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Urban education scholar to speak
Jean Anyon, professor at the Urban Education Graduate Center at City University of New York, will speak on "Social Policy, Urban Education and a New Civil Rights Movement" during the 2002 Charlotte C. Acer Memorial Colloquium on Urban Education, to be held from 4-6 p.m. today in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 North Forest Road, Amherst.
Anyon, one of the nation's foremost urban education scholars, is known for her groundbreaking analyses of inner-city education in the context of other social issues, particularly the confluence of social class and race. Many of her published articles have been widely reprinted.
During the colloquium, she will address issues she presented in her highly regarded study, "Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform" (1997). In it, she demonstrated that the failure of contemporary urban schools is deeply embedded in 100 years of punitive federal, corporate and state policies toward American cities.
After briefly presenting the critical facts of American poverty, Anyhon will describe federal, regional and local policies that could eradicate low-wage jobs and urban poverty. Unfortunately, she says, it will take a new civil rights movement to pry such policies from reluctant governments, although she says there now exists the possibility and potential for such a movement.
The Acer colloquium is sponsored by the Graduate School of Education Alumni Association. Funded through The Charlotte C. Acer Fund of the GSE, it is free of charge and open to the public.
The Acer fund was endowed by Acer, an alumna of the education school, to facilitate informative and provocative lectures, discussions and analyses that address complex issues in urban education.
Section of Ellicott Creek Trailway to be closed
The Ellicott Creek Trailway adjacent to the North Campus will be closed between St. Rita's Lane and John James Audubon Highway from 6 p.m. tomorrow until Saturday morning.
The section of the trailway will be closed due to a fireworks display being conducted by UB's undergraduate Student Association at 9:15 p.m. tomorrow in conjunction with the celebration of UB's Homecoming and Parents' Weekend.
Grant to fund conference
Internationally regarded human rights advocate Claude E. Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science, has received a grant from the Canadian government to hold a major academic conference at UB to address violations of economic rights in the Western Hemisphere.
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Additional financial support will be provided by the Baldy Center on Law and Social Policy, and the Canadian-American Studies Committee.
The conference will take place Oct. 11-12, 2003, and is expected to result in a book of essays by conference presenters to be edited by Welch, co-director of UB's Human Rights Center, and Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman, professor of sociology and Gladstein Distinguished Professor in Human Rights at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Speakers, who will include experts in law, unionism, aboriginal rights, international affairs, political science, sociology and economics, will address such issues as women's and children's rights, homelessness, indigenous rights, health, political culture, migrant issues, communitarianism and welfare reform.
"Our aim," says Welch, "is to draw attention to the abuses of economic human rights inherent in developed capitalist society, and in particular to the enduring problem of class distinctions. We hope this effort will help alleviate distrust of 'the West' in the international human rights community for our refusal to attend to our own deviations from international human rights law.
"Are you my Mother?" to be performed
The Center for the Arts will present ArtsPower's original adaptation of "Are you my Mother?" at 2 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus. The performance is part of the TOPS Family Adventure series sponsored by TOPS Friendly Markets, WGRZ-TV and WJYE-FM.
Free children's activities, including face painting, Halloween crafts and costume contest, will be provided in the CFA atrium at 1 p.m.
Based on P.D. Eastman's popular book for young readers, "Are you my Mother?" is a musical about Baby Bird's journey—a journey that overflows with courage and determination. Told with humor, sensitivity and a bit of calculated silliness, this story shows how loss can be turned into empowerment and how Baby Bird happily finds more than she is looking for.
Founded by Gary and Mark Blackman in 1985, ArtsPower National Touring theatre is one of the premier American theatre companies for young and family audiences. It has created 13 original musical theatre, dance and instrumental music productions that have been seen by more than 3 million people.
Tickets for "Are you my Mother?" are $12 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under and seniors. A $2 discount may be obtained by presenting a TOPS Bonus Card when purchasing tickets at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets also may be obtained at all Ticketmaster locations.
RIA offers free seminars
Alan H. Lockwood, professor of neurology and nuclear medicine, and adjunct professor of communicative disorders and sciences, will discuss the "Neurobiology of Tinnitus" on Oct. 25 as part of the Research Institute on Addictions' (RIA) fall seminar series.
All lectures will be held at 10 a.m. at RIA, 1021 Main St. at Goodrich. The presentations are free and open to the public.
A staff physician at the Buffalo VA Medical Center and director of PET Operations in the Center for Positron Emission Tomography at the VA, Lockwood will detail recent work he and colleagues did using a PET scanner to chart functional brain activity. The research found that tinnitus sounds, which are disruptive ringing in the ears, originate in the brain, not the cochlea as previously thought.
The seminar series will continue on Nov. 8 with a lecture on "Mindfulness Meditation in the Prevention of Recidivism and Relapse Among Prison Inmates" presented by G. Alan Marlatt, professor of psychology and director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Marlatt's research is in the areas of addictive behaviors, cognitive-behavioral therapy, relapse prevention and harm reduction, health psychology and mindfulness meditation. He is principal investigator on three projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): "The Effects of Meditation on Alcohol Use and Recidivism," "Interventions for Adolescent Indian Drinking" and "Postdoctoral Training in Alcohol Research."
The series will conclude on Dec. 6 with a presentation by Kimberly S. Walitzer entitled "Enhancements to Drinking Reduction Treatment for Problem Drinkers: Evaluating Spouse Involvement and Behavioral Couples Therapy." Deputy director of RIA and research assistant professor of psychology, Walitzer's research includes two NIAAA-funded projects. They examine involvement of the drinker's spouse and marital therapy on the efficacy of programs targeted to adults with mild to moderate problems, and the efficacy of two strategies designed to facilitate clients' involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous during alcoholism outpatient treatment.
For more information on the seminar series, contact RIA at 887-2566.
Nominations sought for Athletic Hall of Fame
The Athletic Committee of the UB Alumni Association is accepting nominations for the 2003 Athletic Hall of Fame, along with two other prestigious awards.
Each year, the alumni association honors a select group of former UB athletes from intercollegiate and club teams, as well as athletic professional staff, through election into the UB Athletic Hall of Fame.
The alumni association also will honor alumni who have made significant contributions of time and resources to UB's athletic program through the presentation of the Russell J. Gugino Award. The Dr. Philip B. Wels Award is given to an individual or group who has contributed to and advanced UB for a specific purpose, or served in a voluntary capacity for a significant period of time.
The induction dinner and ceremony for the next class of inductees and award winners will take place on Feb. 21 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Nomination forms, along with criteria, can be found at http://www.alumni.buffalo.edu/athletichalloffame03.html. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 1.
Lerup to deliver Clarkson lecture
Lars Lerup. dean of the Rice School of Architecture and William Ward Watkin Professor at Rice University, will discuss "Suburbia mon amor" at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 30 in 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus.
Lerup will speak as the Fall 2002 Clarkson Visiting Chair in the School of Architecture and Planning.
The lecture will be free and open to the public.
Lerup will be "in residence" at UB during the week of Oct. 28-Nov. 2, during which time he will meet with faculty and students, sit in on seminar discussions and participate in design reviews.
Born in Sweden, Lerup holds a civil engineering diploma from the Helsingborg Higher Technical College in Sweden, a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of California-Berkeley and a master's degree in urban design from Harvard University. He is the author of several books and 50 essays in international magazines.
His design work includes projects and competitions for new towns (Taipei, Taiwan), buildings and houses (California, Texas and Switzerland) and furniture. His work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Zurich, Moscow and Stockholm. His most recent exhibition, "room" (with Sohela Farokhi), was held at the Menil Foundation in Houston. His latest book, "After the City," was published in 2000 by MIT Press.
Lerup's lecture is made possible by the Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair program. The Clarkson Chair is an endowed visiting position that is awarded annually to a distinguished scholar or professional in the disciplines of architecture, planning and design.
Cookie sale to benefit SEFA
Do your family members complain that you're always making cookies, but then they eat every one? When you bring a sample of a new recipe to the office, do your co-workers devour them like hungry wolves?
If so, then the second annual SEFA Cookie Bake Off and Sale is right up your alley!
Bakers should prepare a large batch of their favorite cookies and fill a baggie with four cookies; the recipe should be attached to the baggie for the judges. The remainder of the cookies should be placed into 12 or more baggies. These cookies will be sold for $1 per bag. Each participant also should make 25 copies of the cookie recipe to be sold for 50 cents each. The recipes will be included in next year's Cookie Bake Off Cookbook.
Bakers should bring their cookies and recipes to the lobby of the Student Union, North Campus, from 8-11 a.m. Oct. 28. Judging will begin at noon; the cookie sale will begin as soon as set-up is completed.
Interested participants must register through the SEFA Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/sefa by noon on Oct. 25. For further information, call Mary-Camille at 829-2361 or Lisa at 829-3386.
Global media and CNN to be topic of lecture
UB graduate and Cable News Network reporter Pamela S. Benson will offer her observations on "The Global Media and the 'CNN Effect'" during a lecture at 4 p.m. Monday in the Student Union Theatre, North Campus.
The lecture, which will be free of charge and open to the public, is sponsored by the Council on International Studies and Programs and the UB Alumni Association.
A 1976 graduate of UB, Benson is a senior reporter with CNN.
For more information, contact the Office of International Student and Scholar Services at 645-2258.