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Bullough lecture to be held today
Mary A. Blegen, professor and interim associate dean for research in the School of Nursing at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, will present the sixth annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture, to be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus
Her lecture will be titled "Quality Patient Care: Links to Nurse Staffing."
The lecture, named for the late dean of the School of Nursing, is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Call 829-2533.
Blegen has numerous active research projects, including a national study of nurse staffing and the quality of patient care, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research; a study of the validity of quality indicators in long-term care—including nurse staffing levels—to determine which would be useful in a Nursing Home Report Card, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); the Description of Nurses' Medication Administration Activities and the Safety Climate on Acute Care Units, funded by AHRQ, and Nursing Care Unit Report Cards in Acute Care.
Her teaching areas have included the analysis of health-care outcomes (effectiveness research), research methods and analysis, construction of nursing theory and health-care systems and policy.
Blegen received a bachelor's degree in nursing from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., and a master's degree in nursing and a doctorate in sociology, both from the University of Iowa.
UB license plates are now available
UB alumni and supporters who reside in New York State now can show their "UB pride" with new custom license plates that have been approved by the State Department of Motor Vehicles.
The colorful blue-and-white design features an interlocking UB logo.
The passenger version includes three numbers ranging from 100 to 999, followed by the letters BUF, and a UB tagline across the bottom. The commercial version features four numbers and two letters, with the word "commercial" as the tagline.
Both the personalized and standard versions of the UB custom license plate will help support the university's official alumni efforts in New York State. Alumni Association members contribute $5 as part of their discounted $39.50 initial cost of the standard UB plate; non-members contribute $10 as part of their $44.50 fee. The annual renewal fee for the standard version is $25.
A personalized UB plate with a choice of up to six characters may be purchased for an initial cost of $68 for Alumni Association members; the initial cost for non-members is $73. The annual renewal fee for the personalized version is $50. All custom plate fees are in addition to the vehicle registration fees.
UB custom plates may be ordered by calling 1-800-BUILD-UB from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Scholarships for study in Germany available
Scholarships for study and research in Germany are available from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the academic year 2003-04.
The fellowships carry a monthly stipend of 715 to 975 Euros—$750-$1,000 U.S.—and include tuition, fees and a travel allowance.
Graduating seniors may apply for a Deutschlandjahr Scholarship for 10 months—two semesters—at the German university of their choice.
Graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from all areas of the university except medicine, dentistry and pharmacy may apply for a Graduate Scholarship to support one to 10 months of study and/or research in Germany. Graduate students may be at any point in their studies.
Applicants in the arts, humanities and social sciences should have a reasonable command of German.
To apply, contact Patricia Mazon, assistant professor of history, at 645-2181, ext. 584, or mazon@acsu.buffalo.edu immediately. Application forms are available at www.daad.org, but applications must be submitted through Mazon.
The campus application deadline is Oct. 22 for students in music/performance/fine arts, and Nov. 10 for all others.
Zodiaque fall concert set
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present "1,2,3,4…Countdown to Celebration 30," the fall dance concert of the Zodiaque Dance company, Oct. 17-20 and 24-27 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Performances will begin at 8 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. on Sundays.
The performance is sponsored by WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.
For more than a quarter of a century, the Zodiaque Dance Company has provided both a performing and educational focus for students, faculty and guests choreographers in the Department of Theatre and Dance. In "1,2,3,4…Countdown to Celebration 30," the company will celebrate the breadth, power and invention of concert dance.
Zodiaque Dance Company was established 29 years ago by Linda Swiniuch and currently is under the direction of Tom Ralabate. The company is comprised of students in the Department of Theatre and Dance. Faculty choreographers include Tressa Gorman Crehan, Eileen Lambert and William E. Thomas.
Guest choreographers include Leslie Wexler, Mary Farris and Michelle Rose Willadsen.
Tickets for Zodiaque Dance Company are $12 for the general public and $5 for seniors and students. Tickets are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
Asian films to be screened
Janet Gardner and Pham Thai, award-winning documentary film producers known for their work on Southeast Asia, will screen and discuss their most recent film, "Dancing Through Death: The Monkey, Magic & Madness of Cambodia," at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Janet Gardner and Pham Quoc Thai
The film is a documentary about the devastating effect of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge reign on Cambodian dancers and their centuries-old tradition of storytelling.
While at UB, Gardner and Thai also will visit a class, "Asian American Experience (AS 110), to screen and discuss their film "Precious Cargo," which follows the bittersweet journey of a group of Vietnamese young people, adopted by American families at the end of the Vietnam War, who travel back to their homeland in search of their personal history. The film tells the story of Operation Babylift, which brought 2,700 children to the United States.
The class, which will be open to all interested parties, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in 120 Baldy Hall, North Campus.
Gardner's interest in Southeast Asia began when she covered post-war Vietnam as a reporter for two New Jersey dailies and contributed to The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Nation. She began her career as a film editor at NBC's "Today Show" and WRC's "News4 Washington," and was a field producer for WNBC's NewsCenter 4.
Her other films include the PBS documentary "A World Beneath the War," which showed the Vietnam War from the villagers' point of view, and "Vietnam: Land of the Ascending Dragon," which provided an overview of Vietnamese history and culture from post-war Vietnam to the present.
A UB alumnus, Thai joined The Gardner Documentary Group as an assistant producer in 1992 for the production of "Vietnam: Land of the Ascending Dragon." As an associate producer, he collaborated with the group on "A World Beneath the War," which won a Silver Apple at the National Educational Film & Video Festival, was nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding Historical Programming" and won the Deadline Club Award from the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. It was broadcast worldwide by Discovery International.
Gardner's and Thai's visit to UB is sponsored by the World Languages Institute of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures; the Graduate Student Association; the Office of Alumni Relations; the Asian Studies Program; the International Artistic & Cultural Exchange Program (IACE) of the Department of Theatre and Dance; the Asian-American Studies Graduate Student Group; the Educational Leadership and Policy GSA, and the U.S.-Indochina Educational Foundation, Inc. (USIEF), a non-profit organization based in Buffalo.
For more information, contact the World Languages Institute at 645-2292 or at ub-wli@acsu.buffalo.edu.