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Martha Graham Ensemble to perform in CFA
The Martha Graham Ensemble, the troupe of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, will perform at 8 p.m. April 3 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The ensemble will perform works and excerpts from the honored Martha Graham repertory and the repertory of other choreographers who work in the Martha Graham tradition. A pre-performance talk will be offered at 7 p.m. in the Screening Room of the CFA.
The full-length works to be performed by the ensemble include "Diversion of Angels," "El Penitente" and "Acts of Light," all choreographed by Graham. "Diversion of Angels" is abstract, following no story and exploring aspects of love. "El Penitente," which premiered in 1940, was inspired by Graham's visits to the Hopi and Santo Domingo populations in the 1930s. Graham touched on a recurrent theme of'love, death and rebirth in "Acts of Light." The ensemble also will perform excerpts from "Canticle for Innocent Comedians," "Clytemnestra" and "A Dancer's World."
Graham, who died in 1991, was named "Dancer of the Century" by TIME magazine in 1998, the most recent of the numerous honors for her career. She was awarded 10 honorary degrees, three of which were from Rutgers, Harvard and Yale. Graham received the Medal of Freedom from President Gerald Ford in 1976 and the first ever National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Regan in 1985.
Kenneth Topping serves as artistic director of the Martha Graham Ensemble. He joined the ensemble in 1984 and became principal dancer in 1990. Topping continues to dance with the company and to teach Martha Graham technique all over the world.
Tickets are $22, $18 and $16 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.
Osborne next up in "Meet the Author" series
OSBORNE
Lawrence Osborne, author of "The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World," will read from his book at 7 p.m. Monday in the Allen Hall Theatre, South Campus.
Osborne's reading will be broadcast live on WBFO 88.7-FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate, and is being presented as part of the station's "Meet the Author" series.
Bert Gambini, WBFO music director, will serve as host.
The event will be free and open to the public. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with live jazz music. A wine-and-cheese reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Weaving together a cast of eccentrics and obsessives, industry magnates and small farmers, "The Accidental Connoisseur" explores the way technological change, opinionated critics, consumer trends, wheelers and dealers, trade wars and mass-market tastes have made the wine we drink today almost unrecognizable compared to the wine drunk by our grandparents.
For more information, contact WBFO at 829-6000.
Berry to discuss Brown v. Board of Education
Mary Frances Berry, chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, will discuss the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education during a lecture at 7 p.m. April 8 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The lecture is free of charge and open to the public. It will be presented by the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, with support from the Office of the Dean of the CAS, the Graduate School of Education, the Law School, the Institute for Research and Education on Woman and Gender, the Buffalo Branch of the NAACP, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the New York State African American Research Foundation.
Distinguished Professor of History and Law at the University of Pennsylvania, Berry also holds the Geraldine R. Segal Chair on American Social Thought at Penn. She is the author of nine books, including "Black Resistance," "White Law," "Why ERA Failed" and "Stability, Security and Continuity: Mr. Justice Burton and Decision-Making in the Supreme Court, 1945-58."
MRI fellowships established in Jacobs' memory
The Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC), located in the Jacobs Neurological Institute at Buffalo General Hospital, has created two summer fellowships to support medical and graduate students in mastering the fundamentals of quantitative MRI analysis in multiple sclerosis.
The Lawrence Jacobs, M.D., Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research Fellowships—one clinically oriented and the other in computer science—are open to qualified students anywhere in the world pursuing studies in either neurology/radiology or computer science. A stipend of $6,000 will accompany each fellowship. The fellowships will run from mid-May through early September, beginning this year.
Robert Zivadinov, BNAC director, will oversee the fellowship projects.
The deadline for applications is April 15; winners will be notified by April 30.
The Jacobs fellowships are funded by the Lawrence D. Jacobs, M.D., Memorial Fund through proceeds from the Jog for the Jake, a sanctioned 5K race held annually on Father's Day in Jacobs' memory. Jacobs, a UB faculty member and world-renowned researcher who is credited with discovering the effectiveness of beta interferon in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, died in 2001. He was a pioneer in neuroimaging who was committed to the use of MRI as an outcome measure in clinical trials.
The BNAC, part of the Department of Neurology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, houses a computer center that performs quantitative analysis of MRI scans. It is equipped with the infrastructure, software, personnel and experience necessary to carry out specialized neuroimaging studies.
More detailed information about the Jacobs fellowships, as well as the application form, can be found at the BNAC Web site at www.bnac.net or by contacting Eve Salczynski at 859-3579 or esalczynski@TheJNI.org. Completed applications should be emailed to MRIFellow@theJNI.org.
RIA to present seminar series
UB's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) this spring will present several national experts to speak on addictions-related topics.
The three-part seminar series will be held at RIA, 1021 Main St. near North Street, at 10 a.m. It is free and open to the public.
The series will open on April 16 with a presentation by John Grabowski entitled "Drugs for Drug Dependence: Treatment or Perpetuating 'Addiction.'" Grabowski is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. His research focuses on opioid maintenance, stabilization and withdrawal; pharmacotherapy for cocaine dependence, and treatment for cocaine and mood disorders.
The series will continue on May 7 with a lecture by Antonia Abbey entitled "Alcohol's Role in College Students' Sexual Decision-Making." Abbey is a professor in the departments of Community Medicine and Psychology, and serves as interim chair in the Department of Community Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her research examines alcohol's role in sexual assault and men's and women's perceptions of sexual assault experiences.
The series will conclude on May 21 with a discussion of "Associative Memory Framework in Health Behavior" by Alan Stacy, associate professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine in the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research at the University of Southern California in Alhambra. His research applies findings from basic research in memory, cognitive neuroscience and learning to health behavior. Stacy is researching the effects of alcohol advertising on adolescents and the role of associative memory, as well as associate memory processes and HIV risk behavior, in adult drug offenders.
For more information about the seminars, call 887-2566.
Law review to honor Howe
Erie County Surrogate Judge Barbara Howe will be recognized for distinguished service to the UB Law School and the Western New York community at the Law School's 15th Annual Law Review Dinner, to be held tomorrow in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
"I am very pleased that the law review has chosen to honor such a good friend of UB Law School," said Nils Olsen, dean of the Law School. "I have known Barbara Howe since she was a first-year student in the law school, while concurrently serving on the faculty of the sociology department. She was an extraordinary student and has provided significant and distinguished public service in every position she has held since graduation. Barbara has been a consistent and important source of support for the law school and well deserves this prestigious award."
Howe is serving in her 17th year as a New York State Judge. She holds a bachelor's degree, with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Connecticut. She earned master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from Cornell University and a juris doctor degree from the UB Law School.
She joined the UB faculty in 1974 and became a tenured faculty member in 1981. Since her election to the bench in 1987, Howe retains appointments at UB as adjunct clinical professor of law and adjunct associate professor of sociology.
Howe is a member of the President's Council of Cornell Women and the boards of the Erie County Bar Foundation Endowment Fund for Pro Bono Legal Services and the St. Augustine Center. She is vice president of the boards of the Women Judges of the State of New York and the One Hundred Club of Buffalo and Western New York, Inc. Howe is also a former president of the UB Law Alumni Association.
She has authored numerous articles in sociology and the law and is a frequent lecturer at educational seminars for attorneys and judges.
Fulbright grants available
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering lecturing and research awards in some 140 countries for the 2005-06 academic year.
Opportunities are available not only for college and university faculty and administrators, but also for professionals from business and government, as well as artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. There are awards in 45 different disciplines and professional fields.
Traditional Fulbright awards are available from two months to an academic year or longer. A short-term grants program—the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program—offers two- to six-week grants in a variety of disciplines and fields.
While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. Some 80 percent of the awards are for lecturing.
Application deadlines for 2005-06 awards are May 1 for Fulbright Distinguished Chair Awards in Europe, Canada, Israel and Russia; Aug. 1 for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants worldwide, and Nov. 1 for the summer German Studies Seminar and for spring/summer seminars in Germany, Korea and Japan for academic and international education administrators.
The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program has a rolling deadline.
Interested UB faculty members and administrators can contact Mark A. Ashwill, Fulbright program adviser, for more information at 645-2177 or at ashwill@buffalo.edu. Information also is available at the UB Fulbright Program Web site at wings.buffalo.edu/ Fulbright.
Ashwill also is available to give presentations about the Fulbright Scholar Program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.