BREVERMAN PRINT SHOW AT NEW YORK'S 92ND STREET Y

For writer Ray Federman, the articulation of his personal experience of the Holocaust is his life's work. Now his friend and UB colleague, artist Harvey Breverman, has interpreted Federman's sense of Federman in an exhibition of his serial work, "The Federman Cycle (A Portion Thereof)," on exhibit at New York City's 92nd Street Y through May 8. The 92nd Street Y has long been known for its art exhibitions, literary readings and presentations of music and performance art.

Federman holds the title of SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Melodia Jones Chair in French at UB, where he also is a professor of English and comparative literatures. He is the author of several award-winning novels and essays, as well as books of poetry.

Breverman, a distinguished artist of international distinction, is professor of art at UB.

PERL TRAINING LECTURE SERIES SET

A three-day lecture series in PERL training, a popular programming language for the World Wide Web, will be held May 5-7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The course has a $100 class fee for UB faculty/staff plus $34.96 for class books; a $50 class fee plus books for students; $250 class fee plus books for all others. It is not for non-programmers.

For more information and location of the course, call Kerri Cabana at 645-3568.

LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TO HONOR SIX AT DINNER

Five graduates of the UB School of Law will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards at the Law Alumni Assoc-iation's 35th annual meeting and awards dinner, to be held at 5:30 p.m. on May 14 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The awards recognize the contributions that UB law school alumni have made to their profession and community. Deputy State Assembly Speaker Arthur O. Eve will receive an award "for his distinguished service to the community."

Awards will be presented to:

- Hon. Joseph D. Mintz, '56, Supreme Court justice of the Eighth Judicial District, who will receive an award "for his conscientious and diligent performance in the judiciary." An instructor in trial technique at the law school, Mintz serves on the New York State Supreme Court Judges Association's Committee on Civil Practice. He is chair of the assoc-iation's Eighth Judicial District Committee on Judicial Evaluation and the board of the Erie County Bar Assoc-iation's Aid to Indigent Prisoner Society, a past president of the New York State Defenders Association and the Eighth Judicial District Association. n John F. Canale, '47, special counsel to the firm of Bouvier, O'Connor, will be honored "for leadership by example as a private practitioner." He is a past president of the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association and a former director of the Erie County Bar Association. Recipient in 1992 of the Defense Lawyer of the Year Award from the Defense Trial Lawyers Association, he is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

- Hon. Dennis C. Vacco, '78, New York State attorney general, will be honored "for his commitment to public service." Vacco began his public service career in 1978 as a prosecutor in the Erie County District Attorney's Office. Ten years later, he was appointed U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York. Elected attorney general in 1994, he is the first from upstate New York to hold the post since 1928. He assisted in crafting the state's death penalty law and was instrumental in enacting "Megan's Law," the sex-offender registry and notification act.

- Hon. Michael A. Battle, '81, Erie County family court judge, will be honored "for his many contributions to the betterment of the community." Battle helped open the Federal Public Defender's Office/Western New York Region and represented indigent clients charged with violating federal criminal law. He also was with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the general litigation unit and the civil division. He is a former president of the Minority Bar Association of Western New York.

- Thomas R. Bremer, '79, senior vice president and general counsel of U.S. Surgical Corp., will be honored "for his exemplary performance in business." He received a bachelor's degree cum laude in mechanical engineering from UB.

- Hon. Arthur O. Eve, deputy New York Assembly speaker, will be recognized "for outstanding service to the community by a non-alumnus." A graduate of West Virginia State University, he is a member of Assembly committees on Aging and Corporations, and is senior member of the Ways and Means and Rules committees. First elected to the Assembly in 1966, he has a record of sponsorship on a range of issues, including economic development, education, job training, social services, crime prevention/parole reform, day care and housing.

ELDAYRIE IS DIRECTOR OF STUDENT FINANCES, RECORDS

Elias G. Eldayrie has been appointed director of student finances and records at UB. A member of the UB professional staff since 1987, he most recently served as director of the Office of Financial Aid.

He also has held the positions of assistant director and director of student accounts and assistant director/systems analyst in the Office of Student Finances and Records.

A native of Lebanon, he received a bachelor's degree in computer science from UB in 1987. He will receive the M.B.A. degree next month.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES LIBRARIAN TO LECTURE AT UB

The UB School of Information and Library Studies will present a lecture by Rod Ross, a reference archivist with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., at 4 p.m. on May 7 in the Friends Room of Lockwood Library on the North Campus. The title of the lecture is "A View from Washington: The Public Documents Library is Alive and Well as Record Group 287 at the National Archives."

A specialist in congressional publications, Ross will answer questions about legislative research at the National Archives. His talk will be of interest to librarians, historians, students, journalists and others who use the National Archives for research purposes.

Ross holds a doctorate in American history from the University of Chicago and has worked in the National Archives since 1977.

HERBALIST TO ADDRESS PHARMACY ALUMNI REUNION

A presentation on herbal, homeopathic and nutritional therapies will be a highlight of the UB School of Pharmacy's Alumni Spring Reunion Weekend, to be held on May 3 in the Buffalo Marriott.

Constance Grauds, California-based pharmacist and president of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists, will present the continuing education program, "The Pharmacist and the Return of Natural Medicine," at 9:30 a.m. A graduate of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Grauds is a registered pharmacist, certified herbalist and registered nutritional consultant in private practice. Editor of the natural health magazine Health Education Technologies, she is a member of the American and California Pharmaceutical associations.

Wayne K. Anderson, interim dean of the UB School of Pharmacy, will present the "State of the School" address at the noon luncheon. Tours of the UB Pharmacy Museum and Robert Cooper Professional Practice Laboratory and Model Pharmacy will be held 1-3 p.m.in Cooke Hall, North Campus. Special reunion celebrations will be held by the classes of 1947 and 1972, as well as induction of the Class of 1997 into the Pharmacy Alumni Association. For information, call 645-3931, ext. 247.

STEEPLECHASE RUN TO AID NEWMAN CENTERS

The horses will remain in their stalls while the humans participate in the second annual Steeplechase 5K Run and Walk May 10 around the South Campus. The race begins at 10 a.m. in the Parker Lot behind St. Joseph's University Church, 3269 Main St.

The event will benefit activities of Newman Centers on both campuses. I

First-place male and female finishers and the first three finishers in a dozen age categories will win prizes, as well as the first male and female UB finishers. A postrace lawn party will be held near the finish line .

Preregistration is $12 ($16 Canadian); race-day registration is $15 ($20 Canadian). UB students' registration is $10. For registration information, call 636-7495.

ENGLISH PROFS PUBLISH POEMS, ESSAYS, NOVELLA

An essay by Robert J. Daly, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of English, "We Have Really No Country At All," has been published in Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Literature.

A novella by Raymond Federman, Distinguished Professor, Department of English, has been produced as a CD, with Federman as reader. A lecture given by Federman at a Beckett conference in Berlin, Germany, "Samuel Beckett ou le Bonheur en Enfer," appears in a collection of essays in several languages, Komikund Solipsismus im Beckett.

Three poems by Irving Feldman, Distinguished Professor, Department of English, have been published recently-"Of This and That, and the Other, and the Fall of Man," in Raritan; "Episode" and "Bad Brunch" appear in Poetry.

A poem, "Castle on the Rhine," by Mac Hammond, professor emeritus, Department of English, has been published in the Western Humanities Review, University of Utah.

Recently-published essays by Neil Schmitz, professor, Department of English, include "Sherman and Lee" in the Arizona Quarterly; "Wisconsin's Fox River Valley and the Mesquakie: A New Local History," in the Wisconsin Magazine of History.

CLASSICS DEPARTMENT PLANS SESQUI COLLOQUIUM

The Classics Department will hold a Sesquicentennial Colloquium, "The Future of the Past, Classical Studies at the Millennium," on May 2 in Room 330 Student Union, North Campus. The symposium brings together four literary scholars, ancient historians and archaeologists to talk about intellectual frontiers of the discipline.

The times and speakers are:

9:30 a.m., Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago, Coloring the Classics. He has pioneered the study of Greek magic as a phenomenon of Greek religion and social history.

11 a.m., David Fredrick, University of Arkansas, Reading the Roman Body. He has pioneered in the application of film theory and gaze theory to Roman lyric poetry.

2 p.m., Susan Alcock, University of Michigan, The Light at the End of the Tunnel. An archaeologist, she has worked extensively on Greek cult and the landscape and society of Roman Greece.

3:30 p.m., Patricia Rosenmeyer, University of Wisconsin, Reading Statues, Gazing at Text: Mixed Media in the Classics. Her work on the archaic Greek poet Anacreon has taken her not only into the world of archaic poetry but also into the Anacreontic tradition and its manifestations through the Byzantine period.

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM SET FOR MAY 3

A one-day symposium dedicated to discussions in structural biology will be held in the Natural Sciences Complex at UB on May 3. The symposium, organized by Joshua Wand, director of the Center for Structural Biology, is supported by a grant from Fujisawa USA. Speakers will include Joshua Wand, UB; Tom Alber, University of California; Arthur Pardi, University of Colorado; Joachim Frank, the Wadsworth Center; Benoit Roux, University of Montreal; Stephen Sligar, University of Illinois. For more information call 645-7394.

al building, the Roycroft Arts and Crafts community, Richardson's Dorsheimer House and Buffalo State Psychiatric Hospital, and a newly discovered body of work by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, for whom Wright once worked. Boat tours of the Buffalo River grain elevators also will be conducted.