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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.