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PSS to meet today
The Professional Staff Senate will hold a general membership meeting at 3 p.m. today in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Kathryn R. Costello, vice president for development, will be the guest speaker.
The meeting is open to all members of the UB professional staff.
For further information, call the PSS office at 645-2003.
Moscow Festival Ballet to present 'Swan Lake'
The Moscow Festival Ballet will present "Swan Lake" at 8 p.m. April 10 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The Moscow Festival Ballet was founded in 1989 by Sergei Radchenko, legendary principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, who brought together the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov ballet companies in an independent new company within the framework of Russian classic ballet.
Under Radchenko's direction, the company has staged new productions of such timeless classics as "Giselle," "Don Quixote," "Paquita" and "Carmen," and continues to expand its repertoire. In addition to commissioning new works from within Russia and abroad, the company specializes in 20th century full-length ballets, such as "Cinderella," "Romeo and Juliet," "Legend of Love," "Stone Flower" and "The Golden Age."
The UB performance is part of a 17-week tour of North America by the company.
Tickets for "Swan Lake" are $22 for the general public and $10 for students and are available 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.
'Haunted Screens' to open
"Haunted Screens," a group exhibition featuring local, national and international artists who are working to deconstruct cinematic technologies, will open with a public reception at 5 p.m. March 29 in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Participating artists include Zoe Beloff, Michael Bothsworth, Diane Landry, Ed Pien, Tim Noble, Sue Webster, Simon Penny, Siebren Versteeg and Kara Walker. Many of the artists will attend the opening.
The exhibition will be on view through May 19.
In the spirit of proto-cinematic devices like magic lanterns and zoetropes, "Haunted Screens" features artwork that employs a variety of techniques—from the hand-drawn to pixel disintegration—to present a delirium of actual and implied movement. The phantasmagorias, silhouettes and projections in the exhibition borrow from mysticism and folklore, the legacy of the African slave trade, and urban specters to conjure historical and magical apparitions that inhabit the contemporary mind.
Curators of "Haunted Screens" are Sandra Firmin, a curator in the UB Art Gallery, and Carolyn Tennant, media arts curator for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
The UB Art Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with extended hours until 7 p.m. on Thursday.
Fulbright scholars to visit UB
Scholars from 25 countries will gather at a meeting hosted by UB March 29-31 to discuss and debate ways to improve access and equity in higher education worldwide.
D. Bruce Johnstone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and University Professor of Higher and Comparative Education, will serve as Distinguished Scholar Leader among the attending scholars, who are members of the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program. The three-day meeting will be held at Ramada Hotel and Conference Center in Amherst.
More than 30 scholars from such diverse countries as Uganda, China, Poland, Brazil, England and Russia will participate in the conference.
The scholars will work together in thematic groups related to the central topic, "Higher Education in the 21st Century: Access and Equity." They will address the cultural and societal norms that affect access and equity, the role of K-16 education in limiting or advancing access to higher education and the resources and policies that provide greater access to higher education.
By bringing together a diverse group of educational leaders to address the topic of higher education access and equity, "the scholars will seek constructive ways for institutions to develop policies that will correspond to the challenge of ensuring equitable access within the framework of higher education in the 21st century," Johnstone said.
The meeting is the first in a series of seminars for the group and will formally launch their work on higher education access and equity issues. At the conclusion of the meeting, the scholars will have established goals and objectives for improving higher education access and equity around the world.
President John B. Simpson will host a dinner reception for the scholars. Simpson recently formed a partnership with Buffalo Public Schools aimed at improving student outcomes and access to higher education for the city's public school students. Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international programs, also will speak to the assembled group.
During their stay in the Buffalo-Niagara region, the scholars will tour the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and visit Niagara Falls.
Since 2001, the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program has forged new links among scholars and professionals from around the world who have worked together to seek solutions to issues and concerns that affect humankind. Each year, approximately 30 outstanding scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad are selected to participate in the program and engage in debate and dialogue based on multidisciplinary research.
UB Women's Club to hold elections
Members of the UB Women's Club will elect officers for 2007-08 at 10 a.m. March 31 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Coffee and pastries will be served. All members of the club are encouraged to attend.
The club also will hold its annual Chinese Banquet at 6 p.m. April 1 in the Golden Duck Restaurant, 1840 Maple Road, Amherst. A 12-course meal featuring Peking duck will be served. The cost is $37 per person; proceeds benefit the Grace Capen Academic Awards. Reservations are required.
For more information about the UB Women's Club or to make reservations for the Chinese Banquet, call Joan Ryan at 626-9332.
CSE alumna to speak
Tin Kam Ho, a member of the Mathematics Research Center at Bell Labs who received a doctorate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 1992, will speak on "Lighting Up the Internet's Biggest Pipes" at 3:30 p.m. today in 330 Student Union, North Campus.
Ho's talk is part of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering's 40th anniversary celebration.
Ho, who was elected a fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in 2006, specializes in observation and algorithmic modeling of complex systems and phenomena in the physical world. She focuses her work on developing algorithms, tools and applications of pattern recognition, data mining, performance monitoring, and computational modeling and simulation.
For more information, call the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at 645-3180, ext. 300.
Lucinda Williams to appear in CFA
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams will perform at 8 p.m. April 18 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Williams has been bringing folk and blues elements together since the onset of her career, which was launched back in the early 1980s with a pair of acclaimed albums. A self-titled 1988 collection brought her wider attention—with listeners as well as with fellow performers like Mary Chapin Carpenter, who had a hit and helped Williams win a songwriting Grammy with the disc's "Passionate Kisses."
Williams took off in a new direction during the 1990s with the slow-burning "Sweet Old World," a disc that helped place the Americana movement at the forefront of listeners' minds. She cemented her own spot in the cultural lexicon with 1998's rough-hewn masterpiece "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road," which earned her a Grammy as a performer. "Essence" (2001), prompted Time magazine to dub her "America's Best Songwriter," a title she upheld two years later with "World Without Tears."
With her newest album "West," which was released Feb. 13, Williams channels both her emotion and restive creative energy into a startling set of songs that touch on both darkness and redemption.
Tickets for Lucinda Williams are $35 for the general public and $25 for students and are available 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.