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PSS to hold meeting
The Professional Staff Senate will hold a general membership meeting from 3-5 p.m. April 22 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Guest speaker will be Robert Genco, interim provost and SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine.
Refreshments will be served.
For further information, contact the PSS office at 645-2003.
UCI to host computer workshop
The Resource Center at the University Community Initiative will host a "Computer Basics Workshop" from 9 a.m. to noon April 17 in 100 Allen Hall, South Campus.
The workshop, sponsored by the Western New York Computer Society, will offer group training in the basics of computer use. Such topics as how a computer works, how to set up and connect a computer, how to load software, how to get and use Internet access and how to use email will be addressed. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.
The workshop is free but space is limited and reservations are required. To reserve a space, call the UCI Resource Center at 829-3099.
ADA forums set
UB students, faculty and staff and the public are invited to participate in the campus accessibility planning process during public forums set for 3-5 p.m. on Tuesday in 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus, and for 3:30-5:30 p.m. on April 22 in 145C Student Union, North Campus.
The sessions are designed to encourage active public involvement in the development of future projects for renovations to UB's buildings and grounds serving persons with disabilities as required by the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The design consultant on the project is Architectural Resources of Buffalo. The firm has extensive experience working on and planning college campuses for accessibility.
Tim Russert to speak on April 21
Tim Russert, senior vice president of NBC News and producer and moderator of "Meet the Press," will deliver the final lecture in the 2003-04 Distinguished Speaker Series at 8 p.m. April 21 in Alumni Arena, North Campus.
RUSSERT
Since Russert took over the helm of "Meet the Press" in December 1991, the show has become the most watched Sunday morning interview program in America and the most quoted news program in the world. Russert has interviewed every major figure on the American political scene. In 2001, Washingtonian Magazine named him the best and most influential journalist in Washington, D.C., and called "Meet the Press" "the most interesting and important hour on television."
In addition to his duties on "Meet the Press," Russert serves as Washington bureau chief for NBC News and as a political analyst for "NBC Nightly News" and the "Today" program. He also anchors "The Tim Russert Show," a weekly interview program on CNBC, and is a contributing anchor for MSNBC.
Before joining NBC News, he observed firsthand the inner workings of the executive and legislative branches of government as counselor in the New York Governor's office in Albany from 1983-84 and as a special counsel in the U.S. Senate from 1977-82.
A native of Buffalo, Russert is a graduate of Canisius High School, John Carroll University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He has received 22 honorary doctorate degrees from American colleges and universities.
Tickets for Tim Russert range from $12 to $28 and may be purchased at the Alumni Arena ticket office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, at all Tops outlets and through Tickets.com.
Goldhagen to deliver architecture lecture
Sarah Goldhagen, author of an influential and myth-busting book on Louis Kahn, one of the most important architects to emerge in the decades after World War II, will present the final talk in the School of Architecture and Planning's 2003-04 Lecture Series.
The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Crosby Hall, South Campus. It will be free of charge and open to the public. A public reception will follow the talk.
A critic of contemporary architecture and urbanism for The American Prospect, Goldhagen's scholarship reflects the insight she draws from cultural theory and history, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.
Her book, "Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism" (Yale University Press, 2001), casts a new light on the work of the "architect of light" himself, a man whose elegant buildings of cast concrete moved the International Style beyond corporate modernism into a more eloquent and spiritual direction. Architectural historian Francesco Passanti has said Goldhagen's book "will durably change the paradigm by which we have viewed Louis Kahn now for several decades."
Since 2000, Goldhagen has been a lecturer in the Harvard Design School, where she specializes in the theorization and history of modernism. She is particularly interested in the complex and varied courses taken by modernism after it was initially—and, she would say, artificially—codified in the 1920s, and proposes the reconceptualization of "style" in modernism.
Goldhagen is the co-editor, with Réean Legault of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, of "Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture" (MIT, 2001), a collection of essays by 13 authors based, in part, on a 1998 international conference, "Reconceptualizing the Modern: Architectural Culture, 1944-1968," which she and Legault organized.
A popular lecturer, she is widely published and currently at work on several projects, among them two books, "Rethinking Modernism (in Architecture)" and "Monumental Modernism: The Postwar Challenge," and a series of essays on the architecture of H.H. Richardson and Pritzker Prize-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.
CFA to feature "Young Choreographers"
Student choreographers from the Department of Theatre and Dance will showcase the talents of the department's dancers in "Young Choreographers," to be performed April 23-25 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Show times are 8 p.m. on April 23, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on April 24 and 2 p.m. on April 25.
Directed by Tressa Crehan, "Young Choreographers" will feature dancers performing in a variety of styles to music ranging from up-tempo to ballads.
Tickets are $6 and may be purchased 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.
Next "Meet the Author" reading scheduled
Owen Gingerich will read from his book, "The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus," at the next session of the "Meet the Author" series sponsored by WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.
The reading, which will be free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. Monday in the Allen Hall Theatre, South Campus.
Bert Gambani, WBFO music director, will host the event, which will feature a wine-and-cheese reception and book signing following the reading. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with live jazz.
Senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and research professor of astronomy and the history of science at Harvard University, Gingerich was intrigued by the claim made by Arthur Koestler in his best-selling book, The Sleepwalkers." Koestler insisted that 16th-century Europe paid little attention to Copernicus' masterpiece "De revolutionibus "(On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Copernicus radically altered the composition of the cosmos by placing the sun, not the earth, at the center of the universe.
"The Book Nobody Read" chronicles Gingerich's 30-year quest to prove Koestler wrong.
"Swan Lake" to be performed
The Center for the Arts will present "Swan Lake" performed by the Moscow Festival Ballet at 8 p.m. April 20 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
The timeless, Russian fairytale will be brought to life by Russia's leading ballet company. The Moscow Festival Ballet was founded in 1989 when Sergei Radchenko, legendary principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, sought to realize his vision of a company that would bring together the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies in an independent new company within the framework of Russian classic ballet.
In addition to commissioning new works from within Russia and abroad, the company specializes in 20th century, full-length ballets, such as "Cinderella," "Romeo and Juliet," "Legend of Love," "Stone Flower" and "The Golden Age."
The Moscow Festival Ballet has completed two tours of Europe, including a performance in London's famed Coliseum. The company completed an extensive tour of the United States in 1997 to critical and public acclaim, and returned in 2001 for a three-month, coast-to-coast tour with equal success.
Tickets for "Swan Lake" are $25, $20, $16, with discount coupons available at all KeyBank locations. 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.
CIT increases email quota
CIT has expanded the email storage capacity for members of the UB community, increasing the default central email system quota to 30mb.
CIT strongly encourages email users to take advantage of junk-mail filters and off-line storage to manage their email.
More information about central email services is available at http://www.cit.buffalo. edu/mail
Questions may be directed to the CIT Help Desk at 645-3542 or cit-helpdesk@buffalo.edu.
RIA to offer alcohol-use screenings
UB's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will offer free, confidential alcohol-use screenings today as part of the sixth annual National Alcohol Screening Day.
Screenings will take place from 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at RIA, 1021 Main St., Buffalo. Appointments are not required. The screening process takes 30 minutes or less and involves completing a questionnaire and consulting with a health professional.
For information, call 887-2387, or visit http://www. AlcoholScreeningDay.org.
National Alcohol Screening Day last year attracted more than 88,000 people to more than 2,800 sites across the country. This public-awareness campaign is sponsored by the Screening for Mental Health, Inc., in collaboration with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Info sessions set for student Fulbright program
Informational sessions will be held from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesday and on April 21 and 22 in 930 Clemens Hall, North Campus, for students interested in applying for a Fulbright award.
The U.S. government-sponsored Fulbright U.S. Student Program is designed to provide recent graduates with bachelor's degrees (graduating seniors at the time of application) and master's and doctoral candidates, as well as young professionals and artists, with the opportunity to study and conduct research in other nations. Fulbright student grants aim to increase mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchange, while serving as a catalyst for long-term leadership development. The U.S. student program awards 1,000 grants annually and currently operates in more than 140 countries worldwide.
Students interested in obtaining more information about the program should attend one of the informational meetings and/or visit the UB Fulbright Program Web site at http://wings.buffalo. edu/fulbright. Those who meet the criteria and are interested in applying in 2004 for a 2005-06 grant should contact Mark Ashwill, Fulbright program advisor, at 645-2177, ext. 741, or at ashwill@buffalo.edu.
The campus deadline is Sept. 17.
Theatre and Dance to present "Fiddler on the Roof"
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present a student production of "Fiddler on the Roof" April 15-18 and April 21-24 in the Drama Theatre, Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Show times are 8 p.m. April 15-17 and April 21-23, 2 p.m. April 18 and 4 p.m. April 24.
Media sponsor is WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.
This production of "Fiddler on the Roof," based on the book by Joseph Stein with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, is directed by Lynne Kurdziel-Formato
Tickets for "Fiddler on the Roof" are $15 for the general public 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.