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-- Oct.
17, 2006
Tuesday's Forecast: Rain, High: 53°
Tomorrow: Cloudy, High: 62°
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Today's Issue
- President Seligman
Adopts Diversity Recommendations
- Road Closure:
Thomas Jackson Drive
- Reading by Kafka
Prize Winner
- Golisano Children's
Hospital Gala
- Events:
U.S. Premiere, High Blood Pressure, Sustainability Roundtable
- In the Headlines:
Fenno on 1994 Elections, Treanor on Bird Flu Vaccine
News
and Announcements
President
Seligman Adopts Recommendations Made by Task Force on Faculty Diversity
and Inclusiveness
President Seligman announced today that he will adopt the 31 recommendations
made by a task force examining the issue of faculty diversity and inclusiveness.
In his statement, Seligman says, "The recommendations provide the
basis for further significant progress in making our University a more
inclusive and welcoming campus for all faculty regardless of gender,
race, and ethnicity."
Road
Closure: Thomas Jackson Drive
Thomas Jackson Drive, the main entrance to Strong Memorial Hospital,
will be closed to nonemergency traffic for utility repairs beginning
on Saturday, October 21, at 6 a.m. until Monday, October 23 at 6 a.m.
and also the following weekend on Saturday, October 28, to Monday, October
30. All nonemergency hospital traffic during those weekends should access
the parking garage through the East Drive entrance. Direct questions
to Jim Slobbe at 755-8962.
Kafka
Prize Winner to Read from Novel
Author Jill Ciment will read from her 2005 novel, The Tattoo Artist,
which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize at the University earlier
this year, on Wednesday, November 5.
Annual
Gala Benefits Golisano Children's Hospital
This year's black-tie gala to benefit Golisano Children's Hospital at
Strong will be held on October 21 at USAirports Aircraft Hangar, 1295
Scottsville Road.
Events
October
17
World-renowned German director Egon Günther will show and discuss
his film Stone for its first screening in the United States
at 5 p.m. in Dewey Hall 1-101.
October
17
Bess Veyberman Herbert, an instructor in the Department of Family Medicine,
will discuss "High Blood Pressure: The Silent Killer" from 4
to 5:30 p.m. as part of the Always Better health series. To register,
call x5-2344.
October 18
The Sustainability Roundtable is holding its next meeting from noon
to 1:30 p.m. in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library. All students,
staff, and faculty are welcome to attend.
See
these calendars for more events: Currents,
Eastman
School, Medical
Center, Warner
School, School
of Nursing, and Memorial
Art Gallery.
Rochester
in the News
New York
Times (October 16)
1994
Flashback: GOP's Field of Dreams Sows Nightmares for Democrats
"It's hard to believe, they don't seem to have any doubt at all,"
says Richard Fenno Jr., Distinguished University Professor Emeritus,
in a reprinted article about the 1994 election that gave Republicans
a majority in both chambers of Congress. "I wonder if they're not
celebrating prematurely, because they certainly are celebrating."
Forbes (October
13)
Combo
Human-Bird Antibody May Ward Off Avian Flu
John Treanor, professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology, says
more testing is needed to determine if "humanized" bird flu
antibodies would be effective in a vaccine and as a treatment during
a flu outbreak.
In
Higher Education
Inside Higher
Ed (October 16)
Research
Review Boards Faulted
"Institutional review boards—never designed for oversight
of journalism programs or surveys by sociology majors—have gone
way beyond their mandates and purpose, to the detriment of scholarship,
says a new report from the American Association of University Professors."
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