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William R. Greiner, who willretire as the 13th President ofthe University at Buffalo at the

end of 2003, can count among his manyimportant achievements the emergenceof UB as a globalized university with alarge enrollment of interna-tional students and exten-sive programmatic and insti-tutional involvements in ev-ery part of the world.

Greiner’s nearly 13 yearsas president has establishedUB as a major player in in-ternational education, apublic research universitywith global reach and aworldwide reputation for ex-cellence.

The president's recogni-tion of the importance of theuniversity’s diversity and ofinternational education as acore value at UB is reflectedin the university’s ten-year“Mission/Vision Statement”for 1996-2006, the development of whichGreiner supervised. It states, “UB will buildupon the many cultures and traditionsthat have shaped us and our nation, inorder to better prepare our students andstate for the global community andeconomy of the twenty-first century.”

The university’s vision situates UB in aglobal context: “UB will be and be recog-nized as the premier public university inthe northeastern United States, and as anational and international leader inhigher education.”

Long before the term “globalization”became fashionable, President Greinersaw the need for the University at Buffaloto coordinate its international programsand activities and to give focus to its ef-forts to internationalize the institution.

It was Greiner who authorized the estab-lishment in 1991 of the Office of the ViceProvost for International Education as thecentral administrative office responsible forinternational programs and services. In fact,UB was one of the first universities to ap-

point a chief international education officerat the vice-provostal level, setting a prece-dent for other institutions to follow. Thismade it possible for UB to develop andimplement a comprehensive plan for inter-nationalizing its campus and expanding itspresence and role overseas.

Greiner’s commitment and support ofinternational education was clear during histenure as UB’s first provost prior to his be-coming president. At that time, Greinerhad a key role in supporting overseas pro-gram initiatives that made UB a globalplayer.

These included UB’s major exchangeprograms with universities in Beijing, China,which served as the foundation for UB’s ex-tensive involvements in that country. UB wasthe first American university to establish a

President Greiner and President Hidenari Yoshizawa of Konan University,Japan following the signing of a new exchange agreement in 2002

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formal university exchange with China following normal-ization of relations between the U.S. and the People’sRepublic in 1979.

Two years later, the University at Buffalo opened thefirst American-run English language center in Beijing, andin 1984 the U.S. Department of Commerce invited theUB School of Management to develop and deliver thefirst fully-accredited American MBA program in China,beginning in 1984.The program ranfor five years andgraduated morethan 200 Chinesemanagers.

Greiner’s supportwas key in anothermajor overseassponsored programin the mid-1980’s—UB’s collaborationwith InstitutTeknologi-MARA ofKuala Lumpur, Ma-laysia on a coopera-tive education pro-gram that providedmore than 1,200Malaysian studentswith the English language, preacademic and academiccoursework necessary for successful transfer to upper-divi-sion programs at U.S. institutions of higher education.

That $15 million project was not only the University atBuffalo’s largest offshore program to date, but also playeda decisive role in the university’s globalization. The pro-gram led to the development of other offshore programsin Indonesia, Taiwan, and Cambodia, thus expandingUB’s presence in Asia.

The Malaysian contract also created a program officeat UB that served as the nucleus of the future Office of theVice Provost for International Education, which was cre-ated in 1990 by then-Provost Greiner to bring under onecentral administrative office at UB all of the services andfunctions in the international area. Professor Stephen C.Dunnett was appointed as Vice Provost.

Greiner was instrumental in the establishment in 1990of UB’s landmark exchange program with the JagiellonianUniversity of Kraków, Poland, one of the largest and mostsuccessful ever developed between a Polish and Ameri-can university.

In the days immediately following the collapse of com-munism in Eastern and Central Europe, the Jagiellonianexchange enabled many Polish scholars to visit the UnitedStates for the first time and many young Americans to

study in Poland. President and Mrs. Carol Greiner firstvisited Kraków in 1993 in order to sign an exchangeagreement with the Jagiellonian. In recognition of his contributions to the exchange,Greiner was honored by the Jagiellonian with its highesthonor, the Merentibus Medal (Medal of Merit), whichGreiner received in person during the Jagiellonian's Con-vocation ceremonies in October 1995.

Greiner strongly sup-ported UB’s other ini-tiatives in Central andEastern Europe, includ-ing School of Manage-ment projects to de-velop managementeducation programs inHungary and Latviathat assisted thosecountries in their tran-sition to a free-marketeconomy. These projects havebeen very successful.For example, the RigaBusiness School,founded in 1991 anddeveloped in partthrough assistance

from UB, the University of Ottawa in Canada and the U.S.and Canadian governments, has become a leading busi-ness school in the Baltic region, offering an American-style MBA program.

Greiner was on hand in Riga in May 1995 when thefirst MBA class at RBS received their degrees. During thatvisit he also signed an exchange agreement with RigaTechnical University, RBS's parent institution.

One of the international initiatives that PresidentGreiner is most proud of is the university’s pioneering ex-change program with the University of Havana, Cuba,the first established by a U.S. university in four decades.Building on the successful study abroad program that UBhas run in Havana every summer since 1997, UB and theUniversity of Havana launched a unique multidisciplinaryjoint Master’s Program in Caribbean Cultural Studies infall 2002 (see page 10).

Among Greiner’s priorities in the international areahas been the preparation of UB students for the globaleconomy of the future. To this end, the university has de-veloped a variety of programs to promote the interna-tional experience of students and faculty, including for-eign language and culture programs, internationalizedcurricula in many fields, international cultural activities,area studies, exchange programs with foreign universi-

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President Greiner addresses the Senate of the Jagiellonian University after receiving theMerentibus Medal at Convocation ceremonies in Kraków in 1995

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national education,and John M. Thomas,dean of the School ofManagement, were inSingapore for the sign-ing on November 5th ofan agreement with theSingapore Institute ofManagement (SIM) toestablish a UB Bachelorof Science Program inBusiness Administra-tion at the SIM campusin Singapore.

Joseph J. Hindra-wan, UB assistant viceprovost for interna-tional education, whohas had a major role in developing the program, alsoattended the signing ceremony.

The university’s School of Management has alongstanding relationship with SIM, having partneredwith the institute since 1996 on a highly successful Execu-tive MBA Program in Singapore.

Founded in 1964, SIM is an independent, not-for-profitprofessional membership organization that enrolls morethan 15,500 students and offers 2 doctoral, 10 master's,46 bachelor's and over 30 graduate diploma, diplomaand certificate programs.

The new UB/SIM program will be the first bachelor’sdegree program that the University at Buffalo has deliv-ered entirely overseas. The program, which will com-mence in June 2004, is comparable in all respects to theB.S. program offered at UB and will be taught by leadfaculty from UB as well as SIM-appointed faculty.

The program’s admission, course requirements, cur-riculum and instructional format, faculty qualifications andacademic standards at SIM will be fully consistent withthose of the UB home campus.

Full-time course instruction will be offered year-round,so students can complete their degrees in three ratherthan four years. The program is expected to attract stu-dents from Singapore and the Southeast Asia region whowould like to earn an American degree in Singapore.

The signing ceremony took place at the U.S. Embassyin Singapore and was witnessed by the U.S. Ambassador,Franklin Lavin, as well as various Singaporean dignitaries,distinguished UB alumni, and other guests.

“The United States is pleased to support the Singapore

government’s push topromote the nation asthe region’s educationhub,” Lavin said. “TheSIM-UB partnership is aconcrete expression ofour nations’ increasinglystrong relationship, par-ticularly in the commer-cial arena. “The program serves asan important model forfuture partnerships be-tween American andSingapore institutions inthe growing educationsector in Singapore andthe region. This collabo-ration will benefit fromthe huge demand forhigher education ser-

vices in Asia,” Lavin added. “It has long been UB’s aspiration to establish an un-

dergraduate campus in Southeast Asia, and Singapore isthe ideal location,” Stephen Dunnett said.

“We needed to find a local educational institution ofsufficient size and stature with which to partner, and inSIM, UB has found an outstanding match. SIM is a superbinstitution with an international reputation for excellencein delivering management and undergraduate educationprograms in collaboration with American, British and Aus-tralian institutions,” Dunnett added.

Ronald Tan, chief executive officer and executive di-rector of SIM, said, “SIM has partnered with the UB Schoolof Management since 1996 to offer the first U.S.-accred-ited Executive Master in Business Administration (EMBA)program in Singapore. This extension of SIM’s collabora-tion with UB to offer a bachelor’s program will enablemore students, both from Singapore and the surround-ing region, to benefit from the U.S.-style curriculum.

"A unique feature of the SIM-UB curriculum will be theincorporation of Asian business case studies to analyzeproblems, solutions and strategies common to the Asianbusiness environment,” Tan added.

A project office will be established within the Office ofthe Vice Provost for International Education to managethe program for UB, with Vice Provost Dunnett and DeanThomas serving as co-directors. In addition, the programwill have an advisory council that will provide general pro-gram oversight, and will include, in addition to Dunnettand Thomas, senior UB faculty and administrators fromthe participating units on campus. c

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ties, and study abroad opportunities.One of the university’s most successful endeavors in

this regard is the Asian Studies program and Asian lan-guage and culture programs. During the past decade,increasing numbers of students have been enrolling inChinese, Japanese and Korean language and culturecourses, as well as courses in Asian Studies and Asian-American Studies. Theinstitutional importanceof Asian Studies was sig-naled in fall 2003 by thelaunching of a new in-terdisciplinary major inAsian Studies (see page9).

During his tenure aspresident, Greiner andhis wife Carol made anumber of high-profiletrips to visit exchangepartner institutions andto meet with localalumni. For example, inhis first visit to Asia aspresident, Greiner trav-eled to Taiwan and Hong Kong in April 1997. Later in1997, President and Carol Greiner visited three partneruniversities in Japan—Konan University, Kanazawa Uni-versity, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,and were guests of honor at a reception hosted by theAlumni Association chapter in Tokyo.

Greiner headed up a UB delegation participating inthe first UB International Alumni Leadership Conference,held in March 2001 in Singapore. More than 60 alumnichapter leaders—representing seven of UB’s 12 interna-tional chapters—attended the event, where Greiner pro-vided a report on the state of the university.

In May 2002, the Greiners traveled to China to renewUB’s historic 20-year agreements with three Beijing uni-versities. It was as provost 17 years earlier that Greinerfirst visited UB's partner institutions in Beijing.

In November 2002, the Greiners led the first UB presi-dential delegation ever to visit Turkey. Greiner met withthe rectors of three leading Turkish universities in Istanbuland signed an exchange agreement with Istanbul Tech-nical University, an institution with which UB is currentlydeveloping joint B.S. degree programs in civil and envi-ronmental engineering.

One of the accomplishments that Greiner takes spe-cial pride in is the continuing growth in the diversity ofthe UB community. This has been achieved in partthrough the increase in enrollments of international stu-

dents from more than 100 countries. UB has by far themost culturally diverse campus in SUNY, one enriched bythe many cultures represented by the students, facultyand staff.

The president authorized the establishment of the of-fice of International Enrollment Management and laterthe office of International Admissions to oversee UB’s in-

ternational recruit-ment and admissioneffort. This made pos-sible dramatic in-creases in theuniversity’s interna-tional enrollment—from just over 1,600 in1996 to some 3,500 infall 2003—an increaseof approximately 120percent. For his achievementsin the internationalarea, Buffalo/NiagaraWorldConnect pre-sented Greiner withthe Citation Award—

the organization’s highest honor—in November 2001, “inrecognition of his outstanding efforts to forge bonds be-tween our regional community and the global educationalcommunity.”

The Citation noted that under Greiner’s leadership,“UB has become a truly globalized university, whose mis-sions in education, research and service extend far be-yond the borders of the United States. From its EnglishLanguage Institute to prepare international students foracademic studies in the U.S., to its numerous study abroad,academic exchange, and overseas academic programs,the University at Buffalo has positioned itself as a leader ininternational education.”

Looking to the future, Greiner has expressed his senseof the important place of international education in theuniversity’s endeavors in the following way: “The Univer-sity at Buffalo takes pride in its leadership role as an inter-national center for education and service. In the centuryahead, it will continue reaching out to students, colleaguesand neighbors around the world, thereby creating newpossibilities for the building of a truly global community.”

Following his retirement as president, Greiner plans toreturn to teaching in the Law School. He first joined theUB law faculty in 1967. He held several administrative po-sitions in the Law School before going on to become UB’sfirst university provost in 1984, a position in which heserved until his appointment as president in 1991. c

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President and Carol Greiner with Dean John Thomas (far left) and Chinese alumniin Beijing, including Zhou Ji, China's Minister of Education (seated with Greiners)

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ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA:A VISITING FULBRIGHTER'S PERSPECTIVE

I was fortunate to receive a Fulbright Scholar Award toteach at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia andHerzegovina in the fall and winter of 2002-03. Working

together and socializing with individuals representing thiscountry’s diverse ethnicities and religions challengedsome personal beliefs I had held and provided an intenseand rewarding op-portunity to reflecton and expand myunderstanding ofhistory and society.

Last year, theChristmas holidayswere preceded bythe Muslim month ofRamadan, a time offasting from sunriseto sunset.

My University ofSarajevo students,most of whom wereMuslim, asked that Idismiss classes earlyso they could behome by sunset toeat with their fami-lies.

Traditional practice at the end of Ramadan, Eid al Fitr,includes visiting cemeteries and placing flowers. Duringthe siege of Sarajevo, from 1992 to 1996, more than10,000 people, including 1,600 children, were killed bySerb artillery and snipers, and so many neighborhoodshave new cemeteries.

On the evening of Eid al Fitr, walking throughBascharshiya, the former Turkish market in Sarajevo, Ipassed Alipashina Mosque, Ferhadiya Mosque, and GaziHusrev-Bey Mosque, the latter constructed in 1531 andfor centuries the largest in the Balkans.

Nearby, across the Miljachka River, is the Sultan’sMosque, built by Suleiman the Magnificent. For Eid al Fitrthe city’s many minarets were ringed and illuminated withsix-foot tall bands of electric lights.

The end of Ramadan was like the day after Thanksgiv-ing in the United States—an explosion of Christmas deco-rations. On Ulitsa Marsala Tita (Marshall Tito Street) aslastacharnitsa (pastry shop) placed a huge wrappedpresent and Christmas tree on the sidewalk, anotherdecorated tree inside, and in the window a life-size Fa-ther Christmas, dressed all in white.

Strung across Ferhadija, the main walking and shop-ping street, were many garlands with lighted snowflakes

and stars. Roughly half the shops in Sarajevo had Christ-mas decorations, including trees and lights.

In addition to many minarets, the Sarajevo skyline isdominated by several large steeples. The Old OrthodoxChurch, located in the Turkish section of Sarajevo, datesfrom around 1539. A new Orthodox Cathedral was con-

structed in 1863, and ashort distance away isthe Catholic Cathe-dral, constructed in1884. The square infront of the CatholicCathedral is a favoriteplace for friends tomeet. When I arrived inSarajevo, I engaged astudent to tutor me inthe local language. Bymid-December, thefew phrases I hadlearned enabled me totravel alone by bus toTravnik. Travnik, the Turkishprovincial capital from1699 to 1851, is the

birthplace of Ivo Andric, who won the Nobel Prize forLiterature in 1961 for The Bridge Over the Drina and BosnianChronicles (Travnik Chronicles).

Travnik is a beautiful town, dominated by massive,snow-covered mountains, with many mosques, includingone with trees and flowers painted on the outside. Re-turning to Sarajevo by bus at night, I saw many homeswith Christmas lights in the windows, on the roof lines,and in the gardens.

In late December I visited the National Museum, di-rectly across the Miljachka River from my eighth-floor,walk-up apartment, to view the Sarajevo Haggadah.

The bridge I walked across daily and most often wasthe Suada Dilberovic Bridge, named for a young woman,a medical student, the first civilian killed in the Sarajevosiege.

Of course, the best-known bridge over the Miljachka,a short walk from my university office, is where the Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Prin-ceps in 1914.

The Sarajevo Haggadah, created in Spain in the 14thcentury, includes 70 illuminated scenes from the Torah. Itwas brought to Sarajevo in the 15th century, when manyJews sought refuge in the Islamic empire of the Ottoman

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Turks. This Haggadah has great symbolic value forSarajevo as a city of many religious faiths.

When the Nazis came to seize the Haggadah, the mu-seum director said that he had given it to another Ger-man officer a few hours before. Meanwhile, a Muslimand a Catholic Croat were taking the precious manuscriptto a nearby village, where it was hidden for several years.

At Behram-Begova Medresa, a residential high schoolin city of Tuzla, I had my best meal in Bosnia andHerzegovina, at lunch with the director and several teach-ers. Later, I led a workshop for the teachers, all with de-grees from top universities throughout the Muslim world,on innovative methods for teaching about diversity.

Still later I was grilled on international politics andAmerican religious pluralism at an assembly of 300 highschool students, girls covered and on my left, boys on theright, all sitting on the carpeted floor of a huge hall. Afifth of the students had lost family members duringthe war; quite a few were homeless and attending theMedresa on scholarships.

The purpose of the Fulbright Scholar Program is topromote mutual understanding and benefit. My ex-periences in Bosnia and Herzegovina have strength-ened my long-term interest in the history, culture, andreligions of Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediter-ranean.

My increased understanding of the history of thisregion and of issues of identity, ethnicity, and citizen-ship is enriching my current teaching of World Civiliza-tions, UB’s general education course for freshmen.

At the University of Sarajevo, I provided many guestlectures, in part on current research in developmentalpsychology. I was also affiliated with the Civitas civiceducation program. This program, directed by theAmerican Embassy, supports education about democ-racy, citizenship, and human rights.

While I was in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Civitasprogram was being expanded at the university level. Iprovided the keynote address at a Civitas conferencefor professors and many guest lectures on diversity, de-mocracy, and education at the universities in Tuzla,Mostar, Banja Luka, and Bijeljina.

For many of these lectures on diversity and democ-racy, I drew on my experience in teaching UB’s Gen-eral Education course on American Pluralism.

Toward the end of my five months, I gave publiclectures on religious pluralism and tolerance at theCatholic Theology Faculty, the Faculty of Islamic Sci-ences, and the Bosniak Institute, with large audiencesand television and newspaper coverage.

For university lectures, I was able to lecture in En-glish with upper-level students. However, for lower-

level students, conversations with professors, and publiclectures, I depended on several interpreters—all remark-able people. I met one interpreter only as a full-day con-ference, including my presentation, was about to begin.

It wasn’t until the end of a very long day, as we sat in ahotel bar, that she was able to introduce herself: “I’m atypical Bosnian. My father was Orthodox, my mother wasMuslim, I’m married to a Catholic. I hope my two sons willgrow up to be good people.” cJack Meacham is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor inthe Department of Psychology. He was a Fulbright SeniorFellow in Bosnia and Herzegovenia in winter and spring of2002-2003.

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UB Neurosurgery has been working with the De-partment of Neurosurgery at the University Clini-cal Center in Tuzla, Bosnia for six years to help the

Bosnians rebuild their department, acquire new trainingand equipment, and thus provide better care to their pa-tients.

This collaboration grew out of the work of Dr. JacobBergsland, a local cardiac surgeon who initiated a coop-erative program with Tuzla in 1994 that eventually grewinto a government funded program wherein KaleidaHealth/Buffalo General/Children’s Hospital of Buffalohelped to train Bosnian residents and attending surgeonsin a variety of medical disciplines.

As part of that program, two neurosurgical residentsfrom Tuzla came to Buffalo and did rotations at MillardFillmore Hospital under Dr. James Budny, Children’s Hos-pital of Buffalo under Drs. Mark Dias and Veetai Lee, andBuffalo General Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Rob-ert Plunkett. This was the beginning of a long-term rela-tionship, which has seen Dr. Zlatko Ercegovic visit Buffaloonce and Dr. Mirsad Hodzic visit twice. Both have be-come attending neurosurgeons in Tuzla and are buildingnew clinical programs in their department.

In addition, Dr. Plunkett has traveled to Tuzla on twooccasions. The first was in 1998, at which time he tookwith him a stereotactic frame that had been purchasedthrough the government grant. Radionics Corporationmade the frame available at half price. The frame allowsneurosurgeons to accurately direct instruments to precise

locations in the brain. Dr. Plunkett trained the Bosnian neurosurgeonsin use of the stereotactic frame in association withCT scans. They have subsequently done more than100 procedures using this apparatus. In 2001, Dr. Hodzic returned to Buffalo express-ing an interest in the treatment of chronic painand functional neurosurgery, clinical specializa-tions that are not yet available in Tuzla. Thechronic pain population unfortunately includesmany patients injured during the war. Many of the treatments used in America forchronic pain are quite expensive and unavailable

to the Bosnians, but several simple alternatives wereworked out that Dr. Hodzic is now implementing in Tuzla.The next scheduled visit will be for Dr. Ercegovic to returnto Buffalo to begin training in Endovascular Neurosurgery.He hopes to spend his first three-month stint in Buffalo inlate fall 2003.

Evidence of the progress being made in Tuzla was aNeuroscience Symposium hosted by the Departments ofNeurosurgery and Neurology, University Clinical Center,in Tuzla in May 2002; this was attended by neurosurgeonsand neurologists from across Europe. Plunkett was able toattend and share with the audience his work with deepbrain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease.

The difference from 1998 to 2002 was quite dramatic,but there is certainly more that remains to be done. Theongoing collaborations include training as well as sharingof information and equipment. c

Waiting room for the neurosurgery department at the University Clinic in Tuzla

UB'S INTERNATIONAL ENROLLMENT AT ALL-TIME HIGH

In fall 2003 UB enrolled the largest number of interna-tional students ever. A total of 3,499 enrolled this fall,up 7 percent from the fall 2002 total of 3,272. For the

first time, international undergraduate enrollment ex-ceeded 1,000, climbing to 1,080—up more than 22 per-cent compared to last fall. International graduate enroll-ment grew to 2,419—a 1 percent gain over last year.

Since 1996, UB’s international enrollment has in-creased by 120 percent, thanks in large part to the ag-gressive overseas recruitment efforts undertaken by theOffice of International Enrollment Management. UB isnow ranked 17th among U.S. institutions with the largest

international student enrollments, according to the latestedition of Open Doors, published by the Institute of Inter-national Education.

The impressive growth in UB’s international enroll-ments has been achieved despite new federal mandatesimposed since September 11th that are making it moredifficult for international students and scholars to come tothe United States.

The largest growth this fall occurred in the under-graduate enrollments. In fall 2003 UB enrolled 143 newfreshmen, 8 more than the target. There were 185 newundergraduate transfers, compared to 139 in fall 2002. c

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The UB Asian Studies program hosted this year’s NewYork State Asian Studies Conference on October 17-18. The conference, titled “Walls in Asia,” exam-

ined how, over the centuries, the structurally simple butsymbolically complex wall has become a symbol of Asiafor Asians and non-Asians alike.

It featured workshops for teachers, a performance ofBeijing Opera, presentations by noted Asian scholars, andan exhibition of Chinese maximalist art.

“The complexity of walls and their ubiquitous presencein the life of Asia—both physical and abstract—invitescholarly inquiry in a wide variety of disciplines and sub-ject matter,” says Thomas W. Burkman, director of theAsian Studies program.

“In literal terms, the Great Wall of China, built to repelthe Mongol invasion from Kyushu, comes immediately tomind, and in contemporary times, the 38th parallel ofKorea, and the newly erected wall of barbed wire alongthe Indo-Pakistani border,” he says, “but walls have manysymbolic purposes beyond defense or security.”

They are ubiquitous in Asian gardens and art, he pointsout, and are used as a signifier of distrust and disdain,community, security and belonging; walls also arise in thestudy of Asian cultures and languages, according toBurkman.

“Disciplinary boundaries have both defined the fieldof Asian studies and created tensions within it,” he ex-plains. “We are looking at how these boundaries are shift-ing. Divisions and rifts can play a positive role in the emer-gence of new thought and in our present work, so welook at which demarcations we find to be most creativeand productive.”

Burkman says the conference addressed the “walls”theme broadly and inclusively, and with diversity in ap-proach and perspective.

It also introduced New York’s Asianists to a major inter-national thematic exhibition of contemporary Chinese art,also titled “The Wall,” to be presented to internationalaudiences in 2005 through the joint sponsorship of the UBArt Galleries and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

The conference began with “Asia in the Classroom,” aworkshop on China for teachers on best practices forteaching Asian studies in elementary and secondary class-rooms.

The workshop featured a demonstration and live in-teraction with a troupe from the Beijing Opera, followedby sessions on “Chinese Myths and Legends” led by P.Steven Sangren, professor of anthropology, Cornell Uni-versity, and “State and Society in China since 1976,” ledby Anna Brettell, visiting assistant professor, in Cornell’sDepartment of Government.

A lecture/performance of “The Monkey Knows NoWalls,” based on the Beijing Opera’s interpretation ofChina’s traditional “Monkey King” stories, took place inthe Center for the Arts, followed by a reception for the artexhibition, “Chinese Maximalism,” in the UB Art Gallery.

The conference plenary address, “Holes in the Wall:India’s Partition Revisited,” was presented by Ayesha Jalal,professor of history at Tufts University and leading scholaron the India-Pakistan partition. Jalal delivered a secondlecture at UB, "Partisans of Allah: Jihad in Theory and Prac-tice," as part of a lecture series organized by the Councilon International Studies and Programs.

The second day of the conference also featured anaddress by James L. Watson, president of the Associationfor Asian Studies, titled “The Other Side of the River: HongKong’s Border Saga, 1898-2003” and a roundtable onAsian studies in SUNY with John Ryder, director of theSUNY Office of International Programs, as well as a num-ber of concurrent sessions. cPatricia Donovan is a contributing editor for the Office ofNews Services.

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55TH MODEL UNITED NATIONS HELD AT UB

More than 500 high school students from 29 West-ern New York schools debated resolutions onstopping terrorism, human rights, natural re-

sources, and other issues of international concern at theday-long 55th Annual Model United Nations, hosted bythe University at Buffalo in March 2003.

The students formed delegations representing 54member nations of the UN from all regions of the world.The Model UN is a program of Buffalo/NiagaraWorldConnect, a local nonprofit organization dedicated

to international education and exchange.Students were welcomed at the opening session by

Barbara Ricotta, associate vice president for student affairsat UB. They were then treated to a lively presentation byIan Williams, chief UN correspondent for The Nation. Wil-liams, speaking in the context of international debate asthe United States and Great Britain prepared for war withIraq, focused on the historical importance of UN actionand the constraints under which the international bodyoperates.

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UB students interested in studying Asian civilizationsand contemporary societies now can register forthe new interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree pro-

gram in Asian studies.The degree program, which was granted final ap-

proval this summer by the State University of New YorkSystem Administration, is the culmination of two years ofcurriculum design by Asian studies faculty, says ThomasBurkman, director of the Asian Studies program in theCollege of Arts and Sciences.

“In art, cinema, religion, cuisine and economic influ-ence, Asia is no longer over there—indeed, Asia is here,”Burkman says. “By studying Asian civilizations and con-temporary societies, we come to understand a significantpart of humanity and acquire insight intoourselves.”

The Asian studies major includes 10 hours of requiredcore courses and four semesters of an Asian language—either Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Thai orVietnamese. The language will define the student’s focusfor the major, Burkman says, noting that 18 hours of up-per-level electives must include 9 hours related to the fo-cus culture or region. The student must choose electivecourses from both the humanities and the social sciences,as well as complete a senior seminar.

Courses for the major are drawn from many depart-ments, as well as from the Asian Studies program itself,Burkman says, pointing out that UB is home to some 20faculty members whose teaching and research are de-voted primarily to Asia.

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Moreover, study abroad programs offer students thechance to encounter Asian cultures firsthand, as well asadvance their language capability, he says. In addition,there are myriad opportunities to learn about Asia whileon campus, including a wide variety of special lectures,stage performances and Asia-focused student clubs.

Burkman notes that the Asian Studies program contin-ues to offer a minor in East Asian studies, and undergradu-ates can pursue language minors in Japanese, Chineseand Korean, as well as focus on Asia while pursuing amajor in international studies. Several departments alsooffer Asia-focused graduate work at the master’s and doc-toral levels, he adds.

Students with a degree in Asian Studies find employ-ment opportunities in many fields, including internationalbusiness, government service, non-governmental organi-zations and the arts, he says. Some go on to professionalschools in such fields as management, finance, diplomacyand law, while others pursue graduate degrees and enterAsia-related academic careers.

Students who combine a major in Asian Studies withanother field through a double major or a joint major willbe particularly well-suited for jobs that require disciplin-ary/professional training coupled with Asian linguistic abil-ity and cultural understanding, Burkman says.

Students seeking more information about the AsianStudies degree program should contact Burkman at [email protected]. cSue Wuetcher is editor of the Reporter and associate directorof the Office of News Services.

Before students broke into theircommittees, Claude Welch, SUNYDistinguished Service Professor inthe Department of Political Scienceand faculty sponsor of the event, ad-vised students on matters of proto-col. After the opening session, stu-dents broke into six committees—(1) Economic and Finance; (2) Po-litical and Security; (3) Legal; (4)Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian;(5) Special Political; and (6) Ad-HocPolitical—to debate, amend, andvote on resolutions that the studentshad submitted prior to the event.

Each of the six committees were led by students fromUB, Daemen, and D’Youville Colleges, and judged byWorldConnect volunteers. The delegation representingIsrael from Williamsville North High School received first

place for its strong debating skills,knowledge of the issues, and diplo-macy. The winning resolution, onprivatization of water resources, wassubmitted by the delegation repre-senting the Netherlands fromNorth Tonawanda High School.

Bruce Acker, executive directorof WorldConnect, noted,“ProfessorWelch was extremely helpful andsupportive as the faculty represen-tative at UB, and we were pleasedto have Barbara Ricotta representthe university to the students.

"Brian Waldrop, director of scholarship services,worked hard behind the scenes to make sure everythingran smoothly. We are very grateful to the University atBuffalo for all its support and for the opportunity to use itsfacilities," Acker said. c

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Nearly a century ago, the noted French writerAnatole France wrote of the “majestic equality ofthe laws, which forbid rich and poor alike to sleep

under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal theirbread.” His sardonic observation, drawing upon a richheritage of criticism from earlier decades, merits reflec-tion now, both academic and popular.

How do human rights relate to fundamental notions ofequality? How do so-called civil and political rights relateto economic, social and cultural rights, echoing France’sobservation? To what extent do they depend on systemsof laws that are rooted in nation-states but are imperfectlydeveloped at the international level?

In particular, how well do relatively rich states, such asthe United States and Canada, protect the economic andsocial rights of their marginalized populations, in light ofglobal standards? The two countries share much in com-mon—yet their differences are profound. Why?

Mutual interest in these matters led by Claude Welch,SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Departmentof Political Science, and Canadian scholar RhodaHassmann, FSRC Canada Research Chair in Global Stud-ies and Political Science at Wilfrid Laurie University inOntario, to cooperate on an international human rightsconference October 10-11.

Thanks to grants from the Baldy Center for Law andSocial Policy, the Canadian Embassy to the U.S., and UB’sCanadian-American Studies Committee, 15 scholars fromthe United States, Canada and Western Europe partici-pated in the two-day conference at UB.

The conference, which may result in a book manu-script in coming months, used the 1956 International Cov-

enant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as its orga-nizing framework. Canada has ratified this agreement;President Clinton signed it on behalf of the United States,but his action was reversed by President Bush shortly aftertaking office.

Nineteen scholars submitted papers on such diversetopics as people with disabilities in Canada, contrastinglevels of worker protection in the two countries (Canadahas ratified most agreements negotiated through the In-ternational Labor Organization, the U.S. few), the Ameri-can movement to end poverty through grassroots organi-zation, homeless in the two countries.

Also, the reasons for American reluctance to accepteconomic and social rights as full human rights, the im-pact of foreign policy on international welfare rights, theright to health in the U.S. and Canada, Indian poverty inboth countries, welfare racism, the economic rights ofmigrant and immigrant workers in Canada and the U.S.,an American perspective on the international law of hu-man rights, and “looking at ourselves,” a critical analysisof American and Canadian policy written by ProfessorsHassmann and Welch.

Four of the conference participants (including oneemerita) were UB faculty members; two came fromMcMaster University (plus three McMaster graduates whoco-authored a paper). Others teach at Temple University,the University of Connecticut, the University of Minnesota,the University of Nebraska, and the University of Utrecht(Netherlands). Borrowing the words of Anatole France,the conference organizers used “Sleeping Under Bridges”as their organizing theme, and may employ it as the titlefor the proposed book. c

UB HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

CUBAN STUDENTS TO ENROLL AT UB

The dean of arts and letters of the University of Ha-vana (UH), Rogelio Rodríguez-Coronel, confirmedearly in November that, as part of the existing

agreements between UH and UB, Cuban students will beallowed to enroll in the joint UB-UH Master of Arts in Hu-manities Program in Caribbean Cultural Studies.

According to Professor José Buscaglia, UB director ofCuban and Caribbean Programs, “This is an unprec-edented and very significant move that confirms onceagain that UB is at the forefront of all U.S. universities thathave relations with Havana. Never before has the Univer-sity of Havana shown such confidence in a partnershipwith a sister institution in the U.S.”

The first Cuban students would come to Buffalo in theSpring of 2005, to be enrolled full-time in the joint Univer-sity at Buffalo-University of Havana masters program.

The program, which is in its second year, is the onlysuch joint program between a U.S. and a Cuban univer-sity. Currently there are ten students enrolled, nine ofwhom are spending the fall semester in Havana (seephoto of the participants with José Buscaglia, page 13).

As part of the development and expansion of the jointCaribbean Studies Program, Dean Rodríguez-Coroneland Professor Buscaglia traveled in early October 2003 tothe University of the West Indies (UWI) in Kingston, Ja-maica. There they were hosted by Joseph Pereira, deputyprincipal, and by the dean of humanities and education,Aggrey Brown.

The visit to UWI established a basis for cooperation andpartnership and, as a result, University at Buffalo and Uni-versity of Havana students will be able to spend the firstsemester of their second year studying in Kingston. c

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A UB graduate student and two 2003 graduates have received Fulbright grants, all to Canada, for 2003- 04, a new UB record, Mark Ashwill, director of the

World Languages Program andUB’s Fulbright Program adviser,has reported. They are:

Debra Kolodczak, a doctoralcandidate in the Department ofMedia Study. Based at CarletonUniversity in Ottawa, Kolodczak’sresearch is examining thecanoe’s association with nativepeoples leading to an investigation of its role in Canada’sfrontier settlement and tourism industry.

Kolodczak also plans to explore the use of the canoethrough the lenses of work, play, symbol, and show; lookat two unexamined artifacts of the canoe’s manufacture,and raise awareness in the United States and Canada ofnative peoples’ many contributions to the cultural identityof Canada.

By Catherine Pollina

For two months dur-ing summer 2003,UB graduate stu-

dents Kate Syfert andGordon Warn repre-sented the University atBuffalo in the NationalScience Foundation(NSF)-Japan Society forthe Promotion (JSPS)Summer Program in Ja-pan.

For Kate Syfert, who isin the Department of An-thropology and the Na-tional Center for Geo-graphic Information andAnalysis at UB, this sum-mer marked her return toJapan.

She first visited underthe 2001 National Sci-ence Foundation Sum-mer Program. In 2003 she was hosted by ProfessorMasaaki Yamanashi in the Faculty of Integrated HumanStudies at Kyoto University.

Syfert undertook two projects in Japan. First, she stud-

GRADUATE STUDENTS IN NSF SUMMER PROGRAM IN JAPAN

Casey O’Hara, who graduated cum laude in 2003 witha bachelor’s degree in geography and a minor in French.O’Hara’s Fulbright project is entitled “Location Based Ser-

vices in the United States andCanada: A Comparative Studyof Trends in the Commercial GISSector.” He is based at theUniversité Laval in Quebec City. Gary Winston, who gradu-ated in 2003 with a bachelor’sdegree in geography andFrench. Winston, also based at

the Université Laval, is working on a project entitled “Studyin Economics and International Trade in Canada: NAFTAand the FTAA.”

Four UB students were named Fulbright alternates. Thestudents and their fields of study and countries are BeverlyAndrews (installation art, Canada), Marcus Marenda (phi-losophy, Germany), Joshua McMurray (law, Japan) andCarter Williams (music, Sweden). c

ied the role of women in geographical information sys-tem (GIS) research careers. This visit to Japan allowed herto collect valuable cross-cultural information using the con-tacts she established with geographers in Japan, includ-

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ing the head of a major "women in science" association.Women are strongly represented in the GIS commu-

nity, certainly more so than in traditional technical fieldssuch as engineering. Syfert commented that, in the end,she was interested to find more similarities than differ-ences in comparing the experiences of Japanese andAmerican geographers; they face many of the same chal-lenges in pursuing their careers.

Syfert’s second project was in the field of cognitive ge-ography. In this study, she explored the cultural signifi-cance of temple gates in Japanese society.

Unlike temple buildings, which have been frequentlydestroyed by fires, the temple gates tend to survive andachieve a relative permanence, and take on special sig-nificance related to the send-off and return of spirits.Kyoto, with its large number of temples, was a perfectlocation for this project.

Gordon Warn arrived in Japan two weeks in advanceof the formal Summer Program opening to join the Natu-ral Hazard Mitigation in Japan (NHMJ) program. This wasa special “add-on” activity to the Summer Program thatoffered one dozen students in civil engineering a uniquelook at the structural engineering field in Japan.

The NHMJ program featured site visits to major con-struction and testing facilities, lectures by Japanese ex-perts, and a student symposium.

During the core Summer Program activity, he con-ducted research in the Department of Civil Engineeringat Tokyo Institute of Technology under Professor KazuhikoKawashima.

Warn, whose personal research interests focus on baseisolation technologies, studied Japanese models of isolatedbridge structures.

This was a valuable hands-on project since bridge con-struction in Japan, where space is limited, is optimized toreduce the land footprint. Warn noted that despite thevery different engineering approaches taken in the twocountries, there are remarkable similarities in resultingbridge designs.

Co-sponsored in Japan by JSPS, the Summer Programprovides American graduate students in science and en-gineering an intensive, hands-on research experience inhost laboratories at national and private universities, na-tional institutes and independent companies. Studentparticipants are matched with host scholars according totheir research interests.

The two-month summer program also provides a one-week in-country orientation for participants that includes“survival” Japanese language training, lectures on thescientific infrastructure of Japan, and field trips to culturaland historical sites.

Tsuyoshi Enomoto, head of the JSPS Foreign Fellowship

Division, commented on the value of the Summer Pro-gram to the research community: “I believe the SummerProgram contributes a lot to young scientists’ collabora-tion between the U.S. and Japan. The two research fel-lows from Buffalo worked very hard this year, and I lookforward to seeing more fellows next year.”

The Summer Program in Japan is one component ofthe NSF East Asia Summer Institutes (EASI) for U.S. Gradu-ate Students in Science and Engineering. With the addi-tion of Australia as a host site beginning in 2004, the EASIProgram now supports participants in Japan, Korea, Tai-wan, China and Australia.

This summer, 62 students from 48 universities partici-pated in the program. More than 900 American gradu-ate students have participated in this program since itsinception fourteen years ago. Including this year’s pair,fourteen graduate students have represented the Univer-sity at Buffalo in this program.

The summer institutes aim to promote the career de-velopment of junior scientists and engineers. Specifically,the EASI Program encourages promising new scholars tolook beyond the borders of this country and consider in-ternational collaboration during their future careers.

Christopher A. Loretz, associate professor of biologicalsciences at the University at Buffalo and director of theNSF Tokyo Regional Office comments, “Through the EASIProgram, the Foundation makes a significant and impor-tant investment in the nation’s science and engineeringstudents.

"Rewarding transnational experiences at early careerstages, and the professional and personal bonds that areformed, can have long-term beneficial effects that arerealized through an increased willingness and, hopefully,an eagerness in the future to pursue international col-laborations in East Asia, or elsewhere in the world," Loretzadded.

Information about the NSF EASI Program is availablethrough the National Science Foundation Office of Inter-national Science and Engineering Web site at: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/int.

Additional resource information about EASI, includingapplication instructions, is available on-line at the NSF To-kyo Web site at: http://www.nsftokyo.org/spmenu.html;or, requests can be sent by e-mail to: [email protected] deadline for application is during the first week inDecember, annually. cCatherine Pollina is on leave from her position as instructionalsupport specialist in the UB Department of Biological Sci-ences. She is currently a Visiting Researcher in the OceanResearch Institute at the University of Tokyo.

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NEW PROGRAM FOR STUDY ABROAD RETURNEES

By Rhona Cadenhead-Hames

Reentry shock . . reverse culture shock . . reacclimatiz-ing . . . reverse homesickness. Regardless of theterm used to describe the feeling of ‘not belonging’

or ‘disassociation’ with the U.S. culture after a trip abroad,study abroad returnees are often struck by how difficult itis to come home after an overseas program.

While the reactions may vary, it is normal for a studentto face a re-adjustment period similar to what they mayhave experienced when first arriving in their adoptedculture.

Although the student who spends one month on asummer program in Spain may have a vastly differentreaction to coming home than a student who studies inJapan for the full academic year, one thing seems to re-main constant among all returnees—there is a real needto discuss and digest their sojourn with people who havehad similar experiences.

In August 2003, UB Study Abroad Programs held thefirst Study Abroad Returnee Reunion and Photo Contest.The event was designed to provide our returnees with anopportunity to reflect upon their time abroad; to thinkabout their experiences and how they have beenchanged them.

The students had an opportunity to view photos takenby their peers—a total of 77 were submitted to the con-test—while they met, shared their experiences bothabroad and back home, and talked with other studenttravelers about issues relating to readjustment.

One major component of the program was discussingwith the returnees suggestions on how to stay involvedwith international activities on campus. The feedback re-ceived from the students confirmed the importance of anevent for study abroad returnees. One student com-mented; “I am glad I participated—it gave the whole tripa proper ending.”

Recognizing the wealth of knowledge, enthusiasm,and energy students return from abroad with, our officehas recently initiated an exciting new student organiza-tion—Study Abroad Peer Advisors. This group of five pastparticipants has volunteered to work in our office this se-mester with the goal of spreading the word about study-ing abroad to the UB student community.

We have advisors who have spent semesters and sum-mers in South Africa, Spain, Australia, China and theUnited Kingdom. The peer advisors hold weekly officehours, visit classes, and represent our office at various pro-motional events throughout the semester.

In addition to these requirements, the advisors eachdevelop and work on a personalized project during theirtenure. For example, one of our advisors is investigatingthe possibility of beginning a study abroad alumni asso-ciation through the UB Student Association.

Promoting interactions between past and future studyabroad participants is something our office constantlystrives to do. On both our website and in our office wepost the email addresses of past participants who want totalk with students interested in studying abroad.

By putting these past and future participants in touchwith one another, we accomplish two goals. First, this in-teraction allows interested students a chance to talk withsomeone who has "been there and done that." Secondly,the past participant is given an additional opportunity todiscuss their overseas program.

Sharing experiences from abroad is beneficial bothfor the returnee, and for those of us who haven’t been.To this end, we would like to share some of the awardwinning images from our first photo contest (see pages14-16). I hope you’ll find these images as exciting, thoughtprovoking, and motivating as we do. cRhona Cadenhead-Hames is study abroad advisor in StudyAbroad Programs.

Joint Master's Program Class of 2004, in the Caribbean Studies seminar room at the University of Havana. L to r: Robin Smith, Michelle Csonka,Clorinda Andrade, José Buscaglia, Miguel Torres-Castro, Marielle Mecca, and Rebecca Stevens

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First Prize: OverallMaciej MattauszekCuba, Summer 2003Plaza de Cristo

Runner Up: OverallMicaela ThiesenSouth Africa, Summer 2003Desert Footsteps

First Prize: People CategoryLinda HuangJapan, Summer 2003Kimonos and Sunflowers

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First Prize: City CategoryRobert BatdorfSpain, Summer 2003Calle Libreros at Night

First Prize: Landscape CategoryKaren LisAustralia, Spring 2003Tasmanian Sunset

Honorable MentionPeople CategoryDavid TurnbullSouth Africa, Summer 2003On Top of Table Mountain

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Special Mention: Strange and UnusualBenjamin StearnsKorea, Academic Year 2002-2003Scorpions on a Stick

Special Mention: Best SeriesLars BraszSweden, Academic Year 2003-2004Saltholmen, Brunnsparken, Gothenburg

Honorable Mention: City CategoryNorman LamChina, Spring 2003Ducks in the Ghetto

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HIV/AIDS EDUCATION IN AFRICA:THE UGANDA VILLAGE PROJECT

I spent the most exciting and pro-ductive summer of my life on thefirst volunteer trip for the Uganda

Village Project.My fellow volunteers and I learned

about rural poverty and Ugandan cul-ture, while teaching thousands ofpeople about HIV/AIDSand treating hundredsof patients out of ahouse that we rentedduring our stay.

The Uganda VillageProject started as asmall group of Buffaloand Rochester pre-medical and medicalstudents who were frus-trated with typical clini-cal volunteer programs.

These programs usu-ally entail assisting atfree clinics in a develop-ing country, then leav-ing abruptly withoutpromoting public health in any long-term, meaningful sense.

We searched for a summer volun-teer project that was part of a sustain-able campaign to promote publichealth. This program had to be basedon the stated needs of villagers in adeveloping country, as opposed tobeing based on the agenda of well-meaning outsiders.

In order to work in a culturally-ap-propriate way, it was also importantthat we volunteer alongside a non-profit organization run by peoplefrom the developing country.

The “Village Project” forum of theInternational Federation of MedicalStudents Associations-USA fit thesegoals perfectly. With these projects,students “adopt” villages in a devel-oping country and create develop-ment projects with local nonprofits.With the advice of students thatstarted Village Projects in Kenya andGhana, we created the Uganda Vil-lage Project.

By Kirk Scirto

Our group arranged a two-monthprogram with a Ugandan nonprofit,which asked us to teach and providemedical care in the remote villages ineastern Uganda. After receivingtraining in Buffalo as community HIV/AIDS educators, we familiarized our-

selves with Ugandan culture and so-cial problems through research andUNICEF training. We designed cur-ricula, visual aids, and props forteaching techniques that could beapplied cross-culturally.

Alison Schroth, a pre-med gradu-ate of the University of Rochester;Brent Anderson, a pre-med graduatefrom UB; and I headed off to the air-port, with bags crammed full ofmedical supplies donated from Buf-falo and Rochester hospitals.

VILLAGE LIFEWe rented a house in the village ofKiroba in the Iganga District ofUganda. Our house was located in thecenter of the village, so that we couldwalk out our door every morning andgreet the mayor, play with orphans,and ask our neighbors if we couldhelp them with cooking.

By living with the head of a devel-opment nonprofit, we learned a lotabout the workings of the village.

When we first arrived, some 400Kirobans welcomed us with dances,speeches, and drama. We explainedthat we had come as teachers and“student doctors” and that we wouldlike to help in any way that we could.Kiroba was incredibly welcoming,

and we quickly formedfriendships despite thelanguage barrier. Villag-ers took us for walksthrough the sugar-canefields and cliffs, and twofamilies even let usname their newbornchildren.

AIDS AND ITS MYTHSUgandan activists did asuperb job organizingvillagers for HIV/AIDSteaching sessions. Theywent door-to-door say-ing, “the Americans arehere to tell us how we

get slim” (“slim” is a local term forAIDS).

After buying bicycles, we rode tovillages where we were expected toteach. People of all ages gathered innumbers between 30 and 300.

We gave four-hour presentationswhich were translated into Lusoga,the local language. Modes of HIV/AIDS transmission and preventionwere presented using pictures, role-play, true-false, and question-and-an-swer techniques.

Because AIDS educators had nevertaught in these remote places, wefound that many believed HIV to betransmitted by mosquitoes or witch-craft. We also worked to expel a dan-gerous myth that men can cure AIDSby sleeping with a virgin woman.

Nearly every day we taught in adifferent village or venue. The typicalset-up was under a large tree andsometimes in a church if it was rain-ing outside.

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astonished to realize that we hadtaught a total of 2,057 villagers fromtwelve villages and four high schools.

SANITATION, OR LACK THEREOFIn order to learn more about sanita-tion issues and other communityneeds, Brent and I teamed up withsome interpreters and went on a hut-to-hut survey campaign. After a weekof very interesting conversations, wehad feedback from 740 people inKiroba.

The survey opened our eyes to a

number of issues, including thedearth of nutritious food. Only 27% ofhouseholds surveyed had eaten “pro-tein foods” like beans or meat at leastonce per year. Even more stagger-ing was the fact that only 7% of thosesurveyed actually boil their water,while 26% wash their hands withsoap. With these facts in mind, it isnot surprising that 48% of all respon-dents complained of having intestinalworms.

Even though we were foreigners,villagers seemed to trust and acceptwhat we had to say about HIV/AIDStransmission and prevention. How-ever, we did not have the same luckduring our sanitation/nutrition teach-ing campaign.

Preventable infections can befound in most families and the life ex-pectancy is only 37 years of age; sowe taught villagers about how germs

are transmitted and encouragedthem to break their entrenched hab-its of neither washing their hands norboiling their drinking water.

Despite the relative lack of enthu-siasm, I expect we had a positive im-pact on many people, though promo-tion of sanitation will continue to be afocal point for the project.

TRAIN THE TRAINERWe organized a few train-the-trainersessions so that the teaching wouldnot end when we left the country.High school students related well tous as most spoke fluent English and

were close to us inage. During our visit,five high schools cre-ated clubs dedicatedto teaching aboutHIV/AIDS. We heldspecial training ses-sions for these stu-dents, presentingdifferent teachingmethods they coulduse to educate oth-ers in their commu-nities.

Two of the groups we trained wereput on the spot: we arranged ateaching session and had thempresent in our place. They were ableto practice with the visual aids andcurricula we donated; and although Ibarely understood a word of their in-struction, I be-lieve they ef-fectively deliv-ered the mes-sage in theirown lan-guage.

A women’sgroup asked usto train themto becomec o m m u n i t yeducators onHIV/AIDS andon sanitationand nutrition.

DO I HAVE AIDS?When the sun set and we took ourlast question about AIDS, I would geton my bike either very satisfied or verysad. It is believed that 10-15% ofpeople in this region are HIV positive.

Villagers would sometimes say,“Please do more than just teach us!You see, we think we might alreadyhave AIDS.” There is no accessibleHIV testing in this area, so we metwith political leaders to find out if wecould help.

After discussing the issue with afew nonprofits, we hired the AIDS In-formation Center to set up two tem-porary free testing centers in the vil-lages. They also tested for syphilis andprovided pre- and post-test counsel-ing to patients. Almost 150 villagerswere tested, and it only cost theUganda Village Project 75 cents perperson.

JUNGLE MEDICINEOur most intense project was the or-ganization of a three-day free clinic.Three weeks of meetings with variousUgandan doctors, medical students,health workers, and pharmacies ledto the formation of a medical staff often Ugandans in addition to Brentand me.

Lacking extra space for a clinic, weturned our house into a four-bedhealthcare facility. Our beds becamepatient beds and our hall closet was

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Amid the human catastrophe that is AIDS in Africa,the absence of health-care systems and practices that are taken for granted in other parts of the

world routinely hampers efforts to care for patients evenwhen assistance is being provided by international orga-nizations and charities.

But in the city of Chitungwiza in Zimbabwe, a nativeson who is the nation’s first pharma-cologist is helping to remove theseobstacles and provide meaningfulcare to HIV/AIDS patients as the re-sult of a joint program between theUniversity at Buffalo and the Univer-sity of Zimbabwe (UZ).

As the only initiative in Zimbabwe—and likely in all of sub-Saharan Af-rica—with an exclusive focus on HIV/AIDS pharmacotherapy, the UB/UZcollaboration is ushering in new hopeby adapting and applying the bestpharmacy practices in the U.S. toconditions in the developing world.

“By breaking down thepharmacoeconomic barriers, one byone, we have created somethingthat could be a breakthrough in theway African countries deal withAIDS,” said Chiedza Maponga,Pharm.D., chair of the Department of Pharmacy at theUniversity of Zimbabwe and visiting professor in the De-partment of Pharmacy Practice in the UB School of Phar-macy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, where he earned hisdoctorate in pharmacy.

These barriers not only are social and economic, butalso logistical. For example, some AIDS drugs used to ex-pire on the shelves of clinics in Zimbabwe without everbeing used because the clinics had no inventory-trackingsystems in place. Those systems are not just critical to thesurvival of Zimbabwe’s AIDS patients; some charities andinternational aid organizations require evidence of suchan infrastructure before they agree to donate resources.

During the past several years, through the UB/UZ col-laboration, Maponga has been instrumental in buildingthose systems by:* Assisting the Chitungwiza City Health Department inobtaining a five-year, $500,000 grant from the U.S. Cen-ters for Disease Control to develop community-based pro-grams using lay volunteers to improve AIDS patients’ ad-herence to treatment regimens. Maponga is the project’stechnical advisor.* Serving as project consultant on a World Health Organi-zation study of the quality of drugs available in Africa

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through post-marketing quality surveillance systems todetect substandard and counterfeit drugs.* Using his position with the UB Pharmacology SupportLaboratory, part of the NIH Adult AIDS Clinical TrialsGroup, to lay the groundwork for an International AIDSClinical Trials Group, designed to address the problemsof the developing world.

* Convincing the Zimbabwean gov-ernment to declare AIDS a nationalemergency — a declaration finallymade in June 2002 — which wasnecessary to allow for the distribu-tion of generic drugs to AIDS pa-tients. Maponga now serves as amember of the National Emer-gency Task Force on Antiretroviralsin Zimbabwe.* Serving as a local consultant onthe U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment (US AID) project, “As-sessment of the Requirements for aNational Antiretroviral TherapyProgramme for Zimbabwe.”

As a native of Zimbabwe andmember of the international phar-macology community, Mapongatravels easily between members oforganizations that range from U.S.-

based charitable groups like SAFE (Saving African FamiliesEnterprise) and international pharmacology conferencesto the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to women’s groupsin the community and traditional healers.

“We go where the issues are, and find ourselves be-coming catalysts for all these groups, combining our ex-pertise and theirs,” explained Maponga. “We are net-working all of them so we can look at their total impactand measure total outcomes so we can see what is work-ing and what is not.”

He noted that he worked with the Chitungwiza CityHealth Department to prepare the proposal that resultedin the $500,000 grant, as well as with SAFE, which ulti-mately donated the funds to allow for the distribution ofthe first generic drugs.

“How do you enable citizens to successfully communi-cate with charities,” asked Maponga. “How do you helppeople write grant proposals that are worthy? How doyou provide adherence training for lay volunteers in theircommunities? We have put systems into place that do allof these things through our collaboration with UB.

“We have actually started to raise hopes in the com-munity,” he said. “We don’t want to write our manuscriptsand leave. They are expecting us to continue.”


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transformed into a pharmacy. Westocked the rooms with gloves, gauzepads, sutures, syringes, and otherdonated supplies.

We were flooded with patients be-cause there is only one doctor for ev-ery 191,000 people in this region ofUganda. There were three healthworkers in Kiroba, but many villagerscan’t afford treatment costs; they of-ten try to adjust to disease and hopethey live through it.

Half of our patients came withsymptoms of malaria, the leadingcause of death in Uganda. Almostevery child came in with signs of in-testinal roundworm and/or symp-toms of severe dehydration from di-arrhea.

The children's parents usually pre-sented with signs of sexually transmit-ted disease or chronic bacterial infec-tion. Unlike in the United States andother developed countries, mosthealth problems that we saw inUganda were due to infectious dis-ease and were for the most part pre-ventable.

HUMANITARIANAID BY MOTOR-CYCLEDuring our lastdays in Kiroba,we said goodbyeto all of our newfriends and hiredmotorcyclists totake us on a tourof clinics in thecounty of Luuka.They had nogloves and were scantily stocked withsutures and syringes. At each clinic weprovided supplies and instruments.

COMING BACKAs we were leaving, activists and po-litical leaders in the Iganga Districtmade us promise repeatedly that wewould come back the following year.One local leader urged, “Please bringat least 100 Americans over here nextsummer!” They would like us to ex-pand our teaching, HIV testing, andclinic programs while raising fundsfor the construction of wells, an or-

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This summer, Maponga was in-volved in facilitating Zimbabwe’s firstpublic program to administer triple-therapy antiretroviral drugs to AIDSpatients. The antiretrovirals are con-sidered state-of-the-art therapy forAIDS patients in the developing worldsince they have a known track recordin prolonging life. But it’s not justdrugs that Maponga and his col-leagues are delivering.

“What we are providing now isnot just the delivery of drugs, but co-ordination among all of the services,providing infrastructure, technicalsupport, psychosocial support andpharmacology laboratory expertise to

phanage, and a year-round clinic. InJune-July 2004, we are arranging tobring more volunteers and to workwith additional Ugandan nonprofits.

Those interested in volunteeringfor the Uganda Village Project in2004 should contact Kirk Scirto [email protected]. Applications canbe found at the following webpage:www.schrothsystems.com/Alison/UVP/index.htm cKirk Scirto is a second-year medical stu-dent in the UB School of Medicine andBiomedical Sciences.

look for drug interactions and testgenerics for counterfeit ingredients,”Maponga said.

Only a comprehensive pharmaco-logical approach will work, he said,because so much is at stake. For ex-ample, he explained, with the firstadministration of antiretroviral drugs,every effort is being made to ensurethat the therapy is successful.

“For the first month that they areon this triple therapy, the women tak-ing the drug are under severe scru-tiny,” he said.

The 20 women on therapy havebeen provided with cell phones sothat they can immediately contact anurse as soon as they notice a reac-tion.

Swift intervention is key not only to

the individual patient’s outcome, butwith it comes risk — the risk of losingpatient trust throughout the commu-nity.

“If something fails, you have amajor drawback,” he said. Mapongaexplained that the 20 women are themothers of infants who were amongthe first in Chitungwiza to receive sixmonths of treatment with nevirapine,a drug that prevents transmission ofHIV to babies through breast milk. “The first baby treated withnevirapine died after two days,” re-calls Maponga, noting that a tragedylike that could have jeopardized thewhole effort. “It was baptism by fire,”he said of the incident’s potential im-pact.

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While an undergraduate at the University ofNairobi, Everett M. Standa (Ph.D. ’79, M.A.’74& B.A.’73) befriended an American student who

told him about the University at Buffalo.Based on the friend’s recommendation, Standa not

only decided to transfer to UB, but earned a scholarshipto do so. Standa is now vice chancellor of Kenyatta Uni-versity in Nairobi, the capitalof Kenya, a position equiva-lent to that of university presi-dent in the United States.

Standa was in the UnitedStates in August 2003, for thefirst time in 24 years, to attenda conference in California.

He decided to extend histrip so he could visit UB, andhe stopped by the Office ofAlumni Relations to share hisnoteworthy achievementssince he graduated.

His involvement in educa-tion as a profession began im-mediately after he earned hismaster’s degree in 1974,when he was appointed lec-turer in educational media atthe University of Nairobi.

He held this position until1976, when he returned to UBfor his Ph.D. on yet another scholarship. In 1978, uponcompletion of his coursework, he returned to the Univer-sity of Nairobi.

In 1981 he became a senior lecturer at Kenyatta Uni-versity, and six years later was appointed as both associ-ate professor and dean of the faculty of education at MoiUniversity, also in Kenya.

In 1991 he attained the status of professor of educationat the same university, and in 1999 he initiated a programfor private-pay students.

These students, who typically work during the day, arenot eligible for government sponsorship, so they pay fortheir college classes, which they attend during the eve-nings. After three years, enrollment has reached 3,000students.

In 2001, as acting principal, he was responsible forimplementing a constituent college of Moi University, theWestern University College of Science and Technology, inWestern Kenya. And in March 2003, through a govern-ment appointment, he took on his current position as vicechancellor at Kenyatta University.

As vice chancellor, he oversees approximately 13,000

students and 2,200 faculty and staff, including threedeputy chancellors. Although primarily a school for edu-cation, the university is diversifying under Standa’s lead-ership, with new programs in information technology,several different sciences, environmental studies as wellas complementary medicine and public health.

His goal, Standa says, is “to continue the expansionand steer the university intomaking significant contribu-tions to the developmentproblems Kenya faces now.” He wants to bring a re-search focus to national devel-opment programs, specifi-cally regarding food produc-tion, improving access to andthe quality of education andindustrialization of the nation. Since 1991 Standa has beenselected to serve on three na-tional committees concernedwith the state of education inKenya, including one hechaired that examined thecauses of riots on college cam-puses, which is a recurringproblem in Kenya. The committee found thatriots, which are often attrib-uted to poor conditions at a

university, could be combated through “more communi-cation, institutional responsiveness, improved quality offacilities and increasing students’ participation in activi-ties.” He says simple idleness can lead to problems, andthat getting students engaged reduces the chances ofrioting.

He is optimistic about the new government in Kenya,which was elected in December 2002 and which has al-ready shown greater support for education. He says theleadership believes that “even without buildings, thereare still books,” so learning is possible anywhere.

Standa doesn’t know yet what other opportunities willcome his way when his three-year contract as vice chan-cellor is up, but because he is on loan from Moi University,he can return to his post there and continue his quest toimprove education for the students of Kenya.

In his spare time, which is limited with his work re-sponsibilities, Standa enjoys reading academic books andbiographies, as well as writing poetry. cBarbara Byers is assistant director of Alumni Relations.

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22 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY AND STAFFCOLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESDepartment of ArtHarvey Breverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor, has been exhib-iting his work in several venues: “Is, Was, Will Be” at L’Espace Melanie,Riec-Sur-Belon in Brittany in August 2003 and the Mona BismarkFoundation in Paris in September 2003; “Mostra Internazionale diExlibris,” Museo Civico di Brunico, Provincia di Bolzano, Italy in July2003; “23rd Print International—Cadaqués 2003,” in Spain from Julyto September and traveling to England and France; “InternationalPrint and Drawing Exhibition” on the occasion of the 60th Anniver-sary Celebration of Silpakorn University, Art and Culture Center, inBangkok, Thailand, from October to December 2003, and from Janu-ary to February 2004 at the Silom Galleria, also in Bangkok; and the“5th British International Miniature Print Exhibition,” at theGracefield Arts Center in Dumfries, Scotland from November toDecember 2003; Breverman is one of fourteen artists selected toexhibit a further large-format print in this show, which travels to 12other venues in the United Kingdom in 2004.

Steven Kurtz, associate professor, participated in exhibitions in April2003 at the following institutions: “World Information Organiza-tion,” Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia; and “TheConquest of Ubiquity,” at Murcia University in Spain. He realizedthe following projects: “The Body Proud,” at Volksbühne in Berlin,Germany in May 2003; “GenTerra,” at the Museum of Natural His-tory in London, England in June 2003; and “Free Range Grain,” atSchirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany from June to August 2003.

Reinhard Reitzenstein, assistant professor, installed a sculpture/fountain in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa on October 29, 2003. Itwas commissioned by the Governor General of Canada. The projectis entitled “River Island, Sentinels” and will be sited at Rideau Hill,the Governor General’s estate. In June 2003, Reitzenstein installedanother public commission in Bielefeldt, Germany for the LutzTeutloff Sculpture Garden. The project is also a fountain/water fea-ture entitled, “Escarpment, River, Rocks.” Reitzenstein also took partin the International Sculpture Symposium in Pirkkala, Finland insummer 2003. One of his assistants, Albert Chao, is an undergradu-ate student at UB. Chao took part in the student part of the event,creating a project of his own as well as assisting Reitzenstein in theprocess of realizing his project for the symposium.

Asian Studies ProgramThomas W. Burkman, research professor and director, published“Nationalist Actors in the Internationalist Theatre: Nitobe Inazo andIshii Kikujiro and the League of Nations,” in Dick Stegewerns, ed.,Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan: Autonomy, AsianBrotherhood, or World Citizenship? (London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, 89-113). Burkman was elected vice-chair of the Coun-cil on Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies at the council’sMarch meeting. The council oversees matters relating to the eightregional conferences of the association. He will automatically be-come chair of the council and member of the AAS board in March2004. He delivered a paper, “Opening Doors for Asian Theatre atthe University: The Case of the University at Buffalo,” at the 5 th WorldCongress of the International University Theatre Association, Olym-pia, Greece in August 2003. Burkman served as program chair forthe Annual Meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies,hosted by the University at Buffalo in October 2003.

Department of Biological SciencesChristopher A. Loretz , associate professor, joined by invitation thenational organizing committee for the Fifth Asia Oceania Society forComparative Endocrinology Meeting to be held in Nara, Japan,March 26-30, 2004. In August 2003, Dr. Loretz attended the 28thMeeting of the Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology inToyama, Japan, where he presented a symposium lecture on his

current studies in the molecular physiology of natriuretic peptides.At that meeting, he also co-authored a poster presentation withCatherine Pollina of UB and others on the calcium-sensing receptorin teleost fishes. Loretz also gave an invited seminar on natriureticpeptides at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Ja-pan, on September 25, 2003.

Catherine Pollina, instructional support technician, was senior au-thor on a poster presentation at the 28th Meeting of the JapanSociety for Comparative Endocrinology in Toyama, Japan, in August2003. Pollina is currently a visiting researcher at the University ofTokyo Ocean Research Institute, where she is collaborating withJapanese colleagues on a project to identify and characterize cal-cium-sensing receptors in fishes.

Canadian-American Studies CommitteeOn November 17, 2003, the Canadian-American Studies Commit-tee hosted the second Niagara Colloquium bringing togetherCanada scholars from both sides of the border. Professor John Jack-son, author of the recently published book The Mighty Niagara: OneRiver -Two Frontiers, addressed the group.

Department of ChemistryPhilip Coppens, Distinguished Professor and Henry M. WoodburnChair, presented the following international invited talks betweenJune and November 2003: “The Interplay between Theory and Ex-periment in Charge Density Studies,” at the Third European ChargeDensity Meeting, ECDM-III, and the European Science FoundationExploratory Workshop in June; “Supramolecular Chemistry andTime-resolved Diffraction” at Supramolecular Construction andFunction, IUPAC meeting symposium, joint International Union ofPure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and Canadian Society forChemistry (CSC) conference in Ottawa, Canada, in August; “TheStudy of Light-Induced Transient Species by Excited-State Crystal-lography and DFT Calculations” at DFT2003, 10th International Con-ference on the Application of Density Functional Theory in Chemistryand Physics, Brussels in September; “Beyond Conventional Crystal-lography: Charge Density and Time-Resolved Diffraction Studies ofInteractions in Crystals” at the National Meeting of the MexicanChemical Society in Ixtapa, Guerrero, Mexico in September; “NewTime-Resolved Synchrotron Diffraction Experiments at Atomic Reso-lution: Methods and Results” at the Spring 8 Symposium in Himeji,Japan in November; and “Stroboscopic Single-Crystal Studies ofLight-Induced Excited States at Atomic Resolution” at the TITECHSymposium at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in November.

Department of Computer Science and EngineeringThe Seventh International Workshop on Document Analysis and Rec-ognition (ICDAR-03) was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in August2003. The conference is an international forum for furthering thestate-of-the-art in document recognition, understanding, manage-ment and retrieval, including multimedia documents. CEDAR staffthat attended and presented papers include Sargur Srihari, SUNYDistinguished Professor and director of CEDAR; Rohini Srihari, asso-ciate professor; Venu Govindaraju, professor; Srirangaraj Setlur,senior research scientist; and Zhixin Shi, senior research scientist.The paper entitled “Individuality of Handwritten Characters,” whichwas authored by Sargur Srihari and Bin Zhang and Sangjik Lee,both UB graduate students at CEDAR, won the ICDAR2003 BestPaper Award, which carried a cash prize of 200 British pounds.

Department of EconomicsPaul Zarembka, associate professor, presented a paper on Marx’svalue theory at the 51st Annual Conference of the Japan Society ofPolitical Economy in Tokyo in October 2003. He also presented thatpaper at a seminar at School of Commerce, Otaru University inHokkaido, Japan. While there he presented a separate talk on “Lenin,

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Economist, but Marxist?” at the Faculty of Law & Letters, EhimeUniversity. The latter will appear in a condensed form as an article ina special forthcoming issue on Marx of the Paris magazine Le nouvelobservateur.

Department of EnglishJoseph Conte, professor and chair, was invited to present a lectureon “The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in WilliamGibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine” at a conference onScience, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fictionat the University of Paderborn, Germany in May 2003. The confer-ence brought together a dozen American scholars and novelists withtheir counterparts at German universities.

Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. CapenProfessor of American Culture, gave a presentation at Carovane2003 in Piacenza, Italy. The theme of this year’s Carovane, which ranSeptember 6-14, was “Addio alle armi”—farewell to arms. Hespoke—on a day devoted entirely to September 11 violence—aboutthe 1971 Attica prison massacre and the prisoners’ 26-year-long civilrights trial; he also organized a photographic exhibit based on statepolice photographs taken during and immediately after the 1971prison massacre. The two other topics for the day were the Septem-ber 11, 1973 destruction of the Salvador Allende government inChile and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the UnitedStates. Jackson has been appointed to the editorial board of theInter-Nord: revue internationale d’études arctiques, published annu-ally by CNRS-Économica in Paris.

Ming-Qian Ma, assistant professor, delivered a paper “Style as theThreshold: Writing and the Textuality of Becoming in ContemporaryPhilosophy and Avant-Garde Poetry” at an international interdisci-plinary conference on Literature and Its Others, which was held inMay 2003 at the University of Turku, Finland. In August 2003, Mapresented a paper “Becoming Phenomenology: Style, Poetic Tex-ture, and the Pragmatic Turn in Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres,”at the annual conference of the World Phenomenology Institute,which was jointly held this year with the 21st World Congress ofPhilosophy in August 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey. This paper has beenaccepted for publication in the journal Analecta Husserliana: The Year-book of Phenomenological Research.

Department of GeographyUte Lehrer, adjunct assistant professor, was an invited speaker at theTechnical University of Cottbus, Germany. Lehrer spoke on“Architekturkritik als öffentlicher Diskurs” (“Architecture Critique asPublic Discourse”) as part of a conference on the Critique of Archi-tecture Critique, Oct 31- Nov 2, 2002. Lehrer was also invited to theWorld Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and conducted a work-shop with R. Keil on “City, Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony inNorth America in an Age of Globalization,” January 23-28, 2003.

James E. McConnell, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, is oneof the organizers of the “Crossing Borders Conference 2004,” to beheld at SUNY Plattsburg in October 2004. The conference is theseventh sponsored by the Canadian-American Golden HorseshoeEducational Alliance and is designed to bring together graduateand undergraduate students from Ontario and Western New York topresent research on cross-border issues and concerns. The steeringcommittee of the Golden Horseshoe Educational Alliance includesfaculty from Brock University in St. Catherines, the University ofToronto, York University in Toronto, McMaster University in Hamilton,Canisius College, SUNY Fredonia, Buffalo State College, and UB.

Department of HistoryDavid Gerber, professor, gave the Shannon Lecture in North Ameri-can Immigration History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

in October 2002, and gave a paper at an international meeting onthe personal correspondence of immigrants on the Carleton campusin August 2003.

Georg Iggers, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, recently pub-lished his autobiography, co-authored by his wife, Wilma Iggers,titled Zwei Seiten der Geschichte (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck &Ruprecht, September 2002). Iggers gave readings from the autobi-ography at the following locations in Germany and Austria:Goettingen,, January 2003; Humboldt University, Berlin, February2003; University of Vienna, Vienna, March 2003; University ofSalzburg, Austria, March 2003; and the Leipzig Book Fair, March2003. Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese, and Czech transla-tions of Iggers’ book, Historiography in the Twentieth Century, withnew forewords were recently published. Iggers participated in theChinese-German colloquium in Berlin in December 2002, and deliv-ered a paper “Cognitive and Normative Elements in East Asian andWestern Historiography,” at an international conference in Kofu,Japan. Iggers presented a paper on a comparative, interculturalhistory of modern histioriography at the European University Insti-tute in Fiesole, Italy; and in Spanish at the Autonomous NationalUniversity of Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico in June 2003. During hisvisit to Mexico, Iggers also gave a paper (in Spanish) titled “CriticalReflections on German Historiography” at the University of Puebla,in Puebla, and gave a paper at the international colloquium,“Dialogos con Historiadores,” also at the University of Puebla. Iggerswas a member of the three-person international team that evalu-ated the humanities and social science programs at the University ofTrento in Italy in May 2003. Iggers took part in a meeting of theboard of directors of the International Commission of the Historyand Theory of Historiography in Goettingen, Germany in June 2003.He gave public lectures on the U.S. and Iraq at two churches inGoettingen, Germany in April and May 2003. He participated intwo conferences in China in October-November 2003, one onmulticulturalism in Beijing; the other on the Comparative Studies ofWorld Civilization in Nanjing.

Department of LinguisticsRobert Van Valin, professor and chair, visited Croatia in May 2003 toteach A course on syntactic theory as part of Interdisciplinary Gradu-ate Program in Language, Communication and Cognitive Neuro-science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is also on the Inter-national Advisory Board for the program. In July 2003 he partici-pated in the 2003 International Course and Conference on Role andReference Grammar at the UNESP São Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil. VanValin gave a course and presented a paper at the conference.

Department of MathematicsJonathan Dimock , professor, gave an invited talk at the XIV Interna-tional Conference on Mathematical Physics held in Lisbon, Portugal,July 28-Aug 1, 2003.

Department of PhilosophyKah Kyung Cho, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, is fea-tured in an entry in the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers(1860-1960), 2004 edition, published by Thoemmes Press in Bristol,United Kingdom. Cho was selected to serve as Official Kyoto PrizeNominator for the Kyoto Prize, Philosophy and Art category, for2004. In philosophy, the past awardees are Noam Chomsky (1988),Karl Popper (1992), Willard van Orman Quine (1996), and PaulRicoeur (2000). The Kyoto Prize is Japan’s most prestigious interna-tional science and culture prize and includes a monetary award of$480,000. Cho’s article “Husserl’s Logical Investigations: Its Historyand Substance,” originally presented at Beijing University in 2001,has been published in John Drummond, editor, Centenary of E.Husserl’s Logical Investigations, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. InSeptember 2003 Cho gave an invited plenary session lecture titled

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“Pflege des Lebens Technik des Lebens” at the International Con-gress of Phenomenology on “Mensch Leben Technik,” sponsored bythe German Phenomenological Society and the University ofWürzburg. Cho was also an invited panelist and commentator atThe Kyoto Conference on International Cooperation to IntegrateDiverse Environmental Studies in Kyoto, Japan, September 29-Octo-ber 2, 2003.

John Corcoran, professor, was awarded the degree Doctor HonorisCausa by the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain at therecommendation of its Faculty of Philosophy and its Department ofLogic and Philosophy of Science. The ceremony took place in Octo-ber 2003 in connection with “The Corcoran Symposium,” an inter-national logic conference which included a session dedicated toreview of Corcoran’s logic papers that have been translated intoSpanish. Among the speakers were two of Corcoran’s former gradu-ate students at the Philosophy Department of the University at Buf-falo, Professor José Sagüillo of The University of Santiago deCompostela and Professor Stewart Shapiro of the Ohio State Uni-versity, noted logicians in their own right.

John Kearns, professor, presented recent papers, “An IllocutionaryAnalysis of Conditional Assertion” at Logica 2003 at Kravsko Cha-teau, Czech Republic in June 2003; and “An Illocutionary LogicalAnalysis of Conditional Assertions,” at the 12th International Con-gress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science in Oviedo,Spain in August 2003. Kearns published “The Logic of CoherentFiction” in Logica Yearbook 2002, T. Childers and O. Majer eds.,Filosofia, Prague, 2003, 133-146.

James Lawler, associate professor, gave the following presentations:“Steps in a Global World for the Convergence of Secular Humanismand World Religions,” at the World Congress of Philosophy inIstanbul, Turkey in August 2003; and “Only Love is Real: Heidegger,Plato and The Matrix” at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario,Canada in June 2003.

David Nyberg , emeritus adjunct professor, was invited to speak atthe International Conference on Imagination and Education inVancouver, British Columbia in July 2003. His paper was on “TheMind’s Best Moral Work: Imagination and Empathy.” The conferencewas organized by the Imaginative Education Research Group atSimon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Barry Smith, Julian Park Professor, continues to serve as director ofthe Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Sciencein the University of Leipzig under the auspices of the Wolfgang PaulPrize Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Smithhas been appointed philosophical advisor to the Institute for Libertyand Democracy in Lima, Peru, and also served as visiting professor atthe Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. In addition hehas received a $535,000 grant from the European Union in Brussels,and given lectures in Bremen, Innsbruck, Helsinki, Prague, Koblenz,Geneva, Oviedo and Hamburg.

Department of Romance Languages and LiteraturesJosé F. Buscaglia, assistant professor and director of Cuban andCaribbean Studies; and Henry Taylor, associate professor of urbanstudies and director of the Center for Urban Studies, led a group of30 students on a month long study abroad program to Cuba in June2003. The university's study abroad program in Cuba, one of the firstones ever established by a U.S. university is celebrating it eighthyear in existence. In September 2003 Buscaglia accompanied agroup of nine students who arestudying at the University of Havanafor the fall semester as part of University at Buffalo-University ofHavana Joint Masters Program in Caribbean Cultural Studies (seepage 10).

Department of SociologyTai Kang, associate professor, presented a paper titled “Effects ofSocial Capital on Mental Health of Korean Elderly: A Factor Analyti-cal Approach,” at the International Conference of Social Sciences inHawaii in June 2003. Kang is a member of a research team workingon the Buffalo Ethnic Community Study, an exploratory ethnographicwork that began with the Korean American community in Buffalo.

Department of Theatre and DanceMaria S. Horne, associate professor and founder-director of theInternational Artistic & Cultural Exchange Program (IACE), servedas academic co-chair of the 5th World Congress of the InternationalUniversity Theatre Association (AITU-IUTA) that took place in Olym-pia, Greece, in August 2003. The congress was attended by eminentperforming arts scholars from five continents. At the same time,Professor Horne presented her paper “International Education asBuilding Block of Performing Artists in the University Setting.” Dur-ing the summer 2003 and as part of IACE’s academic overseas pro-gram, Professor Horne led a ten-member UB student research teamto participate at the 3rd International Meeting of University Theatrein Ancient Olympia, Greece, of which Professor Horne is a memberof the Organizing Committee. During spring recess 2003, ProfessorHorne led a 14 UB student delegation to France where IACE Cre-ative Research Lab performed the interdisciplinary multimedia ad-aptation of “Birdbath” directed by Horne at the 12th RencontresInternationales du Théâtre organized by the Université of Franche-Comté in Besançon. Additionally in March 2003, Professor Hornetraveled to Germany invited by the University of Cologne to teach inher capacity as Master Teacher of Acting.

SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINEDepartment of Oral Diagnostic SciencesW.D. McCall, Jr., professor, visited Korea in May 2003 to deliver aseries of lectures at three dental schools in that country. On May 16he gave a lecture “Myofascial Pain and Trigger Points” to dentalcollege students at Pusan National University; he delivered the samelecture on May 20 to dental students at Kyungpook National Univer-sity. He delivered a symposium lecture on May 17 titled, “The Past,Present, and Future of TMD and Orofacial Pain Study in the U.S.”McCall also gave a lecture at Seoul National University, titled“Myofascial Pain: Hypotheses about the Electrical Activity from Trig-ger Point.”

Norman D. Mohl, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and chair,has been appointed to the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University.Tel Aviv University is located in Israel’s cultural, financial, and indus-trial heartland and is the largest university in Israel. It is a majorcenter of teaching and research, comprising nine faculties, 106 de-partments, and 90 research institutes. Tel Aviv University offers anextensive range of study programs in the arts and sciences, within itsFaculties of Engineering, Exact Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine,Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Arts, and Management.

Richard Ohrbach, associate professor, presented three papers atthe International Association for Dental Research (IADR) in Goteborg,Sweden in June 2003. One paper was on measurement validity, withhis colleague Carla Beneduce, clinical instructor, presenting. Onepaper, with colleagues in Sweden, addressed the validity of a mea-surement instrument for oral health and presented by colleague inSweden, focusing on translation of the instrument from English toSwedish and testing it in a Swedish group. The third paper, pre-sented by Ohrbach, evaluated functional limitation and disability ina Swedish clinic sample comprised of different orofacial diseases.Ohrbach chaired a symposium at the IADR meeting, InternationalMulti-Center Clinical Research: Issues and Challenges with a Focuson Chronic Pain. Presenters were from Germany, Sweden, U.K., andU.S. He also gave an invited presentation,”Psychological Assess-

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ment and Clinical Implications of Biobehavioral Therapy,” at theDental School at Malmo University in June 2003. At the Consortium’sAnnual Meeting in Goteborg, Sweden that month, Ohrbach waselected as the first director of the International Consortium for Re-search Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders-basedResearch, an organization initiated with NIH-funding and now com-prised of members from about 20 countries around the world; eachmember is a university-based clinic director and independent inves-tigator focusing on chronic pain. The other members of the newexecutive council are from Singapore, Sweden, and the U.S.

Lynn Solomon, assistant professor, visited Seoul, Korea in March2003 to give a seminar to the faculty of the dental school at SeoulNational University titled, “Clinical and Immunopathologic Fea-tures of Chronic Ulcerative Stomatitis.”

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONDepartment of Educational Leadership and PolicyD. Bruce Johnstone, University Professor of Higher and Compara-tive Education and director of the Center for Comparative and Glo-bal Studies in Education, co-sponsored, and presented several pa-pers at a five-nation conference in Prague, “University Reform andAccessibility of Higher Education,” in June 2003. Johnstone presenteda paper at a World Bank-sponsored conference, “Improving TertiaryEducation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Things that Work” in Acra, Ghana,September 23, 2003. In October, he presented a paper at the DouroIII Seminar in Portugal, “The Rising Strength of Markets in EuropeanHigher Education.” Johnstone’s collected papers on the Economicsand Finance of Higher Education have been translated by ChineseFulbright Scholar Hong Shen of Huazhung University of Science andTechnology. The papers are to be published later in 2003 by thePeople’s Education Press of Beijing.

English Language InstituteSteven Gjurich, lecturer, will teach English as a Foreign Language atthe World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden in spring 2004.The ELI has been affiliated with the World Maritime University formany years.

Gaylene Levesque, site director of the ELI English Language Centerat Chinese Cultural University in Taipei, Taiwan, made a presenta-tion “Are EFL Teachers Cultural Imperialists?” at the 36th AnnualConference of TESOL in Salt Lake City in April 2002. Levesque co-authored the article “Terrific Talk” with Nina Lawrence (KinseidoPublishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 2002). Levesque contributed to LookingOut, Looking In: A Comprehensive Approach to College English as part ofthe University of the Ryukyus English textbook committee (EihoshaPublishers, Tokyo, 2002). She contributed a chapter, “Applying theFindings of Cognitive Psychologists in a Resource Poor Teaching Envi-ronment,” to the book Development and Language: Global Influences/Local Effects (Language Australia, Ltd. 2002). In 2003, Levesque andLawrence co-authored Hear It! Say It!: An English Speaking and Listen-ing Text for Japanese Students (Kinseido Publishing Co. Ltd. Tokyo)..SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCESDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringD. Joseph Mook, professor and assistant dean for international pro-grams, created—in collaboration with Sandra J. Flash, director ofStudy Abroad Programs—and conducted the first-ever School ofEngineering and Applied Sciences study abroad program in Troyes,France. UB students took one engineering course from Mook (EAS207 Statics) and one French course from the host school, the Univer-sity of Technology in Troyes (UTT). In April 2003, Mook was invited toIowa State University to advise ISU about strategies to promotetheir study abroad programs. During this time, he gave two invitedtalks in addition to participating in several panel discussions. Mookaccepted an invitation to travel to Paris in October 2003 at the

expense of the French government to participate in a conference toenhance French-Russian engineering student exchanges. He gaveseveral talks and participated in the Annual Meeting of the GlobalEngineering Education Exchange in March 2003. He was coauthor ofa paper on international engineering education presented at theannual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Educationin June 2003.

SCHOOL OF INFORMATICSDepartment of Library and Information StudiesJohn Ellison, associate professor, gave the keynote address at theInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions(IFLA) Satellite Meeting, “Critical Issues Related to Internet Teach-ing,” on July 28, 2003 at the University at Geneva in Geneva, Swit-zerland. A paper on the same topic will be published by IFLA.

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTJames R. Meindl, Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organizationand Human Resources and director, Center for International Leader-ship, traveled to Singapore in September 2003 to deliver a five-dayleadership development program jointly sponsored by theSingapore Institute of Management. Meindl traveled to Madrid,Spain in July 2003 to visit the Instituto de Empresa (IE), where hedelivered a lecture on the topic of leadership to IE faculty, and metwith the dean and other representatives of the Management De-partment to explore collaborative research opportunities betweenCIL and IE’s newly formed Leadership Center. Plans are underway fora jointly sponsored conference on the topic of leadership networks tobe held in Madrid in May 2004. Meindl visited Seoul, Korea in May2003 to visit the Business School of Korea University, to explore thepossibilities for faculty and student exchanges, executive develop-ment programs, and collaborative research. Plans are underway fora jointly sponsored conference focusing on Asian perspectives onleadership, to be held in Seoul in June 2004. In May 2003, Meindlpresented a research paper at the 11th European Congress on Workand Applied Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCESDepartment of Pharmacology and ToxicologyPeter K. Gessner, professor and director of the UB Polish StudiesProgram, was appointed in April 2003 to the National AdvisoryCouncil of the Kosciuszko Foundation, a U.S. organization dedicatedto promoting educational and cultural exchanges between theUnited States and Poland and to increasing American understand-ing of Polish culture and history. The foundation has sponsored anumber of Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professorships in the UBPolish Studies Program. The Advisory Council advises thefoundation’s board of trustees in the areas of development andmembership services.

SCHOOL OF NURSINGJean K. Brown, associate dean for academic affairs and associateprofessor, traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark in September 2003.Brown was invited to give a lecture on “A Systematic Review of theEvidence on Symptom Management of Cancer-Related Anorexiaand Cachexia” at the European Cancer Conference.

Mecca S. Cranley, dean and professor, and Jean K. Brown, associatedean for academic affairs and associate professor, traveled to theChulalongkorn University School of Nursing in Thailand on February15-26, 2003 for teaching and consulting. A collaborative agreementfor doctoral education and faculty scholarly exchange was signed.

Suzanne S. Dickerson, assistant professor, was invited to present atthe IV International Forum on Evidence Based Nursing in Milan, Italyin November 2003. Her talk was "Nursing at Ground Zero: Experi-ences During and After September 11 World Trade Center Attack.”

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Nancy Flanagan, assistant professor, presented a paper at the Cus-tody and Caring: International Conference on the Nurse’s Role in theCriminal Justice System meeting in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan onOctober 1-4, 2003. The title of the paper was “Transitional HealthCare Planning in U.S. Prisons”.

Patricia Polowy, clinical instructor, along with a team of nurses,nurse practitioners, physicians, dentists and a pharmacist, traveledto a parish in the mountains of southern Haiti to work with the parishpriest and community in establishing a sustainable clinic as well assupporting agricultural, farm animal, clean water and educationalprogram for the people. This program is an umbrella of a nationalorganization in Nashville that pairs Catholic parishes in the U.S.with parishes in Haiti and Central and South America. CynthiaMcCloskey, a DNS 1996 graduate, also joined the group.

Mary H. Rappole, clinical instructor presented a poster at the 14th

International Congress on Women’s Health Issues meeting inVictoria, British Columbia on June 15-18, 2003. The title of the posterwas “Research Based Culturally Sensitive Protocols Improve HealthCare in Rural Haiti.” This paper was based on work that Rappoleand two family nurse practitioner graduate students conducted inHaiti in January 2003 as part of a medical missionary team. Thestudents were Naoko Toida (M.S., 2003) and Michelle Swygert(M.S., 2003). They provided medical treatment to 750 residents ofCottard, Haiti. Cottard is a small village north of Port-au-Prince.They also established a Women’s Health Clinic with teaching, screen-ing and providing a gynecological exam. Cindy Froncek, a nurseanesthesia student, went as part of an ambulatory surgical team.Mary Brooks, CRNA (M.S., 1998) was her preceptor.

The Sigma Theta Tau 37th Biennial Convention was held in Toronto,Ontario, Canada in November 2003. The following faculty from theSchool presented papers and posters: Tammy Austin-Ketch, clini-cal assistant professor; Marcia Boehmke, research assistant profes-sor; Linda Caley, assistant professor; Suzanne Dickerson, assistantprofessor, Nancy Flanagan, assistant professor, Janice Feigenbaum,clinical professor; Janice Jones, clinical associate professor; MarshaMarecki, associate professor; and Karol Rejman, clinical assistantprofessor.

Kay Sackett, assistant professor and W. Scott Erdley, clinical assis-tant professor presented a paper at the 8 th International Congress inNursing Informatics meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2003.Suzanne Dickerson, assistant professor was the third author on thepaper. The title of the paper was “Technology Becoming ‘Tradition’in Nursing Education: One School’s Experience”.

Yow-Wu Bill Wu, associate professor, traveled to the ChulalongkornUniversity School of Nursing in Thailand from June 22 – July 18, 2003as a visiting professor to teach advanced quantitative methods tonursing doctoral students as partial fulfillment of the collaborativeagreement between Chulalongkorn and the UB School of Nursing.

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH PROFESSIONSDepartment of Rehabilitation ScienceSusan M. Nochajski, clinical assistant professor in the OccupationalTherapy Program, presented at an International Symposium spon-sored by the Tsukuba College of Technology in Japan. The invitedpresentation was entitled: “Rehabilitation and the InternationalClassification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Past, Presentand Future Directions.”

Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information andExchange (CIRRIE)A forum on International Collaborative Research in Rehabilitationwas hosted in July 2003 by the Center for International Rehabilita-tion Research Information and Exchange in Rockville, Maryland. In-vited participants from ten countries–Argentina, Austria, Brazil,

Canada, France, India, Italy, Sweden, U.K., U.S.– examined collabo-rations with U.S. researchers and identified problems and best prac-tices. Case studies provided examples of the forms that interna-tional research collaboration has taken in several fields of rehabilita-tion. The keynote address was presented by Sharon Hrynkow, DeputyDirector of the Fogarty International Center of the National Insti-tutes for Health. U.S. funding agencies provided information aboutthe possibilities and limits for funding international rehabilitationresearch through their programs. John Stone CIRRIE director, servedas moderator for the session “Case Studies: Successful InternationalCollaboration in Rehabilitation Research”. Marcia E. Daumen,CIRRIE’s information resources manager, demonstrated how CIRRIEresources (http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/) can be used to access informa-tion about international research and researchers. The proceedingsfrom this conference are available on the CIRRIE website (http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/proceedings/conferencearchive.html#cirrie). CIRRIE has launched a new initiative: The Minority Serving Institu-tions International Travel Grant (MSI) Program. This program pro-vides funds for travel expenses related to collaborative activitiesbetween international researchers and MSI-based researchers.CIRRIE’s monograph series—The Rehabilitation Provider’s Guide to Cul-tures of the Foreign-Born, is a 12-volume monograph series that pro-vides specific information on cultural perspectives of foreign-bornpersons in the U.S. The introductory monograph, Culture Brokering:Providing Culturally Competent Rehabilitation Services to Foreign-BornPersons explains the role of the rehabilitation provider as a “culturebroker.” It contains practical information on general outreach strat-egies, the importance of understanding one’s own culture, actionsneeded to become familiar with —and trusted—by individuals fromother cultures, and how to use translators effectively. The other mono-graphs describe the cultures of the top eleven immigrant groups inthe U.S. Each includes specific information about how disability andrehabilitation are viewed in that culture. The monographs are avail-able in print format, or, they may be downloaded from the CIRRIEwebsite (http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/mseries.html). Publication of amodified version of the series in the form of a book by Sage Publica-tions is anticipated for 2004.

OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONStephen C. Dunnett, vice provost, professor of foreign and secondlanguage education in the Department of Learning and Instructionand director of the English Language Institute, and Keith E. Otto,lecturer of English as a Second Language and program director forEnglish as a Second Language Programs at the ELI, gave a presenta-tion September 5, 2003 at the UB Center for Teaching and LearningResources titled “Addressing the Needs of International Students.”The presentation, attended by some 60 UB faculty, examined themost common language issues and cultural differences that lead topoor interaction, participation, and performance. The presentersdiscussed useful techniques that can easily be integrated into one’steaching repertoire to help unlock the potential of internationalstudents. Dunnett and Joseph J. Hindrawan, assistant vice provost anddirector of international enrollment management (IEM), were pre-senters at a workshop given in September 2003 at the JagiellonianUniversity under the auspices of its exchange program with UB.Dunnett gave a presentation titled “Issues in the Adaptation ofInternational Students—Implications for Teaching,” and served asmoderator for two other sessions, “International Students in PolishAcademic Contexts—Mutual Expectations” and “Enhancing the Ex-perience of International Students at the Jagiellonian University.”Hindrawan presented a session titled “Techniques for SuccessfulRecruitment of International Students—The American Perspective.”In October 2003 Hindrawan co-presented a paper at the Interna-tional Conference on Globalization of Education in Salangor, Malay-sia. His co-presenters were Raymond Lew, assistant to the director ofIEM at UB, and UB alumna Ling Ling Tan, head of the AmericanDegree Studies Program at INTI College Malaysia. The paper wastitled “What is the Progress of Malaysian American University Pro-

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International EnrollmentManagement(716) 645-2368, 645-2528 (Fax)[email protected]. Joseph J. Hindrawan

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other mothers and using lay volun-teers helped keep the other womencommitted to giving their babies thedrug.

Maponga said that once the sixmonths were up, the adherence-pro-gram volunteers continued to workwith the mothers, forming supportgroups, emphasizing healthy lifestylehabits and treating opportunistic in-fections — making them even bettercandidates for the antiretroviraltherapy once it became available.

That holistic approach to HIV/AIDS, he explained, is critical to thenew themes of expansion andsustainability of treatment called forby Nelson Mandela at the recent In-ternational AIDS Society in Paris. AndMaponga seems well-suited to deliv-ering it.

He is the key to the bi-national col-laboration, spending several monthsat a time each year at the facilities ofUB and affiliated hospitals, such asthe Erie County Medical Center(ECMC) in Buffalo, and then return-ing home to Zimbabwe for severalmonths. Maponga’s UB position isfunded by a fellowship from the Na-tional Institute of Allergies and Infec-tious Diseases of the National Insti-tutes of Health.

While the fellowship runs out inDecember and funding for theprogram’s future is uncertain, UB andUZ envision that at least five addi-tional years of funding is necessary to

expand the efforts with the trainingof additional pharmacologists.

In Chitungwiza, a city with a popu-lation of 1 million located just outsidethe Zimbabwean capital of Harare,Maponga has trained more than 250community volunteers, includingmembers of women’s clubs andyouth groups, schoolteachers and tra-ditional healers to learn how to pro-mote the safe use of medicines andadherence to treatment regimensamong AIDS patients in Zimbabwe.

“Chiedza wears a lot of differenthats,” said Gene Morse, Pharm.D.,chair of the Department of PharmacyPractice and associate dean of clinicaleducation and research with the UBSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceu-tical Sciences. “It’s not that commonto find an individual with all of thesecapabilities,” he added.

At UB, Maponga works in UB’sPharmacology Support Laboratory,part of the National Institutes ofHealth Adult AIDS Clinical TrialsGroup (ACTG).

According to Morse, who haschaired the Adult ACTG Pharmacol-ogy Committee of the NIH, the UBlaboratory is an ideal environment forproviding integrated HIV pharmaco-therapy training, since it is one of veryfew places in the U.S. that combineresearch, education, clinical practice,training in adherence and state-of-the-art laboratory analysis.

Morse added that he believes thatan international orientation is becom-ing essential to the future success ofall aspects of HIV pharmacotherapy.“UB’s Department of Pharmacy Prac-tice is well positioned to take a lead-ership role in shaping that interna-tional perspective — through this col-laboration with the University of Zim-babwe and others — in HIV pharma-cotherapy research, training andclinical service,” he said.

The University of Rochester Schoolof Medicine and Dentistry is collabo-rating on the UB/UZ project. cEllen Goldbaum is senior science editorfor the Office of News Services.

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JOHN B. SIMPSON APPOINTED AS UB'S 14TH PRESIDENT

John B. Simpson, Ph.D., receivedthe unanimous approval of theState University of New York Boardof Trustees on October 28 to be the

next president of the University atBuffalo.

He will take office effective January1, succeeding UB’s 13th president,William R. Greiner, who announcedhis retirement earlier this year andwas named president in 1991.

Simpson was recommended tothe SUNY Trustees by Chancellor Rob-ert L. King, to whom the UB Council,the university’s local governing coun-cil, and the UB Presidential SearchAdvisory Committee had sent theirunanimous endorsements of the can-didate.

Simpson comes to UB with a dis-tinguished 30-year career in highereducation. He has achieved acclaimas a faculty member and as a re-searcher who has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific pa-pers; from 1987 to 1994 he was amember of the editorial board of theAmerican Journal of Physiology.

Most recently, he has been an ad-ministrator, serving first as dean ofthe College of Arts and Sciences atthe University of Washington and

then currently as provost and execu-tive vice chancellor at the Universityof California, Santa Cruz.

Simpson spent 23 years at the Uni-versity of Washington in Seattle. Hewas a faculty member and researcherin the Department of Psychologyfrom 1975 to 1990. He served as asso-ciate dean for computing, facilitiesand research from 1991 to 1994,when he assumed responsibilities as

dean of the College of Arts and Sci-ences — which had more than 900full-time faculty, and 18,000 under-graduates and 3,500 graduate stu-dents in 52 departments.

Simpson joined UC Santa Cruz asexecutive vice chancellor in 1998 anda year later assumed the additionalduties of provost. He is theuniversity’s chief academic and op-erations officer. UC Santa Cruz is oneof 10 campuses in the University ofCalifornia system—with approxi-mately 600 faculty and 14,500 un-dergraduate and graduate students.

A native Californian and graduateof the University of California, SantaBarbara, Simpson received master’sand doctoral degrees in neurobiol-ogy and behavior from NorthwesternUniversity. c

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