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Faculty, staff to be honored
UB will recognize the scholarly, research and creative accomplishments of its faculty and staff at the annual Celebration of Academic Excellence, to take place at 3:30 p.m. April 21 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The program will recognize 2010 honorees, including SUNY Distinguished Professors, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence recipients and UB Distinguished Professors.
New this year will be presentation of the first annual UB Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, recognizing outstanding faculty mentorship and commitment to undergraduate learning.
A reception will follow the faculty ceremony in the CFA atrium.
Those interested in attending may register online.
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Genomic researcher Venter to speak at UB
Pioneering genomic researcher J. Craig Venter will speak at 8 p.m. April 27 in Alumni Arena, North Campus, as part of UB’s Distinguished Speakers Series.
Tickets are still available.
UB is offering Western New York high schools free tickets to attend the lecture. Up to 30 complimentary tickets per school are available for the lecture. Ticket requests will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last. Schools can visit the Office of Special Events website for more information and to register for tickets. Requests for tickets may be made by the principal or one faculty or staff member who will act as the sole liaison for the school and who will distribute students’ tickets.
Venter is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his numerous invaluable contributions to genomic research. He is founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a not-for-profit, research-and-support organization with more than 400 scientist and staff dedicated to human, microbial, plant and environmental genomic research, the exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and seeking alternative energy solutions through genomics.
While at Celera Genomics—a firm he founded—Venter sequenced the human genome using new tools and techniques he and his team developed. The successful completion of this research culminated with the February 2001 publication of the human genome in the journal Science. Venter and his team at the Venter Institute continue to blaze new trails in genomics research, publishing numerous important papers covering such areas as the first complete diploid human genome, environmental genomics and synthetic genomics.
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UB to present ‘Kagel Nacht’
The Department of Music and The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music will present “Kagel Nacht,” an evening of the music of revolutionary 20th-century composer Mauricio Kagel, at 7:30 p.m. April 26 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
The event is free and open to the public.
Kagel Nacht is a performance event featuring new interpretations of works by Kagel, the seminal avant-garde composer. Interwoven into a mélange of inter-connected and overlapping pieces, this concert will highlight the most absurd and engaging of Kagel’s prolific work. From the disconnected political ramblings of “Der Tribune,” to the meticulous puppetry/theater of “Repertoire,” to the squealing and scratching of “Acustica,” Kagel Nacht connects with listeners in a way rarely found in the classical music world.
For more information, contact the Slee Concert Office at 645-2921.
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Nobel laureate to speak
Roald Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Laureate in chemistry and a faculty member at Cornell University, will deliver the Howard Tieckelmann lecture at 4 p.m. April 29 in 104 Knox Hall, North Campus.
Hoffmann, professor emeritus of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell, will discuss “The Chemical Imagination at Work in Very Tight Places.”
His research group at Cornell looks at the electronic structure of molecules of any complexity, whether organic or inorganic, discrete molecular structures or extended arrays in one, two or three dimensions. The group is interested in why molecules have the structures they do, how they might react and whether they are stable or good conductors. The scientists are collaborating with Cornell physicists to study the behavior of matter, molecular and extended solids under high pressure, as well as bonding in complex intermetallics.
The Tieckelmann lecture honors the memory of the late UB organic chemist and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Howard Tieckelmann. Tieckelmann served as an administrator in the Department of Chemistry, including a term as department chair from 1970-74, during the critical time when UB was transitioning from being a private university to a member of the SUNY system.
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