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Ponsot to deliver Silverman reading
Poet Marie Ponsot will deliver the 27th Oscar Silverman Annual Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. Nov. 7 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
The reading is free of charge and open to the public.
It is presented in memory of Oscar Silverman, the distinguished UB scholar and teacher who chaired the Department of English and directed the University Libraries. Silverman also helped to develop UB's remarkable collection of 20th-century poetry.
Ponsot has published five books of poetry: "True Minds;" "Admit Impediment;" "The Green Dark:" "The Bird Catcher," for which she received the National Books Critic Circle Award, and "Springing: New and Selected Poems," for which she was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Medal. "Springing" recently was chosen as the Ambassador book of the English Speaking Union.
Her book for teachers of writing, authored with Rosemary Deen, won the Modern Language Association's Shaughnessy Medal.
Professor emerita of English at Queens College, City University of New York, Ponsot has taught this year at Barnard College, Cooper Union and Columbia University.
She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, which she plans to use to complete a manuscript.
Musical troupe Barrage to perform in Mainstage
BARRAGE
The Center for the Arts and WNED will present the musical troupe Barrage at 8 p.m. on Wednesday in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
Noted for its unique, action-packed brand of entertainment, Barrage is launching its 2003 fall touring season with a fresh new show, entitled "Vagabond Tales."
"Vagabond Tales" features an international, multi-talented cast performing an eclectic mix of music, song and dance that vividly illustrates the adventures of a musical wanderer.
The cast of Barrage includes seven violinists/vocalists, one drummer, one bass player, a guitarist and a percussionist.
Tickets for Barrage are $32.50 and $22.50, and are available at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Flu shots available
The Student Wellness Team is offering flu shots to faculty, staff and students on both the North and South campuses.
The shots are free to students with ID and $10 for faculty and staff. No appointment is needed—shots are given on a first-come, first-served basis.
Shots will be given from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Nov. 10-14 in the lobby of the Student Union, North Campus, and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Nov. 7 in the basement of Michael Hall, South Campus.
During the 2002-03 academic year, 733 UB students were diagnosed with either influenza or a flu-like illness, says Frank Carnevale, UB's medical director and director of health services/Student Wellness Team.
Carnevale describes influenza, commonly known as the flu, as a highly contagious, viral illness that is most common in the winter months. It is spread by sneezing, coughing and direct contact with an infected person. Symptoms include sudden onset of fever with chills, headache, malaise, muscle aches and pains, and a dry cough.
The flu, which typically lasts five to seven days, can be prevented with a vaccine, or flu shot, Carnevale points out. Shots must be given each year because the viruses that cause influenza mutate and the vaccine must be altered to remain effective. A flu shot, which is given in the fall to provide optimal protection, starts to provide protection within one to two weeks after injection, he says.
GSE to hold open house
The Graduate School of Education will hold an open house from 5-7 p.m. on Nov. 6 in the lobby of the Student Union, North Campus.
The open house will offer information to those thinking of pursuing a career in education or an advanced degree in the field.
Current GSE students and faculty members will be available to answer questions. Information about part-time and full-time study, as well as financial aid, will be provided.
The Graduate School of Education offers master's and doctoral degree programs in teacher education, counseling, school and educational psychology, education administration and higher education.
Additional information is available on the GSE Web site at http://www.gse.buffalo.edu or by calling the school at 645-2110.
Schmelz to deliver music lecture
Peter Schmelz, assistant professor in the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences, will speak on "Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony, Postmodernism and the End of the
Thaw" at 4 p.m. today in 211 Baird Hall, North Campus.
The talk is free of charge and open to the public.
For more information, contact Charles Smith at 645-2765, ext. 1272, or cjsmith@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Dowling to deliver Rahn lecture
DOWLING
John E. Dowling, Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neuroscience at Harvard University, will deliver the 11th annual Hermann Rahn Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. today in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the South Campus.
Dowling, who has gained international recognition for his studies of the retina, will discuss "Fishing for Novel Genes."
The Rahn lecture is presented by the Department of Physiology and Biophysics.
For more information, contact the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at 829-2738.
HRT to be topic of debate
Hormone Replacement Therapy will be the topic of a debate to be held from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday in the Four Points Sheraton, Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga.
Billed as the first annual great debate, "Hormone Therapy: Women's Health Initiative Findings and Current Clinical Practice" is sponsored by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and its Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics.
Participants will include Maurizio Trevisan, interim dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions and co-director of UB's Women's Health Initiative Clinical Vanguard Center; Jean Wactawski-Wende, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions and co-director of UB's WHI center; John Yeh, professor and chair of the UB Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics; Veronica Ravnikar of St. Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey, and Gerson Weiss of UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School.
The event is free and open to the public.
PSS to present video series
The Professional Development Committee of the Professional Staff Senate will present a Brown Bag Video Series covering professional development issues.
All sessions will be held from noon to 12:30 p.m. in 100 Allen Hall on the South Campus and 145D Student Union on the North Campus.
A brief discussion will follow the short—less than 15 minutes—video segments.
The sessions are co-sponsored by the Leadership Development Center and the Educational Opportunity Program.
The schedule:
How to Set and Achieve Goals," Nov. 5, Allen Hall; Nov. 6, Student Union
"Taking Control of Your Work Day," Nov. 19, Allen Hall; Nov. 20, Student Union
"Speed Reading," Dec. 10, Allen Hall; Dec. 11, Student Union
The sessions are free of charge but space is limited. Reservations may be made to the PSS Office at 645-2003 or pssenate@buffalo.edu.
Triveni to present concert, film
Triveni, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the Indian classical performing arts in Western New York, will present two programs at UB next month.
A sitar recital by Ustad Shahid Parvez, one of India's foremost classical musicians, will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus. The performance also will feature Akram Khan on the tabla.
Acknowledged as the torchbearer of the current generation of sitar performers by such maestros as Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, Parvez performs regularly to sold-out concerts and in music festivals all over the world. His playing has been described as the perfect combination of gaiyaki ang (singing style) and tantrakari ang (instrumental style).
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for students.
The film "Yellamma" will be screened at 2 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts, North Campus. A reception will be held immediately following the screening at 4 p.m.
Directed by Mohan Koda, "Yellamma" is based on Shakespeare's "Macbeth" but set in 19th century India.
Tickets are $10; sales will begin at 1 p.m.
For further information about the sitar recital or the film screening, call Bhargava at 689-6294 or Teja at 639-0902.