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PSS to honor award winners
The Professional Staff Senate will hold its annual luncheon meeting honoring professional staff award winners from noon to 1 p.m. May 21 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
The winners of this year's Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service will be announced at the meeting.
The cost of the luncheon, open to all members of the professional staff, is $16. Reservations must be made by May 15 by contacting the PSS Office, 543 Capen, at 645-2003.
UCI to present Art Walk
The Bailey Avenue Art Walk featuring artwork from area schools and members of the University Community Fight Blight Youth Team will run through June 7 along Bailey Avenue between Winspear Avenue and Phyllis.
Guides for the Art Walk are available at participating businesses, Kensington-Bailey Neighborhood Housing Services, University District Councilmember Betty Jean Grant's office and by contacting the University Community Initiative (UCI) at 829-3099.
The guide also is available on the UCI Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/uci. Click on "Events."
The Art Walk is sponsored by UCI and its Fight Blight Public Education Campaign, together with the Bailey Amherst District Management Association and Kensington-Bailey Neighborhood Housing Services.
Under the Flight Blight program UCI's Regional Community Policing Center (RCPC) works with local businesses and youth to change attitudes about vandalism, graffiti, illegal trash dumping and deferred maintenance in neighborhoods surrounding UB's South Campus.
UCI is a collaborative partnership led by UB, the City of Buffalo and the towns of Amherst, Tonawanda and Cheektowaga to stabilize, rebuild and revitalize the neighborhoods surrounding the South Campus.
For more information, contact UCI at 829-3099.
Durham to read as part of "Meet the Author" series
Shirley Dusinberre Durham, author of "Mr. Ryder's Trophy," will give a reading from her book at 7 p.m. Monday in the auditorium of Allen Hall, South Campus, as part of the "Meet the Author" series presented by WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.
Durham's reading also will be broadcast live on WBFO. The Allen Hall presentation will be free and open to the public. Bert Gambini, WBFO music director, will host the session.
The radio station will present the reading in cooperation with Talking Leaves Books. A reception and book signing will be held following the reading.
A professional artist specializing in children's portraits, Durham wrote and illustrated "Mr. Ryder's Trophy," her first novel, at the age of 76. She is a long-time rules official for the U.S. Golf Association and a recently retired committee member. She competed in three U.S. Senior Women's Amateur Championships and has won her own club's championship in four consecutive decades.