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SOM moves up in WSJ top 10
For the seventh consecutive year, the School of Management has been ranked as one of the world's top business schools by The Wall Street Journal.
The school is ranked No. 9 among schools with strong regional recruiting bases, up one spot from last year.
"Our continued high ranking by the recruiters who hire our graduates is a wonderful testimony to both the outstanding quality of our students and the dedicated faculty committed to providing them the skills needed to be successful," said John M. Thomas, dean of the School of Management.
As in past years, the ranking is based exclusively on recruiter feedback. More than 4,400 recruiters assessed schools and students based on a variety of attributes. They rated communication and interpersonal skills, team skills and personal ethics and integrity as the most important. Work ethic and analytical and problem-solving skills also were highly rated.
The survey results were separated into three separate rankings-national, regional and international. The national and regional rankings grouped schools based on where recruiters say they tend to recruit. Schools in the regional ranking category were more likely to draw recruiters from within their geographic area. For example, nine of the Big Ten schools are in the regional category. The international ranking was made up of schools whose recruiters placed graduates in positions outside of the U.S. or equally in and out of the U.S.
"These rankings are a reflection of the success of our efforts to enhance the quality of our academic programs and global reputation by focusing our resources on the recruitment of high-caliber students and top faculty," said Thomas.
GSE to hold research symposium
The university community is invited to attend a multidisciplinary research symposium next week that will bring together UB faculty from the Law School, the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and more.
"Working Methods, Shifting Contexts: Crossing Disciplinary, Cultural and Geographic Borders in Social Research" will be held Oct. 4 and 5 in the Baldy Center conference room, 509 O'Brian Hall, North Campus.
Scholars will examine border-crossing issues—including family violence, globalization and its impact on health, and the role of research universities in a global economy—while also detailing methodologies that undergird their work.
Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social-Personality Psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will open the symposium at 6 p.m. Oct. 4, speaking on "Transnational Activism: The Racialized and Classed Geography of Anger, Despair and Possibility Among Youth."
Sheila Slaughter, the Louise McBee Professor of Higher Education at the University of Georgia, will speak at 9 a.m. Oct. 5 on "Redefining Research Universities in a Global Knowledge Economy."
Sara Faherty and Teresa Miller of the UB Law School; James Milles, director of the Law Library; and Catherine Cerulli of the University at Rochester Medical Center will be part of a panel discussing legal research on family violence at 11 a.m. Oct. 5, while Richard V. Lee of the UB medical school and K. Michael Cummings, chair of the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, will be part of the panel on "Globalization: Impact on Health" at 2 p.m.
Lois Weis, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the GSE, will speak on "Working Methods in Changing Times" at 4:30 p.m. A closing reception will follow at 5:30 p.m.
The symposium was organized by the GSE with support from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the UB Law School. The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender and the Department of American Studies are co-sponsors.
For more information, contact Greg Dimitriadis at gjd3@buffalo.edu or Catherine Cornbleth at ccorn@buffalo.edu.
Gruman to deliver Bullough lecture
Jessie Gruman, founder and president of the Center for the Advancement of Health, an independent, nonpartisan, Washington-based policy institute, will deliver the 11th annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
The lecture, presented by the School of Nursing, will be free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture in the Slee lobby.
Gruman, who also is a professorial lecturer in the School of Public Health at George Washington University, will speak on "Nursing at the Nexus: Opportunities Now."
Since it was established in 1992, the Center for the Advancement of Health has worked to ensure that people are able to meet the demands placed on them by health information that is increasingly complex, health professionals who are increasingly specialized and pressed for time, and health care that is increasingly brilliant but chaotic.
Gruman has worked on this same set of concerns in the private sector (AT&T), the public sector (National Institutes of Health) and the voluntary health sector (American Cancer Society).
She is the author of "After Shock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You—or Someone You Love—a Devastating Diagnosis" (Walker Publishing, 2007).
Gov't Mule to perform in CFA
Gov't Mule, one of the most exciting bands on the touring circuit, will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Opening for Gov't Mule is Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Big riffs, massive grooves and expansive improvisations are the hallmarks of Gov't Mule's legendary live shows. Likewise, their well-crafted songs feature larger-than-life characters bearing life's heaviest burdens, performed by four musicians—guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes, drummer Matt Abts, keyboard player Danny Louis and bassist Andy Hess—whose powerful musicianship and chemistry, along with their tireless work ethic, have earned them the respect of their peers.
Tickets for Gov't Mule are $30 for general admission 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.