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UB makes community-service honor roll
UB has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2007, which recognizes institutions of higher education that support innovative, effective and exemplary community-service programs.
UB was recognized for university outreach efforts including the Home Loan Guaranty program, free tax-preparation services for the community, the Law School’s Affordable Housing Clinic, Jefferson Family Medicine Center and the UB-Buffalo Public Schools Partnership. The volunteerism of UB students weighed heavily in the criteria for selection.
The Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and is sponsored by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, the USA Freedom Corps and the U.S. departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development. In all, 528 schools were listed on the Honor Roll for their community service activities during the 2006-07 academic year.
Spanish architects to speak
The School of Architecture and Planning will present a lecture on March 6 by two of Spain’s brightest and most celebrated architects, Madrid-based Inaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros.
The lecture will be free and open to the public.
It will take place at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus, and will be followed by a public reception for the speakers.
In their writings and practice, Ábalos and Herreros introduced the concept of a “New Naturalism” that dissolves disciplinary boundaries between architecture, art, garden and philosophy.
Their austere and beautiful building and urban landscaping projects are marked by a liberal use of figurative patterns and architecture that fuse nature and artifice to give a new identity to blighted urban contexts.
Known for the critical international perspective they bring to their study of American types of buildings, the are the authors of “Le Corbusier Skyscrapers,” “Nature—Artifice” and “Tower and Office,” an investigation of the evolution of the design and technology required to create high-rise buildings.
Their practice has won many prestigious awards, including the 2005 Mies van der Rohe Award for the Northeast Coast Park in Barcelona, which turned a blighted area into public space.
Music to present free events
Budget-conscious music lovers at UB can find much to keep them busy in March.
Guitarist Magnus Andersson will present a largely contemporary program for the monthly Brown Bag Concert, to take place at noon Tuesday in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Andersson also will perform at 3:30 p.m. March 5 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus, under the auspices of the Robert G. and Carol L, Morris Center for 21st Century Music.
Now in its ninth year, the Brown Bag Concert Series is designed to showcase the talents of UB music students and faculty. Coordinated by faculty member Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, the series of free, informal concerts presented over the lunch hour allows patrons to catch a glimpse of the kind of programming offered on a regular basis by the Department of Music. Participants are invited to bring their lunch and enjoy complimentary Starbucks coffee. Each attendee will receive a pair of complimentary tickets for a more formal concert within the following month.
Rounding out the free music events during March will be several student recitals. All will be open to the public. The schedule:
March 18: String Studio Recital, 12:15 p.m., Baird Recital Hall.
March 18: M.M. Recital, Yu-Ching (Sherry) Wei, percussion, 8 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall.
March 22: Junior Recital, Jason Gilbert, flute, 3 p.m., Baird Recital Hall.
March 29: Plosion, flute ensemble, 3 p.m., Baird Recital Hall.
Murphy named to NIH study section
Timothy F. Murphy, UB Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed to serve as a study section member in the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review.
He will serve as a peer reviewer in the center’s Clinical Research and Field Studies of Infectious Diseases Study Section until June 30, 2011.
NIH study sections review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their scientific fields.
Murphy, who holds appointments in the departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, specializes in research on vaccine development against important pathogens responsible for otitis media (ear infections, primarily affecting children) and lower respiratory tract infections in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
His work in COPD has been supported continuously by the Department of Veterans Affairs since 1994.
Murphy received his bachelor’s degree from New York University and his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Tufts before taking a position at UB in 1981. He was named chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Buffalo Veterans Affairs Hospital in 1990 and of UB’s Infectious Diseases Division in 1993. In 1995-96 he was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of Canberra, Australia.
He has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and holds more than a dozen patents related to vaccine development. He has been a reviewer for 20 medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and has held numerous positions on national committees and councils.
Pink Martini to perform in CFA
The Center for the Arts will present Pink Martini at 8 p.m. March 12 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
"Pink Martini is like a romantic Hollywood musical of the 1940s or ’50s, but with a global perspective that is modern," says founder and artistic director Thomas M. Lauderdale. "We bring melodies and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something that is new and beautiful."
The Portland, Oregon-based “little orchestra” was founded in 1994 by Lauderdale, a Harvard graduate and classically trained pianist, to play political fundraisers for such progressive causes as civil rights, the environment, affordable housing and public broadcasting. In the ensuing years, Pink Martini grew from four musicians to its current 12, and has gone on to perform its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Canada and the United States.
Pink Martini's debut album, "Sympathique," was released independently in 1997 on the band's own label Heinz Records and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for "Song of the Year" and "Best New Artist" in France's Victoires de la Musique Awards. Seven years later "Hang on Little Tomato" was released and climbed to #1 on Amazon.com's best sellers list. The group’s most recent recording, "Hey Eugene!" was released in 2007.
Tickets for Pink Martini are $30 for general admission and $22 for students and are available at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Jazz tour to hit CFA
The Center for the Arts will present the Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour at 8 p.m. March 11 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
The longest continually running jazz festival in the world, the Monterey Jazz Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a national tour. Maintaining Monterey's tradition of bringing together veteran and younger artists, the show stars Terence Blanchard (trumpet), James Moody (saxophone), Benny Green (piano), special guest vocalist Nnenna Freelon, Derrick Hodge (bass) and Kendrick Scott (drums).
These artists have strong connections with Monterey Jazz Festival and embody the scope and history of the festival—Blanchard was 2007 artist in residence at Monterey, Moody has been performing at Monterey since 1963, Green was part of the Monterey Jazz Festival High School All Star Big Band, Nnenna has been a regular performer at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Next Generation Festival, and Kendrick Scott performed with the Berklee-Monterey Quartet.
Tickets for Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour are $30 for general admission and $15 for students and are available at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.