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Holm to speak at Emeritus meeting
Bruce Holm, senior vice provost, will give a lecture on bioinformatics at the next meeting of the Emeritus Center, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear Hall, South Campus.
The talk is free and open to the public.
For further information, contact the Emeritus Center at 829-2271.
Zodiaque 30th anniversary celebration continues
The Zodiaque Dance Company in the Department of Theatre and Dance will continue its 30th anniversary celebration with the presentation of "Celebration 30—Dances On" Feb. 12-15 and Feb. 19-21 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays.
"Celebration 30—Dances On" will premiere four new works, with choreography by Zodiaque alumnus Doug Weyand and faculty works by Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, William E. Thomas and Thomas Ralabate, company director.
Other featured repertory will include works from Zodiaque alumni Joe Celej and Sheri Celentano, and Roberto Villanueva's work "Inevitabilities," which has been selected to represent UB at this year's American College Dance Festival, to be held at Slippery Rock University.
Tickets prices are $15 for general admission and $6 for students and seniors. Tickets 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.
Nominations sought for new international education award
The UB Council on International Studies and Programs is seeking nominations for the first annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education at UB.
This new, university-wide award will honor a faculty or staff member who has made exceptional, long-term contributions to international education at UB. These may include development or administration of exchange and study abroad programs, recruitment or mentoring of international students and scholars, development and teaching of courses and curricula with an international focus, and organization of international activities and events on campus.
The deadline for receipt of nominations is Feb. 18. Information about the award and nomination materials are available at http://wings.buffalo.edu/intled/cisp_nominations.htm. For more information, contact John J. Wood at jjwood@buffalo.edu.
Asian Studies schedules noon lecture series
"Halting or Triggering? International Effects on Democratization in Taiwan" will be topic of the next lecture in the Asia at Noon series being presented by the Asian Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences.
All lectures in the series will be presented from noon to 1 p.m. in 280 Park Hall, North Campus. Chih-Chieh Chou, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, will discuss democratization in Taiwan on Feb. 13.
The series opened last Friday with a lecture on "Tokugawa as Primary Other in Late Meiji-early Taisho Japan" by Robert Kane, assistant professor of history at Niagara University.
The remainder of the series:
Feb. 27: Open forum on Asian American Studies curriculum at UB presented by the Interdisciplinary Group for Asian American Studies
March 5: "Crisis Management in the PRC: The Case of SARS" (tentative), Liang Zhanjun, professor of history, Capital Normal University, Beijing
March 26: "On the March 20 Presidential Election in Taiwan," Lee Luo-jung, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, New York City
April 9: "Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life," Khenpo Sherab Ozer, Tibetan Buddhist teacher
April 23: "Moving Beyond Hollywood: American Popular Images of Korea," Jeongsub Nam, doctoral candidate, Department of English
For further information, contact the Asian Studies Program at 645-3474.
Career Services implements "IM" service
UB Career Services has launched a new program called "IM the Career Counselor" to give UB students more immediate access to career counselors and job-related services.
The program will allow students to "Instant Message" a UB career counselor from home, the residence halls and apartments, or any site with an Internet connection. Career counselors initially are available for Instant Messaging from 1-4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The program began on Tuesday.
"UB's reputation as one of Yahoo's most wired campuses is clearly well earned," said Dan Ryan, director of career services. "Since our movement to Web-based service delivery with our Online Career Office, we have seen a steady increase in the use of these '24/7' services. Adding an IM capability is simply a natural progression of these efforts."
Melissa Hubbard, graduate assistant in the Office of Career Services, explained that the office has established the screen name "UbcareerAdvice" on the three most popular IM services—AIM, Yahoo and MSN. "Students will be able to reach a counselor with quick questions, rather than having to come to the office for an appointment or during walk-in hours," she said.
Sarah Ruchalski, a sophomore media study major, likes the new service. "This makes it a lot more convenient to get information from a counselor," she said. "I use Instant Messaging probably as much or more than email, so I know I will take advantage of this service."
For additional information, contact Ryan at 645-2231.
Béla Fleck to perform in CFA
Béla Fleck, who has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo in a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map, will perform with bass virtuoso and composer Edgar Meyer at 8 p.m. on Wednesday in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
This concert will mark Fleck's sixth consecutive appearance in the Center for the Arts, and his first without his band, the Flecktones, with whom he has no less than five Grammy awards. "When I'm not working with the Flecktones, I like doing something acoustic, something very different from the band," he says. "I like the variety. It makes me a better musician. It makes me feel more complete."
On Fleck's classical CD, "Perpetual Motion," the banjo became something else again—a classical virtuoso's instrument—as Fleck played imaginative new arrangements of favorite works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Paganini and Tchaikovsky. He developed the recording and the arrangements with the collaboration of Meyer, his longtime friend and colleague, who also appeared on the recording with a gallery of classical stars.
Fleck is a New York City native who picked up the banjo at age 15 after being awed by the bluegrass playing of Flatt & Scruggs. He began experimenting with playing bebop on the banjo in high school. In 1982, he joined the progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, where he made a name for himself in the country-bluegrass world.
In 1989, he formed the Flecktones. The group made its self-titled debut recording in 1990 by playing a "blu-bop" mix of jazz and bluegrass, and soon became a commercially successful, critically acclaimed and award-winning band. Fleck is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys in jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, Christian, composition and world music categories.
Prominently established as a unique and masterful instrumentalist, Grammy Award winner Meyer delights his audiences both as double bassist virtuoso and composer. Hailed by The New Yorker as, "…the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument," Meyer's unparalleled technique and musicianship, combined with his gift for composition, have brought him to the forefront, where he is appreciated by a vast, varied audience.
Meyer's musical interests have led him to be a widely sought after guest bass player for an assortment of recording artists, including Garth Brooks, Bruce Cockburn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Hank Williams, Jr., Emmylou Harris, James Taylor, Lyle Lovett, T-Bone Burnett, Reba McIntyre, the Indigo Girls, Travis Tritt and The Chieftains.
Tickets for Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer are $28 for the general public, and $25 for UB students. Tickets 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.