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RIA seminar cancelled
The Research Institute on Addictions has announced that the April 28 presentation in its Spring Seminar Series has been cancelled.
The lecture, entitled "Perinatal Addiction: Lessons Learned," was to have been delivered by Dace S. Svikis, professor, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, and director of the Promoting Healthy Pregnancies Program, VCU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The series will open tomorrow with a lecture on the recent findings from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism by Victor M. Hesselbrock, Physicians Health Services Professor of Addiction Studies and vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
All lectures in the series will take place at 10 a.m. in the first-floor seminar room at RIA, 1021 Main St., Buffalo. They will be free of charge and open to the public.
For more information, go to http://www.ria.buffalo.edu/events/index.html.
UB to host Ride for Roswell
UB will host the 11th annual Ride for Roswell on June 24 to help raise funds in support of cancer research and patient treatment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
The UB team participating in this year's Ride for Roswell will ride under the slogan "Partners in Progress." Members of the UB community interested in joining the UB Spirit Team should register on the team's Web site at http://www.buffalo.edu/ubride. UB will cover the $15 registration fee for the first 100 UB riders who sign up for the event at the team's Web site. In return, each rider must raise a minimum of $75 in pledge support. Each UB team member will receive a free UB T-shirt.
Participants in the Ride for Roswell can choose to take part in a 9-mile, 20-mile, 33-mile, or 62.5-mile route, each of which begins and ends at Baird Point on the North Campus. After the ride, UB community members and friends are invited to celebrate in the UB tent at Baird Point.
Last year, participants in the Ride for Roswell raised a record $870,000, with the 124 riders on the UB team raising the second-largest amount of any team participating in the ride.
For more information, contact Jay Friedman at 645-3705, ext. 222, or at jf5@buffalo.edu.
Summer camp for kids to be offered
The UB Child Care Center will offer a summer camp for children ages 5-8 from June 26 to Aug. 25.
The camp will be based at the child care center's South Campus site. Children will go on weekly field trips, and participate in various sports, arts and crafts, and swimming. The field trips will include trips to the Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park, Buffalo Museum of Science and Explore & More museum in East Aurora, as well as bowling and roller-skating excursions.
Enrollment will be weekly, with the tuition of $190 covering all costs for field trips, swimming and lunch.
A 5 percent discount will be available for siblings, enrolling with a friend and for families that enroll for the entire summer.
Enrollment will be limited to 16 children and will begin soon.
For more information, contact the UB Child Care Center at 829-2226.
Program to offer low-cost Metro pass
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will pilot with the university beginning Sept. 1 a program that will provide participating UB students with unlimited use of the entire Metro bus and rail system for a one-time, $25 fee.
To obtain that same unlimited service, UB students must now purchase an "All Zone Metro" pass at a cost of $66 per month.
More than 13,000 students from Canisius, Buffalo State, Bryant & Stratton and Medaille colleges now have unlimited use of the Metro system, reducing demand for campus parking.
Maria Wallace, director of parking and transportation services, said the UB pilot program is set to last for the fall semester and will be evaluated before a decision is made on whether to extend it.
Dennis R. Black, vice president of student affairs, said the program hopefully will "open up Buffalo-Niagara to our students. Western New York has so much to offer them and now they will have greater opportunity to connect with their college community. The UB-NFTA program can help our students find internships, provide community service, do research and explore the city and region at the same time."
Metro representatives will be on campus to conduct two informational forums for UB undergraduate, graduate and professional students about the unlimited ride program. They will be held at 3 p.m. Monday in 330 Student Union, North Campus, and at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at a meeting of the Residence Hall Association in 10 Goodyear, South Campus. Students will have an opportunity to register for the pilot program at both forums.
As part of the pilot program, Metro will consider providing additional off-campus neighborhood shuttle service based on suggestions from the university and students at the informational sessions.
Applications and informational brochures will be available beginning Monday at the Student Union Information Desk, at the Parking & Transportation Services offices (102 Spaulding, Ellicott Complex, North Campus, or 104 Harriman Hall, South Campus) and on all buses and shuttles. More information on the pilot program is available at http://www.ub-parking.buffalo.edu.
Wallace said sign-ups for the program will be open to students over the summer and at the beginning of the fall semester. Fees will be due—and passes will be distributed—beginning in August.
Lawrence M. Meckler, NFTA executive director said he is pleased "to be opening the unlimited travel program to UB students through the pilot program."
"I hope many UB students take advantage of the informational sessions so we can inform them of the program's benefits," he said.
"Hot L Baltimore" to be performed
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present "Hot L Baltimore" at 8 p.m. April 20-22 and at 2 p.m. April 23 in the Blackbox Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
"Hot L Baltimore" is Lanford Wilson's funny and deeply moving ode to the spirit of America as seen through the eyes of the residents of a run-down hotel in Baltimore. Set in the early 1970s, the play was a seminal theater event in that period and won many prestigious awards, including the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, during its off-Broadway and Broadway runs. It spawned a network television series shortly thereafter and has delighted thousands of audiences and been a staple of the American contemporary theater for more than 30 years.
This production inaugurates the department's "poor theatre" slot, which focuses on the actor as the center of the creative process.
The play will be directed by Gerald Finnegan, associate professor of theatre and dance, and coordinator for the B.F.A. in theatre (acting) program.
Tickets for "Hot L Baltimore" are $8 and may be obtained at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Social Work to hold Alumni Day
The School of Social Work will hold its fifth annual Alumni Day from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. April 20 in the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst.
The event, held each year to reconnect alumni with the School of Social Work, as well as with each other, and to encourage social workers to remain connected to UB, will begin with a luncheon at noon featuring remarks by President John B. Simpson.
The luncheon will be followed by workshops from 1:15-3:15 p.m. focusing on:
"Program Evaluation: Demonstrating What Works by Incorporating Evaluation into Everyday Practice," which will provide an overview of methods to ensure practitioners are able to assess program outcomes, collect data and use existing date in an agency setting to demonstrate program needs and successes.
"Rural Practice: Making the Most in the Face of Limited Resources," which will examine the nature of creative strategies that are effective in communities with limited resources.
"Address Significant Behavioral Needs in Schools: Rural and Suburban Program Approaches," which will focus on two school-based program initiatives and highlight interdisciplinary involvement and unique social work opportunities and interventions.
The workshops will by followed by a keynote address from 3:45-4:15 p.m. by Jeannette Jennings, associate professor and director of the Tulane Center on Aging, Tulane University, who will discuss "Vulnerabilities of the Most Vulnerable," older adults who provide care to family members, including a significant number who continue to parent adult dependent children, troubled grandchildren and/or other young relatives, while also providing ongoing care to spouses, partners and elderly parents.
The final program of Social Work Alumni Day will be an introduction to the History Project, an effort by the school to document its history of educating social work professionals and its impact on countless lives, to be presented by Susan Green, clinical assistant professor of social work; Denise Krause, clinical associate professor of social work; and David Coppola, project coordinator.
A reception will follow the day's presentations.
Registration is $25 in advance and $30 at the door for UB social work alumni, $35 for non-alumni and $10 for students. For more information, contact Amy Ng at 645-3381, ext. 277 or email sw-info@buffalo.edu.