Recital: noon, March 25.

    • Genkin Philharmonic: 4:30 p.m., March 29.

    • Michael Berger, clarinet Mus.B. recital: 7:30 p.m., March 30.

  • ‘Cool science’ returns to UB

    Some of the top young science minds in Western New York were at UB today as UB held its 24th annual Science Exploration Day on the North Campus.

    Nearly 550 students from 18 area high schools were expected to attend the event, which traditionally is held while UB students are on spring break.

    “Our goal is to ‘tune them in to science’ so they will continue their studies in science and become part of the future in the mathematics, science, engineering and medical fields,” says Rodney L. Doran, professor emeritus in the Department of Learning and Instruction in the Graduate School of Education, who has been on the organizing committee since the event began in the mid-1980s.

    The keynote address of this year’s event, “Grand Challenges and Space Exploration,” was presented by UB alumnus Chris Scolese, associate administrator for NASA. Scolese is a graduate of Cleveland Hill High School, where he won the Western New York Science Fair with a project on rocketry. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UB in 1978, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from George Washington University.

    Scolese shared Science Exploration Day with about 25 other researchers of distinction, both locally and from other states. Their presentations ranged from an earthquake simulation tour to exotic invaders of the Great Lakes to “really gross anatomy and physiology.”

    The exhibits have earned a reputation for being as creative and visually intriguing as they are informative and thought provoking.

  • Digital repositories topic of panel

    “Digital Humanities: Libraries and Repositories” will be the topic of a free panel discussion on March 26 sponsored by the Scholarly Communication initiative of University Libraries.

    The panel will take place in the Special Collections Reading Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus. It will begin with sign-in and a light lunch at noon. The discussion will begin at 12:30 and run until 2:30 p.m.

    The discussion will focus on digital repositories and the concerns that scholars have about depositing their research and scholarly work in an institutional repository. Other issues to be addressed include the proper relationship between an institutional repository and disciplinary repositories, the roles that libraries and librarians play in these efforts and intersections and lessons learned by other institutions.

    The discussion will be led by Marilyn S. Billings, scholarly communication and special initiatives librarian at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Chad Curtis, librarian for literary studies and digital scholarship in the humanities at New York University; and Shawn Martin, scholarly communication librarian at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Although the panel is free of charge, registration is required. Those interested in attending should click here to register before March 19.