OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO UBUB INTERNAINTERNATIONALTIONAL UB INTERNATIONAL
UBUB INTERNAINTERNAFALLTIONALTIONAL 2006 VOL. XV, NO. 2

CONTENTS REFLECTIONS ON THE DALAI LAMA'S VISIT

Interfaith Service ...... 2 ooking back on cial events, not only dur- the three-day ing the visit but before Dalai Lama's Message....3 visit to UB by and after it as well, that L th His Holiness the 14 helped provide a richly Students Impressed...... 4 Dalai Lama in Sep- informed context for His tember, I am filled Holiness’s visit in terms with awe and grati- of Tibetan art and cul- Day of Learning...... 5 tude. Many of us ture, Buddhist thought who were involved and practice, and the Faculty Dialogue...... 6 in the visit believe Dalai Lama’s own life that it marked a high and teachings. Law and Buddhism...... 7 point both for the These special events university and for included the Day of our own careers. Learning lectures, work- Dalai Lama Photo As chair of the shops, panels and per- Gallery...... 8 Steering Committee formances on Septem- that organized the ber 19th; the academic China Exchanges...... 11 visit, I was privileged programming leading to work with an out- up to the visit, the Tibet- Delegation to Asia...... 12 standing group of in- Buffalo Film Festival individuals from UB in downtown Buffalo in and the community who helped make spring 2006; and the extensive series of Cuba Anniversary...... 13 the visit and associated events a great events organized throughout Western New success and who truly were a great plea- York by the UB Community Outreach group. SIM Leadership Visit.....14 sure to work with in every way. It is appropriate, therefore, that we de- First and foremost were my two co- vote a generous portion of this issue of UB Jordan Revisited...... 15 chairs, Bill Regan, Director of Confer- International to the events of His Holiness’s ences and Special Events; and James visit and their impact on those who partici- Beau Willis, Chief of Staff in the Office of pated. It is hoped that our readers at UB, in Burundi by Bus...... 16 the President; and my colleague John J. Western New York and around the U.S. as Wood, Secretary to the Steering Commit- well as overseas will enjoy this reprise of the Faculty Fulbrights...... 19 tee. Their contribution to the success of historic and memorable events of Septem- the visit cannot be measured. ber 2006. The visit comprised an impressive I wish to take this opportunity to express Archaeology Program..20 range of special events that brought the my profound thanks to President John B. university and the community together in Simpson, who invited His Holiness to UB and International Activities a uniquely fruitful and meaningful way. served as his host during the visit; the many of Faculty & Staff...... 21 The major events—the Interfaith Service, colleagues throughout the university who the Distinguished Speakers Series ad- helped organized and conduct the visit; and Directory...... 27 dress, and the Law, Buddhism and Social the thousands of community members Change Conference were each in their whose participation contributed so much to UB INTERNATIONAL own way unprecedented events for the the success of the visit.
Visit the Office of International university and for Western New York. Education website at: In addition, the university and com- —Stephen C. Dunnett, Professor and Vice Pro- http://www.buffalo.edu/intled munity collaborated on a variety of spe- vost for International Education. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

2 INTERFAITH SERVICE WITH DALAI LAMA SHOWCASES RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

By Patricia Donovan and Sue Wuetcher

n the first appearance of his three-day visit to UB, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama participated in an Iinterfaith service on September 18th in Alumni Arena that showcased the religious diversity of Western New York, featuring spiritual traditions ranging from Sikh to Baha’i to Roman Catholicism. Through a series of readings, prayers and chants from these many traditions, the service demonstrated to the audience of 6,000 that whatever signs, symbols and practices distinguish them, all spiritual traditions offer different dimensions of the same sacred experi- ence. The Dalai Lama with local religious leaders during the Interfaith Service at UB In brief remarks during the service, the Dalai Lama called for harmony among religious faiths, and noted that distributed along the catwalk surrounding the arena. In religious traditions and spirituality play an important role each case, they performed a brief interlude of music and in these times of materialism, competition, stress and in- movement, incorporating sacred gestures in keeping with justice. the mood and solemnity of the readings. “In the past, different religions, different traditions had His Holiness’ good humor was evident in his enjoy- very little contact with each other,” His Holiness said. “But ment of his religious colleagues’ colorful and varied ritual now the whole world is becoming smaller, so we’re bound finery. He said that although he has participated in inter- 2 to come across more connections. Therefore, religious faith ceremonies throughout the world, he was much en- INTERFAITH SERVICE INTERFAITH harmony is extremely important—harmony based on tertained by the incorporation of music and dance into mutual respect, mutual admiration and sometimes mu- the UB service. Laughing frequently, he indicated that, tual learning,” he said, noting that meeting others from during the service, he hardly knew where to look next different traditions “has enriched my own thinking.” and that it made the event unique. “All different traditions carry the same message,” the Following the Dalai Lama’s remarks, participants ob- Dalai Lama said. “We must respect all traditions.” served three minutes of reflective silence, initiated by the Interfaith services such as the one at UB are helpful in striking of the keisu, a bowl-shaped Japanese monastic promoting religious harmony, he added. bell. Two additional strikes of the keisu ended the silence The service began with a silence broken by the and the audience was invited to participate in a respon- otherworldly strains of an ancient bamboo flute—a bless- sive reading in celebration of peace led by several of the ing performed by master flutist and former Tibetan monk assembled religious representatives. Nawang Khechong. Saffron-colored strings had been handed out with the Those sitting on the dais, including His Holiness and programs, and audience members followed the Buddhist representatives of the Muslim, Jewish, Unitarian, Protes- practice of tying them around one another’s wrists as a tant, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Catholic faiths, formed a gesture of mutuality and good faith. procession to the stage in their eloquent and colorful ritual The recessional of the Dalai Lama and fellow cel- attire. They were greeted by young children of diverse ebrants was accompanied by a choral incantation by Nu ethnic and racial backgrounds from the university’s Early Revelation Choir of True Bethel Baptist Church of Buffalo. Childhood Research Center. The interfaith service was coordinated by a planning The religious dignitaries were welcomed by costumed committee co-chaired by the Rev. Msgr. J. Patrick Keleher, members of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confedera- director of the Newman Center at UB, and Jeannette M. tion, the region’s earliest settlers, with a traditional ritual Ludwig, associate professor of romance languages and dance and chant performed by Bill Crouse Sr., John Block, literatures, who also teaches Buddhism at the university. Lynn George, Kory Dowdy, and Sarah and Blaine Additional guidance and logistical support was provided Tallchief. by the Rev. G. Stanford Bratton and the Rev. Francis X. The religious leaders presented prayers, poetry or Mazur, both of the Network of Religious Communities.
readings—often in two languages—written by notable spiritual personages. Patricia Donovan is senior editor at University News Services; As each reading or presentation ended, lights rose on Sue Wuetcher is associate director of University News Ser- a company of approximately two dozen dance students vices and editor of The Reporter. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

30,000 HEAR DALAI LAMA'S MESSAGE OF COMPASSION 3

By Ann Whitcher-Gentzke term the Dalai Lama used repeatedly during his address and throughout his three-day visit to UB—”there is no earing a red visor to shade his eyes from the room to exploit or to bully others.” He spoke of warm- bright sunlight, heartedness as synony- Whis red-and-yel- mous with the favored low robes flapping in the “unbiased compassion” stiff wind, His Holiness the and also likened it to the 14th Dalai Lama came to UB immune system, the Tuesday with a message of health of which can with- profound compassion and stand even the most per- personal humility. nicious of influences. The “I’m extremely happy to Dalai Lama also con- share some of my thoughts trasted “genuine satisfac- and experiences with this tion” with a “false satisfac- large audience,” the Dalai tion;” that is, being overly Lama said, addressing a sell- reliant on material posses- out crowd of 30,000 gath- sions or comforts. ered in UB Stadium as part Reinforcing the theme of the university’s 20th an- A capacity audience of 30,000 at UB Stadium for the Dalai Lama's address of compassion, he de- nual Distinguished Speakers scribed how a monk of his Series. His remarks followed a series of musical perfor- acquaintance—who had spent more than 18 years in a mances, including those by the celebrated American com- Chinese prison—spoke of the dangers experienced there. 3 poser Philip Glass, who performed solo works and also a What were these dangers, the Dalai Lama asked his MESSAGE OF COMPASSION duet with Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog. colleague? The monk replied that he perceived the dan- In a brief ceremony preceding the address, the Dalai ger not to be one of personal vulnerability, but rather in Lama accepted “with deepest appreciation” an honorary not being able to feel sufficient compassion for his cap- doctorate in humane letters conferred by SUNY Chancel- tors. With compassion, the Dalai Lama argued, the mind lor John R. Ryan and three SUNY trustees. Introduced by acquires perspective, even if the problems one faces are President John B. Simpson as “one of the most important serious. “The mental outlook is very, very crucial to sustain- figures in the world,” the Dalai Lama said simply, “I have ing peace of mind,” he said. “I believe the most impor- nothing to offer—I am just a human being.” tant element for peace of mind is human compassion.” In his formal remarks, the Dalai Lama spoke in English Giving additional examples from his own life, the with his interpreter, Thupten Jinpa, occasionally offering Dalai Lama recounted how he had seen poor children in more exact phrasing for some of His Holiness’s more com- India with no shoes and running barefoot, and also an plex viewpoints as expressed in Tibetan. elderly individual, apparently ill, but left alone and utterly Throughout the afternoon, the Dalai Lama advocated uncared for. That very day, His Holiness developed a seri- a compassion “that is not based on the positive attitude of ous intestinal infection, and while enduring pain during others toward you,” but rather on the conviction that oth- the night, he was able to divert his attention from the ers are human beings and thus have every right to com- pain by thinking of the people he had seen earlier in so passionate treatment, even if they are strangers. much distress. “That kind of compassion can extend toward your en- Further developing his themes, His Holiness noted that emy,” the Dalai Lama said. It also is markedly different small children never care about their playmates’ religious from the “usual kind of compassion one feels toward a background, nor are they aware of each other’s economic loved one—a loving kindness that is very much mixed status. Furthermore, an unbiased compassion has noth- with attachment.” ing to do with pity, or the lack of respect for others that Moreover, compassion, as conventionally understood, can accompany this particular emotion. can turn to hatred when some slight disturbance occurs The Dalai Lama described how the basis for this kind in the relationship. Anger, he said, can destroy friend- of compassionate understanding is biological, although ships—even a close friendship usually can’t withstand the the world’s religious traditions reinforce such fundamen- raised voice or shouts of anger on a continuous basis. tal human values. He traced his mother’s innate nurtur- A perhaps unexpected effect is that “your bad mood ing role beginning at birth and how the memory or ex- serves your enemy,” he said. perience of such nurturing can be cultivated through all On the other hand, with “warm-heartedness”—a the stages of one’s life. continued on page 10 OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

4 STUDENTS IMPRESSED WITH DALAI LAMA'S TALK

By Lauren Newkirk Maynard

inding hope and a happy life—and using education to do it—was the message His Holiness the 14th Dalai FLama delivered to UB students during his Distin- guished Speakers Series address on September 19th. During his lecture in UB Stadium, as well as through- out his three-day visit, His Holiness focused on how society can be humanely served by the next generation of doc- tors, lawyers, politicians and scientists. The possibility of creating a world filled with peace and human compassion, or “warm-heartedness” as he described it, is in their hands, he told students. For many of them, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportu- nity to see the Nobel Peace Prize winner and spiritual leader. Students watch the Dalai Lama's address Anna Falicov and Rebecca Town, both first-year law students, appreciated the Dalai Lama’s thoughts on how since they first heard about it. governments can bring about social change through A pharmacy major originally from Fu Zhou, a city in more compassionate policies. the mainland China province of Fu Jian, Zhang said he “I was most impressed with his message to the univer- especially wanted to learn more about improving rela- 4 sity about being more socially conscious concerning the tions between Tibet and his native country. “I felt I needed STUDENTS IMPRESSED curriculum,” said Falicov. She said she hoped the Dalai to know more about his views on China, since that’s where Lama would touch on how to use law as a tool for social I’m from.” He also wanted to hear what the Dalai Lama change during the “Law, Buddhism and Social Change” would say about nonviolence, a topic Zhang is studying in conference, which was held September 20th at the UB English class. Law School. Aleksic, a biochemistry major and native of “I’d like to hear how he would suggest that law help Macedonia, said he enjoyed reading the Dalai Lama’s poor or otherwise disenfranchised people,” she said. autobiography, Freedom in Exile, which was required read- Town agreed, adding “I think it’s great that UB worked ing of all freshmen taking UB 101. “You always hear about so hard to bring him here. I was also excited to hear him the Dalai Lama, but you never really know who he is. It say that students who are going into medicine, politics, was really amazing to hear somebody of this magnitude and law should be focusing on what we’ll be doing for speak in person,” Aleksic said. the world once we get out of here.” To encourage attendance at the DSS lecture, the Of- Nicole Tomasello, a second-year doctoral student in the fice of Special Events offered 13,000 free student tickets School of Social Work, said she took away a rather simple, and gave away limited-edition posters to the first 4,000 yet profound lesson from the Dalai Lama: “That happi- students who picked up their tickets. ness and peace come from within, and that we should Student response was strong. The UB Graduate Stu- share it with others.” dent Association reported that all 300 of the tickets it re- His Holiness told those attending his address that one ceived to distribute were gone before the event; it had of the reasons he chose to visit UB was because the uni- another 5,100 tickets available at kiosks around campus. versity enrolls a large and diverse community of interna- Mark Sorel, administrative director of the undergradu- tional students. That community was well represented on ate Student Association, reported that 8,000 tickets had the main stage platform by elected representatives of sev- been distributed to undergraduates.“It started off slow, eral student groups, including several Tibetan students but it’s been a great response overall,” Sorel said. “The who have received scholarships from UB under the aus- morning of the event they were still calling about tickets.” pices of the Tibet Fund and the Fulbright Program. By the time the Dalai Lama's address began, nearly all International students Ilija Aleksic and Peter Zhang of the general admission seats—most of which were given were visibly impressed by the scope of the event and said to students—were filled with a cross-section of UB’s di- they were inspired by the insights of the Tibetan leader- verse student population.
in-exile, who answered several pre-selected questions from students after his lecture. The students, both fresh- Lauren Newkirk Maynard is a contributing editor to The Re- men, had been greatly anticipating the Dalai Lama’s visit porter. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

RANGE OF OFFERINGS ENHANCE DAY OF LEARNING 5

By Kevin Fryling makes it complicated to plan for peace in the world.” By mid-morning, the hubbub on campus had spread s clouds from overnight rains scattered outside the from the Center for the Arts to the Student Union. Near Center for the Arts the morning of His Holiness the the main entrance, students from Hillel sold T-shirts with A 14th Dalai Lama’s Distinguished Speakers Series the motto “You Be Enlightened,” and in the Student lecture at UB, early birds to campus on September 19th Union Theater, local religious representatives participated cleared the mist from their own minds during an 8 a.m. in a panel titled “Exploring Perspectives: An Interfaith Dia- meditation session in the Drama Theatre. logue.” Lama Surya Das, a UB alumnus recognized as one of Mary Ellen Baron of Clarence noted that some of the the foremost meditation teachers in the West, led several most insightful comments were those delivered on Bud- hundred individuals in a calm, 45-minute meditation ses- dhism by Jeannette Ludwig, associate professor of ro- sion. After a short mance languages and literatures. blessing in Ti- “There are so many commonalities between these re- betan and En- ligions,” Baron said. “I’m interested in gaining a better glish, he in- understanding of all of them.” structed partici- Also in the audience was Curtis Breslin, a scientist affili- OF LEARNING DAY pants to concen- ated with the Department of Public Health Sciences at trate on their the University of Toronto. He, too, pointed out the com- breathing and monalities between religions and said it was good to see focus on a con- a panel of representatives from different faiths come to- templative act fa- gether in a spirit of mutual respect. miliar to them— An event that attracted a huge level of interest was the 5 be it prayer or deconstruction of the meditation. Sev- mandala sand paint- Lama Surya Das during his talk a t UB eral sat on the ing by the Tibetan floor in traditional lotus positions. monks of Drepung Experience levels in the auditorium ranged from nov- Loseling Monastery. ice to expert. The session was the first time Patrick The half-hour McGowan, a UB sophomore majoring in bioinformatics, deconstruction cer- had tried meditation. He called the visit of His Holiness to emony featured the campus the perfect time to start. performance of tradi- Another participant with more meditation experience, tional music and Carole Rowley, said she thought Lama Surya Das’ vast chants, and closed experience helped the class focus its concentration and with the monks created an atmosphere of compassion and joy. sweeping the man- In fact, hundreds of out-of-towners came to UB to hear dala into a pile of the Dalai Lama deliver his message of peace and nonvio- sand. Witnessing the lence. George Neureuther, director of a hunger relief pro- event was an intimate gram in Milwaukee, decided to spend some time before group of ticket holders the main event in one of the many panel discussions or- in the UB Art Gallery ganized as part of UB’s special Day of Learning. “Putting in the Center for the The CFA Atrium decorated with peace flags 9/11 in Perspective: Prospects for Peace” featured a panel Arts (CFA)—each per- during the Day of Learning of prominent UB faculty members, including Bruce Jack- son received a small son, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen packet of the sand as a keepsake—as well as a full house Professor of American Culture in the departments of En- in the Mainstage theater that viewed the event live via glish and American Studies, and Roger Des Forges and video broadcast. Andreas Daum, professors in the Department of History. In the afternoon on September 19th—before long The panelists touched on a broad spectrum of hot- lines formed outside UB Stadium for the Dalai Lama’s Dis- button issues currently on the world stage. Neureuther tinguished Speakers Series lecture—people gathered be- said it helped open his eyes to the numerous challenges neath the sprawling tents in the field at the southeast there are to peace in the wake of the terrorist bombings corner of Coventry Entrance and Augspurger Road. of Sept. 11, 2001. Bright sunshine poured onto the patrons at the Dalai “There are so many different agendas,” he said. “[It] Lama Experience—all that remained of the late-night continued on page 13 OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

6 FACULTY, DALAI LAMA EXCHANGE VIEWS

By Sue Wuetcher How does one become warm-hearted? Through everal hundred UB faculty members crowded into church and prayer, he said, although he advised against Lippes Concert Hall in Slee relying solely on church and SHall on September 19th for prayer to develop this quality. an opportunity to see and hear We must, he said, find “a the 14th Dalai Lama in an inti- secular ethics approach, or a mate setting. universal ethics” approach The session was billed as a based on common experi- “dialogue” between faculty and ence or common sense. His Holiness, and moderator “Modern science shows Satish K. Tripathi, provost and that positive emotions,” he executive vice president for aca- said, “are good for health” demic affairs, urged faculty to and help “balance the keep their questions to one to two brain.” Anger and hatred minutes, and to refrain from cause the left side of the making speeches, drawing brain—the part that governs chuckles from the crowd. right and wrong—to mal- Seated cross-legged on a function, he said. large upholstered chair on the “So a person who is com- concert hall stage, the red-and- passionate, the left side of 6 gold-robed Dalai Lama told fac- their brain is more active, FACULTY DIALOGUE FACULTY ulty members that he was happy more positive,” he said, not- to have the opportunity to ex- ing that he frequently jokes change ideas and experiences that “the leftist view is much with UB scholars, but that his own better.” knowledge is limited. Although “We need more discussion he has spent his lifetime study- about how to portray in the ing Buddhist philosophy and modern educational system may well be an expert in that the importance of warm- field, in other areas, “my knowl- heartedness; in other words, edge is almost a zero,” he said. a sense of responsibility.” “You have every right to ask any question, but I also Another questioner asked the Dalai Lama if a religion have the right to say, ‘I don’t know,” he joked to much can be a true religion if it sanctions violence. laughter and applause. “All major religions’ emphasis involves compassion The first faculty questioner asked the Dalai Lama to and forgiveness; a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood,” comment on the lack of opportunities for “character build- His Holiness said, noting this means that violence is con- ing” and instilling values in secular-based university set- trary to religious practices. tings. He explained that throughout history, violence has “This is one field where I have serious concerns,” His been used to defend nations’ interests, and sometimes Holiness said. “Education is the key for government and the interests of religious faith. The whole world is now society,” as well as the basis for a happy family life, he one body, one entity, he said, pointing out that the con- added. cept of “we and they” is out of date. He cited the September 11th terrorist attacks to illus- “East depends on west, west depends on east, south trate his point. depends on north, north depends on south—that’s real- The attacks involved a combination of modern educa- ity.” The differences of religious faith “are not important,” tion and sophisticated planning that was “guided by ha- he said. tred,” he said. In that case, knowledge was the instru- “It’s wrong to expect through war, through violence, ment used for “destructive work.” to solve problems,” he said. The only practical way to “In a warm-hearted person with a sense of compas- solve problems is to talk, to listen.”
sion, a sense of community, a sense of responsibility, all this knowledge can be positive and constructive,” the Sue Wuetcher is associate director of University News Ser- Dalai Lama said. vices. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

BRINGING HEART TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW 7

By John DellaContrada son should be viewed individually. “Sometimes you have a context where the benefits of hat began with meditations on the value of the individual have to be weighed against wider implica- compassion in our daily lives concluded with a tions to society,” he said. “Or, in some cases, the benefits Wpractical discussion of how Buddhism can help to the community have to be weighed against the dam- make better law—and better lawyers. age it’s going to do to the individual. The main point is The landmark, three-day visit to UB by His Holiness the not to confine your evaluation purely to a single situation, 14th Dalai Lama ended on Sept. 20 with his participation but rather look into its broader implications.” in the conference “Law, Buddhism and Social Change,” More than 140 people, including several members of held in an intimate setting within the UB Law School li- the New York State Bar, listened to the discussion in the brary. It was law library, while an- the Dalai other 350 people Lama’s first visit watched a live broad- to a U.S. law cast of the conference school confer- in two law school ence and one classrooms. of the few Rebecca French, UB times he’s professor of law, con- been asked ference organizer and publicly about an authority on Ti- legal matters. betan law, initiated Seated the morning conver- among a circle sation with the Dalai 7 AND BUDDHISM LAW of 15 interna- Lama by asking about tional scholars, the political role of legal practitio- Buddhist monks, to ners, and UB which the Dalai Lama professors, the responded: “As far as Dalai Lama for party politics is more than an The Dalai Lama in conversation with scholars participating in the Law, Buddhism and Social concerned...I will hour answered Change Conference at the UB Law Library never touch party questions on topics ranging from the political role of politics. monks to the function of law in a capitalistic society. But it “Another kind of politics relates to the national struggle was his brief responses to questions about ethical dilem- in the case of Tibet,” he added. “National freedom is mas confronting lawyers that aroused the most interest very much related to the teachings of Buddhism. There- from some participants, and provided the framework for fore, I consider my service in the Tibetan national free- future discussion within the UB Law School. dom struggle part of my practice of Buddhism, (which “If some person commits a crime but tries to prove involves) serving others, helping others, and also the that he is innocent, that is ‘dirty law,’” said the Dalai Lama. practice of, or implementation of, compassion.” “And religion also...if you use religion the wrong way, The Dalai Lama’s commentary on philosophical topics then religion becomes dirty religion. Every human activ- like the role of religion in a democratic society was inter- ity, whether it becomes constructive or not, depends on spersed with examples of his trademark wit and humor, the motivation.” which drew big laughs from an attentive audience. When The guiding motivation for practicing law, the Dalai asked about the best way for professors to teach law, for Lama said, should come from “the basic human quality, example, he replied: “Oh, I don’t know. In order to give which we learn from birth: affection, and from that the you some kind of advice, I should study law and practice value of human compassion.” law...and make more money.” In another exchange, conference participant James Law School Dean Nils Olsen said the Dalai Lama’s talk Magavern further explored the issue of legal ethics, ask- was a momentous event in the law school’s history and ing the Dalai Lama whether “we are dirty lawyers” when was symbolic of the school’s longstanding focus on the protecting the confidentiality of a client who has confessed interdisciplinary study of law. a prior crime. “We’re very concerned with the social and historical The Dalai Lama stressed that each case and each per- context in which law is made and practiced,” Olsen noted. continued on page 10 OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

8 A DALAI LAMA PHOTO GALLERY

The Dalai Lama welcomed to Buffalo by UB students from Tibet The stage for the Dalai Lama's address

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Nawang Khechog performs at the Interfaith Service

His Holiness meeting with John and Katherine Simpson, and SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan

The Dalai Lama accepts an honorary doctorate from SUNY

Photographs of Dalai Lama events featured in this newsletter are courtesy of Douglas Levere, Nancy Parisi, Mike Groll, Mark Mullville, Collignon/Jarosz, Enid Bloch, Steven Morse, Dylan Buyskes and the UB Office of Marketing and Six thousand gather in UB's Alumni Arena for the Interfaith Service Creative Services. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

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His Holiness greets Western New York Sacred Music, Sacred Dance performance at Mainstage

The audience at UB Stadium 9 DALAI LAMA PHOTO GALLERY

Law, Buddhism and Social Change Conference

Philip Glass speaking at UB

The completed sand mandala at the UB Art Gallery

The Dalai Lama meets with local religious leaders Stephen Dunnett welcomes the Dalai Lama to the stage at UB Stadium OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

10 MESSAGE The range of exhibits, lectures, seminars, panels and continued from page 3 other events leading up to the Dalai Lama’s lecture, and some continuing afterward, all constitute “an unforget- The Dalai Lama noted, too, how physical comfort can’t table experience,” Simpson said. subdue mental stress, as when reclining on a comfortable Dunnett said he “was the happiest person in Buffalo” bed won’t bring true repose if one is wracked with worry on Tuesday. “The Dalai Lama held both of my hands and or concern. He described how he approaches the people said he had never seen a visit so well organized, nor had he meets “one on one,” “as brothers and sisters,” and he attended an interfaith service as moving as ours.” always with a ready smile. He maintains this smile even in Dunnett paid tribute to the 300 volunteers who helped more reserved cultures, say in Western Europe, joking that bring the event about, and said he had seen nothing like some have appeared “stunned” at his easy affability. it in his 35 years at UB.
Turning to more specific comments, the Dalai Lama talked about the importance of ecological protection Ann Whitcher-Gentzke is editor of UB Today. (“This blue planet is our only home”) and also urged par- ents to extend compassion to their own children if di- vorce is looming or under discussion. And to audience applause, he said the solution to vio- lence can never be more violence. “Peaceful resolution is LAW CONFERENCE the only alternative.” continued from page 7 In modern education, we are not paying sufficient at- tention to inculcating values of the heart, he maintained. “To have the opportunity to have that kind of intimate Citing declining church influences and even family values discussion with a person of the Dalai Lama’s stature is so that are “suffering little disturbances,” the Dalai Lama rare, and really demonstrates his commitment to educa- said it falls upon the educational institutions to develop tion.” 10warm-heartedness among the young, “from kindergar- After the Dalai Lama’s departure, participants contin- DALAI LAMA VISIT ten to the university level.” Having received his honorary ued the two-day conference by discussing and debating SUNY degree, he invited the president, chancellor and the meaning of the Dalai Lama’s statements. others to explore this topic, too. “The Dalai Lama wants heart, he wants compassion And while the world has emerged from what he called and he wants selflessness in attorneys. Our law school can “the century of bloodshed,” the 21st century can be a start by taking this to heart. As a group, our law faculty “century of dialogue,” a statement that brought audience can start thinking about how you go about instilling those applause and cheers as the Dalai Lama concluded his ideas in students,” French said. formal remarks. Added Law Professor George Hezel, a conference par- He then responded to several student questions read ticipant: “The Canon of Ethics—the code of lawyers— by Stephen C. Dunnett, vice provost for international edu- should be infused with compassion and, in the Dalai cation and a key figure in bringing the Dalai Lama to UB. Lama’s words, ‘warmheartedness.’ Asked about his most admired figures, the Dalai Lama “How you distill a set of rules from those two things is cited Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa, another issue, but if you begin there and you infuse the and said that he has so far received “negative signals” rules with these two qualities, the hope is you’ll end up from the Chinese government to his requests to visit Ti- with a better practice of law.” According to French, the bet. UB Law School, through its Law and Buddhism Project, But he said whether he ever visits his homeland has already has begun to incorporate Buddhist principles of more to do with the welfare of the Tibet people than his compassion into legal study and practice. personal yearning. “When China starts addressing the Laura Mangan, associate director of UB’s Baldy Center basic issues of Tibet and there is a reasonable approach, for Law and Social Policy, headed with French the I’m ready to go.” conference’s planning committee, which produced a In statements preceding the address at a press confer- commemorative poster of the event. A rose mandala cre- ence in UB Stadium, Simpson said the Dalai Lama’s visit ated by artist Chrysanne Stathacos was at the center of was “a landmark occasion for UB,” with the university the ring of scholars who conversed with the Dalai Lama. and community joining forces “to make the most of this A display of Tibetan legal manuscripts, donated by world-class learning opportunity.” French and on exhibit in the law library, drew the interest The fact that His Holiness chose UB as a fitting venue of the Dalai Lama prior to the conference’s start and for his visit “speaks volumes about the University at Buf- complemented the occasion.
falo,” said Simpson, describing the university’s high rank- ing in international student enrollment and exchange John DellaContrada is director of media relations at Univer- agreements with more than 50 institutions. sity News Services. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

UB CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF EXCHANGES WITH CHINA 11

By John DellaContrada

hen Presi- In 1981, under the dent John B. auspices of that historic WSimpson agreement, UB estab- traveled to China in lished the UB Lan- October he was the guage Institute in fourth UB president to Beijing on the campus do so since 1981. of the Beijing Normal At a time when College of Foreign many U.S. universities Languages. It was the are just beginning to first American-run En- navigate China’s com- At Capital Medical University (from r to l): Katherine SImpson, Joseph Hindrawan, glish Language Center plex political environ- Marsha Henderson, Joseph Mook, John Simpson, Richard Lee, Stephen Dunnett in China. That same ment and establish year, under the ex- new ventures there, UB this year marks the 25th anniver- change agreement, China began to send students and sary of its successful, and historic, partnerships in China. faculty to UB, primarily to study science and engineering, Simpson celebrated the anniversary on October 9-11 while UB students and faculty traveled to China to study with visits to three Beijing universities that in 1981 were the country’s culture. the first to open educational exchanges with UB, marking The original exchange agreements were renewed the first such agreements with any U.S. university follow- over the years to include opportunities for medical stu- ing the normalization of relations between the U.S. and dents. In addition, the UB School of Management in 1984 11

the Peoples Republic of China in 1979. established the first U.S. MBA program in China at Dalian PRESIDENTIAL VISIT TO CHINA According to Simpson, the UB exchanges — with University. Beijing University of Technology, Capital Normal Univer- Over the past 25 years, more than a thousand stu- sity and Capital Medical University—opened the door for dents and faculty from UB and its partner institutions in other U.S. universities to establish educational programs China have participated in educational and artistic ex- with China over the past 25 years. changes, joint programs and research-faculty exchanges “UB had the foresight decades ago to set up relations in both countries, according to Professor Stephen C. with higher education entities in China before anyone Dunnett, UB vice provost for international education. else in the U.S. did,” Simpson noted. “We have a Dunnett and George C. Lee, UB’s Samuel P. Capen Pro- longstanding history of cooperation and collaboration that fessor of Engineering, negotiated the first exchange has benefited generations of students and faculty from agreements in Beijing in 1980. both countries and which will continue to benefit future “There was a definite sense of history; we were aware generations in decades to come.” that we were opening up new doors in China to the mu- During the trip, Simpson also visited Nanjing Univer- tual benefit of both countries,” recalled Dunnett, who sity, on behalf of the State University of New York (SUNY) joined Simpson in China for UB’s anniversary events. system. SUNY is considering establishing a joint campus Lee recalled that “in the late 70s when China first with Nanjing — one of China’s leading universities — in opened to the Western world, we had a sense that the Xianlin University City. UB is one of five SUNY institutions U.S. and China should start coming together to get to working with SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan to establish know each other. UB’s exchange agreements were a mile- the joint initiative with Nanjing University. stone in the globalization of the entire world.” Simpson also attended an alumni reception with Accompanying Simpson and Dunnett on the trip to prominent Chinese leaders who earned degrees at UB or China were Simpson’s wife, Katherine; Marsha S, who graduated from UB’s groundbreaking MBA pro- Henderson, UB vice president for external affairs; Joseph grams in Beijing and Dalian. UB’s roster of Chinese Hindrawan, assistant vice provost for international educa- alumni is among the most impressive of any U.S. univer- tion and director of international enrollment manage- sity. It includes China’s Minister of Education Zhou Ji and ment; Richard Lee, M.D., professor of medicine in the UB entrepreneur Robin Li, founder and CEO of Baidu.com, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; and D. Jo- the Chinese-language equivalent of Google. seph Mook, professor and chair of the Department of In 1980, UB was the first U.S. university to negotiate an Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and associate educational exchange agreement with China after diplo- dean for international education in the UB School of Engi- matic ties were reestablished between the two countries. neering and Applied Sciences.
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12 SIMPSON PART OF U.S. DELEGATION TO ASIA

By Arthur Page from the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Simpson and the other higher education representa- resident John B. Simpson was selected to accom- tives were selected to participate in the trip from Novem- pany Margaret Spellings, U.S. secretary of educa- ber 10-18 as ambassadors for U.S. higher education from Ption, and other federal officials on a nine-day trip to among the fewer than 100 leaders in higher education Asia in November to meet with academic, government who participated in a University Presidents Summit held and busi- in January 2006 in Washington, D.C. The summit, orga- ness lead- nized by Spellings and Secretary of State Condoleezza ers in Rice, focused on the future of international higher educa- China, Ja- tion in the national interest. pan and “It was an honor to be chosen to represent the U.S. Korea. higher education community and I was delighted to have Simpson this opportunity to help deliver the delegation’s impor- was one of tant message about what our nation’s colleges and uni- only 12 versities have to offer students from around the world,” heads of Simpson said. American “Given the long-standing leadership of the University institutions at Buffalo in the arena of international education,” he of higher added, “this trip was also a valuable opportunity to show- education case our strengths and resources as a public university Secretary Spellings and Zhou Ji sign MOU in Beijing participat- with a truly global constituency and impact.” ing in the trip, the goal of which was to underscore this Among the twelve U.S. university presidents partici- 12country’s interest in enrolling students from the three pating with Simpson in the visit to Asia are those from U.S. DELEGATION TO ASIA U.S. DELEGATION countries in American colleges and universities. The Ohio State University, The Johns Hopkins University, In meetings and other sessions in the three countries, Indiana University and the University of Florida. the delegation also focused on the value to them of stu- In addition to Spellings, U.S. government officials on dents obtaining degrees from U.S. institutions and then the trip included Dina Habib Powell, assistant secretary of returning to their home countries, and the importance of state; Lauren Maddox, assistant secretary of education; higher education as a component of the relationship be- Thomas Farrell, deputy assistant secretary of state; and tween the U.S. and other countries. Robin Gilchrist, senior advisor to Spellings.
Among those with whom the delegation met is China’s Education Minister Zhou Ji who earned master’s and doc- Arthur Page is Assistant Vice President for News Services and toral degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering Periodicals in the Division of External Affairs.

SIMPSON VISITS PARTNER INSTITUTIONS IN LATVIA, RUSSIA & GERMANY

resident John Simpson led a UB delegation that visited UB and SUNY partners in Latvia, Russia Pand Germany in early June. In Latvia, Simpson met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and partici- pated in graduation ceremonies at Riga Technical University on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the university’s Riga Business School, for which UB was the U.S. founding partner. In Russia, the delegation visited the St. Petersburg SUNY Center, where U.S. students attending St. Pe- tersburg State University study Russian language and In Darmstadt, Germany (right to left): Dr. Johann-Dietrich Worner, President culture. In Germany, Simpson and the delegation vis- of Darmstadt University of Technology; UB President John B. Simpson and ited Darmstadt Technical University, with which UB Katherine G. Simpson; Tse-Jan Lin, UB student attending Darmstadt; Michelle Cunningham, Office of International and External Relations at Darmstadt; has an active exchange program, to return the cour- Stephen Dunnett, UB Vice Provost for International Education; Dr. Fritz-Jügen tesy of Darmstadt’s president, who spoke at Simpson’s Theiss; and Dr. Winifried Heinzel, Director of International and External Rela- investiture as president of UB in 2004.
tions at Darmstadt. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CUBAN PROGRAMS TO BE CELEBRATED IN HAVANA 13

n early December 2006, a UB delegation visited Cuba a ceremony bestowing an UH honorary doctorate degree to negotiate the renewal of the longstanding agree- on the person of George Lamming, one of the most Iments between the University at Buffalo and the Uni- prominent Caribbean writers and philosophers. versity of Havana. UB and UH first signed an agreement All in all,.UB holds a privileged place in US-Cuba rela- of cooperation and understanding in 1998, which was tions at the academic level. Currently UB is one of only a expanded in a second agreement signed in 2000. handful of US institutions with programs in Cuba and the The delegation included Prof. José Buscaglia, Director only one to have one at the graduate level. of the Program in Caribbean Studies; John Wood, Associ- Moreover, UB is the only US institution who has been ate Vice Provost for Inter- national Education; Prof. Shaun Irlam, Chair of the Department of Compara- tive Literature; and Prof. David Johnson, Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature. UB was one of the first US universities to sign an agreement of coopera- tion with UH and it is the only university in the United States to have Meeting at the University of Havana (left to right): José Antonio Baujín, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 13 ever set up a joint pro- (UH), Rogelio Rodríguez Coronel, former dean, and co-chair of the Joint Masters Studies Committee (UH); gram with Havana, the Cristina Díaz, Vice Rector for International Relations (UH); John Wood; Shaun Irlam, Milagros Martinez, assistant ANNIVERSARY OF CUBAN PROGRAM Masters Program in Car- to the Vice Rector; David Johnson; Carmen Castillo, assistant to the Vice Rector; and José Buscaglia ibbean Cultural Studies. This year marks the tenth anniversary of UB’s programs able to integrate Cuban nationals into its programs. Five in Cuba. A total of 266 students have benefited from both of the members of the graduating class of 2007 are U.S. the graduate and undergraduate programs at UH. citizens. One is a Cuban national. The fifth class of Caribbean masters students will During the fall 2006 semester there were 19 UB stu- graduate in May 2007. The joint UB-UH committee dents in Cuba from August to December. During the ple- agreed in Havana to mark that important anniversary nary session of the 2nd International Conference on the with a week-long series of activities in Havana during the Caribbean, held in Havana December 5-8, and in which first week of June. professors Buscaglia, Irlam and Johnson participated, the There will be a two-day faculty colloquium centered on joint UB-UH Masters program was heralded as the model the discussion of the “metaphorical subject” in Caribbean of understanding and cooperation, a forerunner of ex- aesthetic theory, followed by the graduation of the fifth panded collaboration between Cuban and U.S. institu- class of Masters students. tions of higher education. The presidents of UB and UH are expected to officiate President Simpson’s anticipated trip to Havana in June at the ceremonies and will also be signing a new and of 2007 will certainly go a long way in moving that pro- expanded exchange agreement. The week will end with cess forward.

DAY OF LEARNING tent to construct traditional peace flags to welcome the continued from page 5 Dalai Lama. These flags were distributed to those attend- ing the DSS lecture. showers were a couple of scattered patches of mud. Armand Mazzaroppi of Getzville agreed. “This is an People ate and drank, and purchased books, posters, incredible opportunity to see one of the most important CDs, arts and crafts, and other commemorative items, as leaders in the world,” he said. “It’s a wonderful event. It’s well as spoke to representatives of Tibetan Buddhist orga- wonderful for Buffalo.”
nizations throughout Buffalo and Western New York. In addition, small groups gathered about tables outside the Kevin Fryling is a staff writer for The Reporter. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

14 SIM LEADERSHIP VISITS UB

senior delega- ment ceremonies at tion from the the university. This A Singapore Insti- was to help SIM pre- tute of Management pare for the first com- (SIM) visited UB in May mencement cer- 2006 to discuss ways of emony for graduates expanding coopera- of UB’s undergradu- tion between the uni- ate program at SIM, versity and SIM. UB and which is to take place SIM have partnered for at the SIM campus in 10 years on an Execu- January 2007. tive MBA Program in On May 10 Presi- Singapore, and since Signing the UB-SIM MOU in May 2006: President Simpson (center); to his right, dent John B. Simpson 2004 UB has conducted CEO Lee Kwok Cheong; to his left, President Cheong Hee Kiat hosted a formal din- several undergraduate ner for the delegation degree programs at SIM as well. at his official residence. The delegation included Mr. Lee Kwok Cheong, Chief At that time, President Simpson, Mr. Lee and Presi- Executive Officer of SIM; Professor Cheong Hee Kiat, Presi- dent Cheong signed a new memorandum of understand- dent of SIM University; Professor Tsui Kai Chong, Provost ing between UB and SIM to promote faculty and student of SIM University; and Ms. Peggy Lim, Chief Operating exchange between the institutions as well as joint research Officer of SIM Limited. President Cheong and Provost Tsui and other cooperative activities. 14were recently appointed to head the newly established Stephen C. Dunnett, Vice Provost for International Edu- SIM LEADERSHIP VISITS UB SIM University, which is Singapore’s fourth university. cation, and John M. Thomas, Dean of the School of Man- During their visit, the delegation met with senior lead- agement, will lead the UB delegation attending the com- ership at UB on May 10-11 and took part in commence- mencement ceremony at SIM in January.

PROVOST RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE FROM INSTITUTE IN INDIA

By Arthur Page

atish K. Tripathi, provost and ex- Secutive vice president for aca- demic affairs, re- ceived an honorary doctor of science de- gree (D.Sc.) from the Indian Institute of In- formation Technology Allahabad in Allaha- bad, India. Tripathi received Provost Tripathi (right) receives honorary degree at IIIT, Allahabad the institute’s highest degree on August 12, 2006 during its third convocation government of India as a center of excellence in informa- program, where he addressed students about informa- tion technology.
tion technology and the value of education to the indi- vidual as well as society. The Indian Institute of Informa- Arthur Page is assistant vice president for news services and tion Technology Allahabad was established in 1999 by the periodicals. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

A DISH, A CITY, A DESERT: JORDAN REVISITED 15

By Maureen Jameson ing as Bedouins. Now if this were Disney World and the guests were spent six weeks in the Middle East this past summer, from Wisconsin, that would be one thing. But the people recruiting students for UB, and recruiting academics here dressing up as Bedouins are the Jordanians who live Ifor my web project (Litgloss). The trip brought me in Abdoun and Shmeisani, and whose grandparents or back to Jordan, the coun- greatparents themselves try where I held my first lived in or near the academic job fresh out of desert. graduate school. I looked By their eager partici- forward to renewing old pation in this simula- friendships, visiting favor- crum, they distance ite haunts, and especially, themselves from the an- to eating frikeh. cestral traditions in Frikeh, usually served which the West has been with chicken, is wheat too eager to freeze which is harvested while them. it’s still green, and slowly It is easy to sympathize smoked in the open with their impatience to fields. It has a unique taste be recognized as a mod- which defies description. ern society, especially Friends at AMIDEAST given the political and (America Mideast Educa- economic cost of being 15 tional and Training Ser- classed as “developing,” JORDAN REVISITED and the stereotypes in vices) who had arranged Abu Salem and his sons my recruitment presenta- which we have locked tion with Jordanian undergraduates took me to a restau- them. But watching modern Jordan recycle the ancient rant where they hoped I would find it. Bedouin traditions in this way made me sad, particularly Rim el Bawadi is located in the poshest of the new given the sterility of the consumerist lifestyle which is gradu- neighborhoods of Amman, a city whose explosive growth ally making every place look like every place else. is due partly to land sales by displaced Iraqis, and largely As for real Bedouins, I had planned to try to find the to enormous American investment. The restaurant’s food family of Abu Salem, thanks to whose intimate familiarity is good and affordable (though alas, they had no frikeh), with the desert I was first able to see the breathtaking and there are dozens of tables in a variety of open-air spectacle of Wadi Rum. When the kids and I arrived at the rooms as well as a play area for children. hospitality center, I showed the attendants the photos I But what most surprised me about Rim el Bawadi was had taken two decades earlier. its conspicuously contrived “Arab” identity. Now, I have They studied the photos with great curiosity, and then eaten in lots of Arab restaurants (and American restau- said that the father, Abu Salem, my guide, had passed rants) which are pretending to be French or Italian. Rim away, as had his youngest son Mohammed, killed in a el Bawadi is an Arab restaurant which is pretending to 4WD accident. The second son, Eid, had married and had be Arab. children and was nearby. Salem, the eldest, seated just Despite its location in the heart of the Arab world, beside his father in the photo, is now Director of Customs none of its lavish “Arab” decor is authentic. Bedouin arti- at the nearby Port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. facts are everywhere, displayed incongruously in tent- I had feared that I wouldn’t find any trace of Salem covered decors where disparate Damascene, Ottoman, and his brothers, or that they would be working as barristas and Egyptian elements are juxtaposed. Waiters bustle at the Wadi Rum Starbucks, or teaching pilates at the Wadi about dressed up as Bedouins, but like virtually all waiters Rum Athletic Center. It is comforting to know that one in Jordan, they are Egyptian. member of the family is still part of the desert. So their pronunciation is that of Cairo or Port Saïd Yet even this vestigial presence seems doomed to dis- rather than that of the desert, and I heard one diner appear: the government now pays Bedouin families to observe that their way of pouring the coffee (qahweh build houses and settle down, and the legendary desert saada) doesn’t conform to the Bedouin ritual. Near the patrol is now conducted via 4WD rather than camel. The children’s play area, there is a brightly lit photo studio lure of city jobs and military careers pulls many of them where diners can be photographed dressed up and pos- away. continued on page 27 OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

16 BURUNDI BY BUS through the speakers, and we spend a couple more hours threading our way along a paved but narrow and tortu- By Shaun Irlam ous mountain road up to the village of Bugarama at an eastward fork in the road. o, this is central Africa. It’s an early Friday morning East lie Muramvya, Gitega, and the Tanzanian border in mid-January, 2006. Dawn is rippling westward beyond. We bear southwest, however, dropping precipi- Salong the equator. Cool, lingering mists peel slowly tously down for mile after twisting mile to Burundi’s capi- from the hills surrounding Kigali, but already the bus and tal, the city of Bujumbura, sprawled across the ancient taxi station at Nyabugogo on the western edge of town is flood plain of the Great Rift Valley on the shores of Lake a frenzy of commuters Tanganyika. and vendors, jostling It is along this writhing ribbon of road bags and goods through that you will see the humble bicycle serv- teeming throngs. Some- ing uses no inventor could ever have how, in this tumult of hu- dreamed. Cyclists plunge down the manity, I find my seat on long, snaking pass into the Rift valley at the New Yahoo! bus line nightmarish speeds on ancient, cum- to start the six-hour jaunt bersome, often brakeless Chinese bi- south to Bujumbura, re- cycles, ferrying piles of produce to the posing on the sleepy bustling markets in Bujumbura. Wares shores of Lake are stacked so cartoonishly high that Tanganyika. they resemble a runaway hayrick or a From Nyabugogo, the heap of sugarcane wobbling away nerve-center of Rwanda’s down the mountain. It is 20 miles 16public-transport system, downhill to Bujumbura….

BURUNDI BY BUS taxis and mini-busses fan The city below us appears to doze in out from Kigali to the re- the haze as we descend. Majestic palms motest corners of the line the shores of the lake which is so country and beyond. vast that Bujumbura seems like a sea- Ticket kiosks read side town. At last, the New Yahoo! pulls Byumba, Kampala, up at the bus depot in the city center. Goma, Bukavu, Bujum- We peel ourselves off the seats, re- bura, Arusha, Nairobi. trieve bags and tumble onto the broad, Four African countries lie The thriving market of Gitega, Burundi dusty streets amid purposeful but un- within two hours of Kigali. No bus leaves the lot until it is hurried throngs of peddlers and pedestrians. Some busi- stuffed beyond capacity with passengers and goods. nesses are already closed for the weekend. The welcom- Behind a veneer of sheer chaos lies one of the most ing hospitalities from my indigent Burundian hosts are efficient forms of public transport I’ve ever encountered. sumptuous beyond their means, and I’m humbled by Crushed between people and luggage, and with my their generosity. The party lasts well into the night. Beer knees knocking out my teeth, I brace myself for the long and music flow freely. road down to Lake Tanganyika. The next morning we take a tiny car in driving rain The bus follows the narrow, serpentine roads across along slick, narrow roads to the ancient, eastern town of the land of a thousand hills to the drowsy, university town Gitega, about two hours from Bujumbura. Just a few years of Butare. Then it’s another 30 minutes through dry, hilly, ago this route was a corridor of carnage in the vicious civil eucalyptus country to the Kanyaru-Haut border post. strife between Hutu rebels and the Tutsi government and All the way down, we’re treated to hour after hour of such a trip would have been unthinkable. solemn church choirs singing in Swahili until a chicly A couple of horrific accidents along this short route are dressed young Burundian woman, exclaims: “Change the a sobering sight, but don’t deter our driver from his own, music – we’re not going to church!” Guffaws of laughter. blistering pace. In each village we pass, charred hulks Cassettes are passed forward and after some complicated mark the memory of neighbors purged and the edge of negotiations with the driver it’s agreed that pop music an ethnic abyss over which Burundi perpetually teeters. will prevail across the border. Lank, luxuriant weeds wanton in the blackened enclo- We arrive at the bridge into Burundi and make the sures behind vacant windows and gaunt, soot-rinsed walls border-crossing on foot to pass through the customs where the embers of ethnic rage continue to smolder. checkpoint. Finally, we resume our seats on the bus. As we By the time we reach our destination, the rain has roll down into Burundi, Bob Marley crackles cheerily stopped and a bright sun streams through the clearing OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

17 sky. Gitega is a beautiful, little market town, flung lan- local brochettes as Burundi’s best, so we stop for a late guidly across several hills. It hosts the National Museum of lunch. The road down to Bujumbura skirts around the Gitega, with an impressive assortment of relics from base of a broad, grassy knoll sprinkled with wooden Burundi’s precolonial past, as well as an imposing Catho- benches, tables and trees; in another hemisphere it might lic Church compound. pass for a village green. At the center of Gitega, among the cluster of old and As soon as we’re settled at one of the tables, some- crumbling colonial buildings, is a thriving market of tiny, body trots over to take an order. There are no choices: the clapboard kiosks and stalls all trading as vigorously as any menu is brochettes, beer, grilled corn. The sky is a rich, global stock exchange. It is a carnival of color as the deep blue; radiant, white clouds puff across the horizon; women mingle round in vivid lime, scarlet, hot pink and the low, corrugated tin roofs gleam in the sunlight. saffron robes to sell tomatoes, beans, mangoes, gourds, From our vantage point on the slopes of the knoll, we and tiny, fiery peppers used to make the formidable pili- follow the easy rhythms of the village. Along the road pili sauce. A colorful Tintin mural adorning a roadside bar below us, the life of Africa on a Saturday afternoon lan- pays sardonic tribute to Burundi’s erstwhile Belgian rulers guidly unfolds: men lounge on porches at the road’s edge, as we cruise out of town…. drinking beer; a delivery truck unloads crates of bottles; soldiers heave sacks of supplies into a pick-up truck: rice, Bugarama, Saturday, January 14, 2006 corn, sugar, beans. The history of postcolonial Burundi is spattered and Cyclists and stray dogs weave across the road; taxis stained with the blood of its citizens. The Tutsi minority honk through the knots of pedestrians; women with in- maintained a brutal military dictatorship since indepen- fants lashed to their backs and heavy parcels balanced on dence from the Belgians in 1962 until elections in the early their heads walk slowly into the hills; children scamper 1990s. During a genocide long-forgotten, over 100,000 after a ball of rags. Here is the true face of a continent so Hutus were slaughtered by Burundi’s military rulers in often eclipsed by images of strife, suffering and horror. 1972. Then there is a commotion up the hill on the edge of 17 Rwanda and Burundi often seem like mirror kingdoms, this tableau; a little knot of people surges towards us out of BURUNDI BY BUS trapped in an endless thrall of carnage: persecution of the tall grasses and we soon make out a woman in white Hutus by the Tutsi regime in Burundi spawned reprisals surrounded by a retinue of guests – it is a country wed- against the Tutsi in Rwanda; pogroms against the minor- ding of the humblest kind. Although clad in nuptial white, ity Tutsi by Rwanda’s Hutu regime spelt a similar fate for even on her wedding day, the bride does not enjoy the the Hutu in Burundi. luxury of transport; the entire wedding party proceeds on In 1993, Burundi held its first democratic elections, foot to the church. Ragged children tag along in the rear; which were won by the Hutu-dominated Front for De- a taxi rushes by, forcing the wedding party to the edge of mocracy in Burundi. Their leader, Melchior Ndadaye, be- the road. We notice that aside from the groom there are came Burundi’s first Hutu President, but a few months at most two or three men among thirty guests or more, a later he was assassinated by Tutsi army officers and reminder of the huge toll that decades of civil strife and Burundi plunged once more into a brutal civil war. To AIDS have taken on the male population in these hills. avenge Ndadaye’s killing, Hutu extremists massacred tens As I bit into that crisp apple of autumnal afternoon in of thousands of Tutsi civilians. Bugarama and took in the sweep of the highlands, time In 1994, the Rwandan genocide offered the regime seemed to stand still; history had taken a vacation in the spectacle of their brethren butchered across the Burundi. This precious interval of peace against such a northern border. Burundi’s Tutsi military retaliated in kind backdrop of blood made that fleeting, lustrous afternoon against the Hutus. Hutu rebel forces were attacked with all the more cherished and eternal. the utmost viciousness and, where the rebels themselves Martin Luther King Day was approaching, and at this could not be traced, countless ordinary Hutu villagers were beating heart of the continent from which he drew his slaughtered instead. blood and his spirit, I could hear his voice “in spite of the Burundi is not a peaceful place; a brooding disquiet difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a haunts its hills. As recently as 2003, one could still be am- dream … From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”It bushed and killed on the main road from Rwanda to seemed for a moment as if all Burundi had suspended those palm-skirted shores of Lake Tanganyika. The most the perennial clash of arms and fratricide and to listen to extreme Hutu rebel group still refuses to negotiate with that voice. It is too soon to tell how long central Africa’s the current government. But let us return from Gitega search for peace will remain, in the poet’s phrase, “a and this digression to that fork in the road at Bugarama…. dream deferred.”
We race down a steep hill and sweep west, round a sharp bend, past a tiny cluster of shops, saloons and Shaun Irlam is associate professor and chair of the Depart- dwellings called Bugarama. Our driver recommends the ment of Comparative Literature. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

18 JIM MCCONNELL TO RECEIVE 2006 AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

ames E. McConnell, SUNY Distin- of courses and curricula with an inter- guished Teaching Professor Emeri- national focus, and organization of in- Jtus in the Department of Geogra- ternational programs, activities, and phy, is the recipient of the 2006 events on campus. The award serves to Award for Outstanding Contributions highlight the importance of interna- to International Education at UB. tional education at the university. The award, which was estab- McConnell, who will receive the lished in 2003, is an annual univer- award at a special awards luncheon, is sity-wide award created by the Uni- being honored for his many activities in versity at Buffalo Council on Interna- the international area over the course tional Studies and Programs to of his 38-year career at UB, including honor faculty and staff who have his coordination of the International made exceptional long-term contri- Trade Concentration in Geography, his butions to international education at UB. role in founding and directing the Canada-U.S. Trade These contributions may involve collaborative interna- Center, his research and publications on international tional research projects, reciprocal exchange and study trade and cross-border issues, and his teaching and abroad programs, recruitment or mentoring of interna- mentoring of hundreds of international students.
tional students and scholars, development and teaching

18 MCCONNELL HONORED

PETER K. GESSNER HONORED FOR EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN U.S.-POLISH RELATIONS

n November 2006, Peter K. Gessner, pro- Polish language and culture at the

ARCHI- fessor emeritus of pharmacology and Jagiellonian. The Jagiellonian honored Itoxicology and the recently retired direc- Gessner in 1996 for his many contributions tor of Polish Studies at UB, was awarded the to the UB-Jagiellonian exchange.

ARCHITEC- TURE STU- GoldDIOS Order of Merit by His Excellency Janusz Gessner spearheaded one of the most Reiter, Ambassasador of Poland to the important initatives of the Jagiellonian ex- United States. change—the development of the Polish Gessner was honored for his outstand- Academic Information System, a compre- ing contributions to promoting academic hensive online resource with information and cultural ties between Poland and the about Poland and Polish studies. This site is U.S. The Gold Order of Merit is the second the best of its kind in the world and receives highest civilian award bestowed by the gov- 200,000 hits per month. Gessner continues ernment of Poland. The award was pre- to maintain and enhance the site. sented during the Third Annual Commemo- In addition to his leadership role in Polish rative Dinner of the Polish American Con- Studies at UB, Gessner has for many years gress, held in Buffalo on November 4. been active in the local Polish community of A native of Warsaw, Gessner established the Polish Western New York. Studies Program at UB and played a key role in fostering For 13 years, he served as President of the Polish Arts the university's landmark exchange program with the Club, stepping down in 2005. Under his leadership, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland's oldest and Polish Arts Club led community efforts to protect and pre- most prestigious university. The Jagiellonian exchange has serve Joseph Slawinski's sgraffito mural of St. Joseph been active since 1990 and has involved faculty and stu- Calasanctius, originally installed at Graycliff, the Frank dents in many disciplines from both institutions. Lloyd Wright-designed summer home of Darwin Martin, During the 1990s, Gessner took groups of 15-20 stu- and the murals at Old Fort Niagara painted by German dents to Kraków every summer for a special program in prisoners of war during World War II.
OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

19 TWO FACULTY MEMBER RECEIVE FULBRIGHT GRANTS FOR 2006-2007

By Sue Wuetcher

wo UB faculty members have received prestigious than 30 percent of its drinking water from karstic systems, Fulbright Scholar awards for 2006-07. “so it is important to understand and protect the environ- T Recipients are Matthew Becker, associate professor, mental quality of these systems.” Department of Geology, College of Arts and Sciences, and Becker will be working with Alberto Bellin, a well- Jan Chomicki, associate professor, Department of Com- known quantitative hydrologist in the Department of Civil puter Science and Engineering, School of Engineering Engineering at the University of Trento. and Applied Sciences. A UB faculty member since 1998, Becker is the recipi- Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on ent of numerous awards and honors, among them the the basis of academic or professional achievement and UB Young Investigator Award and the NASA New Investi- demonstration of extraordinary leadership potential in gator Award. He also spent a sabbatical year as a Na- their fields. tional Research Council Senior Research Associate at This year, approximately 800 U.S. faculty members NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary- and professionals received Fulbright grants to lecture and land. His extramural grant support since 1998 totals more conduct research abroad; a similar number of foreign than $2 million as a principal investigator and more than scholars received awards to come to the U.S., primarily as $1 million as a project director. researchers. He earned a doctorate in civil engineering from the Founded in 1945 by Sen. J. William Fulbright, the University of Texas-Austin in 1996. Fulbright program is America’s flagship international edu- Returning to Warsaw will be a homecoming of sorts for cational exchange activity and is sponsored by the U.S. Chomicki, who was born and educated in the city, receiv- Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural ing a master’s degree in computer science from Warsaw

19 FULBRIGHT AWARDS FACULTY Affairs. University in 1979. He moved to the U.S. in 1984 to pur- “Colleges and universities are increasingly challenged sue a doctorate at Rutgers University. to internationalize their campuses by developing and He defines data integration as “a body of techniques strengthening international programs, as well as by add- that makes it possible to combine information stored in ing a global, multicultural dimension to the traditional multiple, independent data sources, and present a single, curriculum,” said Patti McGill Peterson, executive director unified interface to that information to the users.” of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Chomicki, who has taught a data integration course at which administers the Fulbright program. UB for four years, says that while in Warsaw he will be “The contributions of visiting and returning U.S. teaching the course to fourth- and fifth-year students. “UW Fulbrighters are instrumental in achieving these goals,” (Uniwersytet Warszawski in Polish) students have a very Peterson added. good mathematical training, so I will be able to teach the Chomicki, whose Fulbright grant runs from February course emphasizing the logical aspects of data integra- through August 2007, will be teaching an advanced tion,” he notes. course on data integration in the Institute of Informatics at He adds that while at the university he also will super- Warsaw University in Warsaw, Poland. vise student research and initiate scientific collaboration Becker, director of the geology department’s with faculty. hydrogeology program, will lecture and conduct research Chomicki joined the UB faculty in 2000. He previously in the area of “hydrogeophysics” at the University of was on the faculty at Kansas State University and Trento in Trento Italy. His grant also runs from February Monmouth University in New Jersey after receiving his through August. Ph.D. in computer science from Rutgers in 1990. He also “This is an emerging field that combines electromag- has served as a research consultant for Bell Labs, Lucent netic and seismic imaging tools to enhance our under- Technologies, and as a visiting researcher at Hewlett- standing of hydrogeologic (ground water) systems,” Packard Laboratories. Becker explains. The principal investigator or co-principal investigator “We will be combining hydrologic investigation tools, on six National Science Foundation grants since 1991, such as pump testing, water-quality monitoring and dye- Chomicki is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly tracer studies, with geophysical tools, such as ground-pen- publications and the editor of two books: “Logics for etrating radar and electrical-resistivity measurements. Emerging Applications of Databases” and “Logics for “This approach will be used to characterize the karstic Databases and Information Systems.”
(cave) limestone systems of the Brenta Dolomites that overlook Trento,” he says, noting that Trento gets more Sue Wuetcher is editor of The Reporter. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

20 GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD PROGRAM IN GREECE

By L. Vance Watrous

uring summer 2006, nine UB graduate students During these trips students were assigned an oral pre- traveled to the Greek island of Crete to work on sentation on site or on some related aspect, i.e. the Law Dan archaeological survey of the region around a Code at Gortyn, trade and the origins of the Greek alpha- newly discovered Minoan palace at Galatas. bet in Crete. After work, our Greek students gave us les- Directed by L. Vance Watrous, sons in modern Greek. professor of art history at UB, the During seven weeks of project was supported by a grant field work the project found from the Institute of Aegean Pre- or investigated 78 new sites, history that paid for all team bringing the total number of members’ expenses, and was sites we have found to 122. carried out under a three-year We discovered a large permit from the Greek govern- Neolithic settlement with ment through the American seven well preserved houses. School of Classical Studies at Ath- Because of the site’s impor- ens. tance, the Greek Archaeo- UB graduate students from Art logical Service will carry out History, Classics and Anthropol- trial trenches there this fall. ogy worked from June 2 to Au- We also found a massive gust 2, 2006, alongside Greek cyclopean fortification wall 20graduate students from the Uni- The UB Galatas Survey at the mountain top Minoan Refuge on a Minoan settlement, a ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAM versity of Rethymnon in Crete. Settlement of Karphi cave that produced Late The UB Galatas Survey project is meant to provide a re- Minoan I - III and Geometric finds, some of which look like gional context that will help us to better understand the votives. We measured and mapped several function of the Minoan palace located in the center of our Minoan settlements, including Profitis Ilias and its cave, area at Galatas. the fortified Minoan town at Sambas, the Minoan town at Our goal is produce a series of chronological maps of Galatas and the Iron Age polis (city state) at Astritsi as well all sites in the region ranging in date from late Neolithic as a sizeable Minoan “villa” containing magazines filled (3500 B.C.) to Venetian/Ottoman periods (14 – 19th cen- with storage pithoi, and a Roman tholos. tury A.D.) which will allow us to chart the developing his- By the end of the season, the collected material from tory of local settlement and, in particular, its relation to our field work consisted of 97 crates of pottery and stone the Galatas palace. artifacts. Our field work has clarified the pattern of settle- Each morning we divided up into three teams of five ment in the area of Galatas. The earliest known settle- members each that picked up all visible artifacts on the ments in our area date to the Neolithic period. surface as they walked in line at 15 meter intervals across Protopalatial sites increase in number and size, and oc- well defined transects. At the end of each transect the cupy different types of locations: some are on defensive team member bagged and tagged their artifacts, and a locations; others, however, are established on prime agri- new transect was started. Field work ended in the mid- cultural positions, near arable land and a source of water. afternoon. Evenings we sorted, described, and dated the At the beginning of the Neopalatial period many new pottery collected from the previous day. sites appear in the area immediately surrounding Galatas. On weekends we usually made study trips to various They seem to have been deliberately founded as part of a museums and archaeological sites, including Minoan pal- regional network to support the palace. Their location, aces at Knossos, Phaistos and Galatas, the town of density and artifacts suggest that some of them played Gournia, the harbor at Kommos, the Kamilari tholos military, industrial and agricultural roles, e.g. producing tomb, the Minoan peak sanctuary on Mt. Jouktas, the an agricultural surplus meant to be consumed by elites Dictaean Cave shrine where, according to Hesiod, The who met at the palace. After the destruction of the Galatas Theogony 477-484, Zeus was born, the Early Iron Age ref- palace in Late Minoan I, local population in the area uge settlement of Karphi hidden from view on top of a dropped, and by Late Minoan IIIC, was severely nucle- steep mountain peak, the Archaic temples at Prinias, the ated at a few sites.
Classical city state of Lato, the Roman provincial capital at Gortyn, its port at Matala, and the frescoed Byzantine L. Vance Watrous leads teams of UB graduate students on church of Panagia Kera. excavations in Crete every summer. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

21 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY AND STAFF

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING Aviary, an avant-garde tensile structure designed by Cedric Price. In Department of Architecture November, she will deliver a lecture at the American University of The department organized three study abroad programs during Rome at an International Symposium on the legacy of the “machine summer 2006 for thirty undergraduate and graduate students. The a habiter.” Sustainable Futures Program in Costa Rica was overseen by Dennis Andrejko, professor. The Japan program, based in Kyoto and Tokyo, Edward Steinfeld, professor and director of the Center for Inclusive was led by Torben Berns with the participation of Mark Shepherd, Design and Envronmental Access (IDEA), delivered a presentation at assistant professor A new program in Rome was launched by Frank the Danish Building Research Institute on recent research on the Fantauzzi, associate professor, with contributions by Joyce Hwang, anthropometry of wheeled mobility. European researchers and ac- assistant professor, and Dennis Maher, adjunct assistant professor. cessibility experts are interested in using the IDEA Center method- ology to complete similar research as part of the ISO’s efforts to Brian Carter, professor and dean of the School of Architecture and develop an international standard on accessibility. Planning, worked in London with Arup Associates during summer 2006 to prepare the exhibition and book Building Culture, which Beth Tauke, associate professor, presented a paper on the Universal were presented at UB’s Center for the Arts in conjunction with the Design Identity Program (UD-id) Project at the Second Interna- visit of the Dalai Lama. The exhibition and publication focused on tional Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto, Japan in October, the integration of architecture, engineering and education at the 2006. Co-investigators Tauke and Alex Bitterman researched public new Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh. The book is available perceptions of universal design and developed a multi-sensory sym- through the School of Architecture and Planning. bol and attendant guidelines that can be used to identify universally designed products, media, graphics, and built environments. Spon- Annette LeCuyer, professor, published an essay on the Eyebeam sored by the National Endowment for the Arts, this project was project by Diller and Scofidio architects in the book Museums in the initiated to promote increased understanding, acceptance, and use 21st Century, which was prepared by Art Centre Basel in conjunction of universal design by a broad international audience of consumers, with an exhibition on museum architecture that will travel through- design professionals, and industry and government leaders. out Europe. Department of Urban and Regional Planning Bonnie Ott, associate professor, presented the paper “In-Between Daniel B. Hess, assistant professor, gave invited lectures in fall 2006 Architecture and Landscape” at the international conference on his research on planning and public transit at the University of 21 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature: Eco-Architecture 2006 Tokyo, Japan, and at the Technical University of Denmark in held in July at the Wessex Institute of Technology in the UK. Earlier in Copenhagen. While in Japan, he also participated in the Second the year, she worked with Global Volunteers in Lima, Peru, which is International Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto, where he based at the Puericultario Perez Aranibar orphanage. Her tasks in- presented his paper on Bus Rapid Transit Identity Systems. cluded teaching English and carrying out an architectural survey of twelve buildings on the campus, focusing on construction, structural Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. professor, spent five weeks during summer and safety issues. 2006 working with Cuban assistants to complete a research survey in Havana on primary education and the Family Doctor and Nurse Lynda Schneekloth, professor, was on the Steering Committee for Program in 20 neighborhoods. This research is part of a larger project a two-day conference in Niagara Falls called Creating the Cross on household, neighborhood life and culture in Havana between Border Capital: One Region, Two Niagaras, Our Shared Future. She 1989 and the present. is on the planning committee for the Binational Region 2012 cel- ebration and also presented a paper at the Leading Edge confer- Niraj Verma, professor and chair, was honored as a “Distinguished ence in October in Burlington, Ontario on “Laying the Foundation Scholar” by Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea last sum- for Ecogovernance: The WNY Niagara Escarpment,” a project mer. While in Seoul Verma gave a public seminar on his work linking funded by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Schneekloth American Pragmatism and planning and participated in an inter- and Robert Shibley, professor and director of the Urban Design national invitational seminar comparing “Epistemological Under- Project, both in the School of Architecture and Planning; and Neil standings of Spatial Policy and Regional Change” in the United Schmitz, professor of English, participated in a panel discussion on States, the United Kingdom, and Korea. utopian and dystopian views of American rivers—specifically, the Buffalo, Niagara, Mississippi and Tennessee—at the Second Biennial COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Department of Anthropology Culture and Environment, held earlier this spring at Alps-Adriatic Robert K. Dentan, professor emeritus, gave several invited talks in University of Klagenfurt, Austria. The theme of the conference was Asia in early 2005, “When the Fox Guards the Chickens: Protection “Water: Literary, Cultural and Environmental Perspectives.” (Rackets) and Ethnic Differences in West Malaysia, the U.S. and China. An Anthropological Talk” in January at the Hong Kong Museum of Mark Shepherd, assistant professor, presented his research, the Tac- History, Hong Kong; “How to Deal with Americans” at the Indone- tical Sound Garden (TSG) Toolkit, at the Responsive Architectures, sian International Educational Foundation in Jakarta in February; Subtle Technologies conference in Toronto, at the Futursonic Festival of “Persistence of Racism in American Ethnicity, Program Kajian Wilayah Electronic Music and Media Arts in Manchester, England and the Sonar Amerika, Program Pascasarjana, Gedung Rektorat, Universitas in Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art in Barcelona. In Novem- Jakarta, in February; “The Semai of Pahang and Perak, The Orang ber, he was invited to participate in a panel discussion at the Asli of Malaysia: A Program of Guest Speakers,” at the International MEDIACITY conference at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. School of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; “Orang Asli Non-Violence: Some New Reflections,” a special lecture at the International Symposium: Hadas Steiner, assistant professor, has been named a visiting scholar “Indigenous Communities: Voices towards Sustainability” at the by the London Zoological Society. This honorary year-long position LESTARI [Institute for Environment and Development], Universiti provides access to rare and unusual archives and artifacts in the Kebangsaan Malaysia in March; “Semai: The Non-Violent People. library of the Society. Her research will concentrate on the Northern Jabatan Muzium Malaysia, Muzium Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Ma- OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

22 laysia in March; “Ethnocentrism and Kesombongan in Semai Eth- time: Introducing time as a fourth dimension in the analysis of mo- nography. Research Seminar, Sociology/HSS at Nanyang Techno- lecular structure,” the W. J. Chute Lecture, Dalhousie University, logical University in Singapore in March; “Schooling vs. Education, Halifax , Canada in October 2006 and a research lecture at Hidden vs. Overt Curricula: Ways of Thinking about Schools, Eco- Dalhousie, “Crystal engineering as a tool in the study of molecular nomic Development and Putting the Children of the Poor to Work,” processes in a controlled environment.” Coppens served as a foreign the keynote address for the Symposium on Change and Continuity advisor to the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba in Asia-Pacific Childhoods. Asia-Pacific Childhoods Conference, Na- Science City, Japan for two weeks in early December 2006. tional University of Singapore, July 17 to 20, 2005. Dentan has sev- eral works in press: “Arifin in the Iron Cap” in Southeast Asian Lives, Department of Economics Roxana Helen Waterson ed. Singapore and Athens, Ohio: Singapore Alex Anas, professor, made a presentation at the First International University Press and Ohio University Press; “How the Androgynous Conference for Funding Transportation Infrastructure, held at Banff, Bird God Brought Agriculture to Semai of West Malaysia: Discipline, Canada during August 1-3, 2006 on aspects of his research funded Hard Work and Subordination to the Cycle of Time” in Pierre Le by an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. From Roux, Christian Coiffier and Bernard Sellato, eds., Les Messagers August 6-11, 2006 he was an invited participant at the international Divins: Aspects Esthetiques et Symboliques des Oiseaux en Asie du Sud- conference on “Sustainable Cities and Transport” held at Santiago Est. Aix-en-Provence/Marseille: Presse de l’Universite de Provence; de Chile and sponsored by the University of Chile in Santiago, and Paris: Editions Seven Orients; and “Introduction”in Tanah Tujuh: where he gave a keynote address titled “Unified Models of Trans- Travels in the Temuan Mythos, by Kit Leee, Antares. Kuala Lumpur: portation and Urban Form”. He also gave a keynote address on Silverfish Press. “Unified Economic Models of Tranportation and Urban Develop- ment” on August 31, 2006 at the 46th Congress of the European Roderick Salisbury, a PhD student in the Institute of European and Regional Science Association, held at the University of Thessaly, Mediterranean Archaeology, with support from UB’s IGERT program Volos, Greece, where he received the Fellows Award of the Regional in GI Science, conducted archaeological fieldwork during July and Science Association International for “outstanding contributions and August 2006 in Hungary as part of the Körös Regional Archaeologi- dedicated leadership” in the field of Regional Science. cal Project. This multi-disciplinary project is an international col- laboration between Hungarian and American archaeologists, an- Department of English thropologists, and geologists examining the Late Neolithic to Cop- Joan Copjec, professor, had two books translated into Spanish and per Age transition in southeastern Hungary. Results of this work will presented at the Buenos Aires Book Fair in May 2006; Copjec gave a be presented at European Association of Archaeologists Annual lecture at the Book Fair on the occasion of these publications. In July, Meetings in Kraków, Poland in September 2006 and the Society for she was one of four plenary speakers at the 4th International Confer- 22American Archaeology Annual Meetings in Austin, Texas in April ence in the Humanities, which was held this year in Carthage, Tuni- INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL 2007. In addition, Roderick was a Visiting Student in the Depart- sia. In honor of the translation into Japanese of her book, Imagine ment of Archaeology, University of Cambridge for the 2006 Lent There’s No Woman, Copjec has also been invited to give lectures in Term. While there, he presented a paper entitled “Live People in three universities in Tokyo at the beginning of October 2006: at the Early Copper Age: Inter- and Intra-Site Spatial Analysis of Tokyo University; at Ochanomizu University’s “Center of Excellence: Tiszapolgár Settlements” to the Late European Prehistory Seminar, Frontiers of Gender Studies”; and at Seikei University. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Timothy Dean, associate professor, is lecturing at the “Critical Sex- During summer 2006, Raymond Whitlow, a Ph.D. candidate, par- ology” seminar at the University of London in February 2007. The ticipated on an archaeological excavation near Medias, in the title of the lecture is “Breeding Culture: Barebacking, Bugchasing, Transylvania region of Romania. He also presented a paper titled Giftgiving.” “Historic Genocides: A Case Study from the First Crusade” at the SVU World Congress in eské Budjovice, Czech Republic. Whitlow is Jerold C. Frakes, professor, received a NEH Fellowship to participate an IGERT fellow and a member of the Institute of European and in the Seminar “Shaping Civic Space in a Renaissance City: Venice, Mediterranean Archaeology. 1300-1600,” in Venice, Italy from 12 June-14 July 2006.

Department of Chemistry Christopher Leise, doctoral student, participated in a Thomas Philip Coppens, SUNY Distinguished Professor, received the Pynchon conference in Spain in summer 2006. The conference was Nishikawa Prize of the Crystallography Society of Japan in Decem- called “International Pynchon Week” and held at the University of ber 2005. On this occasion he delivered an award address entitled, Granada in Granada, Spain from June 13-17, 2006. He presented a “Drug-substrate interactions from a theory-based databank of trans- paper called “‘Presto Change-o! Tryone Slothrop’s English Again!’ ferable pseudoatoms and potential curves derived from advanced The Puritan Conversion Narrative and the Lexicon of Global Capital theoretical calculations.” In addition, he delivered a number of lec- in Gravity’s Rainbow” on the 17th. tures at overseas institutions in the past year: “Time-resolved diffrac- tion, spectroscopic and theoretical studies of molecular excited In May 2006, Steve McCaffery, David Gray Chair of Poetry and states” in November 2005 at University de Rennes 1, France. Insti- Letters, gave the keynote address at “Lettres d’Amérique: Congrès tute de Physique. In December he also spoke at the Spring8 Syn- de l‘Association Française d’Etudes Américaines” held this year in Le chrotron Laboratory in Harima Prefecture, Japan: “Molecules, Light Mans, France at the Université du Maine. He subsequently gave and X-rays, Can we measure how atoms rearrange under light ex- readings and talks in Paris, Birkbeck College, Unversity of London, posure?” and at KEK Synchrotron Laboratory in Tsukuba Science the University of Plymouth and Dartington College, United King- City, Japan: “Molecules, Light and X-rays, Can we measure how dom. In early June, Crime Scenes, his 17th book appeared through atoms rearrange under light exposure?” Coppens delivered a num- Veer Books of London, England. ber of invited international lectures in fall 2006: “Time-Resolved Diffraction and the Evaluation of Charge and Spin Densities of Mo- Cristanne Miller, Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature and de- lecular Excited States” at the XVth Sagamore Conference on partment chair, has been invited to give a keynote address at the Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities, Warwick, UK in August Poznan Poetry Festival, May 8-12, 2007 in Posnan, Poland. 2006; “Time-Resolved Diffraction Studies of Molecular Excited States and Beyond” at the International Conference on Physical Organic Mark Shechner, professor, presented a paper entitled “Response, Chemistry, ICPOC18, Warsaw, Poland in August 2006; “X, y, z and Remembrance, Representation: A Dialogue between Postwar Jew- OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

23 ish Literatures” at the Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, Belgium from August 31 - Sept. 2, 2006. At the same conference, Kenneth November 6-7, 2006. Shockley, assistant professor, delivered a paper entitled, “Program- ming Collective Responsibility;” and graduate student Eric Neil Schmitz, professor, gave a paper, “Reading Southern Rivers: Chelstrom delivered a paper entitled “Collective Intentions: Brack- Mark Twain’s Mississippi, Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee,” at the eting Norms as Integral to the Ontological Account.” Shockley re- annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Lit- mained in Finland to deliver another address, “The Discursive Prac- erature, Culture and the Environment, Alps-Adriatic University of tice of Promising” to the Philosophy Department at the University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, April 28-May 1, 2006. Turku, Finland. Ehrenberg and Shockley also participated in the con- ference “Law, Buddhism, and Social Change” held at UB in conjunc- Howard Wolf, professor, attended the 12th Biennial Hemingway tion with the visit of the Dalai Lama in September 1006. Conference (Hemingway in Andalusia) in Malaga and Ronda (Spain) at the end of June 2006. He presented a paper on “Imitating John Kearns, professor, published several works in 2006: “Elemen- Hemingway at Mid-Century.” tary Systems of Ontology,“in The Lvov-Warsaw School B The New Generation (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Hu- Department of Geography manities, vol. 89), J. Pasniczek and J. Jadaki eds., Amsterdam/New James E. McConnell, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeri- York, NY, Rodopi, 2006, pp. 87-112; and “The Logical Difference tus, presented a paper, co-authored by Alan MacPherson, profes- between Knowledge and Justified Belief,“ The Logica Yearbook 2005, sor and chair, at the Linea Terrarum International Borders Confer- M. Bilkova and O Tomala eds., Filosophia, Prague, 2006, pp. 101- ence in El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, and Las Cruces., Mexico in March 112. Kearns gave several invited presentations: “Deduction and 2006. The paper focused on the impacts of new U.S. border security Cognition,“ Conference on Logic and Cognition, Institute of Logic measures on North American cross-border trade, logistics manage- and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, May 2006; ment, and the location of production. McConnell and MacPherson and “Recapturing the Epistemic Dimension of Logic,“ Logica 2006, also co-authored, with A. Vance and V. Vanchan, an article in Profes- Hejnice, Czech Republic, June 2006. sor Geographer (2006) titled “The impact of U.S. government anti- terrorism policies on Canada-U.S. cross-border commerce: An ex- Barry Smith, SUNY Distinguished Professor, has been appointed ploratory study from Western New York and Southern Ontario.” advisor to the World Health Organization on international medical Following his retirement in May 2006, McConnell taught two sum- terminologies and classifications. He is also working with the Ger- mer courses in UB’s undergraduate program at the Singapore Insti- man Federal Government on a national personalized health record tute of Management. system based on ontology. He has been appointed member of the Advisory Board of the Gene Ontology Consortium based in the Euro- Department of Geology pean Bioinformatics Institute. He has given presentations and tutori-23 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL Jason Briner, assistant professor, traveled to Tibet in September als on his work in biomedical ontology in Schloss Dagstuhl and in 2006 to give a talk on the fluctuations of glaciers in Alaska. The Berlin, Germany; Maastricht,Netherlands; Strasbourg,France; Tokyo, conference, titled “From High Asia to the World: The Timing and Japan; Milan, Italy; and Cambridge, England. Nature of Mountain Glaciation,” was held in Xining and was fol- lowed by a 5-day field trip across the Tibet Plateau from Xining to Jiyuan Yu, associate professor of philosophy, (1) gave a paper at Lhasa. Briner, who has been conducting mountain glacier research in Oxford University, England, in June 2006, entitled “The Role of Ethos Alaska since the mid-1990s, was invited to summarize the current in Greek Ethics.” Yu gave a paper at Brock University, Canada, in state of knowledge on the geologic record of glacier fluctuations August 2006, entitled “Living with Nature: Stoicism and Daoism.” across the state. In October 2006, Briner guest lectured on his Alaska He is invited as keynote speaker for the international Conference research at The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), a Norwegian “Western Philosophy and Modern China”, Zhongshan University, university at 78° North latitude in the Arctic Ocean that specializes Guanzhou, China, in December 2006. The talk will be on “The Re- in courses on natural sciences of arctic systems. Briner has been guest vival of Confucianism and the Revival of Virtue Ethics.” lecturing at UNIS, which draws hundreds of international students each year, since 2004. Department of Physics Andrea Markelz, associate professor, gave an Invited talk at a NATO Department of History Advanced Research Workshop on Terahertz Frequency Detection and Georg Iggers, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, received an Identification of Materials and Objects in Spiez, Switzerland, July 7-12, honorary doctorate from the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt 2006 She contributed a poster at the International Conference on (TUD) in Germany on July 3, 2006. Iggers was honored for his the Physics of Semiconductors in Vienna, Austria, July 24-28, 2006. achievements as a leading scholar in the field of modern European She delivered an invited keynote talk at the Joint 31st International historiography and his contributions to the longstanding exchange Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and the14th Interna- program between TUD and UB, which Iggers initiated in the 1970s. tional Conference on Terahertz Electronics in Shanghai, China, Sep- tember 18-22, 2006 Department of Music Peter Schmelz, assistant professor of musicology, was a participant Surajit Sen, professor, was unanimously endorsed in October 2006 at the Shostakovich 2006 International Centenary Conference 29 by the American Physical Society’s Committee on Committees to September-1 October, 2006 at the University of Bristol, United King- serve for a 3-year term as a Member of the American Physical Society dom. The conference celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth Committee on International Scientific Affairs. of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Schmelz read a paper entitled, “What Was Shostakovich, and What Came Next?” Bernard Weinstein, professor, delivered a number of invited talks to an audience of Shostakovich and Russian/Soviet music scholars overseas: at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Terahertz Fre- from around the world, including leading Russian, British, American, quency Detection and Identification of Materials and Objects in Spiez, Canadian, and German researchers. Switzerland, July 7-12, 2006, “Development of Tagless Biosensors for Detecting Pathogen Presence,” A. G. Markelz, J. –Y Chen, J. R. Knab, Department of Philosophy Y. He, and S. Ye. Weinstein gave an invited keynote talk at the Joint Kenneth Ehrenberg, assistant professor, presented a paper entitled, 31st International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and “Collective Intent, Codification and the Law” at the Fifth Interna- 14th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, Shanghai, tional Conference on Collective Intentionality in Helsinki, Finland China, September 18-22, 2006, “Protein Conformational Dynamics OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

24 Measured With Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy,” Joseph R. pate in the UB Study Abroad Summer Program Theatre, Cultures Knab, Jing-Yin Chen Shuji Ye, Yunfen He and Andrea G. Markelz. and Civilizations - a program honored with a 2006 SUNY Weinstein contributed a poster at the International Conference on Chancellor’s Award for Internationalization which had been created the Physics of Semiconductors in Vienna, Austria, July 24-28, 2006, by Horne in direct collaboration with the UNESCO ITI Chair. While “Ultrafast Carriers Dynamics in GaSb/Mn Random Alloys,” S. Ye, J. in Romania and at the International Symposium on Ibsen at the100th Knab, J.-Y. Chen, S. Wang, M. Cheon, H. Luo and A. Markelz. During anniversary of His Death which was co-organized by UNESCO ITI July 31 – August 3, 2006, Weinstein attended the 12th International and the world renowned Center for Ibsen’s Studies of Oslo Univer- Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics in Barcelona, sity (Norway), Horne presented Unlocking the Mysterious Disease of Spain. The conference had 150 participants from the US, Europe, the Ibsen’s Ghosts to Generation Y, a paper she co-authored with her Former Soviet Union, Japan, China, and South America.Weinstein’s PhD. student Mark Tattenbaum. Horne also conducted comparative contribution at this conference was an invited talk and a related research on international performing arts and attended a 40 hour invited paper entitled “Raman Spectroscopy under Pressure in Semi- seminar on Sanskrit Drama with master teachers K.S. Rajendran and conductor Nanoparticles.” The paper will be published as a review Shashidhar Acharya from the National School of Drama of New article associated with the conference in Physica Status Solidi B to- Delhi (India). In addition, Horne participated in The European Con- ward the end of 2006. In late July Weinstein attended the 28th Inter- ference of Teachers from Drama Schools, as an invited Official Ob- national Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors In Vienna server. From July 21- 27, Horne attended the VI World Congress of Austria, and presented a contributed poster, “Phonons and phonon- International University Theatre in Urbino, Italy, where she presented mixing in ZnSe isotopic crystals pressure-cycled domains, and her paper “Working from the Outside-In: Weighing Today’s Hard nanorods”, by R. E. Tallman, B. A. Weinstein, H. Zeng, W. Shi, R. Lauck Sciences in a New Pedagogy of Method Acting.“ Horne was both and M. Cardona. This contribution represented the work of the Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee and a member of the Weinstein's research group at UB, other collaborators in the depart- Organizing Committee of this international congress. Also at ments. of Physics and Chem Engineering at UB, and collaborators at Urbino, the book co-edited by Horne and Dr. Claude Schumacher the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart Germany. An associated paper (University of Glasgow, UK) To Teach/To Study Theatre at the Univer- will appear in the proceedings of this conference. sity: What for? was presented by its publisher. In October, invited by the Rector of the Belarusian State University, Horne traveled to Department of Political Science Belarus where she officiated as President of the Independent Jury of “Politics is Local: National Politics at the Grassroots,” a new book co- the International Theatre Festival Teatralny Koufar. While in Minsk, authored by Donald Munroe Eagles, associate professor, was on Horne also presented a master class on Method Acting at the the short list for the Donald Smiley Prize, awarded annually by the Belarusian State University. Canadian Political Science Association to the best book published in 24the previous year dealing with Canadian politics or government. Department of Visual Studies INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL Eagles’ co-author is R. Kenneth Carty, McLean Chair in Canadian During the fall of 2005, Millie Chen, associate professor of art, com- Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. pleted an art commission for the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. From winter to spring of 2006, she was a Visiting Professor at the Sichuan Claude E. Welch, Jr., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, pub- Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China. In June 2006, Chen collabo- lished a new book in spring 2006, Economic Rights in Canada and the rated with two other faculty from the Dept. of Visual Studies, Paul United States, which exposes deficiencies in protecting these rights Vanouse, Associate Professor, and Warren Quigley, Adjunct Lecturer, in both countries, and analyzes why this occurs, using the standards as well as Andrew Johnson, Associate Professor in the School of Art, of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Carnegie Mellon University, to conduct a large scale public art event Rights. This book will give readers broader awareness of the full “PED.Chongqing” in Chongqing involving students of Sichuan Fine range of human rights. Chapters deal with specific issues including Arts Institute and exhibited at Tank Loft Contemporary Arts Center. access to health care, disabilities, welfare racism, labor law, com- During summer 2006, she was artist-in-residence at Wharf, Centre munity organization to end poverty, immigrant and migrant work- d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Caen, France, in prepara- ers, the philosophical justification of economic rights, foreign policy tion for two upcoming solo shows in Caen and in Paris. and international welfare rights, and the international law of eco- nomic, social and cultural rights. Ruth Bereson, professor and director of Arts Management, deliv- ered a public lecture “The Underbelly of Cultural Policy Making” at Department of Theatre and Dance the University of Western Australia, Institute of Advanced Studies, in During the period May-October 2006, Maria S. Horne, associate conjunction with the Perth Winter Arts Festival. She presented a professor, represented UB and the United States at international seminar on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy in July 2006 at the Fourth events in Philippines, Romania, Italy, and Belarus. Formally invited International Conference on Cultural Policy Research in Vienna, Aus- by the U.S. Center of ITI and TCG (Theatre Communications Group) tria. In May 2006, Bereson gave a talk “Unwrapping Christo” at the as one of 10 representative members of the United States official Essex Management Centre, University of Essex, United Kingdom. delegation to the 31st International Theatre Institute World Con- gress UNESCO held in Manila, Horne traveled to the Philippines in Harvey Breverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, was May 2006. In addition, Horne accepted an invitation from the recently invited to participate in the following exhibitions: the 5th UNESCO ITI Chair to participate in the concurrent IV World Confer- Egyptian International Print Triennale, sponsored by the Ministry of ence of Drama Schools Directors and the World Festival of Drama Culture, Museum of Contemporary Graphic Arts, Cairo and Alexan- Schools, held in Manila from May 15-30. Moreover, Horne led a dria, February 25-April 25, 2006; Concorso Internazionale Exlibris, section of the UNESCO ITI program “Theatre for All in Manila,” This Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, Museo del Carrattere e della was indeed a great honor, for this program carefully selected only Tipografia, Cornuda (Treviso), Italy, February 30-April 30, 2006; 6th four master teachers worldwide with Horne being the only one from British International Print Exhibition at the Gracefield Arts Centre in the North American Continent. While in the Philippines, Horne di- Dumfries, Scotland, May 30-June 24, 2006, which travels under the rected a 30 hour workshop with Philippine performers that culmi- auspices of the Scottish Arts Council to venues across the UK and nated with a public performance on May 22 at the University of the Northern Ireland in 2006-2007; 5th International Graphic Triennial- Philippines. In June, Horne’s workshop Method Acting for Performers Bitola 2006, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of of a New Century was digitally produced on DVD by the UNESCO Macedonia and the Institute and Museum in Bitola, Macedonia, ITI Chair as part of its series Theatre Pedagogy on DVD. In June/July, September 15-November 15, 2006; Society of American Graphic Horne led a delegation of 8 SUNY students to Romania to partici- Artists Exhibition at Hollar Society Gallery in Prague, Czech Repub- OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

lic, sponsored by the Hollar Gallery and the U.S. Embassy in Prague, sity of Oslo, NORWAY and Wong, Kam-Cheung, University of Hong 25 October 18-November 12, 2006; and the V International Small En- Kong. Jacobson was also a panelist on a symposium called: “Building graving Exhibition – L’Arte e il Torchio, at the Civic Museum of and International Knowledge Base on Educational Leadership De- Cremona, Italy, January 15-March 15, 2007. velopment.”

Elizabeth Otto, assistant professor, curated the first exhibition of the D. Bruce Johnstone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and di- photomontages of Bauhaus artist Marianne Brandt. In her collabora- rector, Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education, has tive work with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, Germany, Otto also been name Distinguished Scholar Leader within the Fulbright published the first scholarly volume to examine these works, entitled Program’s New Century Scholars Program. Each year, the program Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt (Ber- brings together 30 outstanding scholars and professionals from lin: Jovis, 2005). In 2005-2006, the exhibition was shown at the Bau- around the world to collaborate on a topic of global significance. haus-Archiv,, Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Interna- Johnstone will lead the 2007-2008 cohort as they examine three tional Center of Photography in New York. themes related to the central topic of access and equity in higher education. Johnstone recently was awarded $188,000 from the Ford SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE Foundation to complete a book on cost-sharing and other projects Department of Periodontics related to the International Comparative Higher Education Finance Sebastian G. Ciancio, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and and Accessibility Project. chair, chaired an expert international panel on mouthrinses which met in Barcelona, Spain in January 2006. In attendance were dentists Kimberly Rogers, assistant professor, had a paper accepted for from Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and the United publication: Heller, D.E. and Rogers, K.R. (2006) “Shifting the Bur- States. In April 2006, Ciancio was the lead speaker at the annual den: Public and Private Financing of Higher Education in the United meeting of the Italian College of Dentists held in Rome Italy. His States and Implications for EuropeTertiary Education and Manage- topic was Control of Oral Biofilm. ment, 12(2), pp. 91-117.

Othman Shibly, clinical assistant professor and director of the visit- Robert Stevenson, associate professor, was one of 12 “world lead- ing scholar program, led a dental service program to Syria. The ers in the field of education for sustainable development and its team included 4 faculty and 2 students from the Dental School: Brian sister subject areas” invited to join members of the newly estab- Preston, chair of Orthodontics; Renzo Nylander director of Infection lished Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) at the University of Ply- Control; Ming Shie professor of Endodontics; Shibly from Periodon- mouth, England, during the second week of November, 2005 for an tics; and two students, Amy Dawli and Kirsten Knauss. The team’s intensive one week “think tank” conference on “the theory and contribution was not limited only to providing treatment for needy practice of sustainability-oriented education and their implications25 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL people in Syria, but also included teaching and training. The team for higher education.” The purpose of the think tank was to help worked at three Syrian universities—Damascus, Albaath, and provide direction to the university which has recently been funded Aleppo. The team saw 206 patients. Buses brought needy patients for five years by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, from remote areas to the clinical site where SDM students provided to establish CSF as a Centre on Excellence in Teaching and Learning periodontal, oral surgery, restorations, and tobacco counseling to for Sustainable Development whose mission is “to embed educa- the patients. In addition, the team conducted six lecture sessions, tion for sustainability into higher education both at Plymouth and two sessions in each city. One session was for the university faculty, across the whole UK higher education sector.” On Monday Novem- staff and students; and the other for the local dental society in that ber 28, 2005, Stevenson was interviewed on air as part of the BBC city. Topics covered included infection control, risk factors, smoking, Radio 2 current affairs program “Four Corners” for a special on and oral health advances in periodontology and implant dentistry as teaching, or lack thereof, in schools about global environmental well as new trends in Orthodontics. Additionally, the students pre- issues, such as climate change. Bob was asked to describe education sented information on the dental service missions. The team also for sustainable development, to compare the attention given to provided hands-on training to the residents of all dental Schools. such issues in Australia and the U.S., and to explain why teachers This training included advanced periodontal surgical techniques should include such issues in their curriculum. and also Orthodontic consultations and treatment plans for orth- odontic patients at the universities. Altogether, Preston consulted on Department of Learning and Instruction over 90 patients. The UB team also had the chance to visit the major Wan-Chun (Nicole) Liao, a master’s in TESOL student from Taiwan, historical sites in Syria, from the region bordering Jordan to the is the 2006 recipient of the Judith Melamed Memorial Fellowship. northern area next to Turkey, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. The late Judith Melamed was a longtime professor in the depart- These activities were facilitated by Damascus University, which as- ment and helped establish the TESOL program and the Foreign signed a van and a driver to the team as well as complimentary Student English Program, a predecessor of the UB English Language accommodation and meals for the team free of charge during the Institute. Contributions to the Melamed Memorial Scholarship Fund whole visit. The UB team experienced the richness of the history in are welcome, care of the Melamed Memorial Fellowship Fund, Uni- that part of the world, while helping to promote mutual under- versity at Buffalo Foundation, Buffalo, New York 14260. standing and respect for cultural and religious differences. The ef- forts of the team were recognized at the annual meeting of the SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Syrian American Medical Association, at which the team received an Stanley Zionts, alumni professor emeritus of decision support sys- award in absentia. tems, recently received an honorary doctor of science degree from the Helsinki School of Economics, the largest business school in Fin- GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION land. Zionts attended the conferral ceremony in Helsinki in May Department of Educational Leadership and Policy 2006 with eight other recipients. The honorary degree is awarded Stephen Jacobson, professor, gave several presentations at the Com- to distinguished individuals who have shown outstanding achieve- monwealth Council for Educational Administration and Manage- ment in the field of science, economics or society. ment (CCEAM) conference in Nicosia, Cyprus in October 2006: “Suc- cessful Principal Leadership in Challenging U.S. Schools,” with Lauri SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES Johnson, associate professor, and Kenneth Leithwood (U. Toronto, Department of Medicine Canada); ”Differences between successful principals: Intra- and in- Paresh Dandona, UB Distinguished Professor and director of the ternational comparisons,” with Johnson and Jorunn Moller, Univer- Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York, delivered the OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

26 8th Ricardo E. Fernando Professorial Lecture, "Inflammation in Dia- SCHOOL OF NURSING betes," October 21, 2006, in Marikina City, the Philippines, as part of Suzanne Dickerson, associate professor, presented a poster at the the inauguration ceremonies for the Institute for Studies on Diabetes 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine in Toronto, Ontario Foundation, Inc. In August 2006, Dandona visited India at the invita- from October 15 – 18, 2006 on “Comparing Male and Female Can- tion of eminent cardiologist Naresh Trehan to help devise guidelines cer Patients Experiences Using the Internet”. for the treatment of cardiac diseases in India. Dandona is the 2006 recipient of the Stockton Kimball Award, Janice Feigenbaum, clinical professor, presented at the Annual In- which honors a faculty member in the UB School of Medicine and ternational Harm Reduction Conference in Vancouver, British Co- Biomedical Sciences for academic accomplishment and interna- lumbia from April 28 – May 8, 2006 on “My Mother Only Drinks, tional recognition as an investigator and researcher. Stockton Smokes and Gambles a Little” – Application of Harm Reduction Kimball, MD ’29 was dean of SMBS from 1946 to 1958 and his Principles When Caring for Older Individuals. contributions to training of physicians spanned more than a quarter of a century. Dandona, who joined the faculty at UB in 1991, has Sherry Pomeroy, research assistant professor, and Yvonne Scherer, dedicated his career to the care and treatment of patients with associate professor, will be at the University of Lund in Sweden to endocrine disorders, especially diabetes and metabolic diseases. In learn how to use the Environmental Fit Instrument which will be addition to serving as medical director of the center, Dandona also used in Pomeroy’s study titled “Testing the Feasibility of Outcome is founder of the online Diabetes Forum, a patient resource for infor- Measures for “Welcome Home” Resident Centered Care” at the mation about diabetes. Dandona has more than 425 publications to Beechwood Health Care Center in Getzville, New York. his credit. He has pioneered the use of insulin infusion in reducing inflammation and increasing cardioprotection and cerebropro- Viliporn Runkawatt, a doctoral student, was awarded the best tection in heart attack and stroke. His current research interests first-time presenter at the Nurse Education Tomorrow (NET 2006) include inflammation related to insulin resistance and atherosclero- Conference at the University of Durham, England from September sis. In addition, his laboratory investigates the pro-oxidative and 5-7, 2006. The title of her presentation was “Evaluation of the Psy- pro-inflammatory effects of micronutrients and pursues lines of in- chometric Properties of the Thai Versions of Palmore’s Facts on Aging vestigation that include the anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory Quiz and Kogan’s Attitude Toward Old People in Thai Adolescents”. effect of insulin and insulin sensitizers. At the First International Symposium on Excellence in Second Entry Richard V. Lee, professor, received the C.G. Barnes Award from the Baccalaureate Nursing Education in Toronto, Ontario from October International Society of Obstetric Medicine for outstanding contri- 22 – 23, 2006, Janice Feigenbaum, clinical professor; Martha butions to Obstetric Medicine at the biennial meeting of the Inter- Kemsley, clinical associate professor, Linda McCausland, clinical 26national Society of Obstetric Medicine, held in Lisbon, Portugal in associate professor, Elizabeth Riegle, clinical associate professor and

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL July 2006. C.G. Barnes was the first professor of obstetric medicine in Jason Rein, BS ’05 graduate, presented a paper titled “Meeting the the UK, back in the 1940’s; in fact, he was the only professor of Educational Needs of Unique Students in an Accelerated Second obstetric medicine in the world at the time. He influenced several Degree Option Program Within an Undergraduate Community students including Lee, and the only other two recipients of the Based Nursing Program”. award, Professor Chris Redman of Oxford and Professor Michael At the 14th International Conference on Cancer Nursing in Toronto, DeSwiet of Imperial College, London. Redman, DeSwiet and Lee Ontario from September 27 – October 1, 2006, the following faculty were among the group that founded the International Society of presented. Marcia Boehmke, assistant professor, presented a pa- Obstetric Medicine over a decade ago. The organization grew from per titled “A New Comprehensive Instrument to Measure Symptom regional societies devoted to obstetric medicine – the care of medi- Distress in Women with Breast Cancer.” Jean Brown, professor and cal patients and problems during pregnancy – like the MacDonald dean , presented a paper titled “Use of Antioxidants During Cancer Club in the U.K., the North American Society of Obstetric Medicine Treatment.” Suzanne Dickerson, associate professor, presented a in Canada and United States, and the Obstetric Medicine Societies poster titled “Male Oncology Patient Perspectives on Internet Use of Australia and New Zealand. Lee’s role began as a medical stu- for Cancer Care”. Robin Lally, research assistant professor, pre- dent and house officer at Yale in the 1960’s providing consultations sented a paper titled “International Profile of Cancer Nurses’ Con- to colleagues for infectious disease complications of pregnant tribution to Smoking Cessation: A Survey of Six Countries”. Mary patients. He was recruited to Buffalo as Professor of Medicine in Ann Meeker, assistant professor, presented a paper titled “Family 1976 and moved to The Children’s Hospital of Buffalo as Chief of the Surrogate Decision-Making in Advanced Cancer”. The following Hospital’s Department of Medicine in 1979 – and began a virtually doctoral students also presented: Laila Akhu-Zaheya presented a full time practice of obstetric medicine. By the mid-1980’s Lee was paper titled “Patients and Caregivers Use of the Internet in Jordan”; organizing conferences and workshops for the American College of Cheryl Crotzer presented a paper titled “Decision Making for Breast Physicians which he has done for 20 years, and training and recruit- Cancer Genetic Testing”; and Lawrence Wilcox presented a paper ing an outstanding group of young clinicians throughout the USA titled “Use of Cancer-Related Fatigue Research Evidence by ONS and Canada. They are the best reward for a career in a branch of RN’s”. medicine not well recognized in Dr Barnes’ lifetime. Lee’s next task At the 17th International Nursing Research Congress and Evidence- is to complete the establishment of a Journal of Obstetric Medicine, to Based Nursing Conference sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau Interna- be published by the Royal Society of Medicine in London. tional, the Honor Society of Nursing in Montreal, Quebec from July 17 – 22, 2006, the following faculty presented. Janice Jones, clinical Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics associate professor and Kay Sackett, clinical associate professor pre- Moeen Abu-Sitta, professor, participated in a training program in sented a paper on “Using Pedagogical Research to Evaluate the Palestine, educating physicians there on advanced surgical proce- Effectiveness of Teaching Evidence-Based Practice”. Janice Jones, dures in uro-gynecology and pelvic reconstructive surgery. clinical associate professor and Mary Ann Meeker, assistant profes- sor presented a paper on “Teaching Undergraduate Nursing Re- Department of Physiology and Biophysics search from an Evidence-Based Perspective.” Susan Lombardo, In May 2006 Susan Udin, professor, gave two seminars, “Visual dlinical associate professor, and Marsha Marecki, associate profes- experience shapes the brain: Binocular maps in the developing Xe- sor, presented a poster on “Quality of Life in Community Dwelling nopus tectum” at the Julius Bernstein Center for Computational Post-Menopausal Women with Urinary Incontinence.” Marcia Neuroscience, University Hospital, München, Germany and the Cen- Boehmke, assistant professor, presented a paper on “A New Instru- ter for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Germany. ment to Measure Symptom Distress in Women with Breast Cancer.” OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

27 SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND presenter for a week-long workshop orga- D I R E C T O R Y HEALTH PROFESSIONS nized by World Education Services in July Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences 2006 on “Recruiting International Students Office of the Vice Provost for In July John X. Wilson, professor and chair, in a Competitive Environment.” In Septem- International Education gave an invited presentation to a plenary ber 2006, Shaw was appointed Managing (716) 645-2368, 645-2528 (Fax) session at a conference in Chile: “Vitamin C Editor of the NAFSA national Wrap-Up [email protected] transport and vascular function in sepsis”. Newsletter for members of the Recruitment, http://www.buffalo.edu/intled Conference on Basic and Applied Biomedi- Admissions and Preparation section. In No- Professor Stephen C. Dunnett Vice Provost cal Research – Present and Future Chal- vember 2006 Shaw was a presenter at the Mr. John J. Wood lenges in Chile, University of Concepcion, NAFSA Regional Conference in Rochester, Associate Vice Provost Chile. In October Wilson presented the fol- NY. His topic was “International 3-Year De- Ms. Patricia Shyhalla grees: Considering Equivalency to U.S. De- lowing invited seminars in China: “Eluci- Director of Resource Management dating the roles of vitamins in nervous sys- grees.” In December 2006, Shaw was an in- Ms. Marvis Robinson tem development and function,” School of vited workshop presenter at the Depart- Financial Resource Officer Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, ment of State – Fulbright Commission Edu- China. “Mechanism of action of ascorbic acid cational Advising Centers Training Work- International Enrollment for adjuvant therapy in experimental sep- shop in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The workshop was Management sis,” Department of Anesthesiology, Fujian titled “Marketing U.S. Higher Education,” (716) 645-2368, 645-2528 (Fax) Provincial Hospital, China. an event organized for educational advisors [email protected] in Viet Nam. Mr. Joseph J. Hindrawan UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Assistant Vice Provost and Director Christopher Hollister, senior assistant li- John J. Wood, associate vice provost, was a Mr. Raymond Lew brarian, was invited to present at the 35th presenter on a panel at the annual confer- Assistant Director annual Workshop on Instruction in Library ence of NASULGC (National Association of Use (WILU) on May 11, 2006. His presenta- State Universities and Land Grant Colleges) International Admissions tion, “Making the Case for Enhanced Learn- in Houston, Texas in November 2006. For (716) 645-2368, 645-2528 (Fax) ing: Using Case Studies in a Credit-Bearing the panel, which was titled “Developing [email protected] Library Course,” was given at Acadia Uni- and Strengthening International Partner- Mr. Steven L. Shaw versity, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. ships and Sites.”
Director The presentation is being adapted for inclu- Ms. Elizabeth A. White sion as a book chapter in the forthcoming Assistant Director 27 Ms. Amy Matikosh DIRECTORY Haworth Press publication, Primer on Instruc- Admissions Advisor tional Services for Academic Libraries. JORDAN REVISITED International Student and Scholar OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR continued from page 15 Services INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (716) 645-2258, 645-6197 (Fax) Stephen C. Dunnett, professor and vice pro- The Bedouins have every right to [email protected] vost for international education, will be hon- Ms. Ellen A. Dussourd ored with the 2007 Distinguished Alumni benefit from the advances of modern Director Award during Alumni Association Achieve- society. But in our race to characterize Mr. Mark P. Popiel, Esq. ment Awards ceremony in April 2007. The the Bedouin way of life as quaint so as Director of Immigration Services award is in recognition of Dunnett’s leader- Mr. Eric E. Comins ship in the development and administration to recruit them for our modernity, we International Student Advisor of international programs and studies at UB. may be jeopardizing their precious Ms. Diane Hardy Dunnett delivered a lecture, “Promoting role as custodians of Wadi Rum, a International Student Advisor Peace Across Borders Through Education: place of ineffable and dreamlike Ms. Jessica Kumro The Dalai Lama’s Visit and the Mission of Staff Assistant International Education,” on July 27, 2006 as beauty. Ms. Mary Jean Zajac part of the “UB This Summer” lecture series. We took many photos of the land- Paralegal Dunnett, who chaired the steering commit- scape, of the prehistoric inscriptions, Study Abroad Programs tee planning the visit by the Dalai Lama, and of Mousa, Salem’s cousin, our 17- discussed the significance of the visit to UB (716) 645-3912, 645-6197 (Fax) and its relationship to the university’s grow- year-old guide. My son loved Wadi [email protected] ing international reputation. In December Rum so much that he will certainly Ms. Melissa Polasik Director Dunnett gave a presentation titled “U.S. return one day, bringing this year’s Ms. Rhona D. Cadenhead-Hames Higher Education and the International photos with him. If we’re lucky, he’ll Assistant Director Arena: Issue, Dilemmas and Challenges” find Mousa and his family there at organized by the Sociology of Education Council on International Studies Brown Bag Series and the Center for Com- Wadi Rum, and not working at Rim el and Programs parative and Global Studies in Education. Bawadi.
(716) 645-2368, 645-2528 (Fax) Professor Barbara B. Bunker Steven L. Shaw, director of International Chair Admissions, was an invited speaker at the Maureen Jameson is associate professor national NASULGC (National Association of of French and chair of the Department Fulbright Program State Universities and Land Grant Colleges) of Romance Languages and Literatures. (716) 645-2181, Ext. 561; 645-5954 (Fax) Commission on International Programs More photos of her Middle East trip are Professor Patrick McDevitt seminar in Lake Tahoe, CA. in July 2006. His Fulbright Advisor topic was “SUNY-Turkish Dual Diploma Pro- available at http://www.flickr.com/ grams: A Unique Partnership.” Shaw was a photos/amerune/ Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Buffalo, NY UB INTERNATIONAL Permit No. 311 Office of International Education University at Buffalo The State University of New York 411 Capen Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-1604 U.S.A.

UB MOVES UP TO NO. 10 IN INTERNATIONAL ENROLLMENT

By John DellaContrada rollment by 10,000 students over the strategies are a major reason for in- next 15 years, according to UB’s stra- creases in UB’s international enroll- he University at Buffalo has tegic planning process, UB 20/20. ment, according to Dunnett. Even moved up to No. 10 among “Our scholarly community is under the tougher visa regulations, T2,700 accredited U.S. universi- greatly enriched by the growing UB’s international enrollment contin- ties in international enrollment, ac- numbers of outstanding students who ued to grow, he pointed out, due to cording to an annual report released come to us from around the globe to the efforts of UB’s international enroll- by the Institute of International Edu- study at UB, and we are committed ment management staff. cation (IIE) in November 2006. to creating even greater opportuni- “UB was among the first U.S. insti- UB last year was ranked No. 11 in ties for international academic ex- tutions of higher education to set up the IIE’s “Open Doors” report and change and collaboration,” he said. an international enrollment manage- was ranked 15th in 2004. UB Professor Stephen C. Dunnett, ment office and to develop an inter- This year’s ranking indicates that vice provost for international educa- national enrollment strategy,” UB enrolled 4,072 international stu- tion, said the presence of so many in- Dunnett said. ”The fact that we are dents among a total enrollment of ternational students on the UB cam- able to increase our enrollment in the 27,220 in 2005-06, an increase of 2.7 pus greatly enhances the educational face of stiff competition from our percent from the previous year. experiences of all UB students by ex- peers and when confronted by chal- Among major public research uni- posing them to diverse cultures, view- lenging visa regulations is a testament versities, UB is ranked highest in points and languages. to the outstanding work of Joseph terms of the percentage of total en- Academically, international stu- Hindrawan, assistant vice provost for rollment that is international, accord- dents perform exceptionally well at international education and director ing to the report. UB, and they contribute in many dif- of international enrollment manage- UB President John B. Simpson said ferent ways to the educational, re- ment, and his colleagues.”
UB’s continued rise in the ranking is a search and public service endeavors reflection of the institution’s excellent of the university. UB INTERNATIONAL reputation overseas and demon- International students, who pay
strates UB’s growing prominence as double the tuition of New York State one of the most globalized public re- students, make a major financial con- is published twice yearly by the search institutions in the U.S. tribution to the university, as well. The Office of International Education Simpson pointed out that in- overall economic impact of UB’s inter- of the University at Buffalo, creased recruitment of international national students and their families is The State University of New York. students, as well increased recruit- estimated to be nearly $70 million ment of out-of-state students, is an im- annually. John J. Wood, Editor portant part of the plan to grow en- UB’s international recruitment