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Dispose of medications on Saturday
The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is partnering with other local agencies to participate in National Prescription Medication Drop-off Day, being held on Saturday at numerous sites in Western New York.
Members of the public can safely dispose of unneeded medications—drive up, drop off, no questions asked—from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the following locations:
Buffalo: American Red Cross, 786 Delaware Ave.
East Aurora: Town Highway Barn, 251 Quaker Road.
Hamburg: Erie County Fairgrounds, S. 5600 McKinley Parkway
Lockport: Lockport Plaza parking lot, South Transit Road and Willow Street.
Niagara Falls: the former Niagara Falls Police Department, 520 Hyde Park Blvd.
Tonawanda: Kenmore Mercy Hospital, 2950 Elmwood Ave.
North Tonawanda: City Hall, 216 Payne Ave.
The service is free of charge.
National Prescription Medication Drop-off Day is sponsored by the Buffalo Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
For more information, call Karl Fiebelkorn, associate dean for student affairs and professional relations, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at 645-2824.-
UB schedules Family Weekend
UB will hold its traditional Family Weekend Oct. 8-10, with most activities being held on the North Campus.
The weekend will feature a variety of activities to help families experience college life at UB, including campus tours and trips to such popular off-campus sites as Niagara Falls and the factory outlet mall in Niagara Falls, a jazz coffeehouse, ice cream social, brunch, UB athletics events and Buffalo Pride Party. Among the highlights this year are performances by the Max Weinberg Big Band and LehrerDance, and an evening of comedy with "Whose Line is it Anyway" stars Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood.
Many of the Family Weekend activities are free, but some events have a cost and are ticketed.
Pre-registration for the weekend is required by Oct. 4.
For a full schedule of events and to pre-register, visit the Family Weekend website.
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Conference on science, humanities set
The Early Modern Research Workshop in the Humanities Institute will present an interdisciplinary conference on science and the humanities, “Knowledge in the Making, 1400-1700: Science, Art, Epistemology,” Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus and at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
The conference, which is free and open to the public, will explore intersections between and among scientific practices, cultural production and aesthetic forms in early modern England, France, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.
Organizers are Early Modern Research Workshop co-directors Graham Hammill and Carla Mazzio, both associate professors in the Department of English.
Sponsors include the SUNY Conversations in the Discipline program, the UB Humanities Institute, the UB 2020 strategic strength Cultures and Texts, the departments of English and History, the James Agee Chair in American Culture, the James McNulty Chair in English, the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy and the Julian Park Chair in Comparative Literature.
For more information about the conference and to register, visit the conference website.
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Lecture to recall legendary UB music center
Author Renee Levine Packer will discuss her recent book, “This Life of Sounds,” which documents the history of UB’s legendary Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, at 4 p.m. Sept. 30 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
Packer was a co-director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, which was founded in 1964 by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra music director Lukas Foss with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The mission of the center was to provide a supportive environment for composers and performers of contemporary music. Those musicians receiving fellowships, known as Creative Associates, included some of the most prominent people in the field of new music, among them were George Crumb, Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, Maryanne Amacher, Frederic Rzewski David Tudor and Julius Eastman, among other.Packer’s lecture, which will be free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of Music, the Music Library and the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music.
A reception and book signing will take place in the lobby of Baird Recital Hall immediately following the lecture. -
Moon Festival celebration planned
UB’s Confucius Institute, in partnership with the Chinese Club of Western New York with assistance from the Nichols School, will present a gala celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival Oct. 1 at Nichols, 1250 Amherst St., Buffalo.
The celebration, featuring lively music, colorful dance and a performance by members of the Beijing Opera company, will take place from 7-9 p.m. in the Flickinger Performing Arts Center at Nichols.
It will be free of charge and open to the public.
The Moon Festival, a popular harvest gala, has been celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese people for more than 3,000 years, and dates back to moon worship in China’s Shang Dynasty. It remains one of the most important celebrations in the Chinese calendar.
The program at Nichols will include traditional and contemporary performances of song and dance by students from the College of Music at Beijing’s Capital Normal University, the Dance Troupe of the Chinese Club of Western New York and the Performance Troupe of the Buffalo Chinese School. In addition, stars of the Beijing Opera will perform, thanks to an arrangement with the Binghamton University Confucius Institute.
Eric Yang, director of the Confucius Institute in the UB Asian Studies Program, says the students from Capital Normal University also will perform in local schools “to help Western New York students and teachers better understand Chinese traditional culture, and traditional music in particular.”
Yang notes that the Moon Festival is a legal holiday in China and several other Asian countries, and the day farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season.
“Traditionally, the Chinese will gather with family and friends to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon and eat moon cakes and pomelos (a citrus fruit common to Southeast Asia) under the moon together,” he adds.
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