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Cranley named to health system board, state advisory council
Mecca S. Cranley, professor and dean of the School of Nursing, has been named to The Catholic Health System of Western New York's first board of directors. She also has been appointed a member of the New York State Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Advisory Council, which acts in an advisory capacity to the state Department of Health on the administration of federal block-grant funds for the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant.

The Catholic Health System will be one of Western New York's largest non-government employers, consisting of 42 entities, including Mercy Hospital and Sisters Hospital in Buffalo, Kenmore Mercy Hospital in the Town of Tonawanda, Our Lady of Victory Hospital in Lackawanna and St. Joseph Hospital in Cheektowaga.

Each hospital plans to retain its name and medical staff, but all will be governed by a 19-member central board of directors.

Breverman to be juror for exhibition at museum
Harvey Breverman, professor of art, has been selected to serve as a juror in graphics for the 173rd Annual Exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York City. He was elected to the Academy in 1992.

Breverman was recently appointed to the board of directors of Ohio University's Kennedy Museum of Art. This past year, he presented eight solo shows, including a museum retrospective and international venues in Italy, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria and Japan.

Memorabilia of noted African-Americans in Black History exhibit
An exhibition of autographed letters, photographs and other memorabilia of celebrated African-Americans will be presented in celebration of Black History Month in Lockwood Library during the month of February.

The exhibit, to be shown on Lockwood's second floor , is from the collection of Ron Weekes, a member of the University Development staff, who is a collector and dealer in historical documents.

Among the celebrities represented will be: actor/producer Sidney Poitier, author James Baldwin, recording artist Lena Horne, musician Ray Charles, actor/producer/director Bill Cosby, actor/comedian Stepin Fetchit and actor/director Danny Glover.

National Black Law Students Association to hold convention
Nationally known attorney Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., will be a featured speaker at the 30th Northeast Regional Convention of the National Black Law Students Association, to be held Feb. 5-8 in the Buffalo Hilton. The Black Law Students Association in the School of Law is the host chapter. More than 350 black law students are expected to attend the convention, the theme of which is "Leading the Way Today For Tomorrow: Excellence, Service, Professionalism."

Cochran will speak at the Frederick Douglass Luncheon, to be held at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 6. The luncheon is open to the public at a cost of $30 per person.

Three convention dinners also will be open to the public: Speakers at the dinners will be: Hon. Rose H. Sconiers, New York State Supreme Court, Eighth Judicial District, Feb. 5; The Hon. Cornelius Blackshear of U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Feb. 6, and The Hon. Theodore Shaw, associate director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Feb. 7.

For more information on the convention or dinner costs, call 645-2143.

WBFO Advisory Board Plans Meeting
The Advisory Board of WBFO, UB's National Public Radio station, will hold a meeting on Wednesday from 3:30-5 p.m. in 106 Allen Hall on the South Campus. The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call 829-6000.

Softbank co-chairs to be honored as Distinguished Alumni Visitors
Jordan A. Levy and Ronald M. Schreiber, UB alumni and co-chairs of SOFTBANK Services Group, will be honored as the first Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Visitors at a breakfast to be held at 7:30 a.m. Feb. 5 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

The cost for the breakfast, sponsored by the UB Alumni Association, will be $12 for Alumni Association members and $15 for all others. Reservations can be made by calling Judé Schwendler in the Office of Alumni Relations at 829-2608.

At the breakfast, Levy and Schreiber each will be presented with an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Visitor Award, which recognizes outstanding alumni achievement and is given at the request of the deans of the faculties of Arts and Letters, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Sciences.

Following the breakfast, they will meet with students from 9:30-11 a.m. in 280 Park Hall on the North Campus.

Levy and Schreiber are co-founders and former co-CEOs of UCA & L, a company formed from the 1995 merger of Upgrade Corporation of America and Alexander & Lord, Inc. It now is known as SOFTBANK Services Group.

As co-chair of SOFTBANK, Levy guides and oversees the company's national and international sales, client services and operations. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from UB in 1977.

In addition to his position as co-chair of SOFTBANK, Schreiber serves as chair of SOFTBANK Net Solutions, a company formed in 1996 to provide intellectual-property-rights management services in the Internet marketplace. He also is a partner in Delaware AV Distributors, a local leader in distribution and sales of multimedia products, and Copies Inc., one of the largest photocopier distributors and service providers. He received a bachelor's degree from UB in biochemistry and molecular biology in 1975.

Wasserman Conference is Feb. 8
Avner Cohen, senior Jennings Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., will deliver the keynote address at the 12th annual Wasserman Conference, to be held Feb. 8 on the North Campus. Cohen will discuss "Israel: 50 Years After Its Birth-Normalcy or Anomaly?" at 2:15 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre.

Blair Hofherr, editor of the student newspaper ARI, will give a student response, followed by a discussion of "Zionism and Israel: A Musical Relationship" by Deborah Katchko Zimmerman, cantor at Temple Beth El.

The event is sponsored by Hillel of Buffalo. Theme of the program, which kicks off Jewish Awareness Month, will be "Zionism 1897-97/Israel 1948-98." Workshops that will be held from 3-4:10 p.m. include:

- "Zionism: Has It Run Its Course?" by the Hon. Daniel Kutner, counsel for academic affairs-U.S.A. in the Israel Consulate General in New York City

- "What Is In Israel's Future: Can the Arab-Israeli Conflict Ever Be Resolved?" by Avner Cohen

- "American Youth and Israeli Youth: Do We Do the Same Thing? Do We Have the Same Values?" led by a student panel

At the 4:15-5:30 p.m. session, speakers and topics will be:

- "Messianism, Zionism and Israel: Are They Compatible?" by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg, director of the Jewish Discovery Center

- "Israel and the U.S.A.: Are We Still Friends ?" by Jerome Slater, professor of political science

- "Mutual Responsibility: Diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews-Are We One People?" with James Lodge, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, and a student panel.

Registration, which will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Student Union Lobby, is $2, students; $6, members of the community. Reservations for dinner, at 5:35 p.m. in Pistachio's in the Student Union, is $3, students; $6, community members. For more information and dinner reservations, which must be made by Feb. 3, call Hillel Foundation, 835-3832, or the Campus Center for Jewish Life, 639-8361.

Sending data electronically to the Reporter calendar
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History lecture series set on Russia, Germany and Ukraine
The Department of History has scheduled a lecture series for the spring entitled, "Russia, Germany and Ukraine in World War II." The lectures, sponsored by the UB Ukrainian Studies Fund and the history department, will be free and open to the public.

Four of the talks will be held on Fridays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in 532 Park Hall on the North Campus. They are:

- Feb. 13-"The War in Ukraine: An Overview of the Major Events and Controversies," Stephen Velychenko, UB

- Feb. 27-"Caught in the Middle: Ukrainian Refugees between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.," Marta Dyczok, Oxford University

- March 13-"National Identity and Political Loyalties of Ukrainians under Nazi Rule," Karol Berkhoff, University of Toronto

- March 27-"The Poles and the Jews," Peter Wrobel, University of Toronto

A lectures will be presented in Ukrainian from 6-7 p.m. in the Ukrainian National Home, 562 Genesee St., Buffalo. It is:

- April 3-"German Army and SS Archives on Nationalist and Communist Partisans in Ukraine," Alexander Prusin, University of Toronto.

Any cancellations due to weather will postpone the talk to the following Friday.

For more information, contact Stephen Velychenko at 645-2181.

Computer-aided design in architecture to be topic of lecture
Wassim Jabi, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, will discuss the applications of computer-aided design in architecture during a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in 148 Diefendorf Hall, South Campus.

The talk will be free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call 829-3485.

In the first lecture of a spring series to be hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning, Jabi will describe computer-aided design programs in use today, including those used in the architecture school design studios.

A faculty member since 1996, Jabi teaches computer modeling and senior-level and graduate-level electronic studios. His research involves developing a protocol for interaction in computer-supported collaborative design.

A doctoral candidate in computer-supported collaborative design at the University of Michigan, he has published numerous articles on the subject.

Parody of technology in education to be presented Feb.17
Langdon Winner, professor of political science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will present "Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine," a parody of technology in education, at 2 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Student Union Theatre.

Winner, a prominent political theorist who focuses on issues related to technological change, is an author and a former contributing editor at Rolling Stone.

A panel discussion will follow Winner's performance.

The performance, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the vice provost for faculty development in collaboration with the Center for Educational Resources and Technologies. The spring symposium is part of a series on technology and learning.

Celebrated film of "Finnegan's Wake" to be screened Feb. 2
A rare event for James Joyce fans as well as for those who've never been able to figure him out-and it's followed by a pub party!

The Faculty of Arts and Letters and the English Department join the Finnegan's Wake Group of Buffalo to celebrate Joyce's birthday with a rare screening of the critically acclaimed film by Carol Ellen Bute, "Passages from Finnegan's Wake," on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Screening Room.

The film, typical of Bute's poetic studies in light, rhythm and imagination, was a 1965 Cannes prize-winner. It is seldom seen today, however, because only three prints are known to exist. That makes this screening a very rare event.

Admission is free and a reception will follow at the Shannon Pub, 5050 Main St., Amherst.

"Finnegan's Wake" was considered by Joyce to be his masterpiece, but it is a famously difficult read, written as it is in a bricolage of languages, dialects and word games that must be "heard" to be appreciated.

The book is framed to simulate a Dublin pub owner's dream of recounting the history of western civilization. Lyrical, joyous, complex, it is full of a staggering variety of literary, historical, scientific and popular discourses and it is riotously funny as well.

Filmmaker Bute (1906-83) was a pioneer of abstract experimental filmmaking, and made some of the important early kinetic animation films. Many recent developments in computer technology that permit the electronic "painting" of images for use in film and video are outgrowths of Bute's theories. She theorized the possibility of "seeing sound" by uniting music and film in abstract forms and coined the word "abstronics" to refer to the wedding of the abstract and electronic forms.

Sending Letters to the Reporter
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ELI offers English for international professionals
The English Language Institute will offer English classes for non-native-speaking professionals, residents and visitors who want to improve English skills, with courses to begin Feb. 9.

Offerings include Advanced Communication for the International Professional, Advanced Writing and Grammar, Accent Reduction and TOEFL Preparation. All classes are held in the evening. For more information, call 645-2077.

UB's "The Orchestra" featured in international festival
Jean Anouilh's "The Orchestra," a Spring 1997 production by the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center for the Arts, recently was featured as the sole representative of the United States at the prestigious Second Biennial International University Theatre Festival in Spain.

The festival, co-sponsored by the University de Murcia and the Universidad de Alicante, was held in December and included delegations from Belgium, Chile, France, Greece, Mexico, Morocco, Puerto Rico and Spain. It gave UB's Department of Theatre and Dance and student cast of "The Orchestra" a unique opportunity to represent their university, community and country in an international forum, while participating in workshops, seminars, performances and local tours.

The students were able to participate as part of the UB International Artistic and Cultural Exchange Program (IACE), which is committed to fostering a better understanding of multicultural heritages at UB.

UB sponsors included Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international education; Kerry S. Grant, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters; the Center for the Arts; the Council for International Studies and the Department of Theatre and Dance.

TCIE helps GM plant get certification
General Motors Powertrain Division Tonawanda Engine Plant has implemented QS 9000, a new comprehensive quality system, with assistance from The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) at UB.

TCIE provided technical consulting and training to help the Tonawanda facility achieve QS 9000 certification.

The QS 9000 system was developed by Ford, Chrysler and General Motors for use by their suppliers to standardize and improve the quality of products within the automotive industry. Introduced in 1994, QS 9000 is based on the ISO 9000 International Quality System and contains additional requirements focused on continuous improvement and specific automotive-industry needs. It has been applied widely in the automotive industry and beyond.

Des Nordske Veritas (DNV) Certification, Inc. recommended the plant for QS 9000 certification upon completion of a registration audit. All General Motors first-tier suppliers were required to be certified to QS 9000 by the end of last year.

TCIE is based in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and affiliated with the UB School of Management.