In Brief

Sign up for CPR classes

The Multidiscipline Laboratories of the School of Medicine and Dentistry will offer CPR classes from July to December. First up are basic life support refresher courses offered in three-hour sessions on Monday, July 19, and Thursday, July 22. This week's Currents calendar provides more details on these sessions and will continue to list future sessions as they're offered. Interested individuals are encouraged to register as soon as possible, as classes fill up quickly. To register or further information, call the MDL office, x5-3285.

Warner School offers new program

The Warner School is offering a new certificate program for teachers with master's degrees who want to move into leadership positions.

Classes begin this summer for the first courses in the 21-credit-hour program in school administration. Coursework will focus on critical issues and needed skills for those seeking leadership positions in K-12 schools.

Program chair Tyll van Geel explains that the initiative is "designed to respond to the increasing need of school districts to find new leaders as they face a rising number of retirements and expansion of their programs."

Work toward the certificate may be completed in one year of continuous study and will include an individualized internship. For more information contact Rebekah Carpenter at the Warner School, x5-3969.

Hahn to speak at Robin Hood event

College English Professor Thomas Hahn will give a plenary talk at the Second International Robin Hood Conference being held at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom from Wednesday, July 14, to Sunday, July 18. Hahn was one of the organizers of the world's first conference on the outlaw hero, which was held at Rochester in 1997.

In his talk, "Loved by the Good: Robin Hood in the 1950s," Hahn will look at the hero's unprecedented popularity following World War II and at the start of the Cold War.

For more information about the event, check out the Robin Hood Web site at www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.stm.

Items wanted for book fair

The Friends of the Libraries' 27th Annual Book Fair will be held on Saturday, September 25, at the Armory on Culver Road. Some 50 book dealers will be exhibiting at the fair, and the Friends will sponsor a book booth and a silent auction.

As such, the Friends are looking for contributions of used books--both scholarly and popular titles--as well as interesting and more valuable items for the silent auction. Donated items must be received no later than Friday, August 20. Items for the book booth may be dropped off at the Rush Rhees Library loading dock off Library Road, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The donated items must be boxed and contain the name and address of the donor.

To contribute a more valuable item for the auction, or for further information, call Margaret Engel at the Friends' office, x5-4461.

MAG names winner of Harris Award

Rochester artist Paul Dodd has won the $500 Harris Popular Vote Award at the 57th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery. In a tradition dating back to 1954, Dodd's work Passion Play received the most votes from visitors during the first two weeks of the exhibition.

Passion Play, which consists of 14 digital ink-jet prints, also received the Averell Council Award, one of nine jurors' awards presented at the show's opening in May. The exhibition remains on view through August 8.

Dannefer to study nursing homes

Two area nursing homes have embarked on a radical enterprise to address the negative and even counterproductive aspects of nursing homes by making systemic change in the culture of their facilities. At the same time, a team led by Warner School Professor Dale Dannefer will be examining the effects of these efforts.

With funding from the state Department of Health and the Van Ameringen Foundation, Dannefer is collaborating with Fairport Baptist Homes, the Jewish Home of Rochester, and Lifespan, a community-based agency serving those in the second half of life. His project coincides with intensive efforts by the two nursing homes to change how they operate.

Dannefer's team is documenting the structure of day-to-day activities at the facilities and evaluating their impact on the health and quality of life of residents, and the morale and turnover of staff.