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Tech transfer to be topic of lecture
Technology transfer of life sciences technology will be the topic of the second lecture in the Buffalo BioSciences Life Sciences Commercialization Lecture Series, to be held at 4 p.m. today at UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, Ellicott and Virginia streets, Buffalo.
Jeff Dunbar, director of the Intellectual Property Division of the Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) at UB, and
Richard R. Matner, director of technology transfer and commercial development at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, will speak.
The next lecture in the series is scheduled for 4 p.m. Dec. 21 at the Center of Excellence.
For more information, visit the Center of Excellence's events Web site at http:// www.bioinformatics.buffalo.edu/events.php.
Disability training seminar cancelled
The Nov. 28 training seminar for UB faculty and staff previously announced by the Office of Disability Services has been cancelled due to an unavoidable conflict on the part of featured speaker Salome Heyward.
The program will be rescheduled for the spring 2007 semester.
Holiday Print Sale scheduled
The Department of Visual Studies will hold its annual Holiday Print Sale from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. today in the atrium of the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The sale will feature original artist prints by students, alumni and participants in the experimental Print Imaging Center's (ePIC) Community Printshop program.
Proceeds will support student research and scholarship in print media.
The sale will be held in conjunction with the opening reception for the "Informal Bookworks" exhibition from 5-7 p.m. in the Visual Studies Gallery, B-45 Center for the Arts. The exhibition will run through Dec. 12.
For further information, call 645-6878, ext. 1369.
Hodges to speak at workshop
Brian Hodges, director of the Donald R. Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto, will lead a workshop on "New Frontiers in Educational Research in the Health Professions" from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 28 in the Lippshutz Room, 125 Biomedical Education Building, South Campus
The workshop, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Medical Education Teaching and Research Innovation Center (METRIC), a new interdisciplinary initiative of UB faculty and staff with a common mission to promote excellence and innovation in teaching and educational research in medicine and other health-related professions.
Hodges will provide a historical overview of the Wilson Centre, outline the trials and tribulations of running a successful research center and offer suggestions on developing collaborative intramural and extramural research.
The Wilson Centre, an international leader in health professional education research, attracts $3 million to $5 million in external funding annually, publishes more than 100 educational manuscripts and sponsors more than 300 national and international presentations.
Hodges consults internationally four to five times per year. His current areas of research include performance-based assessment, determinants of expertise and self-assessment of competence.
For more information about the workshop, contact Michelle Grasso at mmgrasso@buffalo.edu or 829-3800, or Richard Pretorius at pretor@buffalo.edu or 829-2925.