FACULTY / STAFF / FRIENDS NEWSLETTER VOLUME 13 NO. 2 February 9, 2005
wrmm LECTURE SERIES It's About Us! Thursday, February 10, 7:00 p.m. Charles B. Wang Center The 2004 Faculty/Staff Campaign has raised nearly $790,000. Theatre ore than 1,600 of our colleagues have participated in the Lefs "Freedom Evolves" campaign. This support enhances our ability to create and Celebrate! Mmaintain the initiatives that we care about. And campus support leverages external giving. Contributors have demonstrated their generosity and creativity by sponsoring new programs, including: All participants in the • SBF Advancement Scholarship, providing endowed support for Faculty/Staff Campaign students who work in the Advancement, Alumni, or Stony are invited to join Brook Foundation offices. President Shirley Strum Kenny • DoIT Scholarship, for deserving Engineering and Computer and the campaign co-chairs for Science students based on merit and need. an open-house celebration • Physical Therapy Chairman's Scholar Account to support scholarships for talented and deserving students enrolled in the sponsored by the Faculty Physical Therapy program. Student Association (FSA). Daniel C. Dennett • Nursing Continuing Education Fund to support hospital nurses Director of the Center with their continuing education expenses. Monday, February 14 for Cognitive Studies, • A fund to support scholarships for young men and women 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Tufts University, Author of returning from military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Darwin's Dangerous Idea The Faculty/Staff Campaign is also generating support for ongoing Student Activities Center Co-sponsored by the Department initiatives, including: Ballroom A of Ecology and Evolution. • Stony Brook University Hospital Continuous bus transportation • PAW.S. (Providing Athletes With Support) • Staller Center for the Arts from the Hospital Entrance loop to the SAC Loop and back will Friday, February 11, • General Undergraduate/Departmental Scholarships be available from 4:00 p.m. • Graduate Scholarships 1:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Staffer Center Recital Hall • Unrestricted University Support - "We Lucky Musicians"
Former Newsday Editor UNDERSTANDING TsUflCiMi Joins Stony Brook Faculty Wednesday, February 16 Will Also Evaluate Potential for Journalism Degree Program 12:40 p.m. SAC Auditorium oward Schneider, who served as editor and managing editor during a 35-year career at Newsday, is joining Stony Brook University as a "The Day Before HVisiting Professor in the Department of English, where he will the Day After Tomorrow: teach a course on The Ethics and Values of the American Press. Local and Global Responses Anner Bylsma "Howie Schneider is an immensely respected journalist who cares to Natural Disasters" Cellist, Author of Bach, the deeply about the larger issues surrounding journalism and a free press," Fencing Master: Reading Aloud President Kenny said. "What he says and teaches is going to be exciting, Malcolm from the First Three Cello Suites engaging, and thought-provoking. Our students are going to love him." Bowman Kenny also said that Schneider would spearhead the process to evalu Professor, Co-sponsored by the ate the potential for a degree-bearing journalism program, which would be Physical Department of Music. the first accredited program of its kind in the State University of New York Oceanography system. Stony Brook currently offers courses in journalism, but does not have a formal program that leads to a degree. The course, which begins in the upcoming spring semester, will SAVE THE DATE explore, among other issues, freedom of the press, privacy vs. the pub Teng-fong 9th Annual lic's right to know, political bias, conflict of interest, entertainment values vs. news values, media consolidation, and how the press makes value- Wong Mind/Brain Lecture based decisions. While the course is being offered within the Professor, Geosphysics Daniel Wolpert, Ph.D. Department of English curriculum, Schneider said he expects to draw students who have interests beyond journalism, including political sci The Master Puppeteer: ence, history, and business. How the Brain Controls the Body Schneider served as editor and managing editor of Newsday for 17 years. During his tenure in those positions, the paper won seven Pulitzer Monday, March 14, 4:30 p.m. Prizes, including prizes for local, international, and investigative report Co-sponsored by the President's Staller Center Main Stage ing. In 1998, he supervised the largest project in the paper's history, Office and the Office of the Provost Long Island: Our Story, which was published in a 273-part series.
Stony Brook University Advancement Office Nonprofit 330 Administration U.S. Postage Stony Brook , NY 11794-1601 PAID Stony Brook University In Memoriam BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2005
Friday, February 18 Extravaganza Theme/Speaker Sparkling Wine and Cheese Topic: "The future belongs to Book Signing those who prepare for it today." 12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. -Malcolm X Wang Center Chapel 5:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Black, Bold, Beautiful Published SB authors will present Health Sciences Center Galleria BLACK HISTORY IS EVERY DA> a brief synopsis of their work. Level 3
African American Quiz Bowl Night of Jazz 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. SAC Ballroom B University Cafe Thursday, February 10 Symposium: Language, Gender, Saturday, February 19 Sickle Cell Anemia—A health and Power; Appreciating the JABARI—Second Annual King epidemic in the minority Cultural Productions of West of Africa Pageant community African Women 7:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.-ll:00 p.m. SAC Auditorium SAC Auditorium Humanities Institute Tickets are $6 for SB students; E-4341 Melville Library $8 for others. Tickets go on sale Contact the Women's Studies Thursday, February 24 Department, 632-9176, or the Monday, February 14, at the Cultural Excursion H. BENTLEY GLASS, PH.D., who rose Africana Studies Department, SAC box office. 8:00 p.m., SAC Auditorium from high school biology teacher to 632-7470. Admission is $2. distinguished geneticist and a for Monday, February 21 mer Vice President at Stony Brook Exploring Black Masculinity African Soul Food Diaspora Friday, February 25 University, died Sunday, January 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m.-l:00 p.m. An Evening of Caribbean SAC Ballroom B HSC Galleria Level 3 16, of complications of pneumonia Elegance Screening of the documentary For more information, contact at Boulder Community Hospital in 7:00 p.m.-l:00 a.m., SAC Ballroom A I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in Dr. Francis Brisbane, 444-2139. Boulder, Colo. He would have America, followed by group Semiformal dinner dance. Tickets turned 99 the next day. are $8 for SB students; $20 all discussions led by the Black Male The Dr. William McAdoo Dr. Glass was named the others; on sale at the SAC Leadership Commission. Free. Memorial Health University's first Academic Vice box office. Lecture Series President and Professor of Kold Knights: A Night "Health Literacy: Opening Biological Sciences by then- Dedicated to Poetic Minds Saturday, February 26 President John S. Toll in 1965 and 9:00 p.m.-ll:00 p.m., End of the Communications Between Health Professionals Ahmad Jamal, Piano served in those positions until 1971. Bridge Restaurant, Student Union Renaissance Jazz Glass was one of the first distin and Patients" 8:00 p.m., Staller Center guished professors ever recruited Wednesday, February 16 12:00 p.m.-l:00 p.m. Recital Hall to Stony Brook. His career included Plantanos and Collard Greens School of Social Welfare a number of academic awards and 8:00 p.m., SAC Auditorium Faculty/Staff Conference Room Tickets are $34. Contact the Staller more than 200 scientific, profes An evening dedicated to For more information, contact Center for the Arts, 632-ARTS. sional, and general articles. He also celebrating the wonderful Dr. Aldustus E. Jordan, was a member of the National similarities and differences Associate Dean, Monday, February 28 Academy of Sciences and a past between the two cultures. School of Medicine, 444-2341. The Dr. William McAdoo president of Phi Beta Kappa. Memorial Health Lecture Series At Stony Brook, Dr. Glass was Brown Sugar: Hip-Hop "Preventive Health: Yesterday, Today, and Black History Present the chief academic officer during 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Implications for the African the University's formative years, Tomorrow American Community" Featuring Dexter Gabriel. U.N.I.T.I. Cultural Center overseeing a faculty of 400. He was 12:00 p.m.-l:00 p.m., School of regarded as one of the foremost 12:40 p.m.-2:00 p.m. SAC Room 306 Tuesday, February 22 Social Welfare Faculty/Staff authorities on genetics and had pre Racism and Oppression Conference Room HSC Level 2 viously taught at Johns Hopkins, Thursday, February 17 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Presented by Jedan Phillips, M.D., where he maintained professional Sex, Lies, and the DownLow: SAC Auditorium Dept. of Family Medicine, Stony associations with key figures in the Black Relationships and AIDS Brook University. Contact biomedical fields. He also was Survivors of the Holocaust and in the Millennium Dr. Aldustus E. Jordan, Assoc. instrumental in recruiting to Stony the Rwandan massacres will lead Featuring Michael Smith, Dean, School of Medicine 444-2341. Brook Dr. Edmund Pellegrino in a discussion about the effects of filmmaker. racism and oppression. Free. 1966 to begin the planning for the 8:00 p.m., SAC Room 303 Health Sciences Center and Stony Thursday, March 3 Closing Ceremony Brook University Hospital. Dinner and a Movie Wednesday, February 23 Dr. Glass is survived by his 9:00 p.m.-ll:00 p.m., Taste of Food From African 8:00 p.m., SAC Ballroom A daughter, Lois Edgar, of Boulder, U.N.I.T.I. Cultural Center Ancestry five grandchildren, and two great Roth Quad HSC Galleria Level 3 For more information about these grandchildren. A son, Alex Bentley Experience Black History Contact Dr. Frances Brisbane, or related events, visit the Black Glass, died in 1991. Dr. Glass' wife, through the eyes of a landmark Dean, School of Social Welfare, History Month Web site: Suzanne, died in 1993. documentary. 444-2138. www.stonybrook. edu/sb/bhm
Stony Brook Kicks Off 2005 SB STAT rr Habitat for Humanity Fundraising Sponsored Project The 4th Annual Stony Brook University and Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk Partnership got underway for Expenditures Stony Brook House '05 with the announcement of this year's Habitat family, Jose Flores and Emely Santiago and their four children. The campus community is invited to support the following events designed to raise 2003-04 awareness and funds for our next house: $160 million Hoops for Habitat North Fork Wine Tour Raffle Physical science and Biomedical Wine Tour for 10 in Long Island's Wine Country mathematics Men's Basketball sciences Saturday, February 19, 4:00 p.m. vs. Binghamton Tickets are $20 on sale in March Contact: Catherine Horgan at 444-2251 Women's Basketball Wednesday, March 2, 7:00 p.m. vs. Maine Third Annual Golf Outing A portion of the proceeds from concession stand Wednesday, June 1 sales will be donated to SB House '05. Faculty Mill Pond Golf Course Other Engineering and staff with University ID will be eligible for Sponsors and players needed and applied Contact: Rich Wolcott at 632-6820 two free tickets. Contact Seawolves Ticket Office Social and Environmental or Ed O'Connell at 632-9674 behavioral sciences at 632-WOLF, or call Matt Wrynn at 632-7293. 5% sciences 7% This is a joint contribution between Athletics, For a complete list of events, visit Chartwells, and FSA. www. stonybrook.edu/habitat. Prepared by the Office of Institutional Research
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Lots of people have pon Tickets: $25; children 4-12: $20. Limited seating. Register early for dered the very same question reduced ticket rates. and will join you at this fun Calling All Campus Co-sponsored with the Chinese Association of Suffolk. workshop. It may give you some Call (631) 360-1686 or (631) 744-6910 for more info. Cat Lovers! insight into your friend, partner, The Stony Brook Cat Network, Lantern Festival and Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration kids, boss, maybe even yourself! A personal questionnaire will comprised of SB faculty, staff, and Saturday, February 19, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Wang Center Lobby. be distributed so you can do a lit students, has launched a completely Events include a Chinese zither performance, flower arranging, a Chinese tea ceremony, dough figure making, paper folding/cutting, tle research into your own per revamped Web site. It includes infor and Lion Dance. Free admission. sonality style. We'll spend some mation about the Network, pictures time specifically addressing how of cats available for adoption, dona Stage Performance (Tickets required) the recognition of personality tion information and volunteer Saturday, February 19, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m., Wang Center Theatre. styles can make for more pleasant forms, and provides links to good Including Chinese orchestra and chorus, soloists, dance, work environments and less con local and national resources for and Kung Fu display. flict in interpersonal relationships friends and neighbors who are try of any type. ing on their own to care for home Buffet Dinner and Traditional Chinese Trivia (Tickets required) Please feel free to bring Saturday, February 19, 7:15 p.m.-10:00 p.m., Wang Center Lobby. less cats in the larger community. your lunch. Tickets: $15 at the door, or call (631) 543-5768 to reserve tickets ($10). For more information, go to Co-sponsored with the WAC Lighting Company and organized by the Part I: February 15 www.sinc.sunysb.edu/clubs/sbucat/ Taiwanese Association of Long Island. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. index.php. HSC (Room TBA) Please visit www.stonybrook.edu/sb/wang/ for more Asian and Asian American programs, schedules, and details. Part II: February 22 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Be a BUDDIE! HSC (Room TBA) Every year, the office of To register, call EAP at 632-6085. Disability Support Services spon sors BUDDIE Week (Because U Don't Do It Every Day.) The pur Upcoming Home Events pose of this activity is to sensitize the Stony Brook campus commu Wednesday, February 9 Women's Basketball vs. Vermont, 7:00 p.m. nity about issues surrounding HAPPENINGS disabilities. Saturday, February 12 February 9, 2005, Volume 13, No. 2 Since 1989, BUDDIE Week Women's Basketball vs. Hartford, 1:00 p.m. Assistant Vice President has provided administrators, fac It's Women in Sports and Mascot Day! After a pre-game clinic for for Communications: ulty, and staff with the opportunity girls and women, check out local mascots and cheer on Wolfie as he Yvette St. Jacques to learn how students with disabil competes in a mascot basketball game at halftime! Free Autograph Director of Editorial Services: ities experience life on campus. Balls to the first 250 fans, courtesy of Coach Realtors! Stick around Joanne Morici Buddies are asked to accompany for a post-game autograph session with Seawolves players Editor: Susan Scheck a student during part of one of and coaches! Writers: Patrick Calabria, Joan Dickinson, the days, meet for lunch, or Howard Gimple, Glenn Jochum, spend some time together, what Wednesday, February 16 Dan Rosett, Susan Scheck ever is appropriate and possible Women's Basketball vs. Boston University, 7:00 p.m. Art Director: Karen Leibowitz for you and the student. This Happenings is published biweekly during year, we are recruiting new bud Faculty/Staff Day the academic year by the Office of Communications, 144 Administration, dies who would be interested in Saturday, February 19 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY participating in this important Men's Basketball vs. Binghamton, 4:00 p.m. 11794-0605. Requests to include items event. If you could set aside an The Zooperstars come to town for the Seawolves tilt with state-rival should be submitted at least two weeks prior to print date. Phone: (631) 632-6335. hour or two during the week of Binghamton! These crazy mascots will perform during the game and at halftime of the Seawolves' only home televised game of the year! Fax: (631) 6324093. Reprint permission March 7, please call Stephanie As part of Faculty/Staff Day, all Stony Brook employees will on request. © 2005 Patterson at 632-6748 before Stony Brook University is an affirmative action/ receive two free tickets to the game with proper ID. equal opportunity educator and employer. This Friday, February 25. publication is available in alternative format For more information, please call 632-WOLF or visit www.goseawolves.org. on request. CALENDAR FEBRUARY 11 - FEBRUARY 23 ART/MUSIC/THEATRE Brahms, and Takemitsu. For more informa 2/17, Thursday, Biochemistry and Cell tion to four young girls in a film with the 2/12, Saturday. Gala VII: Prague tion, call 632-7330. 8:00 p.m. Recital Hall, Biology Seminar. Dr. Daniel Carson, harsh topic of female circumcision. Symphony Orchestra. The Orchestra pro Staller Center. Tickets: $16 general; $8 stu Trustees Distinguished Professor and Considered by many critics to be the best Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, vides the background for the two guest dents/seniors. film at Cannes 2004. From Senegal in Jula artists, Metropolitan Opera star Denyce University of Delaware, discusses and French with English subtitles. 7:00 p.m. Graves and international pianist Navah 2/20, Sunday. Boston Camerata: "Glycobiology of Embryo Implantaion." 4:00 Perlman. For tickets, call 632-ARTS. 8:00 American Folk. The ensemble of singers p.m., Room 038, Life Sciences Building. Friday, February 11. Enduring Love. p.m. Main Stage, Staller Center. and instrumentalists present folk songs led An intense psychological thriller about love, by music director Joel Cohen. For tickets, 2/18, Friday, The World of Physics. its petty cruelties and monstrous disguises. 2/13, Sunday. Baroque Sundays. This call 632-ARTS. 3:00 p.m. Recital Hall, Staller John Hobbs, Department of Physics and 9:30 p.m. special concert features the New York Center. Tickets: $34. Astronomy, Stony Brook University, discusses Baroque Dance Company. For more infor "Whafs the Matter? A Story of the Smallest Friday, February 18. Vera Drake. Set in mation, call 632-7330. 7:00 p.m. Recital Hall, 2/23, Wednesday. Ear-Fest. Fend off the Objects in the Universe." 7:30 p.m., Room grim postwar England—a cleaning woman Staller Center. winter blahs with a selection of sonorous, 001, ESS Building. who cares for her family, her mother, and ail soulful pieces of music. For more informa ing neighbors is also a back-street abortionist. 2/13, Sunday. Chamber Opera. A col tion, call 632-7330. 8:00 p.m. Recital Hall, 7:00 p.m. laboration between Stony Brook Opera, Staller Center. STALLER CENTER FILMS Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble, and the Tickets: $6 general; $5 students, sen Friday, February 18. The Motorcycle New York Renaissance Dance Company. For SEMINARS/LECTURES iors, and children 12 and under. Diaries. Exploring South America on a more information, call 632-7330. 7:00 p.m. 2/11, Friday. The living World. Prof. For tickets and information, call 632-ARTS. motorcycle, two friends discover their conti Recital Hall, Staller Center. Massimo Pigliucci, Department of Ecology All shows are on the Main Stage. nent and themselves. In Spanish with and Evolution, Stony Brook University, dis English subtitles. 9:30 p.m. 2/19, Saturday. Stony Brook Symphony cusses "A Celebration of Darwin Day at Stony Friday, February 11. Moolade. A tough- Orchestra. Features music of Beethoven, Brook." 7:30 p.m., Room 001, ESS Building. minded wife of a village elder offers protec HAPPENINGS • 4 February 9, 2005 QJ rs TO Qj . — E = QJE ^