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New times, location for SEAS panel
The times and location for the listening sessions being held to provide input to the committee searching for the next dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been changed.
The sessions will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. April 11 in 414 Bonner Hall, North Campus, and from 3:30-5 p.m. April 12 in Agrusa Auditorium, 101 Davis Hall, the engineering school’s new building on the North Campus.
It previously had been announced that both sessions would be held from 4-5 p.m. in Davis Hall.
These sessions are open to the entire university community; no RSVP is required.
The search committee, led by co-chairs Venu Govindaraju, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and E. Bruce Pitman, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, is holding the sessions to offer members of the UB community a chance to share their thoughts, concerns and other information pertinent to the panel’s efforts to secure the best candidates for the position.
Faculty and staff also are invited to submit their input and questions to the committee via email at engineeringdeansearch@buffalo.edu.
The search website is now live and will be used as a resource and record for the search process, both for candidates and the UB community. New materials and updates will be posted to the site as they become available.
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Symposium to examine Buffalo avant-garde
A symposium exploring various artistic, historical, social, cultural and political topics relating to the Buffalo avant-garde in the 1970s, organized by UB’s Department of Visual Studies and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG), will be held April 14 and 15 in the auditorium of the AKAG, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.
The symposium, which is free of charge and open to the public, is being held in conjunction with “Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s,” an exhibition that opened last week at the AKAG.
It will open at 4 p.m. with an introduction by Heather Pesanti, curator of the “Wish You Were Here” exhibition, and keynote address by Molly Nesbit, professor and chair, Art Department, Vassar College. Nesbit will talk about “Light in Buffalo: When Michael Foucault spoke on Manet at the Albright-Knox.”
The symposium will continue on April 15 with two panel discussions.
“Visual Culture of the 1970s,” moderated by Jonathan Katz, UB associate professor and director of the Department of Visual Studies’ doctoral program, will take place from 1-3 p.m.
Panelists are Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture, UB Department of English; Sarah Evans, assistant professor of contemporary art history, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Northern Illinois University; Ellen Carey, artist and associate professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford; and artist Charlie Clough, whose work is being exhibited as part of “Wish You Were Here,” as well as “The Way to Clufffalo,” a 40-year retrospective of his work currently on view in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The second panel discussion, moderated by Pesanti, is titled “Trends in music, film, video and digital art in the 1970s.” It will be held from 4-5:30 p.m.
Panelists are Renee Levine-Packer, author and arts administrator; Robert T. Buck, former director of the Albright-Knox; and Bruce Jenkins, professor, Department of Film, Video, New Media and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
For more information, visit the symposium’s website.
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Gender symposium planned
“Gender Across Borders: Arts, Action, Activism,” the Gender Institute’s annual symposium, will be held April 12 and 13 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Free and open to the public, the interdisciplinary symposium will bring together artists, scholars and activists to explore the intersections of feminism, gender, activism, and artistic practice.
It will open on Thursday evening with a screening of rare films and a panel on “Women, Media Access and Film & Video Activism.”
Friday’s schedule features two panels—“Feminism & Visual Protest Culture” and “Gender & Digital Activism”—as well as “Occupy Lunch,” an interlude of installations, performances and workshops with artists and activists.
The event will close with a cabaret of feminist performances, including music, spoken word and theater, in the 9th Ward at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. The Cabaret is being held in collaboration with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
To register, and to access the full schedule, visit the Gender Institute’s website.
To reserve lunch, register by April 5.
In addition to the Gender Institute, sponsors include the Canadian-American Studies Committee; the Humanities Institute; the UB Art Galleries; and the Department of Transnational Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
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UB launches online certificate
The Graduate School of Education (GSE) has established a new bridge online certificate program in mental health counseling.
The certificate will be offered as an 18- to 24-credit-hour curriculum to prepare students with master’s degrees in counseling-related areas to meet the academic requirements for New York State mental health licensing.
“We see bridge as a way to expand our capacity for preparing well-qualified mental health counselors for the State of New York,” says Timothy P. Janikowski, associate professor and chair of the Mental Health Counseling Program. “The online component will provide students who are unable to attend classes in person the opportunity to obtain training from the expert faculty at the UB.”
The advanced graduate certificate program, which was designed to ensure students learn and develop skills with a solid foundation based in research and empirical evidence, will launch with a class of 10 in August. It joins other online programs offered by GSE, such as rehabilitation counseling, library science, gifted education and science and the public.
The Graduate School of Education has been offering online programs for more than 10 years, and all programs are taught by the GSE full-time faculty, as well as renowned practitioners working in the field.
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