Greiner to appear on WBFO call-in show
President William R. Greiner will be the guest for "The Talk of the University," a call-in talk show being aired from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday on WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.

Dennis R. Black, vice president for student affairs, will join Greiner for the hour of questions on topics of interest to members of the university community.

WBFO is streamed live via the Internet at the station's Web site at http://www.WBFO.org.

Listeners can ask questions by calling 829-6000.

Teaching series set
The first in a series of special presentations on "Teaching, Learning & Technology: Best Uses of New Tools" will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. March 15 in the Screening Room of the Center for Arts, North Campus.

The series, sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning Resources (CLTR) and the Educational Technology Center (ETC), is designed to spotlight UB faculty who have developed innovative uses of educational technologies and techniques to enhance their courses and to add value to the learning experience of their students.

Presenters will demonstrate Web sites, computer modeling, digital multimedia, interactive communications, problem-solving techniques and various uses of Blackboard on UBlearns. They also will discuss the origins, development and resource requirements of their course projects, all of which involve educational technologies easily available on campus. In addition to technology issues, presentations also will focus on benefits—and hazards—for students.

The March 15 event will feature a presentation by Clyde Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and director of the University Honors Program, and Carole Ann Fabian, arts and humanities librarian, on "The Evolution of 'Evolutionary Biology' (Bio 200)." Other presenters will be Kathleen Kost, assistant professor of social work, on "Exploring Change in the Virtual Village" and Shahin Vassigh, assistant professor of Architecture, on "New Models in Visual Communication."

All UB faculty and other instructors are welcome to attend. Although the event is free of charge, reservations must be made by calling ETC at 645-7700 or by email to at2@buffalo.edu.

For more information, contact: Jeannette Molina, associate director of CLTR, at 645-7788 or jmolina@buffalo.edu, or David Willbern, director of ETC, at 645-7700, or willbern@buffalo.edu.

Forum on Afghan women to be held
The Buffalo/Niagara Coalition of Women's Rights will present "Women of Afghanistan: A Community Forum" from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Downtown YWCA, 190 Franklin St., Buffalo.

The panel discussion will feature Susan Safi Rafiq, founder of Afghan Women Association International, and LaShawn Jefferson, executive director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.

Offering the local perspective will be LaVonne Ansari, director of Equity and Diversity for Niagara Community College, and Sawsan Tabbaa Shibly, post-doctoral associate in the UB Department of Orthodontics.

The forum is sponsored by the International Institute, YWCA of Western New York, the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Chautauqua Institution and the UB Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG).

The Buffalo/Niagara Coalition on Women's Rights is a newly formed, broad-based coalition of local women whose mission is to spread the understanding that women's rights are human rights and to promote those rights here and abroad. This community forum is the coalition's first undertaking.

The cost of the forum, which includes the program and lunch, is $20 for general admission and $10 for students and those with restricted incomes.

Contributions from the proceeds will be given to support women's initiatives in Afghanistan.

Anyone interested in attending should call Pat Shelly at IREWG at 829-3451.

Emeritus meeting set
Nadine D. Fisher, assistant professor of occupational therapy and clinical assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine, will discuss "Exercise for Aging and Arthritis" at the next meeting of the Emeritus Center, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear Hall, South Lounge, on the South Campus.

The meeting is free of charge and open to all members of the UB community.

For further information, contact the Emeritus Center at 829-2271.

Osheroff to deliver Rustgi lecture
Douglas D. Osheroff, the 1996 Nobel laureate in physics, will deliver the 2002 Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture at 4:30 p.m. March 15 in 225 Natural Sciences Complex, North Campus.

	Douglas Osheroff as Superfluidman

The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Physics, will be free of charge and open to the public.

J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics at Stanford University, Osheroff has titled his lecture "What Really Happens at Absolute Zero?" While it is commonly believed that all motion ceases at absolute zero—an idea consistent with our every day experience—that is far from the truth. Osheroff will show, using simple ideas borrowed from modern physics, why various types of motion must exist at absolute zero, and will describe some of the remarkable but fragile ordered states of matter that exist at extremely low temperatures.

Osheroff, a graduate of Caltech, shares the Nobel Prize with David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson, both faculty members at Cornell University. The trio worked in the low-temperature laboratory at Cornell in the early 1970s—Osheroff was pursuing his doctorate—and won the prize for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.

Osheroff has continued his research in the field, conducting research centered around studies of quantum fluids and solids and gasses at ultra-low temperatures. Current work in quantum fluids and solids includes studies of transport properties in nuclear magnetically ordered solid 3He, studies of the B phase nucleation in superfluid 3He, and experimental searches for new magnetically ordered, two-dimensional phases of both solid and liquid 3He on graphite surfaces.

Osheroff began his career in the Solid State and Low Temperature Research Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining the Stanford faculty in 1987. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

He is the recipient of the Simon Memorial Prize (1976), the Oliver E. Buckley Prize (1981), a "genius award" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1981) and the Walter J. Gores Award for Teaching from Stanford (1991).

For further information, contact the Department of Physics at 645-2017, email Michael G. Fuda at fuda@buffalo.edu or go to the Physics Web site at www.physics.buffalo.edu.

SOM to offer new program
The School of Management will offer a new Master's of Science program in Supply Chains and Operations Management (MS-SC&OM), beginning in the fall.

The full-time, 30-credit program can be completed in one year. It is designed to meet the needs of professionals who intend to assume leadership positions in supply-chain management or manufacturing- and service-operations management. Entering students will be expected to possess an undergraduate or graduate degree in business.

The degree program was developed in response to feedback from industry practitioners, says program coordinator Nallan Suresh, professor of management science and systems.

"The advent of new information systems and technologies, along with new planning and coordination mechanisms, has created unprecedented opportunities for companies to improve their supply chains," says Suresh. "By developing a coordinated response of the entire value chain, companies can vastly improve operations throughout the supply chain and be more responsive to the needs of customers, suppliers and distributors."

The program requires completion of nine courses, offered by the School of Management and the Department of Industrial Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as completion of an interactive project at a local business or organization.

For more information about the program, call 645-3204 or go to www.mgt.buffalo.edu.

Fulbright competition opens
Applications for the Fulbright Scholar Program, which offers lecturing/research awards in 140 countries, now are being accepted.

Opportunities are available not only for college and university faculty and administrators, but also for professionals from business and government, as well as artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others.

Traditional Fulbright awards are available from two months to an academic year or longer. A new, short-term grants program—the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program—offers two-to-six-week grants in a variety of disciplines and fields.

The deadline for most awards is Aug. 1.

For more information, visit the Web site of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars at http://www.iie.org/cies/, and/or contact CIES at (202) 686.4000, or contact Mark A. Ashwill, Fulbright program adviser, at 645-2292 or ashwill@buffalo.edu..

CAS to offer $1,000 grad scholarships
The College of Arts and Sciences will offer $1,000 tuition scholarships to seniors graduating from any program at UB who enroll for a minimum of 12 graduate hours per semester for two consecutive semesters in a department or program within the CAS.

The scholarships entail no work obligation, are available only to UB graduates and may not be applied to graduate programs outside the CAS.

The scholarships are for one academic year and will be paid out in two installments of $500 in the Fall 2002 and Spring 2003 semesters. Funding for the awards is limited and students are encouraged to apply as early as possible. The deadline for receipt of all applications is July 1.

Those interested can find an application form and eligibility criteria on the CAS Scholarship Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/cas/dean/casscholarships.html. The applicant must download the application form, sign it and send it to the graduate program to which he or she is applying. Once formally admitted to the program, the department will forward a copy of the applicant's signed scholarship acceptance letter to the CAS Dean's Office. The award confirmation letter will be mailed directly to the student.

For more information, contact Joseph Syracuse, CAS enrollment manager, at 645-2711.

Donny Osmond to perform in CFA
The Center for the Arts and UB Athletics Special Events will present Donny Osmond in concert at 8 p.m. April 11 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA on the North Campus.

For more than 35 years, the world has watched Donny Osmond develop from a cherubic little boy singing on TV with his older brothers to a seasoned performer.

Among his most recent successes is the lead role in the Canadian and U.S. tour of the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."

Tickets for Donny Osmond are $42.50, $37.50 and $32.50, and are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations. For more information, call 645-ARTS.

Dancers to meet
The UB Ballroom Dancing Team will hold its first meeting of the semester at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union Lobby, North Campus.

Participation in the club is open to all members of the university community.

The club provides instruction in ballroom dancing, as well as fielding a competition team.

For further information, contact Richard Hu at 645-1260.

UB to host anthropology meeting
Primate evolution, Neanderthal life and the interpretation of human bone will be among the enormous array of topics to be covered April 9-13 when the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), the largest association of physical anthropologists in the world, meets in Buffalo for the organization's 71st annual conference.

UB will host the meeting, which will take place in the Adams Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo.

Ted Steegmann and Joyce Sirianni, professors of anthropology, and Christine Duggleby, associate professor of anthropology, are handling local arrangements for the conference.

Physical anthropology is a biological science that deals with the adaptations, variability and evolution of human beings and their living and fossil relatives. Because it studies human biology in the context of human culture and behavior, physical anthropology also is a social science.

Steegman says conference participants will offer scientific sessions whose topics reflect the diversity of our species and its closest relatives, the primates.

"The topic of greatest interest to the scientific community and to the general public is human evolution," he says, "and there will be papers presented on Neanderthals, their ancestors from Africa and Asia, and one of our earliest forerunners, the australopithecines.

"Because we study our species and evolution in the broadest context, there will be presentations on primate behavior, human adaptation and genetics, interpretation of human bone, racial variation and nutrition," he says, adding that there also will be special plenary sessions, exhibits of books and teaching materials, and a pressroom to accommodate interviews with participants.

The annual meetings of several learned societies affiliated with the AAPA, including the Paleopathology Association and the Human Biology Association, also will be held in Buffalo during the AAPA conference.

The AAPA publishes the quarterly American Journal of Physical Anthropology, more than 100 original scientific papers a year, as well as the abstracts and proceedings from the AAPA's annual meetings and other official AAPA documents and notices.