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April 19, 2007
Today's Forecast: Mostly Cloudy, High 49°
Tomorrow: Partly Sunny, High 57°
In
Today's Issue
- Special Message:
Services for Shamar Patterson
- Professor Reads
from Anthology on WXXI
- University Celebrates
Earth Day
- Students Honor
Four Professors with Teaching Awards
- Why Bladder
Cancer Hits More Men
- Two Employees
Highlighted as 'Women to Watch'
- Event Highlight:
Neilly Series Lecture with Lynn Freed
- Sports Buzz:
Lacrosse, Tennis, Golf
- Rochester
in the News: Harry Reis on Loneliness
- In Higher
Ed: New Restrictions on Lenders
Special
Message
Visiting Hours
Announced for Shamar Patterson
Visiting hours to remember Shamar Patterson, the grandson of Douglass
Dining Center employee Myrna Patterson, will be held Friday from 1 to
3 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the D.M. Williams Funeral Home, 765 Elmgrove
Road, Gates. A funeral is scheduled for Saturday, but a time and location
have not been announced. Shamar, 16, was a junior at Gates Chili High
School. He
died over the weekend after being shot on April 11. A memorial fund
in Shamar’s memory has been started at Canandaigua National Bank
and Trust. Checks should be made out to “Scholarship Fund In Memory
of Shamar” and can be deposited at any Canandaigua National Bank
branch.
News
and Announcements
Professor Reads
from Poetry Anthology on WXXI Programs
In honor of national poetry month, Stephanie Brown Clark, assistant
professor of medical humanities, and Peter Conners of BOA Editions will
be on WXXI's weekly talk show CityWise discussing and reading
from the anthology Body
Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience. The program
can be seen on cable channel City 12 on Thursday, April 19, at 8 p.m.;
Friday, April 20, at 9:30 a.m.; and Saturday, April 21, at 11:30 a.m.
The poetry program can be seen on WXXI-TV CH. 21 on Sunday, April 22,
at 4 p.m. Also on Friday, Clark will discuss the book and read poems
on the WXXI radio program Healthy Friday with Elissa Orlando
beginning at noon.
University
Celebrates Earth Day
Earth Day celebrations kick off at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 21,
with a clean-up of Genesee Valley Park and continue on the River Campus
from noon to 4 p.m. with campus and community groups sharing information
about local environmental efforts. Read
more...
Students Honor
Four Professors with Teaching Awards
The Students’ Association presented its Professor of the Year
awards this week during the 2007 Undergraduate Research Exhibition.
The recipients, selected by student vote, are David Foster, adjunct
professor of chemical engineering; Douglas Brooks, professor of religion
and classics; Terry Platt, professor of biology; and Steven Landsburg,
professor of economics.
Scientists
Find One Reason Why Bladder Cancer Hits More Men
A recently published study by Medical Center scientists reveals one
of the reasons why bladder cancer is much more prevalent in men than
women and could open the door to new types of treatment.
Read
more...
Two Employees
Highlighted as 'Women to Watch'
The local magazine Her Rochester recently highlighted two University
employees as "women to watch": Samantha
Singhal, a project leader for University IT, and Deborah
McDell, community programs and outreach initiatives coordinator
at the Memorial Art Gallery. Read
more...
Events
April 19
Neilly
Series Lecture with Lynn Freed: Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees
Library. 5 p.m.
For more events:
www.rochester.edu/calendar
Sports
Buzz
Women's Lacrosse
: The team can improve its chances for a first-ever Liberty League
playoff berth if the Yellowjackets can sweep RPI and Vassar this weekend
at Fauver Stadium. The Yellowjackets host RPI at 4 p.m. on Friday and
Vassar at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Women's Tennis
: The Yellowjackets compete at Case Western Reserve University in
the UAA championships.
Golf: The
golf team heads to Orlando, Fla., to compete in the UAA championships
on Sunday and Monday.
Yellowjacket
sports: www.rochester.edu/athletics.
Rochester
in the News
New York
Sun (April 18)
"Loners Vs. Loneliness"
Professor of Psychology Harry Reis discusses the physical and mental
effects of loneliness: "Loneliness is associated with just about everything
bad," he says. "Lonely people die earlier, they have all sorts of problems.
It's the no. 1 cause of suicide." Read
more...
In
Higher Education
Inside Higher
Ed (April 18)
"U.S. Suspends Lender Access to Borrower Database"
"Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said late Tuesday that the Education
Department would temporarily bar banks, guarantors and other student
loan entities from using the National Student Loan Data System, amid
charges that some of them have tapped into the database inappropriately
to collect personal information about borrowers for marketing purposes."
Read
more...
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