Gardella named CAS associate dean for external affairs
Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., professor of chemistry, has been named associate dean for external affairs for the College of Arts and Sciences.

As associate dean, Gardella will be the "point person" for establishing, and maintaining, relationships between the college and industry, the community and government. He also will be involved in junior-faculty mentoring and internship issues.

A member of the UB faculty since 1982, Gardella conducts research that focuses on the solution of molecular and macromolecular structure at surfaces and interfaces, an area that encompasses many aspects of physics, chemistry, materials and engineering.

He has received several academic honors, including a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, a National Science Foundation Award for Special Creativity and an Exxon Educational Foundation Research and Training Program Grant.

FSA to host " Taste of the University"
The Faculty Student Association will hold a "Taste of the University" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Union lobby on the North Campus. This will be the fifth year for this food extravaganza, formerly called "FSA Day."

It is free and open to all members of the university community.

The event will feature free food and beverage samples from more than 20 vendors, including Perry's Ice Cream, Coca-Cola and McCain Fries. Representatives of UB Dining Services also will demonstrate new dining concepts, with samples from Rich's Desserts, The Wokery and Toss it Around Salads. Participants will have the opportunity to give feedback to FSA on new and existing products and services.

Lockwood book sale scheduled
Lockwood Library will hold a book sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the library's Friends of the University Libraries Room.

Paperbacks will be sold for $1, while hard covers will go for $2. All sales are final and only cash will be accepted for purchases. Patrons are asked to enter the sale through the door facing the corridor leading to Clemens Hall.

Proceeds will be used to fund improvements in Lockwood's facilities and services.

"UB Today" sets October lineup
James G. Pappas, associate professor in the Department of African American Studies, will outline events that are being held to celebrate the department's 30th anniversary during the October "UB Today" cable television show.

The half-hour show produced by the Alumni Association for Adelphia cable also will feature Al Harris, gallery director for the Center for the Arts, who will discuss the new exhibit in the Lightwell Gallery; Charles H.V. Ebert, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Geography, who will explain changing weather patterns, and Gerard J. Connors, director of the Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), who will discuss RIA's history and new UB affiliation, as well as its alcohol and substance-abuse research.

A new program of "UB Today " airs and is repeated each month.

The show is broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Sundays on Channel 18 International and Channel 10 in Lancaster, Orchard Park, Clarence and Elma, and at 9 p.m. Mondays on Channel 18 International.

German exchange fellowships available
The German Academic Exchange Service has fellowship opportunities for students interested in studying abroad.

Students from nearly all disciplines-with the exception of dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine-are encouraged to apply for the one-year fellowships.

Applicants must be U.S. or Canadian citizens and enrolled in a full-time graduate program at UB. Foreign nationals also may be eligible to apply.

Students must be working on or have planned a research project that makes a stay in Germany essential. Students in the arts, humanities and social sciences should have a good command of the German language.

For more information, contact Georg G. Iggers at 645-2181, ext. 562, or at 836-1216.

The deadline for submitting applications is Oct. 8.

Victor Rice joins UB Council; Dandes, Gicewicz reappointed
Victor A. Rice has been appointed to the 10-member University at Buffalo Council, the university's local governing council, by Gov. George Pataki.

Rice, a former partner in Olympic V Associates LP and chief executive officer of LucasVarity, Inc. will succeed Lawrence P. Castellani, who resigned.

He has served as a director for Comptek Research, Inc.; International Murex Technologies Corp., and the Louisiana Land and Exploration Co.

In addition, he is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for the UB School of Architecture and Planning.

The governor also has reappointed Jonathan A. Dandes and Edmond J. Gicewicz, M.D., to the council.

A former president of the UB Student Association and the university's Alumni Association, Dandes first was appointed to the council in 1994 by then-Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. He received a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York.

He is executive vice president for Rich Entertainment Group/Rich Products Corp.

Gicewicz was appointed to the council in 1997 to fill the unexpired term of former council chair Philip B. Wels, who resigned.

He holds two UB degrees-a bachelor's degree earned in 1952 and a medical degree earned in 1956.

While pursuing his undergraduate degree, Gicewicz served as captain of the varsity football, basketball and baseball teams, and was named a Little All-American in football. He is a member of the UB Athletic Hall of Fame.

Gicewicz has held appointments as an assistant professor of clinical surgery and an assistant professor of clinical orthopedics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and served as the founder and first medical director of the Sports Medicine Institute.

He has been the medical director and physician-in-attendance for a variety of amateur athletic competitions, including the World University Games. He is a past president of the Williamsville School District Board of Education.

Music department announces October concert schedule
Performances by internationally renowned musicians Ursula Oppens and Lynn Harrell will highlight the Department of Music's October concert series.

Oppens will join the Slee Sinfonietta, UB's professional chamber orchestra, in a performance of Ligeti's Piano Concerto at 8 p.m. Oct. 12 in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus. Oppens is renowned as an interpreter of the established repertoire and a champion of contemporary music. The program also will include a special arrangement of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring for chamber orchestra by the Sinfonietta's conductor, Magnus Martensson.

Harrell-cellist, consummate soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, conductor and teacher-will join pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion in a performance to be held at 8 p.m. Oct. 19 in Slee. He also will teach a master class, which is free and open to the public, at 3 p.m. Oct. 18. in Slee.

Harrell appeared live on the internationally televised 1994 Grammy Awards Show with Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zuckerman, performing an excerpt from the trio's Grammy-nominated complete Beethoven String Trios recording. According to a review in The Boston Globe, "Harrell plays the music with sophisticated understanding, but the way he plays the cello is a natural phenomenon."

Other performances to be held during the month will include the Golove/Manes/Ross Trio on Oct. 4; Organist Jeremy Bruns on Oct. 8; The Bugallo/Williams Piano Duo on Oct. 10; Cassatt String Quartet on Oct. 15; mezzo-soprano Melissa Thorburn and pianist Irene Polya on Oct. 22; flutist Cheryle Gobbetti-Hoffman and pianist Maria de los Angeles Rivera on Oct. 23, and the Amherst Saxophone Quartet on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28. A one-act chamber opera, Mozart and Salieri, will be performed by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakow on Oct. 29. That performance will be free of charge.

For further concert information, visit http://slee.buffalo.edu.

Classical Indian dancer to give solo performance at UB
Indian classical dancer and teacher Pandit Jagdish Gangani will perform at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

A highly regarded practitioner of classical Indian dance, Gangani is a member of the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU) in Vadodara, India, and will come to UB under the auspices of the recently established exchange program between MSU and UB. Gangani will spend two weeks at UB teaching several jazz and tap dance courses in the Department of Theatre and Dance.

He is one of the leading practitioners of Kathak, a major form of classical dance-drama in India that is based on movement taken from life and is characterized by rapid footwork and complex rhythms articulated by the heavy ankle bells the dancers wear.

Gangani's performance will be presented by the Office of International Education, the Center for the Arts, the English Language Institute and Triveni. Tickets are available at the Center for the Arts' Box Office and at all Ticketmaster locations. To charge tickets, call 852-5000. For more information, call 645-ARTS.

UB to present symposium on "literary philosophers"
UB will host a symposium tomorrow and Saturday on "Literary Philosophers? Borges, Calvino, Eco," three distinguished writers known for their metaphysical fiction and intriguing explorations of logic and paradox.

The symposium, sponsored by the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy, will be held from 3-6:30 p.m. tomorrow and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in the Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst. Co-sponsors are the departments of Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Modern Languages and Literatures, all in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The program will feature U.S. and Canadian scholars from the fields of philosophy, comparative literature and modern languages who will discuss their recent work on these authors and methods of exploring philosophy in a literary form.

Novelist and scholar Umberto Eco is a medievalist and author of the widely read novel "The Name of the Rose," which was made into a popular movie.

Jorge Luis Borges was a essayist and short-story writer from Argentina, and Italo Calvino, an Italian novelist and short-story writer.

For more information, contact the Department of Philosophy at 645-2444, ext. 135, or at http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/