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In a story about international enrollment that ran in the online-only issue of the Reporter on Oct. 24, a quote by Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international education, should have read: "Our problem is going to be that we could have a very bad enrollment (of international students) next fall if we don't get these problems cleared up."
Egan to speak at emeritus meeting
Edmund A. Egan, II, professor of pediatrics and physiology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will discuss "From Laboratory to Bedside: Comparing Insulin in the 1920s to Lung Calfactant in the 1990s" at the monthly meeting of the Emeritus Center, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear Hall, South Campus.
The talk is free of charge and open to the public.
For further information, contact the Emeritus Center at 829-2271.
Derek Trucks Band to perform in CFA
The Center for the Arts will present The Derek Trucks Band at 8 p.m. on Tuesday in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus. The concert is sponsored by the Student Association and WBFO-FM.
Twenty-three-year-old Derek Trucks' musical career began at the age of nine, when he picked up an acoustic guitar at a yard sale. He got his first paying gig at age 11 and formed his first band at age 12.
The Derek Trucks Band released its eponymous debut in 1997, following it up in 1998 with "Out of Madness."
In 1999, Trucks joined the Allman Brothers Band, taking over slide guitar duty. Between the two bands, he keeps up an extensive touring schedule, playing more than 365 shows in 2000 and 2001.
The Derek Trucks Band is touring in support of "Joyful Noise."
Tickets for The Derek Trucks Band are $20.50 for the general public, and $16.50 for UB students. Tickets are available from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday in the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations.
Fund drive a success for WBFO
WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB, recently completed a record-breaking membership drive, raising $227,000.
The fall drive, which ended on Oct. 24, generated 1,500 telephone and Web site-generated pledges from listeners in Western New York and Southern Ontario.
More than 500 new donors joined the station, and more than 360 existing members donated $48,000 in challenge grants to encourage new and lapsed members to make a pledge.
"It was another wonderful team effort—our programming and development staff worked side by side with local volunteers to raise essential operating funds for WBFO" said Joan Wilson, the station's director of development.
"The community, by way of its overwhelming financial support, has sent the message that it believes wholeheartedly in the mission of NPR and WBFO," she added.
The NPR news-and-jazz format station has experienced an increase in listenership of 7 percent in the past year.
WBFO 88.7 FM reaches nearly 100,000 listeners weekly in Western New York and southern Ontario with its 50,000-watt signal. It has two repeater stations, WUBJ 88.1 FM in Jamestown and WOLN 91.3 FM in Olean.
Baldy Center to hold workshop
Contemporary democratic theory will be the subject of a workshop to be sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the Law School.
Titled "Building Politics: Law, Institutions and Democratic Theory," the conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in O'Brian Hall, North Campus.
The conference will examine the structure of politics and the groundwork that is needed for political change, according to James A. Gardner, professor of law and organizer of the conference.
"Law and political theory have had an uneasy relationship in the past half century," Gardner said. "Yet, constitutional adjudication and analysis is inevitably informed by background understandings of politics, making political theory an important area for legal inquiry.
"At the same time, political theorists often deal in lofty abstractions, whose relevance for law and legal institutions is not always clear," he added. "Even those democratic theorists who deal with concrete institutional prescriptions often lack the knowledge and expertise to work through the difficult problems of institutionalization that form the bread and butter of the lawyer's work."
Conference participants will discuss those practices that are necessary to political legitimacy, including how to regulate and use law to give incentives that will result in a political structure that is more effective and satisfying than it is now.
For more information on the conference, contact Gardner at 645-3607 or jgard@buffalo.edu, or call the Baldy Center at 645-2102. Advance registration is required.
41 receive MBA in China
The School of Management, in conjunction with Renmin University in Beijing and Praxair Inc., celebrated the graduation of its second China Executive MBA class Tuesday in Beijing.
Forty-one Chinese executives completed the two-year program, which was designated as the best in China by the Chinese Ministry of Education. The program is designed for executives with at least five years of work experience. Courses are taught in English by UB faculty members who travel to China to teach in three- or four-week modules. Renmin faculty members experienced in Western business practices also teach in the program.
The graduates hold high-level positions at some of the leading companies doing business in China, including Motorola, Microsoft, Lucent Technologies and Praxair.
"Our China Executive MBA program is a model global partnership between education and industry," said John M. Thomas, interim dean of the School of Management, who traveled to Beijing for the commencement ceremony. "The support of Praxair has been critical to helping UB work with the Renmin School of Business Administration to build a western model of education in China."
Praxair has aided the SOM with its educational efforts in China since 1995. Through two $200,000 grants, the industrial gases company provided funding for the creation of the China Executive MBA program and contributes to the upgrade of classroom technologies there.
"With 16 wholly owned companies and joint ventures in China, we consider the China MBA program an important part of the company's efforts to grow business in Asia," said Brent Lok, president of Praxair China.
Many of the graduating executives and key representatives from Renmin University had visited Buffalo for a special celebratory convocation in early October. In addition to a welcome reception and a dinner in its honor, the delegation attended several management lectures and visited Rich Products.
In addition to the Executive MBA program at Renmin, the School of Management operates an Executive MBA program at Motorola University, also in China, and an Executive MBA program in Singapore.
War on Iraq to be topic of Tuesday talk
David MacGregor, professor of sociology at King's College at the University of Western Ontario, will discuss "War on Iraq: Oil and Deep Politics" at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Union Theatre, North Campus.
The talk is free of charge and open to the public.
MacGregor is the author of several books, including "Hegel and Marx After the Fall of Communism."
His appearance at UB is sponsored by the Graduate Group for Marxist Studies and the Canadian-American Studies Committee.
Foley to address nursing convocation
Mary Foley, immediate past president of the American Nurses Association, will deliver the keynote speech at UB's 9th Annual Nursing Convocation, to be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union Theatre, North Campus.
The convocation is sponsored by the Nursing Student Organization at UB.
Foley, a registered nurse for more than 25 years who writes and lectures about health-care issues and plays an active role in the health-care policy arena, will discuss "Nursing: A Profession Without Boundaries" at 10 a.m. in the Student Union Theatre.
In addition to holding numerous elected and appointed positions with the ANA and the California Nurses Association, Foley sits on the board of directors of the National Patient Safety Foundation and serves on committees of the National Quality Forum. She has been appointed to numerous health-care task forces in California, including the state's RN Special Advisory Committee on the Nursing Shortage.
Her professional experience includes 19 years at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, first as a medical-surgical staff nurse and later as director of nursing and chief nurse executive.
She earned her nursing diploma from New England Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing and her bachelor's degree in nursing from Boston University School of Nursing. She received a master's degree in nursing administration and occupational health from the University of California, San Francisco.
In addition to Foley's address, the convocation will feature sessions led by nurses experienced in the areas of hospice, midwifery, information technology, forensics, genetics and ER nursing, among others. Employment recruiters and vendors also will attend the event.
Admission is free for UB students and $5 for all others.
For more information, email teharty@buffalo.edu or volkmuth@buffalo.edu.
Terry Gross to speak in CFA
The Center for the Arts will present Terry Gross, host of the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," at 8 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
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WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's NPR affiliate, and WGRZ-TV, News Channel 2, will sponsor the appearance.
Tune in to "Fresh Air," and you're certain to hear Gross interviewing some of the most prominent figures of our time: John Updike, Arthur Miller, Spalding Gray, Sonny Rollins, Diane Keaton and Elvis Costello. Engaging her guests with an unusual mixture of confidence, genuine interest and just a touch of vulnerability, Gross brings her listeners into an intimate place where the "celebrity" becomes more understandable, more human.
"Fresh Air," in fact, has its roots at WBFO. Gross attended UB in the early 1970s and worked on the WBFO programs "Woman Power" and "This Is Radio." After graduation, she began working at NPR member station WHYY in Philadelphia, hosting "Fresh Air," a local interview and music program. NPR began distributing a weekly, half-hour version of "Fresh Air" nationally in 1985. In 1987, "Fresh Air" became a daily, hour-long program carried by more than 280 radio stations.
Tickets for Terry Gross are $18 for the general public and $15 for UB students. They are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
CFA to present Ana Gasteyer
The Center for the Arts will present popular comedienne and former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Ana Gasteyer at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
The performance is sponsored by the undergraduate Student Association; WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate, and WGRZ-TV, News Channel 2.
Gasteyer will speak about the history of women in comedy. Her performance will be a multi-media event, featuring some clips of her "SNL" characters and highlights of the comedy performed by artists who have influenced her career.
Gasteyer is best-known for her incomparable work on "Saturday Night Live." During her six-year stint with the show, she created some of the most famous "SNL" characters, including middle school music teacher Bobby Moughan-Culp, NPR radio host Margaret Jo and Lilith Fair poetess Cinder Calhoun, as well as spot-on impressions of Martha Stewart, Celine Dion and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Tickets for Ana Gasteyer are $20 for the general public and $16 for UB students, and are available at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Students to perform in "The Wild Party"
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present a fully mounted student production of Andrew Lippa's musical "The Wild Party" Nov. 14-17 and Nov. 21-24 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The production is sponsored by WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.
Performances will take place at 8 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. on Sundays.
"The Wild Party" will be directed and choreographed by Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, with musical direction by Michael Hake. The production will feature a cast of musical theatre majors from the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Tickets for "The Wild Party" are $12 for the general public and $5 for UB students and senior citizens. Tickets may be purchased at the CFA box office from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.