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MSU dermatologist to become UB chair
Animesh Amart Sinha, chief of the N.V. Perricone Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Sciences at Michigan State University and director of its Center for Investigative Dermatology, has been named chair of the Department of Dermatology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Sinha also will serve as UB’s inaugural Rita M. and Ralph T. Behling MD Professor of Dermatology. He will assume the office in April.
“Following a comprehensive national search, Dr. Sinha emerged as our top candidate,” said Michael Cain, MD, dean of the medical school. “He possesses the administrative, scientific, clinical, leadership and visionary skills needed to move the department forward, to expand the department’s basic and clinical research programs to fulfill UB 2020’s strategic goals, and to best develop and align a comprehensive clinical program at Great Lakes Health, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and in our community.”
A native of Canada, Sinha received his MD and PhD with a concentration in immunology from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, followed by a five-year research fellowship in immunology at Stanford University. He completed his residency in dermatology at the University of Alberta and at Yale University.
Sinha joined the faculty of Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City in 1998 and served as director of the Residency Training Program. In 2005, he was recruited to Michigan State.
As a physician-scientist, Sinha’s long-term research interests lie in the fields of immunological tolerance and autoimmunity. He has received multiple grants to investigate the genetic mechanisms underlying the autoimmune diseases, such as alopecia; lupus; psoriasis; pemphigus, a rare group of blistering autoimmune diseases that affect the skin and mucous membranes; and vitiglio, a chronic disorder that causes depigmentation of patches of skin.
His translational and clinical research programs have been supported consistently since 1998 with grants from the National Institutes of Health and research foundations.
He currently is pursuing two major lines of investigation concentrating on the inductive and regulatory events of the autoimmune pathway, with the goal of pinpointing targets for immune intervention and developing potential gene therapies for autoimmune diseases
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Taylor 2 Dance Company in residence at UB
Taylor 2 Dance Company will be in residence at UB next week and present a public performance in the Center for the Arts on March 10.
As part of the residency, the dance group will conduct master classes with UB dance majors, visit Tapestry Charter High School and Buffalo Academy for the Performing and Visual Arts, and conduct lectures and demonstrations at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo as part of the CFA’s Arts in Healthcare initiative.
The public performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank. Members of the dance company will hold a pre-show talk at 6:45 p.m.
Taylor 2 Dance Company was founded in 1993 by Paul Taylor—considered by many to be the youngest member of the group that created American modern dance—to ensure that his work could be seen by audiences all over the world.
The company’s six dancers perform works that span the spectrum of Taylor’s repertoire, including several from the Paul Taylor Dance Company that have been reworked for a smaller ensemble of dancers. The New York Times has said of the company: “Taylor 2 is kind of a miracle… All of the dancers are considerable talents who unite fearlessness with skill.”
Tickets for the performance by Taylor 2 Dance Company are $23.50 for general admission and $13 for students from any school, and are available at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
Since 1997, the CFA has conducted more than a dozen professional dance outreach projects to provide arts education for more than 24,000 students at schools primarily in the city of Buffalo. The residencies provide Western New York public school students with the opportunity to experience a live professional dance performance in their schools, free of charge, by some of the world’s finest companies.
UB dance majors also benefit from master classes with members of these companies. Residency activities also have been expanded to Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, the partner hospitals in the CFA’s Arts in Healthcare initiative.
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UB to host Safe Schools seminar
UB will host the eighth annual Safe Schools Initiative Seminar from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 16 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
This year’s program will provide a thorough look at targeted school violence and bullying—issues of ever-increasing concern to law enforcement and school officials, as well as parents, guardians and students.
A morning plenary session will provide in-the-moment practical applications to deter bullying—especially cyber-bullying—and ways to change a school’s culture and attitudes toward bullying. Special afternoon workshops will be offered that will focus on relevant components of the bullying phenomenon.
The seminar is free and open to all who deal with school safety issues, including grade school, middle school, high school and district faculty; staff (administrators, counselors, psychologists, school resource officers, etc.) and school board members; college/university administrators; police officers and other law enforcement officials; and school transportation professionals.
Program sponsors include the U.S. Secret Service, Buffalo Field Office; UB (Student Affairs, University Police and the WNY Educational Service Council); National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, New York Branch; U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of New York; and the Homeland Security Management Institute.
For more information about the seminar, the speakers and to register, click here.
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Teens show knowledge in ‘Money Bee’
The School of Management and M&T Bank will host more than 100 students from 20 public, private and charter schools in the fourth annual “MoneySKILL® Mania,” a financial literacy competition for high school students.
The event will run from 8:45 a.m. to noon March 16 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Celebrity host Dennis George will lead the students through five rounds of finance-related questions, including a “current events” round sponsored by The Buffalo News.
Participants will be quizzed on a range of topics, including mortgages, stock, bonds, bankruptcy, interest and income, entering their answers electronically using UB’s “clicker” technology. Scores will be tallied automatically.
An Apple iPad will be awarded to the highest-scoring student. Each member of the winning team will receive a $250 college savings fund. Teacher coaches of the winners will receive prizes as well.
The goal of the event is to increase awareness of MoneySKILL, a free, interactive Internet curriculum designed to educate students to make informed financial decisions on a variety of personal finance issues, including income, money management, credit, saving and investing.
MoneySKILL was developed by Lewis Mandell, professor emeritus of finance and managerial economics in the School of Management, in collaboration with the American Financial Services Association Education Foundation.
Tests of the financial knowledge of teenagers consistently show poor performance. For example, in the latest Jump$tart Survey of Financial Literacy among High School Students, a survey of 12th graders, participants answered an average of only 48.3 percent of the test questions correctly.
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