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Block party planned
UB students and University Heights residents can get together for food, fun and conversation at the second annual UB Neighbors Day Block Party and Safety Fair, being held from 3-7 p.m. Sept. 5 on the Hayes Hall lawn, South Campus.
The party, sponsored by the Office of Off-Campus Student Services, will include live music and free food for the first 1,000 attendees. There also will be information booths staffed by local police and governmental agencies, university departments and Main Street and Bailey Avenue businesses.
For more information, call Off-Campus Student Services at 829-3541.
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Whittaker named engineering chair
Andrew Whittaker, professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, has been named department chair.
A UB faculty member since 2001, Whittaker replaces A. Scott Weber, who assumed the position of vice provost for undergraduate education earlier this summer.
Whittaker is director, principal investigator and safety coordinator of the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory, a National Science Foundation-funded, state-of-the- art facility in Ketter Hall that is home to twin, movable shake tables capable of real-time seismic testing of structures up to 120 feet in length.
He also serves as president of the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering; as a member of the Management Council of MCEER, based at UB; and on the board of directors of the World Seismic Safety Initiative.
A prolific scholar, his publications include numerous journal articles, six books and book chapters, and more than 230 conference papers and technical reports on a number of topics, among them earthquake and blast engineering of structures and nuclear infrastructure, seismic hazard characterization, performance-based engineering and risk assessment procedures for nuclear structures.
He earned a PhD in structural engineering from the University of California-Berkeley.
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Linda Yalem run set for Sept. 26
More than 1,500 walkers and runners are expected to participate in the 21th annual Linda Yalem Safety Run, to begin at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 26 on the North Campus.
The 5K USA Track and Field-certified course is one of the most popular races in Western New York. It is open to the casual, as well as the serious runner.
Post-race events will include food, entertainment and a kids’ dash.
The Linda Yalem Safety Run was established to promote personal safety and is named in honor of Yalem, a 22-year-old UB student who was raped and murdered in September 1990 on the Amherst bike path along the north edge of campus while training for the New York City Marathon.
Registration fees will support rape-prevention programming and personal safety awareness at UB. The first 1,200 registrants will receive a long-sleeve race shirt.
The fee to participate is $20 for the general public and $15 for UB students. Registration may be completed online by 5 p.m. Sept. 22 or in person from 4-7 p.m. Sept. 24 and from 7:30-9 a.m. on race day at Alumni Arena.
For more information or to register online, click here..
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Organ recital to open concert series
Organist/pianist/harpsichordist Roland E. Martin will open the Department of Music’s 2010-11 concert schedule with a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Martin, adjunct instructor in the Department of Music, will be joined by violist Janz Castelo and tenor Jeffrey Porter.
The concert program will include pieces by Benjamin Britten, John Dowland and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for UB faculty/staff/alumni and senior citizens, and free for UB students with ID. Tickets can be purchased at the Slee Hall box office from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, at the Center for the Arts box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and at any Ticketmaster outlet.
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