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Glick to speak at HSL meeting
Michael Glick, dean of the School of Dental Medicine, will deliver the 19th Annual C.K. Huang Lecture at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Friends of the Health Sciences Library at 7 p.m. May 14 in the Austin Flint Main Reading Room of the Health Sciences Library in Abbott Hall, South Campus.
Glick’s presentation is titled “The Role of the Dentist in Overall Health.”
The evening will begin with a buffet dinner from 6-7 p.m., followed by the lecture. Dessert and coffee will be served from 8-9 p.m.
The cost is $20 for the general public, $15 for Friends and $9 for students. The cost of attending only the lecture is $5 for all.
Reservations must be made by May 12 by contacting Linda Lohr at 829-5737 or lalohr@buffalo.edu.
New positions in medical school
Michael Cain, dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has announced two appointments and program restructuring in the Dean’s Office designed to more effectively meet increasing opportunities in research, graduate and undergraduate education, infrastructure and facilities, and faculty development in the school. The changes were effective April 1.
Kenneth Blumenthal has been named senior associate dean for research and graduate education. In addition to chairing the Department of Biochemistry, Blumenthal is overseeing the medical school’s basic science research programs and graduate education. His duties include engaging faculty in developing strategic initiatives to grow sponsored activities; working with Timothy Murphy, senior associate dean for clinical and translational research, to facilitate “bench-to-bedside” research initiatives and mentored-research training grants, and further promote and strengthen the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (IGPBS) and the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).
Suzanne Laychock is serving as senior associate dean for faculty affairs and facilities, a new position that Cain says was created to address the importance of faculty and staff recognition, career development, and mentoring, diversity and gender equality.
In addition, she is overseeing the school’s facilities, ensuring they remain up to date and that space is utilized efficiently and effectively “to allow us to fulfill the cadre of goals that have been set forth as we renovate space on the South Campus and migrate to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus,” Cain said. Laychock will continue to oversee and strengthen the undergraduate programs in the biomedical sciences.
Libraries offer international collections
Lockwood Memorial Library now has international collections of popular fiction and non-fiction books in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese—three languages spoken by large and growing segments of the UB community.
“Each language set contains 25 carefully selected books, including bestsellers, selected classics and highly anticipated new releases that have wide appeal,” says Judith Adams-Volpe, director of communication and development for the UB Libraries.
The collections, located in the entrance lobby of the North Campus library, can be borrowed by students, faculty, staff and other members of the UB community.
“The Libraries have acquired these language collections to address a growing need for leisure/casual reading materials for UB’s international population,” Adams-Volpe says, “but they also are useful for those who want to augment their language skills by reading popular books.”
She says the International Leisure Reading Collections are provided through the Online Computer Library Center, which offers books, DVDs and other material in 14 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Panjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Urdu and Vietnamese.
“The sets arrive at UB ‘shelf-ready,’” says Adams-Volpe, “and if the first three collections prove popular here, material from the other language sets will be considered.”
For more information or queries about other international leisure reading language sets, contact Laura Taddeo, associate librarian, Arts and Sciences Library, at ltaddeo@buffalo.edu.
Target grant funds volunteer program
The School of Management has received a $10,000 grant from Target to fund a scholarship program for students who volunteer in the local community.
The grant will fund scholarship awards to students who participate in the Management Volunteer Program (MVP), which seeks to connect classroom learning with real-world experiences. MVP is coordinated by the Frank L. Ciminelli Family Career Resource Center in the School of Management.
Each participant in MVP is required to complete 50 hours of volunteer work with one local organization over the course of a semester. The 21 students enrolled in the program for 2010 will compete for individual scholarships of $1,000 based on their volunteer hours and a series of writing assignments about their experiences. Four scholarships will be awarded in the spring and five will be awarded in the fall.
“This program will have a tremendous effect not only on our students and their development, but on the local community as well,” said Gwen Appelbaum, assistant dean and director of the Career Resource Center. “Through MVP, our students will have the ability to directly impact the social, economic and environmental well-being of the Western New York community.”
The 21 MVP students will complete more than 1,000 hours of community service while participating in the program. Organizations benefiting from the students’ volunteer hours include the Gloria Parks Community Center, Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo, United Way, Northeast Family YMCA, American Red Cross and Buffalo ReUse.
“At Target, our local grants are making a difference in the communities we serve,” said Laysha Ward, president for community relations at Target. “We’re proud to partner with the UB School of Management as part of our ongoing commitment to give back to the communities where our guests and team members live and work.”
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