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Ryan to visit UB Wednesday
New SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan will visit UB on Wednesday, meeting with faculty and students, and touring facilities on both the North and South campuses.
Ryan, accompanied by Kimberly R. Cline, acting vice chancellor and chief financial officer, will address faculty and staff from 2-3 p.m. in the Screening Room, Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The chancellor will begin his UB visit at 10 a.m. with meetings with President John B. Simpson and other senior UB administrators. A tour of the labs of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research in Ketter Hall and a presentation on the strategic strength "Extreme Events: Mitigation and Response" are scheduled for 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
He also will tour the Student Union and have lunch with Simpson and undergraduate students.
Following the faculty meeting in the Center for the Arts, Ryan will travel to the South Campus, where he will tour UB's health sciences facilities before leaving campus about 4 p.m.
Gifted Math Program seeks nominations
The Gifted Math Program is accepting nominations from schools and parents of outstanding sixth-grade mathematics students for its Fall 2006 class.
A three-hour battery of tests, including the math section of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, will be administered in March to about 200 nominees to select students for the 60 available places in the new class.
The Gifted Math Program, in its 26th year, enrolls approximately 240 students from secondary schools in Erie, Niagara and Orleans counties.
The program offers advanced math courses, which replace math classes in students' home schools and are designed to challenge students with high levels of ability. Students in grades seven to 10 study an enriched and accelerated math program; 11th and 12th graders take university-level courses in calculus and discrete math. They complete about four semesters of university-level mathematics as part of the six-year program and may accumulate a total of 22 college credit hours.
Classes meet twice a week on the North Campus.
A review group established by the National Science Teachers Association, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the American Association of School Administrators recently recognized the program as one of 10 outstanding math-science activities nationwide.
The program was founded by its current directors, Betty J. Krist, professor emeritus of mathematics at Buffalo State College, and Gerald R. Rising, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Learning and Instruction, UB Graduate School of Education.
Informational meetings for the families of nominated students and others interested in the program will be held in February at UB.
For more information or to obtain a schedule of information meetings, call Anne Szczesny, gifted math program administrator, at 645-2455, ext. 1045, or visit http://giftedmath.buffalo. edu.
Blood drives to be held
The Red Cross will hold several blood drives on the North and South campuses next week.
The drives will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in 210 Student Union, North Campus, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in 105 Harriman Hall, South Campus.
Anyone interested in giving blood can call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE to schedule an appointment.