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Parking tips for Dalai Lama visit on Sept. 19
All vehicles entering the North Campus must display a faculty/staff/student hangtag or a red Dalai Lama hangtag.
The Coventry and Webster entrances to the North Campus will be closed.
The following lots will be closed to faculty/staff/students: Lake LaSalle, Arena, Alumni, Stadium, Slee, Baird and Special Event.
Arrive early to guarantee a convenient parking space. Aside from the lots mentioned above, individuals will be able to park near their normal work sites until 9:30 a.m.
At 9:30 a.m., University Police will begin directing all campus traffic to fill parking spaces, moving east to west from the Slee lots.
Car pool or use the Metro bus whenever possible. Faculty, staff and students also will be able to travel to North Campus via the UB Stampede.
Do not schedule any unnecessary events, programs, deliveries, service calls or meetings on Sept. 19. Getting around campus will be extremely difficult on that day.
Tune to 1620-AM before arriving on campus for parking and traffic updates.
Please be patient.
Meet the Author set for Sept. 20
Novelist and constitutional scholar Garrett Epps will read from his work "Democracy Reborn: The 14th Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America," during the next presentation in the Meet the Author series, to be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora.
The Meet the Author series is presented by WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.
Epps' reading, which will be free and open to the public, will be broadcast live on WBFO. Bert Gambini, executive producer of the Meet the Author series, will serve as host. A book signing will take place immediately following the reading and light refreshments will be served.
Epps, Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, is the author of "The Shad Treatment" and "The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington."
Teaching workshop set
"Teach Students How to Learn: Metacognition is the Key" will be the topic of the third annual program in the Geenteels' Excellence in Teaching Series sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning Resources (CTLR).
The program will be held from 1-3 p.m. Sept. 29 in 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus. A reception will precede the presentation, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
It will be presented by Saundra Yancy McGuire, director of the Center for Academic Success and adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University. McGuire will discuss cognitive science concepts, such as metacognition and judgment of learning, that can be used to improve teaching and learning. Participants will learn a variety of strategies that can be used to help students experience meaningful, transferable learning.
The workshop is funded by an endowment by Kay and J. Ronald Gentile, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Education, as well as the contributions of faculty, alumni and other supporters of excellence in teaching.
Although the program is free of charge and open to all UB faculty, registration is required. To register, go to the CTLR Web site at http://www.buffalo.edu/ctlr.
Passports available through Law Library
Members of the campus community wishing to obtain a passport can go to the Charles B. Sears Law Library in the UB Law School, an authorized Passport Acceptance Facility.
The certified passport agents in the Law Library are authorized to distribute forms, accept completed paperwork, review required documentation and forward applications to the U.S. regional passport agency in Boston.
Passport services are available from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday in 211 O'Brian Hall, North Campus. Appointments may be scheduled by calling 645-2204.
Passport photos also may be obtained at the Law Library for an $8 fee.
Additional information about obtaining a passport is available at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/law/passport/passport.htm.
EAP to offer walking program
The Employee Assistance Program at UB has received a grant from the New York State EAP office to sponsor a walking program, "America on the Move," for UB employees.
All UB employees are eligible to participate in this six-week program at no cost. The goal of the program is to promote employee health and wellness. Participants will receive a free pedometer and support to successfully complete the program, as well incentive gifts over the duration of the program.
Registration for the program will run through September. Registration instructions can be found on the EAP Web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/eap, or employees can learn more about the program by attending the America on the Move kick-off meeting from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 20, in 102 Student Union, North Campus.
Faculty and staff members also may learn about the America on the Move program, as well as receive a personalized nutrition assessment and health risk appraisal, and information on the UB Employee Fitness Program at seminars held from 4-6 p.m. Sept. 18 in 203 Diefendorf, South Campus, and 6-8 a.m. Sept. 22 in 170 Fillmore, Ellicott Complex, North Campus. The cost of these two seminars is $3.
For further information regarding these programs, contact Nancy Battaglia at 645-5000, ext. 1035, or nbattaglia@business.buffalo.edu; Kathleen Kielar at 645-5774 or kmkielar@buffalo.edu; or Michele L. McCarrol at 829-2941, ext. 261, or mlm57@buffalo.edu.
RIA schedules lectures
UB's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will host national experts on addictions and substance abuse during a fall seminar series that will begin on Sept. 29.
The seminars, which will be free and open to the public, will be held at 10 a.m. on Fridays at RIA, 1021 Main St. at the corner of Goodrich on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
The Sept. 29 seminar will feature Helene Raskin White, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, who will present her research on "Changes in Substance Use During the Transition to Emerging Adulthood." A member of Rutgers' Center of Alcohol Studies, White is engaged in research on the causes, consequences and coexistence of substance use and other problem behaviors in college-age youth. She also is developing and evaluating substance use prevention programs for college students.
The seminar series will continue on Oct. 20 with a lecture by Marc Potenza, associate professor of psychiatry in the Division of Substance Abuse at Yale University, on "Pathological Gambling and Co-occurring Disorders." Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Yale's Women's Health Research and director of Yale's Problem Gambling Clinic, Potenza's current research encompasses the origins and treatment of pathological gambling and the relationship between pathological gambling and drug use disorders.
On Nov. 3, Paul Gruenewald, scientific director of the Prevention Research Center at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, Calif., will present a lecture titled "The Spatial Ecology of Alcohol Problems: Niche Theory and Assortative Drinking." Gruenewald is principal investigator on three research projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: an investigation into the relationships of alcohol outlets to violence among adults in California, a contract to develop advanced ecosystem models of alcohol-related problems and a grant to develop scientific bases for the prevention of alcohol-related problems.
The final seminar on Dec. 15 will be a presentation by Samir Haj-Dahmane, RIA senior research scientist, titled "The Endocannabinoid System: A New Player in the Regulation of Stress Related Mood Disorders." Haj-Dahmane specializes in the brain cholinergic system, cognitive functions and the neurophysiology of cocaine addictions. His research into dopamine mechanisms and receptors in raphe 5-HT neurons, funded by the National Institute on Mental Health, used electrophysiological, pharmacological and immunohistochemical techniques to characterize the cellular mechanism by which dopamine receptor activation increases the excitability of dorsal Raphe nucleus serotonergic (5-HT) neurons. His investigation on the cerebral cortex and schizophrenia was funded by the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression.
Ohio teachers get UB online program
This fall, teachers in Ohio won't have to drive across state lines in order to earn a master's degree in education from UB.
The Graduate School of Education's 33-credit online program, which has been offered to New York State teachers for more than five years, will be available to Ohio educators starting with the fall 2006 semester. A similar UB online degree in general education with a focus on science also is available in Ohio.
The program features a diverse curriculum with an emphasis on technology in education. It also includes coursework in such areas as exceptional education, globalization, curriculum, educational standards and writing.
Applicants need not provide GRE scores, but must have maintained a 3.0 undergraduate GPA while earning a bachelor's degree at an accredited university. Graduates of the program earn a master's degree in general education, along with a certificate of completion in technology in education.
Although the program is designed for individuals already working in education, it is open to others interested in the field. Past students have included teachers from all disciplines, employees of school districts, parents and childcare workers.
For more information about the program, go to http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/distancelearning.
Figure-drawing sessions to be held
The Department of Visual Studies will hold open figure-drawing sessions on Wednesdays, starting Sept. 6 and running through Dec. 6.
No session will be held on Nov. 22.
All sessions will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. in Studio 218 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The sessions, which are sponsored by the UB Student Visual Arts Organization, are open to the public. The fee is $5 per session.
For more information, call 645-6878, ext.1369.
Liturgy of Holy Spirit to be held Sept. 17
The Newman Centers will mark the opening of the 2006-07 academic year with the annual Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, to be held at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 17 in St. Joseph University Church on Main Street adjacent to the UB South Campus.
Faculty, administrators, staff, students and family members may march in the academic procession. Academic garb is encouraged.
All members of the campus community are invited to attend.
Those marching should call 636-7495 by Sept. 15 to RSVP.
UB to commemorate Sept. 11 anniversary
UB will commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack with a flag raising ceremony at 8:30 a.m. on Monday at Coventry Circle, North Campus.
The ceremony will feature memorial messages, followed by a period of personal reflection or prayer, the raising of a special commemorative flag that was flown over Ground Zero and a minute of silence at 8:47 a.m.—the moment the first plane crashed into New York's World Trade Center towers.
The ceremony is intended to remember the victims, their families and the memory of the 11 UB alumni who died in the attack. In attendance will be representatives from Student Affairs, Campus Ministries, Student Health Services, University Police and other UB departments.
Students, faculty, staff and the general public are welcome to attend.