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Kumanyika to deliver Perry lecture
Shiriki Kumanyika, associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention and professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will present the 2003 J. Warren Perry Lecture at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Kumanyika's lecture topic will be "Obesity in African American Women: Reflections on the Epidemic Within the Epidemic." The lecture is free and open to the public.
Prior to the lecture, Mary Lou Rath, state senator and co-chair of the senate's Task Force on Wellness, will receive the 2003 J. Warren Perry Health Leadership Award for her efforts to improve health in Western New York. Maurizio Trevisan, interim dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions, said the award is richly deserved.
"Sen. Rath has been a leader in numerous efforts to improve the health and well being of New Yorkers and a source of inspiration for other political and corporate leaders and the public," Trevisan said. "Her most recent efforts to stimulate and expand worksite wellness programs and tackle such major public health concerns as childhood obesity put her at the forefront of our efforts to ensure a long and healthy life for all of us and for future generations."
Kumanyika holds a master's degree in public health from The Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in human nutrition from Cornell University. Since 2000, she has served as senior fellow at the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to her academic positions.
She has lectured nationally and internationally, has held editorial positions on several professional journals and served on numerous academic and scientific committees.
Kumanyika has received many honors and awards, most recently the 2003 Louis B. Russell, Jr. Memorial Award from the American Heart Association.
J. Warren Perry served as dean of the School of Health Related Professions, now the School of Public Health and Health Professions, from 1966-77. Now a UB professor emeritus, he continues to support the work of the school.
Bill Cosby to speak at UB
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Comedian, author and movie and television star Bill Cosby will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 in Alumni Arena as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series.
Cosby will appear as the Undergraduate Student Choice Speaker.
By any standard, Cosby is one of the most influential stars in America today. Whether it be through concert appearances or recordings, television or films, commercials or education, he has the ability to touch people's lives. His humor often centers on the basic cornerstones of our existence, seeking to provide an insight into our roles as parents, children, family members, and men and women.
The 1984-92 run of his sitcom "The Crosby Show" and his books "Fatherhood" (1986), "Time Flies" (1987) and "Cosbyology" (2001) established new benchmarks on how success is measured. His status at the top of the TVQ survey year after year continues to confirm his appeal as one of the most popular personalities in America. His lifelong contributions to American culture were recognized with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in July 2002.
Ticket prices for Bill Cosby range from $18-$40. Tickets are available at the Alumni Arena ticket office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; at Tickets.com and at all Tops outlets.
For more information, visit http://www.specialevents. buffalo.edu.
"Middle East Update" set for Emeritus meeting
Ambassador Robert P. Paganelli, U.S. Foreign Service (ret.) will give a "Middle East Update" at 2 p.m. on Tuesday in 102 Goodyear Hall, South Campus.
The talk, sponsored by the Emeritus Center, is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Emeritus Center at 829-2271.
CFA to present Pat Metheny
The Center for the Arts will present Pat Metheny Solo & Trio at 8 p.m. on Saturday in the Mainstage theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The Grammy-Award winning Pat Metheny Trio has become one of the most active and popular touring acts of any kind in any genre, relentlessly playing and selling out concerts in more than 40 countries and around the world. The Pat Metheny Trio features jazz guitar great Pat Metheny, acclaimed electric and acoustic bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez.
During the CFA performance, Metheny will take stage first with a solo baritone guitar to perform introspective compositions from his critically acclaimed "One Quiet Night" CD. McBride and Sanchez then will join Metheny.
Tickets for Pat Metheny Solo & Trio are $32.50 and $27.50, 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.
Eric Idle to appear in CFA
Monty Python comedian Eric Idle will bring his show, "The Greedy Bastard Tour," to UB at 8 p.m. on Sunday. The performance will take place in the Mainstage theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Idle first met future Monty Python collaborators John Cleese and Graham Chapman while appearing on the 1967 sketch comedy series "At Last the 1948 Show." The troupe, also consisting of Michael Palin, Terry Jones and American-born animator Terry Gilliam, was contracted by the BBC to produce its own 13-week program; "Monty Python's Flying Circus," a weekly sketch comedy series, premiered that October, becoming a major hit throughout Europe and later a cult phenomenon overseas as well.
Idle was one of Monty Python's chief writers, and in addition to the group's television series, yielded a series of hit films and albums. He typically played bizarre singers and other entertainer caricatures.
Following the last official Python Project—the 1983 film "Monty Python's the Meaning of Life"—Idle accepted small roles in a number of films and focused on writing until accepting the lead in "Nuns on the Run" in 1990.
He also wrote, produced and starred in "Splitting Heirs" in 1993, and in 1999 accepted a supporting role on the Brooke Shields sitcom "Suddenly Susan." After the show was canceled, he mounted a solo tour in support of his album, "Eric Idle Sings Monty Python."
In 2000, Idle toured North America with "Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python," a silly evening of sketches and songs ripped off or entirely stolen from the sacred canon of the British comedy troupe.
He now is back on the road with "The Greedy Bastard Tour," which features new material from his latest Rutland Isles CD, as well as old Python favorites.
Tickets for Eric Idle are $35 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.
Teaching sessions scheduled
The Center for Teaching and Learning Resources will present several workshops and teleconferences this month designed to help faculty members sharpen their teaching skills.
The schedule:
"The 10 Commandments for Effective Teaching," 1-3 p.m tomorrow in 200G Baldy Hall, North Campus. This session—a SUNY Research Centers Teleconference presented by UB in collaboration with Binghamton University and the universities of Albany and Stony Brook—will feature Clyde F. (Kip) Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. Herreid will offer participants his personal rules for great teaching, starting with the "Golden Rule:" Teach unto others as you would have others teach unto you."
"Teaching for Strategic Learning," 2:30-4 p.m. on Nov. 13 in Room B15 of the Health Sciences Library, South Campus. This session, to be presented as a live, satellite broadcast, will features Wilbert McKeachie, author of the classic book "Teaching Tips," and Claire Weinstein, creator of the LASSI assessment instrument.
"Slow Reading: Why it Matters, How to Do It, How to Teach It" will be held from 1-2 p.m. Nov. 14 in 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus. Robert Daly, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the departments of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences, will present the session. The workshop is designed to help participants improve their literary competence.
"A Template for Effective Lecturing: Using Fine Art to Teach Observational Skills," 1-2:30 p.m. Nov. 21, 120 Clemens. This workshop will be presented by Richard T. Sarkin, professor of clinical pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and J. Ronald Gentile, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology in the Graduate School of Education. The workshop will help participants learn to identify specific techniques to make lectures more effective, distinguish between lecture process and lecture content, understand how fine art can be used to teach clinical observational skills and wonder a bit more about the "boundaries of the box."
The sessions are free of charge and open to all faculty members. Registration is required and may be done online at http://wings.buffalo.edu/ctlr or by contacting Lisa Francescone at 645-7328 or lcf@buffalo.edu and leaving a name, department and e-mail address.
Comedian Cho to appear in CFA
The Center for the Arts will present comedian Margaret Cho at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
Following on the heels of her "Notorious C.H.O." tour, CD and movie release, Cho launched a new tour this year. Best known for incorporating ground-breaking and controversial issues into her works, this latest show tackles the axis of evil, Cho's travels through Thailand's red light district, the explosion of childbirth, revolutionizing your self-esteem, the joy of bodily functions, her loser ex-boyfriend and, of course, her world-famous mother.
Cho was born and raised in San Francisco and started performing stand-up comedy at age 16 in a club called The Rose & Thistle above a bookstore her parents ran. Soon after, she won a comedy contest where first prize was opening for Jerry Seinfeld. Still in her early 20s, she hit the college circuit, where she immediately became the most booked act in the market and garnered a nomination for Campus Comedian of The Year. She performed more than 300 concerts within two years and subsequently won the American Comedy Award for Female Comedian in 1994.
In 1994, she starred in her own sitcom, "All-American Girl," which featured television's first Asian American family. In 1999, Cho's groundbreaking, smash-hit, one-woman show, "I'm The One That I Want," played off-Broadway, toured the country and became a best-selling book and feature film that grossed more per print than any film in history.
Cho recently was honored by the National Organization for Women (NOW) with its 2003 Intrepid Award. She also has received awards from GLAAD, Lambda Legal, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) for making a significant difference in promoting equal rights for all, regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Tickets for Margaret Cho are $31 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.
Theatre and Dance schedules production
The Department of Theatre & Dance in the College of Arts and Sciences will present a student production of "Playboy of the Western World" Wednesday through Nov 16 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performance times are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The production is directed by Vincent O'Neill, associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance and artistic director and co-founder of the Irish Classical Theatre Company.
"Playboy of the Western World," by Irish poet-playwright John Millington Synge, is a wild, farcical and poetic play about reputation, the fickle nature of celebrity and lost opportunity. In a remote public house in Western Ireland, Christy Mahon becomes a local hero when he first confesses and then starts boasting how he just murdered his father by clobbering him on the head with a shovel. This hilarious indictment of our propensity for romanticizing rogues and villains continues to resonate in an era when rappers must be "gangstas" in order to be "authentic" and Synge rings endless variations on the theme.
Tickets for "Playboy of the Western World" are $15 for the general public and $6 for students and seniors. Tickets are available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information call 645-ARTS.
Kanfer to give reading
Stefan Kanfer, author of "Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball," will give a reading from his book at 7 p.m. Monday in the Robert H. Jackson Center, 305 East Fourth St., Jamestown.
Kanfer's reading, to be broadcast live on WBFO 88.7 FM, will be presented as part of the station's "Meet the Author" series.
The event is free and open to the public. Bert Gambini, WBFO music director, will serve as host. A reception and book signing will take place immediately following the reading.
"Ball of Fire" tracks Lucille Ball's pursuit of the superstardom that eluded her on the big screen and follows the actress through a series of disappointing affairs and sorrows until she meets a Cuban conga drummer six years her junior and falls head-over-heels in love with Desi Arnaz. Working with her husband, Lucy becomes a different kind of comic artist in a program called "I Love Lucy," the show that is still running in more than 80 countries around the globe.
Taking the reader through the development of television both as technology and cultural phenomenon, Kanfer chronicles the difficult birth of the sitcom that changed the world. He details the early executive meetings, the rocky first productions, the shaky first weeks and the unpredicted triumph.
A writer and editor at Time for more than 20 years, Kanfer's books include "The Eighth Sin," "A Summer World," "The Last Empire," "Serious Business" and "Groucho."
Wilkinson to deliver Levy lecture
Grant R. Wilkinson, professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, will deliver the Gerhard Levy Distinguished Lecture in Pharmaceutical Sciences at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in 201 Natural Sciences Complex, North Campus.
The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is entitled "Inter-individual Variability in Drug Responsiveness: The Promise of Pharmacogenetics—Hope or Hype?"
The Levy distinguished lectureship was established in 2001 by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in honor of Gerhard Levy, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the department. Levy is recognized widely as a pioneer and principal contributor in the fields of biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
A distinguished researcher, Wilkinson is an ISI-designated, highly cited author whose numerous publications have been in the broad area of drug disposition, particularly the elucidation of factors determining inter-individual differences in drug responsiveness.
He holds fellowship status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is an associate editor of the journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals in the areas of clinical pharmacology, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics.
Wilkinson received the Rawls-Palmer Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in 1996, and the Research Achievement Award in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 2000.