The convocation, which will feature remarks from President William
R. Greiner, will honor and recognize members of the campus community
for outstanding achievement.
Astronaut Ellen Shulman Baker, a 1974 graduate of UB, was to have
received a SUNY honorary doctor of science degree at the ceremony, but
NASA has cancelled astronaut appearances around the country for security
reasons following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon.
The date and time of Shulman's honorary degree conferral will be announced.
Greiner to address voting faculty
President William R. Greiner will deliver his annual "Address to the
Voting Faculty" at 2 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Center for Tomorrow, North
Campus.
In his talk, Greiner will focus on UB's mission and vision for the
next five years and beyond, drawing heavily on SUNY's and UB's recently
completed mission-review process.
All faculty and staff members are encouraged to attend.
Trevisan named interim dean of HRP
Maurizio Trevisan, professor and chair of the Department of Social
and Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
has been named interim dean of the School of Health Related Professions,
effective Sept. 1.
Trevisan succeeds Mark Kristal, professor of psychology, who has returned
to the faculty. Kristal had served as interim dean of HRP for about
18 months.
A search for a permanent dean has been under way since the death of
Frank Brady in November 1999, just a month after he assumed the dean's
position.
In addition to serving as SPM chair, Trevisan is director of the Center
for Preventive Medicine, part of the Women's Health Initiative.
A UB faculty member since 1985, Trevisan's current research is focused
on cardiovascular disease epidemiology.
He earned a medical degree from the University of Naples Medical School
in Naples, Italy, and a master's degree in epidemiology from UB.
Architect to speak at Emeritus meeting
Architect Oscar Seamus Traynor will discuss "Letchworth Village: Assisted
Living Housing in a Multi-level Care Community" during the Emeritus
Center's October meeting, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear
Hall on the South Campus.
Traynor was to have spoken at the Emeritus Center's Sept. 11 meeting,
but the meeting was rescheduled due to the terrorist attacks that day
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Traynor's talk will focus on preferred approaches to designing assisted
living facilities.
The program is open to all members of the UB community.
For more information, contact the Emeritus Center at 829-2271.
Benefit concert planned
The Buffalo Chips and the Royal Pitches, UB's male and female a cappella
groups, will present a concert to benefit the ASPCA Disaster Relief
Fund and the American Red Cross at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Slee Concert
Hall, North Campus.
Admission is $7 for students and $10 for the general public. Tickets
will be available at the door.
Korean artist to perform
Korean komungo artist Jin Hi Kim will present a free concert at 8 p.m.
Oct. 11 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
The program, entitled Komungo Muse and Permutation, will be presented
as part of a three day residency at UB by Kim and is co-sponsored by
the Korean Language and Culture Program, the Birge-Cary Chair in Music,
the Asian Studies Program and the Dae-Han Foundation.
The komungo is a musical instrument indigenous to Korea, originating
in the fourth century in the northern part of the country. The six-stringed,
fretted board zither mainly was used in the court music orchestra and
kagok ensemble for the performance of aristocratic lyric songs.
Kim's entire program will feature her own compositions. She has created
a wide array of pioneering compositions for the komungo as a soloist,
as well as collaborating with leading Western contemporary classical
musicians, jazz musicians, improvisers and computer MIDI systems to
produce compositions for the world's only electric komungo.
Nominations are sought for Distinguished Professors
The Office of the Provost is seeking nominations of faculty members
for promotion to the ranks of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
and Distinguished Service Professor.
Nominations also are being sought for the Chancellor's Awards for
Excellence in Teaching.
The title of Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in
the SUNY system, is awarded by the SUNY Board of Trustees. It is an
order above full professorship.
The Distinguished Service Professor must have achieved a reputation
for service—not only to the campus and the university, but also to the
community.
The Distinguished Teaching Professor must have consistently demonstrated
outstanding competence over a period of years and is expected to devote
a considerable proportion of time to curricular reform and to the improvement
of instruction on campus.
The Chancellor's Award recognizes outstanding teaching with the primary
criterion being an extensive record of consistently superior teaching,
as well as sound scholarship and service.
Those wishing to submit nominations for any of these awards should
contact the relevant dean's office for information and guidelines.
The deadline is Oct. 15.
SOM to honor McGuire
Frank J. McGuire, chairman of The McGuire Group, has been named 2001
"Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year" by the School of Management.
The award will be presented at the 52nd annual awards banquet of the
School of Management Alumni Association, to be held at 5:30 p.m. Nov.
7 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
Established in 1949, the Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year award
honors a resident of the Niagara Frontier who has distinguished himself
or herself in a career marked by executive success, a proven willingness
to assume a leadership role in civic affairs and a demonstration of
high personal integrity.
McGuire is the founder and chairman of The McGuire Group, comprised
of 26 companies involved principally in the business of construction,
health care, commercial real estate development, real estate management,
financing, apartment projects, condominium projects, shopping centers
and industrial real estate.
In addition to his business enterprises, McGuire is a strong proponent
and active participant in business and economic development initiatives.
He previously served as chairman of the Greater Buffalo Chamber of Commerce
and the Western New York Economic Development Corporation, during which
time he also served as director of the New York State Urban Development
Corporation and Waterfront Development Corporation for the City of Buffalo.
Baking for SEFA
Does everyone tell you that you bake wonderful cookies?
Use your culinary talents to support a worthy cause—SEFA—by participating
in the Cookie Bake-off and Sale, to be held at noon Oct. 18 in the Student
Union.
A panel of celebrity judges will sample contestants' tasty treats
and determine UB's top cookie baker.
Cookies and copies of participants' recipes will be sold to benefit
SEFA.
More information on the bake-off and an entry form are available online
at http://wings.buffalo.edu/sefa
under "News and Events."
Poetry reading rescheduled
A reading by Korean poet Myung Mi Kim, which was cancelled due to the
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has been
rescheduled for Nov. 2.
The reading, which is part of the Wednesdays at 4 PLUS literary series,
will begin at noon in 120 Clemens Hall.
Series organizers also have announced that poet Ann Lauterbach's reading
will take place at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in 438 Clemens. The date and time
of the reading were printed incorrectly on the series poster.
CAS lecture set
So, what does a 19th century mystical poet and artist have in common
with the nubile babes of "Sex in the City"? Quite a bit, according to
Diane Christian, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department
of English.
In a public presentation on Oct. 15, Christian will explore images
of erotic affirmation found in artist/poet William Blake's nude engraving,
"Glad Day," and in the erotic persona of actress Sara Jessica Parker
in the HBO , "Sex and the City."
Christian's talk, the second in the 2001-02 College of Arts and Sciences
Lecture Series, will take place at 8 p.m. in the Screening Room of the
Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
PSS to present video series
"How to Listen and Double Your Influence" will be the first presentation
in the Fall 2001 Brown Bag Video Series sponsored by the Professional
Staff Senate and its Development Committee.
All presentations in the series will be held at noon at both North
and South Campus sites. The series is co-sponsored by the Leadership
Development Center.
"How to Listen" will be held on Tuesday in 100 Allen Hall, South Campus,
and repeated on Oct. 11 in 330 Student Union, North Campus.
The 20-minute video will give simple straightforward tips on how to
be a better listener.
The second presentation in the series, "Leading on the Creative Edge,"
will be held on Nov. 1 in 100 Allen Hall and repeated on Nov. 6 in 330
Student Union.
This 70-minute video will show viewers how to become more creative
and lead their group/organization in better and more creative ways.
The final installment in the series, "No-Brainers: The Video Guides
to Life in Public Speaking," will be held on Nov. 27 in 100 Allen Hall
and repeated on Nov. 29 in 330 Student Union.
This one-hour video guide will help ease participants' anxiety and
walk them through the fundamentals of public speaking.
Anyone interested in attending should call the PSS office at 645-2003
or email the office at pssenate@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Utopian scholars to meet
For thousands of years, many of humankind's most brilliant thinkers
from fields as varied as social philosophy, engineering, art and science
fiction have described "utopias"—visionary societies whose inhabitants
live in what appear to be perfect conditions. They also have constructed
imaginative "dystopias" or "anti-utopias,"—imaginary places in which
people live dehumanized, often fearful lives.
Many of these idealized and de-idealized realms will be under discussion
this weekend when the Society for Utopian Studies, an international,
interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in
all its forms, will hold its 26th annual meeting in the Hyatt Regency
Hotel.
The conference will be co-sponsored by the School of Architecture
and Planning; Lynda Schneekloth, professor of architecture, is one of
the conference organizers. For information, contact Schneekloth at 883-4075.
The conference will open at 7 p.m. today with a presentation by Michael
Frisch, professor of history and a senior research scholar at UB. His
talk, "An Insufficiently Utopian Moment," will reflect upon Buffalo's
Pan American Exposition's centennial celebration and the imaginative
uses to which we put history.
Several other UB faculty members, including Bottie Ott and Beth Tauke,
both associate professors of architecture, will participate in sessions.
