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Craft Center sets early fall workshops
The Creative Craft Center, located in 29 Harriman Hall, South Campus, will offer Fall workshops, beginning the week of Oct. 28.
Workshops are scheduled in basic/practical photography, camera use and operation, flash photography, alternative photographic processes, embroidery around the world, beginning and advanced stained glass, jewelry casting, beginning watercolor, techniques in fabric design and creative kids.
Workshops will run from 7-10 p.m. one night a week for six weeks, except for "Creative Kids" classes, which will run from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Fees are $30 for UB students and $60 for others. Early sign-up is advised.
For more information, a schedule and a map, call 829-3536 from 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday or 7-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Class schedules available online
The Student Response Center has announced that undergraduate and graduate class schedules for the Spring 2003 semester are now available online. There no longer will be a printed class-schedule booklet.
The schedules can be viewed by clicking on the "Class Schedules" link on the Student Response Center's Web site at http://studentresponse.buffalo.edu.
Undergraduates now can access their personal Spring 2003 registration windows via MyUB http://myub.buffalo.edu or via BIRD (645-7800). Registration, grades and financial aid information also is available through BIRD.
Complete registration calendar information can be found at the Student Response Center Web site. Graduate students and undergraduates with 75 or more credits may begin registration on Oct. 26.
Web registration via MyUB and touchtone registration via BIRD may be done from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
In addition, SOAR services—including DARS, grades and Web registration—soon will move to MyUB. A "UB IT" name and password are needed to access MyUB.
Workshops designed to help those seeking NIH grants
The Office of the Vice President for Research has scheduled another series of workshops, beginning on Tuesday, for investigators, fellows and students who want to learn how to interact with the National Institutes for Health and how to write and apply for an NIH grant.
Investigators who already hold an NIH grant will learn about different granting mechanisms, and how to diversify support across institutes.
Each week's session will cover a different topic. The workshops will be in lecture format, with questions and answers an important part of the agenda. The level of discussion will range from the very basic—what is NIH—to grant mechanisms and career planning. All secrets will be told from a former insider's perspective.
The workshops will take place from 3-5 p.m. in Room B-15 of the Health Sciences Library, South Campus. The schedule and topics to be covered:
Oct. 15: Deconstructing the NIH as an Agency"—contacting NIH, finding what researchers need on the NIH Web site (CRISP, NIH Guide, study section rosters)
Oct. 22: "Grant Mechanisms"—career training and research grant mechanisms, supplements, success rates
Oct. 29: "How to Write a Winning Proposal"—the idea, collaborations, pilot data and background/progress report, specific aims page, the research plan
All faculty, professional staff, students and fellows are invited to attend; registration is not required;
For further information, contact Joseph Cusker at 645-3321 or at cusker@research.buffalo.edu.
Web payments now accepted
UB students now have the option of paying their bills and retrieving their account balances via the Internet. The new secured ePay system, which accepts credit card payments from Visa, MasterCard and Discover, is available daily from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., except on major holidays.
To make a payment, a student must enter his or her student person number. Access to account information is available only to the student and requires his or her UBIT name and password.
The project was a joint venture between Financial Processing, Administrative Computing, Accounting Services, Internal Audit, Campus Parking and Technical Services. The project was sponsored by Voldemar Innus, vice president and chief information officer, and led by Shirley Walker, director of financial processing services. Walker served as chair of the Web-based Transactions Committee; Jim Gorman, IT manager in Administrative Computing Services, served as chair of the e-Pay Infrastructure Committee.
After undergoing a pilot program, the service now is open to all students.
Implementing "UB e-Pay" had been a dream of staffers in Student Accounts and Admissions for years, but it was not until Provost Elizabeth Capaldi expressed her commitment to the project and formed the Administrative Systems Advisory Board that it was able to happen, says Walker.
"This is a service that students expect and need&%151;one that will reduce work for UB staff, including cashiers and service representatives," she says.
Students may pay their bill electronically at www.studentresponse.buffalo.edu/epayment.
Human subject research to be topic of legal workshop
"New Challenges in Human Subject Research: Regulatory Oversight and Conflicts-of-Interest" will be the topic of a workshop set for 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Jacobs Executive Development Center, 672 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
The workshop is sponsored by the Law School, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, all at UB, and Damon & Morey LLP.
During the session, U.S. and Canadian government representatives will discuss the increasingly rigorous requirements for clinical trials and human-subject protection. Conflict-of-interest policies for researchers and study sponsors will be examined.
The workshop is designed for academic and medical researchers, representatives of businesses in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, Institutional Review Board (IRB) members, physicians, mental health professionals, psychologists and health care insurers.
The cost is $75 for representatives of academia and government, and $125 for all others. A continental breakfast and lunch will be included in the registration fee.
To register, contact Kathleen Sommer at 858-3817 or at ksommer@damonmorey.com.
SEFA auction planned
A 20-inch SONY flat-screen television and an evening cruise on a 28-foot sailboat will be among the items available during the OSS/CIT (Operational Support Services/Computing and Information Technology) annual charity auction to be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 24 on the first floor of the Computing Center, North Campus.
Proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society Auction tickets are 25 for $3; 50/50 split tickets are $1 each, or three for $2.
Drawings will begin at 3:15 p.m.; participants need not be present to win.
A full list of auction items can be viewed at http://www.oss.buffalo.edu/SEFA/sefa.html
For further information, contact Betty Schaertel at 645-6600.
Open house set
The UCI/RCPC Library and Resource Center in 100D Allen Hall, South Campus, will hold an open house and reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Oct. 17.
The event, which will be open to the public, will include a program at 5 p.m. honoring those who have assisted in the center's creation.
The center specializes in information on community policing, criminal justice issues, neighborhood revitalization and other community capacity-building topics.
The University Community Initiative (UCI) unites UB and other stakeholders from the City of Buffalo and the towns of Amherst, Cheektowaga and Tonawanda in efforts to stabilize and revitalize the neighborhoods surrounding the university's South Campus. The Regional Community Policing Center (RCPC) is designed to facilitate collaborative partnerships among law enforcement agencies, residents, local businesses and government to address public safety problems and issues in order to improve quality of life.
For more information about the center, call 829-3099.