Announcements
Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010Spring Semester Program Grants
From the Senior Adviser to the President for Equity and Campus Diversity
The following programs have been approved for spring semester Equity and Campus Diversity Program Grants:
African Drumming Ensemble
$1,000
Tiffany Nicely, Lecturer, Music
Students will study and perform music from West African cultures in combination with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Percussive Arts Society.
Holocaust and the Middle East
$900
Alan Podet, Professor, Philosophy and Humanities
Panel on the Holocaust and its relations to current conflicts in the Middle East. Guests will include a Holocaust survivor, a high school teacher with expertise in Holocaust education, and Drew Kahn, faculty and organizer of the Anne Frank Project.
A Shifting Emotional Habitus: Bowers vs. Hardwick and the Emergence of the Direct Action AIDS Movement
$800
John Abromeit, Assistant Professor, History and Social Studies Education
Deborah Gould, assistant professor of sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, will address how participants in the AIDS awareness movement were themselves transformed to contest negative attitudes toward people with AIDS.
International Cultural Fiesta
$400
International Student Organization
Fiesta will showcase cultures of international students with particular focus on Haiti.
