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Farmers market moves to Tuesdays
The farmers market sponsored by the Department of Philosophy will change its day of operation and location, beginning next week.
The market, now held on Wednesdays in Founders Plaza, will move indoors to the Social Hall on the second floor of the Student Union. The market will be held on Tuesdays, beginning Nov. 20.
For more information, contact Paul Penner at 645-2444, ext. 133 or at pspenner@buffalo.edu.
Olsen receives Jaeckle Award
R. Nils Olsen, professor and dean of the UB Law School, has received the 2007 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award, the highest honor the UB Law School and the UB Law Alumni Association can bestow, in recognition of his extraordinary service to the university and the Western New York community.
UB Provost Satish Tripathi presented the award before a dinner on Tuesday in the Twentieth Century Club in Buffalo.
Previous recipients of the Jaeckle Award have included Hon. Charles S. Desmond, Hon. Matthew J. Jasen, Manly Fleischmann, Jacob D. Hyman, Hon. M. Dolores Denman and William R. Greiner.
Olsen has served since 1998 as the 18th dean of the UB Law School. He has overseen numerous innovations and successes at the school, including significantly improving the law school's classroom and student facilities, and increasing student enrollment by 25 percent.
Olsen's tenure as dean has been characterized by a desire to reshape and advance the law school's curriculum and socially progressive clinical legal education, providing students with many real-life opportunities to practice law through work with community members and groups.
He also has held leadership positions for several key university initiatives, including serving as chair of UB's Intercollegiate Athletics Board and the Corrigan Committee, which is studying the future of UB's intercollegiate athletics programs. He has provided leadership to the UB 2020 strategic planning group charged with strengthening UB's focus on civic engagement and public policy. Among his many accomplishments, Olsen successfully lobbied New York State for professional-school tuition for the UB Law School, the only law school in SUNY, and reinvested tuition revenues into new services and facilities for students. He led a capital campaign for the law school that exceeded its $12 million goal.
Olsen said he plans to take a six-month leave from the UB Law School beginning in January and will return to resume teaching a course in civil procedure, a subject he has taught for 26 years in the school. He will continue to pursue research in the areas of federal post-conviction remedies and environmental policy.
Olsen joined the UB law faculty in 1978 after serving as a law lecturer and clinical fellow at the University of Chicago School of Law. Prior to that, he was judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Thomas E. Fairchild of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago.
Zodiaque to perform
Zodiaque Studio Dance Ensemble will perform Nov. 29 through Dec. 2 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performances will be at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Zodiaque Studio Dance Ensemble will present an evening of dance exploring the landscape of original choreography. The works will range from the dramatic to the abstract, with themes encompassing everything from the joy of moving to the pain of loneliness, from the imagery of casino gaming to exploring new relationships.
The concert will offer a mix of established faculty choreographers and invited student choreographers, with music ranging from electronic to percussion and as diverse as Ramin Djawadi, Nada and John Hanks.
The company is directed by William E. Thomas.
Tickets for Zodiaque Studio Dance Ensemble are $8 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.
Public health symposium set
A symposium addressing the legal and ethical issues related to rationing medical resources during an influenza pandemic will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The symposium, “Limited Health Care Resources: Prioritizing Access in a Community Emergency,” is sponsored by the School of Public Health and Health Professions and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the UB Law School. It serves as a follow-up to a symposium held last November that considered the broader issue of legal preparedness within the context of a community emergency, according to Sheila R. Shulman, research associate professor in the law and public health schools.
As with last year’s program, this year’s symposium will examine issues from a cross-border perspective, Shulman added, noting that most speakers are from New York State and Ontario.
The conference will explore the challenges involved in creating guidelines for the distribution of and access to limited medical resources during community health crises—in effect, addressing the questions of “who goes first,” "who decides" and "who enforces the decisions." Inherent in this process are legal and ethical concerns related to equity, authority, jurisdiction, liability and legal triage—prioritizing the legal issues and solutions to facilitate effective public health responses.
Case studies will be presented to illustrate the issues, including one examining the implications of the New York State draft guideline on the allocation of ventilators during an influenza pandemic.
Although there is a general registration fee of $25 for the symposium, UB faculty, staff and students who register in advance will be admitted free of charge. To register, email Ellen Kausner at ekausner@buffalo.edu with your name and contact information.
For the conference schedule, click here.
Women's Club to hold events
The UB Women's Club has planned several activities through the end of the year.
The club will sponsor its annual Soup's On luncheon Dec. 6 to benefit the Grace Capen Academic Awards. The luncheon will take place in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus, beginning at 11:30 a.m. The soups featured this year are crab bisque, loaded baked potato and chicken rice. The price of the luncheon is $20, which includes dessert. Reservations must be made no later than Nov. 28. For more information, contact Carmella Hanley at 633-4216.
Dec. 6 also will be the day for the club's annual poinsettia and wreath sale, also to benefit the Grace Capen awards. Orders must be placed by Tuesday, with items to be picked up Dec. 6 at the Center for Tomorrow. For more information, contact Joan Ryan at 626-9332.
Club members will gather at the Adam's Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo on Sunday to decorate the club's tree in the Festival of Trees sponsored by Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo.
The art history group will meet Nov. 30 to attend the Williamsville Art Society Show.
The club's international committee will hold its annual holiday party for international students Dec. 4 in the Student Union, North Campus.
For more information about these and other Women's Club events and activities, contact Joan Ryan at 626-9332.