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Published: May 27, 2010

  • Ernst & Young matches contributions

    The worldwide public accounting firm of Ernst & Young and its staff members have contributed nearly $50,000 to UB over the past year.

    Included in the total amount is a gift of $24,565 from the Ernst & Young Matching Gifts Program to the UB School of Management for use by the school’s Department of Accounting and Law.

    The Ernst & Young Matching Gifts Program is just one element of the firm’s broad support for higher education. It also provides grants to doctoral candidates concentrating in accounting; sponsors professorships and faculty fellowships; and employs accounting student interns.

    “Contributions from our alumni allow us to fund student activities, faculty training and updates to our programs,” says Susan Hamlen, chair of the Department of Accounting and Law.  “Ernst & Young’s alumni and its Matching Gifts Program exemplify the loyal financial support we need to prepare our students for career success. We are very grateful for their generous support.”

  • Open figure drawing sessions set

    The Student Visual Arts Organization (SVAO) in the Department of Visual Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, is sponsoring open figure drawing sessions this summer from 7-9:30 p.m. on Wednesdays from May 26 through Aug. 18 in 218 Center for the Arts, North Campus.

    The sessions, which are open to the public, cost $5 per session. No registration is required. Easels are provided; artists must bring their own drawing materials.

  • Films to be screened

    A screening of three documentaries by Japanese filmmaker and UB graduate student Yuichiro Yamada will take place at 7 p.m. June 7 in Hallwalls Cinema, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.

    The screening, sponsored by Talking Leaves…Books and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, is open to the public. Yamada, a master’s-degree student in the Department of Media Study, will answer questions after the films are shown.

    Admission to the screening is $8 for the general public, $6 for seniors and students, and $5 for Hallwalls and Talking Leaves members.

    The three films to be screened are “Just Browsing,” which looks at the independent book-selling community in Buffalo, including Talking Leaves, Second Reader, Rust Belt and other stores; “Irreplaceable,” which documents the closing of the celebrated Buffalo independent record shop New World Record; and “Time to Dance,” which follows UB dance professor Melanie Aceto as she choreographs a piece for a Zodiaque Dance Company concert.

    “Just Browsing” and “Irreplaceable” premiered at Hallwalls Cinema last September.

    Yamada has been studying documentary film at UB since 2007. He is interested in the ways in which local, independent businesses are impacted by and cope with significant changes in the retail and commercial landscape in both the U.S. and Japan, as well as in process of artistic creation.

    For more information, contact Jonathon Welch at 837-8554 or at tleaves@tleavesbooks.com.