In Brief

Student awards deadline extended

The Dean of Students Office is extending the deadline for nominations for the Alice DeSimone Student Life Award and the Excellence in Program Planning award.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to nominate exceptional students and programs which have distinguished themselves through their achievements and their contributions to the common good.

Nominations can be made online at www.rochester.edu/student-srvcs/DOS/awards.html, or in the Dean's Office in 510 Wilson Commons.

Nominations of outstanding freshmen for the Andrew Fried and Delno Sisson prizes also are still being accepted.

For more information, contact Ann Marie Frederick at x5-4085.

Chili lunch fundraiser set

A chili lunch to raise money for Alternative Spring Break programs will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, February 23, at the Hillside Dining Center in Susan B. Anthony Hall on the River Campus.

Proceeds from the fundraiser help subsidize transportation, housing, and food expenses for students taking part in Alternative Spring Break programs.

The lunch costs $6.

This spring, Habitat for Humanity will send students to Fort Myers, Florida, to build homes, while students involved in the campus Newman Community will travel to Nazareth Farm in Salem, West Virginia, to repair and restore homes. A trip to the Grand Canyon to remove invasive plant species also has been planned.

The cost of the trips ranges from $250 to $500. The alternatives to spring break began in 1992 when a group of five students went to Chicago to work with Uptown Habitat for Humanity.

Tickets for the event can be purchased in advance at the Common Market in Wilson Commons or through the Community Service Network (CSN).

For more information, contact CSN at x5-5957.

Next disability studies talk set

Eva Feder Kittay, professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will lecture on the topic of "Caring and Justice for Severely Mentally Retarded Persons" at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the Gamble Room of Rush Rhees Library on the River Campus.

The lecture, which is free, is one in a series on the topic of understanding disability and its place in the study of the humanities.

The series is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and co-sponsored by the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, the Department of Political Science, and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies.

The purpose of the series is to consider the development of a humanities-based disability studies curriculum in high schools and colleges.

For more information, contact Linda Ware of the Warner School at x5-3010.

Talk looks at AIDS ad images

James Miller, professor and director of the University of Western Ontario Research Facility for Gay and Lesbian Studies, will discuss some of the medieval and contemporary images associated with advertising about AIDS and safe sex during a lecture at 1 p.m. Tuesday, February 20, in 540 Lattimore Hall on the River Campus.

Miller's lecture, "AIDS and the Maiden: The Iconography of Death in Safer Sex Campaigns," is sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at x5-6948.

Wind Ensemble gives concert

The University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by James Ripley, assistant professor of conducting and ensembles, will present a concert at 8 p.m., Sunday, February 25, in Strong Auditorium on the River Campus.

The program includes Timothy Mahr's Fanfare and Grand March; Louis Jadin's Ouverture pour Harmonie Militaire; J.S. Bach's O Mensch, Bewein Dein Sunde Gross; Guy Woolfenden's Illyrian Dances; and Karl King's Invictus March.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Contact the College Department of Music at x5-2828 at least five days in advance to request any special accommodations.

Research participants needed

Quitting smoking--Researchers at the University and ViaHealth are seeking area residents to participate in the Smokers' Health Study, which is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Enrollees will receive resources to help them stop smoking. Participants will be compensated for parking and lab tests. For more information, call the Smokers' Health Study at (716) 922-7670.

Polycystic ovary syndrome--Women ages 18Ð40 who are overweight with irregular periods due to polycystic ovary syndrome are needed for a research study evaluating lifestyle changes and the use of medications in women with the condition. $300 compensation. For more information, contact the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, x5-4149.

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