An Operation Inform program for high school counselors will be held from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29, in the Student Union on the North Campus.

Operation Inform, this year marking its 20th anniversary, is a program sponsored by SUNY College Admissions Professionals to provide high school counselors with information on admissions criteria and academic programs for the 64 SUNY campuses. The session at UB is one of several being held across the state.

The program will include four workshops: "The Cost to Go to College: Financing a SUNY Education," "Opportunities Unlimited: Helping Students Make College Choices," "How Are Admissions Decisions Made?" and "Careers 2000: What Every School Counselor Should Know About Tomorrow's Marketplace." A tour of UB will be held at 12:30 p.m.

For registration materials call the Office of Admissions, 645-6900.

SEMINAR SET ON AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

James J. Weisman, associate executive director of legal affairs for the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association, will present the keynote address at a seminar, "The Americans with Disabilities Act: What's in it for You? Myth vs. Reality."

The seminar will be held from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Student Union on the North Campus.

A key negotiator with members of Congress in drafting and supporting passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Weisman has spent his legal career working to enhance the quality of life and promote the civil rights of people with disabilities.

Seminar workshops include: Transportation and the NFTA, OMRRD and Employment for People with Developmental Disabilities, As a Mental Health Consumer, Title I of the ADA-Employment, Title II of the ADA-Public Entities, Title III of the ADA-Public Accommodations and Commercial Facilities, Title IV of the ADA-Telecommunications, ADA Accessibility Guidelines and American National Standards Institute, Section 504 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act/ADA in Post-Secondary Education, Advocacy Skills, Native American Issues, and Reasonable Accommodations and Other Legal Issues for Mental Health Consumers. For more information, call 836-0822.

ADELE HENDERSON WINS NEA FELLOWSHIP

Adele Henderson, assistant professor of art at UB, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts, Works on Paper, for 1995-96. Henderson was one of 17 fellowship recipients selected from among 1,700 applicants.

Her work will be featured in a solo exhibition, ACCRETIONS, to be held from Sept. 17-Nov. 12 at the Castellani Museum of Art at Niagara University.

The exhibit will include prints, works on paper and paintings done over the past four years. The work for this exhibition was completed with the help of MacDowell Colony and Yaddo residency fellowships, along with funding from the Nuala M. Drescher leave program at UB.

FOIT-ALBERT HONORED FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE

Beverly Foit-Albert, UB clinical associate professor of architecture, received the Medaille College Award for distinguished service during the college's recent Founder's Day dinner. Foit-Albert is president and chief executive officer of Foit-Albert Associates.

GARVEY CHAIR OF DENTISTRY AT SISTERS

Michael J. Garvey, assistant clinical professor in the UB School of Dental Medicine, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Dentistry at Sisters Hospital. He is a graduate of UB and the University of Mississippi School of Dental Medicine.

GREATBATCH HONORED AT RESEARCH 2000 EVENT

Wilson Greatbatch, adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at UB and inventor of the implantable pacemaker, was honored for his work Sept. 15 at a Research 2000 testimonial sponsored by the Women's and Children's Research Foundation of The Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He presented his most recent findings on "genes in a machine," to block replication sites on the AIDs virus, at the program held in the Saturn Club.

MANAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE HELPS BUSINESS MANAGERS

A series of presentations designed to provide managers with knowledge needed to compete successfully in today's global business environment are being offered by the UB School of Management. The sessions are held from 8-9:30 a.m. in Fanny's Restaurant, Amherst. They are sponsored by the Center for Management Development in the UB School of Management and the School of Management Alumni Association.

The schedule:

"Doing Business on the Internet," Sept. 21. Mark Winer, CEO, and Jim Gerland, president, of After Five Technology, Inc., will conduct a live presentation in which attendees will see real businesses using the Internet. A brief introduction to the Internet is included.

"Total Quality Management: How to Institutionalize the Process," Oct. 19. Orland Pitts, total quality process leader for The Carborundum Co., will explore reasons for quality implementation false-starts and map out a process for successful implementation.

"ISO 9000 International Quality Standard: How to Avoid the Nightmare Syndrome of Process Certification," Nov. 16. Orland Pitts will explain documentation requirements, tiered manual format, education and training, and registrar-selection process. Interactive workshops will help attendees develop an approach to ISO 9000 certification.

DISCOUNT FOR ALUMNI ON KAPLAN COURSES

UB alumni and their immediate families can receive a 10 percent discount on the cost of any test-preparation course offered by Kaplan Educational Centers, thanks to a deal negotiated between Kaplan and the UB Office of Alumni Relations.

The discount is good at any of the more than 150 Kaplan centers and classroom sites throughout the U.S. and abroad. Immediate family members who may take advantage of the offer include spouses, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers.

Kaplan offers services for more than 20 standardized tests, including college admissions exams such as the SAT and ACT; graduate and professional school entrance exams such as the LSAT, MCAT, GMAT and GRE; professional licensing exams for medicine, nursing, dentistry and accounting; specialized exams for international students and professionals, and other education-related courses. For more information, call 829-2608.

MATES TO RECEIVE AWARD FROM ASME INTERNATIONAL

Robert E. Mates, UB professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, will receive the H. R. Lissner Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME International) at its International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Nov. 12-17 in San Francisco. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in bioengineering.

The 125,000-member ASME is a worldwide engineering society focused on technical, educational and research issues. It conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations, holds some 30 technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year, and sets many industrial and manufacturing standards.

A Fellow of the ASME, Mates has been an active member of the society's Buffalo section and the Bioengineering division. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Biomedical Engineering and vice president of the Board on Communications, which oversees all ASME publications.

He holds a B.S. in engineering from the University of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR 'BEACH SWEEP'

You're part of the solution to water pollution if you volunteer for the fifth annual Great Lakes Beach Sweep to be held Saturday, Sept. 23, on the North Campus.

Armed with garbage bags, gloves and data-collection cards, teams of volunteers will scour the banks of Lake Rita and Lake LaSalle from 10 a.m. to noon. While trolling for trash, they will also collect information on the types of items they gather to be included in a database at the Center for Marine Conservation in Florida.

Efforts of tired trash collectors last year were rewarded when a heron paid an unexpected visit to a newly cleaned area.

"Most of the trash collected is typically food containers and wrappers," says Helen Domske, associate director of the UB-based Great Lakes Program. Volunteers may call Domske at 645-2088 for more information and directions.

MCKAY JOINS WBFO AS ANNOUNCER/PRODUCER

Buffalo radio veteran Mike McKay has been appointed news and information announcer/producer at WBFO-FM 88.7, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.

McKay previously anchored, reported and produced for WBEN-AM. He also has served as a reporter, anchor and assistant news director at WGR-AM, promotions director at WGR-FM 97 Rock, and anchor and reporter at WJTN-AM in Jamestown. He was an anchor/reporter at WBFO from 1987-88 and 1982-84.

McKay, who has been a free-lance reporter for state and national radio networks, earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from Medaille College.

ELECTED TO MASTERSHIP IN PHYSICIANS COLLEGE

James P. Nolan, chair of the Department of Medicine in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and chief of medicine at The Buffalo General Hospital, has been elected to mastership in the American College of Physicians.

Mastership is the highest level of membership attainable in the American College of Physicians. Masters are elected "for their personal character, positions of honor or influence, contributions toward furthering the purposes of the College, and/or eminence in practice or in medical research."

Nolan was recognized for his contributions to internal medicine and to the American College of Physicians. A UB faculty member since 1963, he has served the College as governor, regent and, currently, as chair of the Board of Regents.

Author of more than 100 articles, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Medicine Experimental and Clinical, and as a reviewer for journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine. He received his medical degree from Yale University.

ABRAMS, PIVER AID THE HOMELESS

The Friends of the Night People soup kitchen is much more than that. It's a health clinic, too, thanks to the efforts of Barbara J. Abrams, clinical assistant professor at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Abrams, a physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Erie County Medical Center, went to the UB medical school for volunteer help.

Among her recruits are Steven Piver of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a nationally-known oncologist and clinical professor at the UB medical school, for whom the clinic is named. Piver, longtime champion of the soup kitchen for the homeless, had anticipated the establishment of a health clinic there. After the building at 394 Hudson St. underwent a remodeling two years ago, Piver had two rooms set aside for such a clinic.

Abrams' staff also includes four students from the UB medical school, two paramedicals and several nurses. The clinic is open from 5-7 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Patients can get a meal and medical help. Serious medical problems, including those involving drug addiction, are referred to hospital rehab clinics.