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Craft Center sets summer workshops
The Creative Craft Center, located in 29 Harriman Hall, South Campus, will offer summer workshops, beginning the week of July 7.
Workshops are scheduled in basic photography, night photography, aerial photography, practical photography, sailboat photography, eclectic and historic photography, knitting and crocheting, embroidery around the world, watercolor for beginners, techniques in fabric design and mixed media for children.
Workshops will run from 7-10 p.m. one night a week for six weeks. Fees are $40 for UB students and $70 for others. Early sign-up is advised.
For more information, a schedule and a map, call 829-3536 from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday or 7-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday.
Ride for Roswell to be held on June 28 at UB
The Roswell Park Alliance Foundation will sponsor the 8th Annual Ride for Roswell from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on June 28 at Baird Point on the Amherst Campus.
Those interested in joining the fund-raiser for Roswell Park Cancer Institute should collect pledges and participate in one of three biking routes—9, 33 or 62.5 miles—either as an individual or team.
Rest stops, snacks, beverages and support vehicles will be positioned along each route. Following the ride, cyclists and their families are invited to a post-ride picnic and celebration.
Volunteers and volunteer groups also are needed to help with event activities.
Last year's ride raised more than $320,000 for cancer research and patient care. Cyclists raising more than $25,000 qualify for the top fundraising prize—a trip for two to the 2004 Tour De France.
For rider, registration and volunteer details, visit www.ride4roswell.org or call 845-8788. Registration brochures also are available at all Niagara and Erie County Wegmans stores.
Founded in 1991, the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation is a not-for-profit, volunteer organization formed to receive and administer funds to support scientific and clinical research, state-of-the-art medical care and patient-related activities at RPCI.
Social Work to sponsor summer institute
The School of Social Work will sponsor the 18th annual Summer Institute for Advanced Social Work Practice and Addiction Studies, beginning Monday and running through July 28.
Courses will be held in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus, unless otherwise noted. Selected courses also will be held off campus in Rochester, Corning and Jamestown.
The institute will offer a number of graduate social work credit courses, as well as non-credit workshops, seminars and conferences aimed at a wide range of human-services disciplines that include education, mental-health, health and criminal-justice professionals.
Courses, which may be taken for graduate-level credit or on a non-credit basis, include:
A New Mental Health Challenge: Persons with Mental Health Disorders and Severe Developmental Disabilities
Introduction to Alcohol and Other Drug Counseling
Developing Programs for an Integrated Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Treatment System
The Impact of Grief and Loss on Adolescent Behavior
What Human Services Professionals Need to Know about the Juvenile Justice System
Psycho/Social Issues in Palliative Care (to be held in the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, Cheektowaga).
Integrating Spirituality in Social Work Best Practice (to be held in St. Joseph's Villa, Rochester).
Post-Trauma Crisis Intervention for School and Agency Personnel (to be held in the College Center of the Finger Lakes, Corning).
Assessing the Spiritual Strengths of Clients in Mental Health Settings (to be held at Jamestown Community College).
Workshops will include:
Introduction to Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy (TARGET)
Developing Effective Behavioral Health Treatment for Women: Social, Cultural and Developmental Considerations
The "Gang-Thang" Cultural Identity, History, Manifesto, Nuances and Spirituality: Addressing the Problems of Gangs and Gang Violence Through Comprehensive Community-Wide Collaborations
Trauma and the Body: An Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents
Managing Trauma in Our Lives and Coping with Humor
A number of evening workshops also will be offered. They are:
Is There a Graduate Social Work Degree in Your Future? UB School of Social Work MSW and Ph.D. Informational Session
Working with Families of Convicted Offenders
An Introduction to a Relational Model of Substance Abuse Treatment
Understanding the Adolescent Brain: A Workshop for Professionals
The New Neurobiology of Addiction
Relaxation and Adolescents: The Mythical Paradox
Fees vary for courses and workshops. For registration information, call the School of Social Work Office of Continuing Education at 829-3939 or email sw-ce@buffalo.edu. Course information and registration form also are available online by going to http://www.socialwork.buffalo.edu/centers/ContEd/fullindex.htm.
Law Library wins marketing award
The Law Library has won the 2003 American Association of Law Libraries Excellence in Marketing Award for Best Use of Technology for the installation and implementation of a plasma display in the front entrance of the library.
The award will be presented to law library representatives on July 14 at the AALL's annual meeting in Seattle.
The plasma display was installed to serve four main goals, according to James G. Milles, associate dean and director of the Law Library: eliminate the clutter previously caused by printed signs and notices posted throughout the Law Library, provide an effective means of communicating the library's many services and programs to law students and other customers, position the Law Library as a valuable informational conduit for Law School programs and events, and to respond to the need for news and current affairs information within the Law School.
The system was configured so that it could be expanded by adding remote screens at other locations within the Law School, such as the main entrance to the building, or even small screens near the elevators on each floor, Milles says.
"This would enable us to provide directional information and events updates throughout the building, all controlled from a central unit in the Law Library," he notes, adding the installation of the plasma display has generated a great deal of "buzz" across the university.
"Personnel and administration of the other libraries have expressed admiration—and some jealousy—over the new plasma screen, and the Law
Library is known across campus as the first, and so far only, facility to implement this technology," he says.
UB Art Gallery to close on July 4, Sept. 1
The UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, will be closed on Independence Day, July 4, and on Labor Day, Sept. 1.
Regular summer hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The UB Art Gallery is a passport-stamping site for Art on Wheels.
Fall/winter hours, which are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, will resume on Sept. 8.
For more information, call 645-6912.
Summer reading chorus to be offered
The Department of Music is offering a summer reading chorus and that will provide choral enthusiasts with the opportunity to sing through choral masterpieces with leading conductors in a relaxed, informal setting.
The "reading" sessions will take place at 8 p.m. on four Wednesdays in July, beginning on July 9, in 250 Baird Hall, North Campus. Admission is $5 at the door.
Participants will meet choral singers from throughout the region while learning new repertoire in an air-conditioned space. Musical scores, light refreshments and free parking will be provided. For more information, call 645-2765 or email Harold Rosenbaum, UB's director of choral activities, at hrconductor1@aol.com.
The schedule:
July 9, Vivaldi's "Requiem," with Debi Overton, director of music, Calvary Episcopal Church, Williamsville, and chair of the Music Commission of the Western New York Diocese.
July 16, Handel's "Messiah," with Mark DiGiampaolo, director of music, St. Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo.
July 23, Mozart's "Requiem" with William Weinert, director of choral activities, Eastman School of Music.
July 39, with Faure's "Requiem" and Holst's "Christmas Day," directed by Roland Martin, professor of organ and vocal coach at UB and choirmaster and organist at St. Joseph University Church.
Program to focus on careers in bioinformatics
Education and training for careers in bioinformatics and related fields will be the focus of a free public program to be held from 5:30-9 p.m. June 26 in Capen Hall, North Campus.
Check-in from 5:30-6 p.m. in the lobby of Capen Hall will be followed by presentations on "What is Bioinformatics All About?" and "Education and Training for Bioinformatics Careers," presented, respectively, by Bruce A. Holm, senior vice provost, and Bruce Pitman, vice provost for education technology. The presentations will be held in Woldman Theatre in Norton Hall, adjacent to Capen.
The program also will include an "interactive tech fair" involving demonstrations of emerging technologies, including molecular medicine, genetic modeling, robotic surgery, lasers, photonics and nanotechnology. Tours of the Center for Computational Research, one of the world's leading supercomputing centers, also will be held.
Pre-registration for the program, for which space is limited, is required and may be completed by calling 645-6404 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays.
The program is part of "UBThisSummer," a series of workshops, lectures, summer camps and programs designed to provide educational opportunities for community members of all ages. Information about programs and activities may be obtained at http://www.UBThisSummer.net.