In Brief

Simon rated No. 1 for Hispanics

The Simon School has been named the No.1 U.S. graduate business school for Hispanic M.B.A. students in the September issue of Hispanic Business magazine.

In compiling its ranking of the top 10 business schools for Hispanics, the magazine considered criteria including cost; availability of financial aid; minority recruitment and retention among both faculty and students; academic and faculty stature; and support services such as student associations and mentoring programs.

Hispanic Business recognized the Simon School for its participation in diversity programs, its efforts to recruit highly qualified Hispanic students, and its complement of minority-oriented organizations, including the school's Latin American Student Organization.

"Doing business in a marketplace that knows no boundaries is a fact of life today," said Simon School Dean Charles Plosser. "We have aggressively sought to bring that reality to life in the classroom and in our student body."

Forty nations are represented in the school's full-time M.B.A. Class of 2001 and 16 percent of the class are Hispanic. In addition, 38 percent are international students, 14 percent are women, and 21 percent of domestic students are minorities.

SEAS ratio is named best

Undergraduate engineering students at Rochester have the opportunity for more individual attention from faculty members than any other engineering students in the nation, according to data released this month by Prism, a publication of the American Society of Engineering Education. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences boasts the best ratio of undergraduate students to faculty members in the nation among schools that awarded at least 100 bachelor's degrees in engineering in 1999; there is nearly one faculty member for every graduating senior.

In addition to readily available faculty members, SEAS students also work closely with some of the best graduate students in the nation. The school is second in the nation, behind only the California Institute of Technology, in its selectivity of graduate students, according to data compiled by U.S. News & World Report. Fewer than 15 percent of graduate students who apply to SEAS are accepted.

The school includes the Institute of Optics and the biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering departments. About 700 students major or intend to major in engineering.

Scholar speaks on disability

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, whose scholarly and professional activities have been devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities, will speak on the visual rhetoric of disability in popular photography on Thursday, October 5, at 12:30 p.m. in 540 Lattimore Hall on the River Campus.

Garland-Thomson, graduate associate professor of English at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is the author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture. Last summer, she co-directed the first National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Disability Studies in the Humanities.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, the School of Medicine and Dentistry's Division of Medical Humanities, and the Warner School.

Breast cancer fund-raiser slated

Highland Hospital's Seventh Annual Breast Cancer Education Luncheon is scheduled for Monday, October 2, at noon at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

Special guests for the luncheon will be Chris and Stefanie Spielman. Chris, a former NFL All-Pro linebacker with the Buffalo Bills, took a year off to help his wife through the demands of surgery and chemotherapy when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Tickets for the luncheon are $35 and are available by calling x3-3179. Table sponsorships also are available by calling the same number. Proceeds from the luncheon will benefit the Breast Care Center at Highland's Center for Women.

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