In Brief

Poet Wakefield reads March 28

Noted author and poet Kathleen Wakefield will discuss her work at noon Wednesday, March 28, in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library.

Wakefield's lecture is part of the 39th season of the Hyam Plutzik Memorial Poetry Series and is presented in conjunction with the Donald R. Clark Enrichment Program in the Humanities.

Wakefield's recent publication, Notations on the Visible World, won the 1999 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her work, There and Back, received the 1992 State Street Press Poetry Chapbook Competition.

For more information about Wakefield's lecture or about the Plutzik series, contact the Department of English, x5-4092.

Spring Vacation Camp offered

University employees looking for care for school-age children during spring break are reminded that the Family Care Program is sponsoring Vacation Club for children ages 5-12.

The program, operated by Camp Fire Boys and Girls, will be held from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 16-20 on the River Campus.

There is a $100 weekly program fee and $25 weekly registration fee.

For more information and registration forms, contact Family Care, x3-4644.

Race and gender discussed

Michele Simms-Burton, assistant professor of English in the College, will discuss "Women Writers and the Black Arts Movement: The Intersection of Race and Gender" at 2 p.m. Friday, March 23, in 540 Lattimore Hall on the River Campus.

The research seminar presentation, which is free and open to the public, examines historical evidence that African-American women writers occupied a central place in the Black Arts Movement.

For an advance copy of the seminar paper or for more information, contact the Susan B. Anthony Institute office at x5-8318, or by e-mail at amwk@mail.rochester.edu

Ideas for noncredit courses sought

Staff and faculty who have a skill, a hobby, or a passion for a specific area of knowledge they have always wanted to share with others are invited to propose a noncredit lecture, workshop, or course that would be offered through the College's Office of Special Programs.

The office is seeking to expand its range of noncredit offerings in order to attract more members of the Rochester community to the University. Those making a proposal may indicate a specific target group, such as retirees, teenagers, singles, parents, teachers, or others.

For more information, contact the Office of Special Programs at x5-2344 or by e-mail at ospecial@troi.cc.rochester.edu

Proposals are due April 13.

Disability studies talk set

Lennard J. Davis, chair of the Department of English and professor of disability studies and human development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present the lecture "The Withering Away of the Disability State: A Possible Future for Disability Studies" at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 3, in the Gamble Room of Rush Rhees Library.

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 and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies.

For more information, contact Linda Ware at x5-3010.

April 26 is day for kids at work

The annual "Take Your Children To Work Day" is set for Thursday, April 26.

Sponsored by the Medical Center Administrative Group (MCAG), the day's events are scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon and include juice and donuts at registration for all participating children. Children also will receive a bag of surprises at the end of the morning activities.

Registration is limited to 200 participants and will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Registration forms are available at Strong Memorial Hospital's information desk, the MCAG Web site www.urmc.rochester.edu/urmc/mcag/, or by contacting Joellen Kuhl on the River Campus, at x3-5164, or by e-mail at jchu@uhura.cc.rochester.edu.

For more information, contact Betsy L. Colon Newport at x3-1826, or by e-mail at betsy_colonnewport@urmc.rochester.edu.

Web portals discussed April 5

Technology experts from Princeton University, the University of Delaware, and SUNY Buffalo will discuss the use of "portals" as a way of designing and presenting information about universities on the World Wide Web during a panel discussion from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the May Room of Wilson Commons.

"Looking Into the Future: All the Elements of a Successful Campus Portal" features presentations by Carl Jacobsen, director of management information systems at Delaware, Jim Gorman and Robert Wright, information technology managers at Buffalo, and David Koehler, director of information systems at Princeton.

Reservations are required by Friday, March 23. For more information, visit the Web site at www.rochester.edu/its/campusportal/seminar-agenda.html.

MAG hosts tech gathering

An organization dedicated to involving young professionals in the work of the Memorial Art Gallery is teaming up with a network of 1,300 technology professionals to host a "networking event" at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at the gallery.

The Memorial Art Gallery's Young Friends of MAG and Digital Rochester are organizing the event, "ART@MAG," as part of a city-wide effort to attract and retain young professionals in the Rochester area.

The event is free.

Sponsors include Global Crossing and Frontier, Business Methods, Cisco Systems/NEC Business Network Solutions, EMC, High Technology of Rochester, Info Directions, IP.com, J. P. Morgan Chase, Kodak, M2Methods, NetAccess, Oracle, Performance Technologies, RIT, the Rochester Group, Rochester Technology Park, Corning Rochester Photonics, Rochester Venture Capital Group, the Medical Center, and Xelus.

For more information, visit the Web site, www.art-at-mag.com.

Service anniversaries?

The Office of Human Resources has sent a gift selection card and brochure to all staff members who will have worked for the University for 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and 45 years by June 30.

Staff who think they are eligible for such a gift and who will have NOT received a card should contact Doris Robinson in Human Resources, x3-4644.

All cards must be returned by April 4.

Research participants needed

Flu--The Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit is seeking volunteers for a research study on the flu. Participants must be between 18 and 45 years old, healthy, and able to stay in the hospital for eight days. Up to $750 compensation. For more information, contact x3-3990.

Medication Interactions--Healthy, HIV negative volunteers needed to evaluate interactions between HIV medications. Requires two 15 hour visits and one 24 hour visit to the clinical research center. Women of child bearing potential are excluded. Up to $600 compensation. For information, contact the Infectious Diseases Unit, x5-2740 or x5-4768

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