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Assist Sandy victims through SUNY Help
Members of the UB community who wish to help those affected by Superstorm Sandy as the holiday season approaches can do so through the SUNY Helps program.
SUNY is partnering with the American Red Cross to connect the generosity of SUNY students, faculty, staff and alumni to those still in need.
The SUNY Helps website contains links for those who would like to make a charitable donation, give blood or volunteer in the affected areas.
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Mobile Auto Bureau is back
High demand during a visit to UB last month has prompted the Erie County Auto Bureau to bring its mobile unit back to the North Campus for a return visit.
UB faculty, staff and students will be able to obtain drivers licenses and conduct other Department of Motor Vehicle business from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 16 in 220 Student Union.
The services are being made possible by Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs and the Office of Student Life.
In addition to obtaining drivers licenses—including enhanced licenses—members of the UB community will be able to register their automobiles, obtain non-driver identifications and convert out-of-state driver licenses to New York licenses. They also may enroll in E-ZPass “On-the-Go.”
The mobile Auto Bureau will accept cash, checks made payable to “Erie County Clerk” and all major credit cards for transactions.
For more information, contact the Auto Bureau call center at 858-7450 or visit the Erie County Clerk’s website.
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Koh to discuss Affordable Care Act
Howard K. Koh, assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will discuss the Affordable Care Act in the 2012 J. Warren Perry Lecture, to take plac at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in 190 Kapoor Hall, South Campus.
Koh’s talk, “Promoting Public Health in the Era of Health Reform,” is free and open to the public.
Koh will discuss the need for prevention in health care. Specifically, he will discuss the Affordable Care Act’s focus on prevention through benefits and services, as well as various HHS initiatives and programs that focus on prevention, including tobacco, vaccines and hepatitis.
At HHS, Koh oversees 14 core public health offices, including the Office of the Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, 10 Regional Health Offices across the nation, and 10 presidential and secretarial advisory committees. He also serves as senior public health advisor to the secretary.
The J. Warren Perry award and lecture series is presented by the School of Public Health and Health Professions to honor the late J. Warren Perry, an accomplished scholar, administrator, author and prominent national figure in his field, who founded the School of Health Related Professions, which preceded the School of Public Health and Health Professions at UB. Perry served as dean from 1966 until 1977.
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Schola Cantorum to present choral work
The Department of Music and the Buffalo Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will present the Rochester-based choral ensemble Schola Cantorum, conducted by founder Stephen Kennedy, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall North Campus.
The program features Schola Cantorum’s 27 singers and 4 instrumentalists performing works composed over a 500-year period. The ensemble, which specializes in Renaissance and Baroque music, will perform works by Tallis, Palestrina, Monteverdi and Purcell. Sacred works by Liszt, Tschesnokoff, Rimsky-Korsakov and Duruflé also will be performed, as well as new music by John Taverner and David Conte.
The concert also will feature choral improvisation, solo organ works by Arnolt Schlick and Georg Böhm, and solo cello works by J.S. Bach and Benjamin Britten.
The Schola is comprised of parishioners of Christ Church, Rochester-area musicians and Eastman School of Music faculty and students, all who volunteer their time and talent.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for faculty/staff/alumni, senior citizens, and nonUB students. UB students with ID will be admitted free. Tickets can be obtained at the Slee Hall box office, the Center for the Arts box office and online at tickets.com.
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A conversation on ‘time’
In a dimly lit basement club in downtown Buffalo, scientists and artists will gather on the night of Nov. 28 to discuss that most mysterious of concepts: time.
The event is the second in the 2012-13 season of the Science & Art Cabaret, a series of evening conversations that invites the public to grab a drink and listen as some of the region’s greatest minds discuss how a common theme relates to art and science.
The cabaret will take place at 7 p.m. in The Ninth Ward at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. Guests will enjoy a night of entertaining conversation and a cash bar. Entry is free.
The lineup for “Time” includes:
- Sarah Shandera, assistant professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University, who will deliver a talk titled “A Travelling Cosmologist’s Clock Runs Slow”
- Dejan Stojkovic, UB associate professor of physics, who will speak on the theme “From Time to Time and Back”
- John Massier, visual arts curator for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, who will discuss the artwork of Karen Henderson, a Toronto-based artist whose work addresses site, time and material processes.
- Rob Lynch, a painter and musician, who will be keeping time on drums
The Science & Art Cabaret series is organized by the College of Arts and Sciences, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and the Buffalo Museum of Science.
Co-founder Will Kinney, associate professor of physics, describes the cabaret as “an entertaining mash-up of cutting-edge science and technology with art, music, poetry and performance.” It’s a tribute to the time-tested ideal that public spaces, like cafes and bars, can serve as hubs of intellectual discussion and not just as places to engage in leisurely pursuits.
“Time” is the 12th cabaret held since 2009. For information on the Science & Art Cabaret, visit the Hallwalls website. -
Choreographers to present work
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the Emerging Choreographers Showcase Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday and Sunday.
The Emerging Choreographers Showcase presents new works by advanced-level UB choreography students. The concert, directed by Melanie Aceto, assistant professor of theatre and dance, features 10 new works by choreographers Dana Bojarski, Chelsea Crane, Melissa Hunt, Alyssa Infranco, Kate Kenyon, Ashley Peters, Julie Spendal, Marlee Sroka and Jessica Waltz. The works explore such themes as the heightening of senses; limitations of space, as well as the expansion of space above the audience; and the social issues of human trafficking and women in the workforce.
Tickets for the Emerging Choreographers Showcase are $20 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors, and are available at the Center for the Arts box office and at Tickets.com.
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Entrepreneurs to hear from Chamoun
Tomorrow’s entrepreneurs will get the chance to learn from Western New York’s best when Synacor co-founder George Chamoun speaks to students in UB’s new Entrepreneurship Academy.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 28 in 101 Davis Hall, North Campus.
During his presentation, titled “Entrepreneurship from Pitch to Plan: Learn the Secret,” Chamoun will discuss the pressures of starting a business and how to conquer those challenges. He also will cover how to pitch a business plan to investors, partners, employees and customers.
Chamoun’s story is of particular interest to UB students because he is an alumnus of the university, having graduated with a BA in political science.
Today, he serves as Synacor’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. He has played an integral role in Synacor since the company’s formation in 2000 through the merger of MyPersonal and Chek.com, a messaging infrastructure provider that Chamoun led and co-founded.
Synacor offers a cloud-based, multi-device platform that enables cable, satellite, telecom and consumer electronics firms to deliver digital entertainment, services and apps to their own consumers, strengthening these relationships while monetizing engagements.
Chamoun’s lecture is just one example of how Western New York’s business community is supporting UB’s Entrepreneurship Academy, a living-and-learning community that enables students with an interest in entrepreneurship to live together and develop entrepreneurial skills.
The academy, led by Yong Li, associate professor in the School of Management, debuted this fall with 40 freshmen. Members will study different styles of entrepreneurship, develop plans for their own entrepreneurial endeavors, and meet and work with the some of the region’s most successful business people.
Leaders in the Western New York business community will participate in the academy by giving their time to deliver lectures, serve as guests at networking events, and sit on judging panels for pitch competitions, the first of which is scheduled for spring 2013.
Chamoun is an early partner, having agreed to serve on the academy’s advisory board, which helps shape the mission and vision of the academy.
The Entrepreneurship is one of five Undergraduate Academies at UB. The others are Civic Engagement, Global Perspectives, Research Exploration and Sustainability, which is scheduled to launch in fall 2013. For more information, visit the academies’ website.
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