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Jemison to deliver King address
Mae C. Jemison, astronaut, physician, engineer and entrepreneur, will deliver the keynote address at the 27th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event at UB.
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Jemison will speak at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The lecture is sponsored by the Minority Faculty & Staff Association.
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut for six years, Jemison became the first woman of color to go into space when she blasted into orbit as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Sept. 12, 1992.
After resigning from NASA in 1993, she founded The Jemison Group, Inc., a Houston-based firm dedicated to researching, developing and implementing advanced technologies suited to the social, political, cultural and economic context of the individual, especially those living in the developing world. Current projects include a satellite-based telecommunication system to improve health care in West Africa and an international science camp for students ages 12-16 that features an experimental curriculum.
She also created BioSentient, a medical-technology company that develops and markets mobile equipment worn to monitor the body's vital signs and train people to respond favorably in stressful situations.
Born in Decatur, Ala., and raised in Chicago, Jemison entered Stanford University at age 16 on a scholarship. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and fulfilled the requirements for a bachelor's degree in African and Afro-American studies. She earned her medical degree at Cornell University Medical College, practicing medicine as a volunteer in a Cambodian refugee camp and as a medical officer with the Peace Corps in West Africa.
She was working as a general practitioner in Los Angeles when NASA selected her and 14 others for astronaut training.
An A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, Jemison serves on the board of directors for Scholastic Inc. and Valspar Corporation. She was selected as one of the top seven women leaders in a 1999 Presidential Ballot national straw poll conducted by The White House. In 2001, she was elected into the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine; she also has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the National Medical Association Hall of Fame.
Ticket prices for Mae Jemison range from $6 to $14 and may be purchased at the Center for the Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Nominations sought for Fleming awards
The UB Alumni Association and the University Student Alumni baord are seeking nominations for the J. Scott Fleming Merit Awards.
Established in 1985, the Fleming awards recognize full-time undergraduate and graduate students whose volunteer and leadership efforts have helped to promote student involvement at UB and have enhanced the student experience.
Four $500 scholarships will be awarded on April 4. Anyone who knows of a deserving student is encouraged to have the student submit a nomination. Students must self-nominate. Forms may be obtained in the Student Association office and the Student Union information booth.
The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
For more information, call 829-2608.
EAP to offer lunchtime presentations
The Employee Assistance Program has scheduled two lunchtime presentations designed for UB employees, retirees and their families.
"An Introduction to Career Services" will be presented by Michael Rivera, a career advisor in the Office of Career Services, from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday in 145A Student Union, North Campus. The presentation will offer information about Career Services' Resource Library and ways employees can enrich their work outlook through self-assessment, career exploration and techniques to achieve lifelong career satisfaction and success.
"It Starts with the Courage to Call," a presentation about BryLin Hospital, Western New York's sole private psychiatric and addiction medicine treatment facility, will be held from 1-2 p.m. March 12 in 210 Student Union, North Campus. The session will be led by Mark Nowak, of BryLin Hospital, who will give an overview of services, admission criteria, how to access services and insurance issues.
Both sessions are free of charge, but reservations must be made by contacting Glenda Stahura at 645-2802 or stahura@buffalo.edu.
For more information about the Employee Assistance Program, go to http://wings.buffalo.edu/eap.
Sleep seminar scheduled
Approximately one in five working-age adults—between 30 and 40 million Americans—suffers from a serious sleep disorder. These include work schedule and Circadian rhythm disruptions, insomnia, snoring and its effect on sleep, drowsy driving and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS).
Two UB faculty members will be among the speakers at a free seminar for Western New York employers designed to examine how sleep disorders can impact employee productivity and what they can do about it.
The Western New York Employer "Listen Up!!" Health Seminar on Employee Alertness and Productivity will be held from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the Adams Mark Hotel, 120 Church St., Buffalo.
It is sponsored by The Research Center for Stroke and Heart Disease at The Jacobs Neurological Institute, Buffalo General Hospital of Kaleida Health, and the Niagara Health Quality Coalition.
Among the speakers will be Daniel Rifkin, medical director of the Sleep Disorder Center of Western New York and assistant professor of neurology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Sandra Block, a sleep disorders medicine specialist and UB assistant professor of neurology.
Rifkin will discuss drowsiness, sleep and productivity in the workplace and improvements in productivity; Block will provide the medical definitions and problems of sleep disorders.
Also speaking at the seminar will be Allan Pack, chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine and director of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia. Pack will discuss obstructive sleep apnea (snoring) and his research on sleep deprivation in long-haul truck drivers.
Seminar attendees may participate in workshop groups led by the speakers at the conclusion of the program.
For more information or to make a reservation, call the Research Center for Stroke and Heart Disease at 859-3900 or visit its Web site at http://www.strokeheart.org.
UB's Hamady collection to be exhibited at Grolier Club
Works by legendary bookmaker and printer Walter S. Hamady from the holdings of UB's Poetry and Rare Books Collection is being exhibited in the Grolier Club in New York City, the oldest and largest society for book lovers in the United States.
The Grolier Club's "Walter Hamady & The Perishable Press Ltd.: A Retrospective Exhibition (1964-2002)" opened yesterday and will run through April 26. It is curated by Robert Bertholf, curator of the Poetry and Rare Books Collection. The exhibit features several books handmade by Hamady, including titles by poets Paul Blackburn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Robert Creeley, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities, and SUNY Distinguished Professor in the UB Department of English.
The UB Alumni Association will offer UB alumni a special viewing of the exhibit at 11 a.m. on March 22.
Noted for its fine handmade paper, distinguished typography and unique colophons, Hamady's Perishable Press challenged traditional notions of the book. Over the years, his press has produced a body of work highly sought after by collectors—books prized for their meticulous and complex physical structures, quirkiness and inventive collaborations between typesetter, binder and illustrator.
"Hamady's books are as much works of art as they are unique printed texts," explains Bertholf. "They represent the very best in handmade papermaking and printing."
Hamady established his Perishable Press Ltd. in 1964 at his home in Mount Horeb, Wis., where he still continues the process of papermaking, printing and binding of books. UB's Hamady holdings consist of more than 130 books acquired by the Poetry and Rare Books Collection, which is renowned for its James Joyce, Robert Graves and William Carlos Williams collections,
"Beatlemania" discounts available
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is offering UB faculty and staff discount tickets to its performance of "Beatlemania" at 7:30 p.m. on May 23 in Kleinhans Music Hall.
Fans of the Beatles will not want to miss this full scale orchestration of Beatles' music as it was originally recorded, with four members of the original Broadway cast..
Tickets will be offered for the discount prices of $37 for Section A, $31 for Section B, $24 for Section C and $18 for Section D.
Student pricing also is available.
To order tickets, contact Pamela Giangreco-Marotta, group sales coordinator for the BPO, at 885-0331 or groupsales@bpo.org.
Auction to raise funds for fellowships
Want to feel good while snagging a bargain? Then attend the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program auction, to be held from 7-10 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
UB Law School students who work over the summer at law firms or corporate law departments often earn big bucks. But for those whose passion for the law runs to public-interest work, there is a pesky little problem of money: Most public-interest internships pay nothing. How is a struggling student to survive?
Enter the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program, a student-run program that is one of the UB Law School's most active and most successful. Founded to help students take internships in public-interest settings, the group awards fellowships to UB law students to help make that financially possible. Last year, seven students each received BPILP fellowships of about $3,500 for the summer.
Much of this money is raised at a live and silent auction. This year, auction items include a Uzbekistan embroidered bedspread, a home-cooked Indian meal for four prepared by UB law professor Shubha Ghosh, tickets to performances in Shea's, memberships to the Jewish Community Center and restaurant gift certificates.
Tickets are $30 and may be purchased by email or telephone via credit card, or by mail via check or credit card. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. Top-shelf open bar and hors d'oeuvres are included.
Donations also will be accepted. To purchase tickets, to make a cash or auction-item donation to BPILP, or for more information, contact: Sue Schwing at 645-2056 or sschwing@acsu.buffalo.edu.
EOP wins national award
The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) of the Center for Academic Development Services has been recognized as operating one of the top three non-credit summer programs in higher education in the nation.
EOP's summer program received the Meritorious Award for Creative and Innovative Summer Programs for its 2002 Pre-Freshman Summer Program at the North American Association of Summer Sessions (NAASS) annual conference.
The award highlights important curriculum development and recognizes creativity and administrators who make outstanding contributions to the operation and management of summer programs. The programs were judged on creativity, uniqueness, benefit to students, the sponsoring institution and/or community, and adaptability to other institutions.
EOP identifies and enrolls talented, but financially and academically disadvantaged New York State high school students. The EOP Pre-Freshman Summer Program is a three to four week adjustment and orientation program for approximately 200 EOP students who will be entering UB as freshmen in the fall.
A highly structured and intensive program, it is designed to facilitate the transition from high school to the academic rigors of attending a major research university. The curriculum is linked to the university's general education requirements and integrates a multicultural approach and strong critical inquiry component.
The Pre-Freshman Summer Program is funded by the SUNY Office of Opportunity Programs, as well as through a dissemination grant from the Brooklyn College U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) Grant and UB.
American College Dance Festival to convene at UB
More than 600 university dance students and faculty from the Northeastern United States will convene on the North Campus March 12-15 for the Northeast Regional American College Dance Festival.
The festival, which is being hosted by the Center for the Arts and the Department of Theatre & Dance, will include master classes, concerts and panel discussions. In addition, a panel of internationally renowned guest artists will adjudicate dance works presented by the participants.
The public will have a rare opportunity to see some of the best choreography in the country during a Gala Dance Concert, scheduled for 8 p.m. March 15 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, that will feature the adjudicators' selections of the best dance works presented at the festival.
The American College Dance Festival Association's (ACDFA) primary focus is to support and promote the wealth of talent and creativity that is prominent throughout college and university dance programs. ACDFA's sponsorship of regional and national dance festivals provides the venue for students to engage in workshops, lectures, demonstrations and master classes taught by instructors from around the country.
The festivals also provide the unique opportunity for students and faculty to have their dance works adjudicated by a panel of nationally recognized dance professionals in an open and constructive forum.
Culminating with the presentation of pieces selected for their exemplary artistic quality, the festivals are the primary means for college and university dance programs to perform outside their own academic setting and be exposed to the diversity of the national college dance world.
Tickets for the American College Dance Festival's Gala Dance Concert are $12 and may be obtained at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, visit the CFA's Web site at http://www.arts.buffalo.edu or call 645-ARTS.