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Newman Centers lecture series spotlights UB faculty
By MARY COCHRANE
Contributing Editor
"The Bridge," the fourth annual summer lecture series sponsored by the Newman Centers at UB, will continue on Wednesday with a lecture by David Triggle, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Triggle, a former UB provost and dean of the Graduate School, will speak on "The Light at the End of the Tunnel is the Oncoming Train, or, Why Scientific Ignorance Will Doom Us All."
Triggle's lecture—and all remaining lectures in the free series—will be held at 7 p.m. at 495 Skinnersville Road, Amherst.
Triggle is the author of several books dealing with the anatomical nervous system and drug-receptor interactions. The Institute for Science Information lists him as one of the 100 most highly cited scientists in the field of pharmacology.
The remaining lectures in the series:
July 12: Mark Gottdiener, professor, Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, and expert on urban culture and policy, will speak on "Understanding Casinos and Urban Development."
July 19: Donald Henderson, professor, and Jeffrey Lezynski, clinical assistant professor, both in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, CAS, will speak on "New Insights into Hearing Loss in the Elderly—Opportunities for Rehabilitation."
July 26: Gilberto Mosqueda, assistant professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will speak on "Disaster Planning in the Aftermath of Katrina: Will the Levees Hold?" Mosqueda was a member of the team of UB engineers from the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering (MCEER) that traveled to Mississippi and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina to study the damage to bridges and commercial structures as a first step toward identifying how earthquake-engineering expertise can be applied to designing structures that will better withstand all kinds of hazards.
Aug. 2: Teresa A Miller, associate professor, UB Law School, will speak on "Immigration Reform and America's Changing Perception of Immigrants." Miller recently has expanded her interest in legal regulation of prisoners to research the growing prevalence of detention and incarceration as a policy within the immigration system.
Aug. 9: Gerald Bové, postdoctoral research associate, Department of Geography, CAS, whose interests include spatial analysis of environmental factors related to human health and development of systems to monitor such factors in fresh water environments, will speak on "Drinking Water, Cancer and The Great Lakes."
Aug. 16: J. Patrick Keleher, director, UB Newman Centers, will talk on "What Does Third World Theology Have to Say to First World Christians?" Keleher maintains an ongoing interest in 20th-century literature, and is a member of the Buffalo "Finnegans Wake" group, as well as the Joyce Circle.