EMERITUS CENTER TO GIVE AWARDS AT MAY 13 SESSION

The Emeritus Center will present its Rose Weinstein Award at its meeting at 2 p.m. on May 13. A Board of Directors meeting is set for 1 p.m.

Provost Thomas Headrick will address the meeting, at which citations will be awarded to volunteers who participated in the center's REV-UP program (Retired Employee Volunteers-University program) during the current year.

Leila (Lee) Baker, REV-UP coordinator, noted that more than 80 Emeritus volunteers who have contributed some 3,500 hours of volunteer work since May 1996 will receive special recognition. The REV-UP program, launched in 1990, has amassed nearly 19,000 hours of volunteer work.

ENGINEERING PLANS JUBILEE BANQUET MAY 10

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will hold its concluding Jubilee Banquet on Saturday, May 10, in the Atrium, Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The Barroom Buzzards Dixieland Jazz Band and Johnny Main, ventriloquist, will provide music and entertainment. The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with a cash bar, with dinner at 7 p.m. and entertainment following dinner. Cost of the dinner is $20 per person. For more information call 645-2768.

HEPFER WINS BOWKER/ULRICH'S SERIALS LIBRARIANSHIP AWARD

Cindy Hepfer, head, Serials and Bindery Department of the Health Sciences Library, is the recipient of the 1997 Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarian-ship Award, sponsored by R.R. Bowker and conferred annually by the American Library Association. It recognizes individuals who have shown leadership in serials-related activities through their participation in professional associations or library education programs.

Hepfer was selected for her commitment to improving the field of serials librarianship through her administrative and programmatic leadership of the ALCTS Serials Section and the North American Serial Interest Group. She received the award partly for her role as editor of Serials Review. She is a member of the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC) executive committee and editor of SISAC News. She holds an M.L.S. degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. in anthropology from Indiana University.

FOSTER IS AUTHOR OF A NEW BOOK ON GOVERNMENT

Kathryn A. Foster, assistant professor in the UB Department of Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, is the author of a new book, "The Political Economy of Special-Purpose Government," published this month by Georgetown University Press.

In recent decades, local governments have increasingly turned over specialized functions to autonomous agencies ranging in scope from subdivision-sized water districts to multi-state transit authorities. Foster's book examines why this trend is occurring and whether it makes a difference. It is the first comprehensive examination of the causes and consequences of special-purpose governments in the U.S. and presents new evidence on the economic, political and social implications of relying on these special districts, as well as offering a conceptual framework for understanding them and findings about their use and significance.

Foster is director of the Governance Project, a research and public service program established to analyze systems and issues of governance in Western New York. She received a Ph.D. in public affairs from Princeton University.

KPMG PEAT MARWICK GIVES $10,000 TO UB SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

The public accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick has contributed $10,000 to the UB School of Management for use in its Department of Accounting and Law.

The contribution was a result of the KPMG matching-gifts program and contributions from 21 KPMG employees, many of whom are graduates of the UB School of Management. Since 1988, KPMG has raised more than $73,000 for the School of Management, which offers both undergraduate and MBA degree programs in accounting.

"The School of Management is grateful to KPMG Peat Marwick and our alumni for their generous support," said Dean Frederick W. Winter. "Our long association with the firm has truly been a win-win situation."

PARASITOLOGIST APPOINTED CHAIR OF NIH STUDY SECTION

Philip LoVerde, professor of microbiology at UB, has been appointed chair of the Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, of the National Institutes of Health.

Director of the UB Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, LoVerde has devoted his career to studying and developing a vaccine for schistosomiasis, a virulent disease caused by blood flukes called schistosomes, which kills 800,000 people annually.

He has been collaborating for several years with the government in Egypt, where the disease is particularly severe, to help train Egyptian scientists in parasitology and schistosomiasis research.

LoVerde joined the faculty of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences as an assistant professor in 1981. A recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal-the highest award presented by the American Society of Parasitologists-he has spoken worldwide and has written more than 100 abstracts, articles, books and book chapters. He has served as editor of Experimental Parasitology and as a member of the editorial board of Microbial Pathogenesis.

He holds a bachelor's degree in zoology, a master's degree in wildlife management and master's and doctoral degrees in epidemiologic science from the University of Michigan.

JAMES MEINDL NAMED CHARMICHAEL PROFESSOR IN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

James R. Meindl, professor of organization and human resources, has been named the Donald S. Char-michael Professor of Organization and Human Resources in the School of Management for a five-year term. The position is endowed by Delaware North Companies, Inc. of Buffalo.

A member of the School of Management faculty since 1981, Meindl is the author and editor of numerous articles, chapters and books on behavioral aspects of organizing and managing. He is internationally recognized for his research on the "romance of leadership," an analysis of charisma and other forms of popular leadership.

Meindl teaches organizational behavior and leadership in the MBA, Singapore Executive MBA and doctoral programs at the management school. He is director of the school's Center for International Leadership, endowed by Marine Midland Bank, which fosters educational initiatives in the areas of international business leadership for WNY and international executives.

In 1996, he was awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, one of the highest honors bestowed by state university system, and in 1995 he received the management school's Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award. He has served on the editorial boards of leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Leadership Quarterly.

Frederick W. Winter, dean of the UB School of Management, cited Meindl's "versatile and gifted teaching skills," contributions to numerous management school committees, and pro bono consulting work.

Meindl received his doctorate and master's degree in social psychology from the University of Waterloo. He earned bachelor's degrees in psychology and sociology from the University of Rochester.

SRIHARI, TEAM ARE FINALISTS FOR DISCOVER AWARDS

Discover Magazine has chosen the Automated Postal System developed by Sargur N. Srihari, SUNY Distinguished Professor and director of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, and his team of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate researchers as one of 25 finalists in its 1997 Discover Awards for Technological Innovation. Winners and finalists will be featured in Discover's July 1997 awards issue.

According to Discover Magazine, the awards "honor the men and women whose creative genius improves the quality of our everyday life and alerts us to what's next from the frontiers of human achievement and ingenuity."

Srihari and his team have developed an automated postal system that enables computers to automatically read handwritten addresses.

Finalists in the software category were chosen by a panel of judges that included Marvin Minsky, MIT professor of computer science; John C. Dvorak, nationally syndicated computer columnist, and Esther Dyson, Forbes contributing editor and editor of RELEASE 1.0.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR FALL SEMESTER AT MFC

Working adults interested in pursuing a degree or expanded college study may register now through Sept. 2 for the fall semester at Millard Fillmore College (MFC), UB's evening study division.

Students can choose from more than 250 courses listed in MFC's fall class schedule or on the MFC Internet Web site at http://www.mfc.buffalo.edu.

Courses leading to undergraduate degrees are taught on both campuses by UB faculty and qualified professionals in the business community. Students can enroll in certificate programs in computing and network management, contract management, entrepreneurship, health-care administration, human-services administration, international trade, materials management or public relations/advertising. They can select from a wide range of degree programs or design their own program of study.

Registration is from 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. on Fridays in 142 Parker Hall, South Campus. Call 829-2202 for more information.

PROFESSIONAL STAFF SENATE TO NOTE SILVER ANNIVERSARY

The Professional Staff Senate will begin its 25th year Sept. 16 with a gala dinner program in the Center for the Arts. Dinner will be at 6 p.m. preceded by a cash bar at 5 p.m.

State dignitaries will be invited and members will hear a "very special" speaker. Throughout the 1997-98 academic year, workshops and programs will be scheduled to highlight the anniversary year.

PSS Chair Michael Stokes invites all staff to mark their calendars for this silver anniversary event.

RUSS MILLER IS SPEAKER AT UNIVERSITIES, NATO SCHOOL

Russ Miller, professor of computer science, was a speaker April 8 at Penn State University on "Molecular Structure Determination." He presented the same talk to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kent State University on April 16. He will be an invited speaker at the NATO School on Direct Methods for Solving Macromolecular Structures in Erice, Italy, in May-June, when he will lecture on Shake and Bake: Applications and Advances and Parallel Computing and Crystallography. The first lecture will appear in an edited book published by Kluwer. He also will present a workshop/tutorial with Chuck Weeks.

NOONAN TO BE AAUW PROGRAM OFFICER

Karen Noonan, associate vice president for undergraduate education, will be installed May 10 as first vice president for programs by the Buffalo Branch, American Association of University Women. The installation will take place at a noon luncheon in Fanny's Restaurant.

NIAAA FUNDS STUDY OF WOMEN'S ALCOHOL USE

Kathleen A. Parks of the Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), has been awarded a grant for $504,740 for the next five years from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for her research project, "Women's Alcohol Use, Drinking Context and Victimization." The project is a Mentored Research Scientist Development Award designed to allow the principal investigator to develop a research program assessing the relationships among alcohol use, drinking context and women's risk for victimization.

Parks has published research articles on women's issues, such as victimization, and other alcohol-related subjects, such as DWI. She has been at the RIA, a component of the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services and an affiliated institute of UB, since 1992.

Ruth Bryant reappointed

to county advisory board

Ruth D. Bryant, assistant dean in the School of Architecture and Planning, has been reappointed to membership on the Erie County Cultural Resources Advisory Board for a two-year term by Dennis T. Gorski, Erie County Executive.

Bryant, a UB graduate, is a former chair of the Professional Staff Senate (PSS). A 30-year employee of the university, she received the PSS Outstanding Service Award in 1990.

SHYROCK IS WINNER OF NEH ACOR FELLOWSHIP

Andrew Shyrock has been awarded the ACOR National Endowment for the Humanities Centers for Advanced Study Fellowship for 1997-98, it has been announced by Sarunas R. Milisauskas, professor and chair, Department of Anthropology .The award is for work in Amman, Jordan, for a period of four to six months between September 1997 and August 1998.

UB SPIR PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO LOCAL FIRMS

The local branch of the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) program, based in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has awarded grants to nine Western New York companies.

Local firms that would like to apply for SPIR grants for work to begin this summer should submit applications to The Center for Industrial Effectiveness by April 15. For information, contact TCIE at 636-2568, fax at 636-5921 or e-mail at Lwarnock@acsu.buffalo.edu

SPIR aims to bolster the state economy by promoting the transfer of knowledge from university to industry and providing consultation, research facilities and resources for industrial restructuring. Funded by New York State, the SPIR grants will cover up to 50 percent of a project's cost for hiring faculty, students and other technically trained personnel and fees for using sophisticated research facilities, such as those available at UB.

The following companies have received grants:

Eskay Metals Fabricating of Buffalo, $4,407; GEMCOR of Buffalo, $5,524; Sherwood of Lockport, $2,370 ; Manitoba Corp. of Lancaster, $2,565; Ohmcraft, Inc. of Pittsford, $4,925 ; Auto Radiator Sales Inc. and American Precision Industries, Inc. of Buffalo; $12,060 each for a joint project; Buffalo Computer Graphics, Inc. of Buffalo, $6,451; Peerless-Winsmith, Inc. of Springville, $3,317; Ashford Concrete, Inc. of Springville, $4,747.

UB CENTER ANNOUNCES TWO NEW APPOINTMENTS

The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) at UB has announced two staff changes. The center has hired Betsy Anderson as quality director for the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) program and has promoted Pamela Keen to manager of training services.

Through SPIR, Anderson will provide quality and manufacturing assistance to local companies through projects that will involve students and faculty from the UB Department of Industrial Engineering. She also will assist faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in curriculum development and teaching. A graduate of Alfred University, she earned a master's degree in business administration from UB.

Keen, formerly training coordinator for the center, will assist clients in training needs assessments, state training-grant administration and company-funded training. Keen has been an employee of TCIE since 1993. A graduate of Empire State College, she previously worked at Moog as an administrative assistant.

SUNY CONFERENCE SET ON INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES

Christine Sauciunac, associate director for information technology services at UB and H.G. Parsa are members of the planning committee for Learning With Technologies: Design*Implement*Assess, the sixth annual SUNY FACT Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT) to be held May 27-30 at Brockport State College.

The conference, open to all SUNY faculty and staff, and on a limited basis to other interested educators, is designed to encourage SUNY faculty to develop and use instructional technologies.

CIT will feature more than 150 presentations focusing on design of learning technologies, their implementation and assessment.

Among the presenters are Edith Martin, chief information officer, Eastman Kodak Co., who will speak on "Getting the Picture: Technology and the Future;" Bernard Petit, coordinator of Brockport State College Interactive Telecommunications Network, who will discuss and demonstrate the Rochester Area Interactive Telecommunications Network, and Gerald Puccio, acting director of the Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College, who will discuss "Fostering Change Through Technology."

Registration fee for the conference is $90; deadline is May 10. For information, call 315-464-4078; fax at 315-454-7303 or e-mail at cpdt@mail.suny.edu or write to Win Rice at the SUNY Center for Professional Development in Technology, 550 East Genesee St., Room 107, Syracuse, NY 13210.

UB PROF IS VISITING PROFESSOR IN FINLAND

Marjorie A. White, professor and director, Center for Nursing Research in the School of Nursing, was a visiting professor at the University of Tampere, Department of Nursing Science, Tampere, Finland, during March. She taught a course in Family Theory and Research to 50 graduate students from Greece, Germany, Italy and Finland as part of the ERASMUS program (European Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students), involving educational exchange among European universities.

She provided research consultation to colleagues at University of Tampere on a study of families and child abuse in Finland, for which she is principal investigator. The study was launched through a Fulbright Senior Scholars Fellowship to the University of Tampere in 1994-95.

UB TO CO-SPONSOR CONFERENCE OF WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY

The ninth annual conference of The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, a national organization of Wright homeowners and preservationists, will be held Sept. 17-21 in the Buffalo Hilton.. UB will co-sponsor the meeting. The first vice-president of the organization is Jack Quinan, professor and chair of the UB Department of Art History and curator of the Darwin D. Martin House, one of the finest of Wright's "prairie" houses, which is owned by the university and is currently undergoing restoration.

For registration information and a brochure, contact Sara-Ann B. Brigs at 312-663-1786.

The conference will include presentations by distinguished speakers on aspects of preservation and the history of Wright's architecture, and a symposium of noted scholars and preservationists, led by Quinan and Neil Levine of Harvard University. The panel will discuss the preservation of Wright's architecture by examining world attitudes and approaches to historic preservation.

Among the activities planned are tours of the Darwin Martin complex built in 1903-05; Graycliff, the rarely viewed home that Wright designed for the Martins in Derby in 1927, and other Wright-designed homes in Buffalo and Rochester.

Other activities include tours of Sullivan's Prudential building, the Roycroft Arts and Crafts community, Richardson's Dorsheimer House and Buffalo State Psychiatric Hospital, and a newly discovered body of work by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, for whom Wright once worked. Boat tours of the Buffalo River grain elevators also will be conducted.