January 26, Friday
Welcome and Outreach Reception Honoring All Academic, Professional and Classified Women, sponsored by The Council of Women’s Groups University at Albany, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Campus Center Assembly Hall.

New York State Writers Institute Classic Films Spring Series presents: Twentieth Century, directed by Howard Hawkes. A 1930s comedy starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. Free and open to the public.

January 27, Saturday
UAlbany Department of Music presents: The Franciscan Chamber Orchestra with Findlay Cockrell and Lanfranco Marcelletti conducting at 8 p.m. in the Main Theatre, Performing Arts Center, main campus. For ticket information, call 442-3997.

UAlbany Women’s Basketball vs Dartmouth at 5:30 p.m. For ticket information, call the box office at 442-4683.

UAlbany Men’s Basketball vs Stony Brook at 7:30 p.m. For ticket information, call the box office at 442-4683.

January 29, Monday
UAlbany Women’s Basketball vs Harvard at 7 p.m. For ticket information, call the box office at 442-4683.

University Senate Executive Committee Meeting at 3:30 p.m. in the Standish Room, in the new library. For more infomation call Madelyn Cicero at 437-4917.

January 30, Tuesday
New York State Writers Institute Spring Visiting Writers’ Series presents: Clarke Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee, novelists and short story writers, at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center, main campus. An informal seminar will be held with Mukherjee at 4 p.m. in Humanities Room 354. Free and open to the public.

January 31 - February 1
Community Service Fair sponsored by the Presidential Honor Society and the Division for Student Affairs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Lecture Center Concourse and the Campus Center Ballroom. For more information, contact the Student Affairs Office at 437- 4949.

February 1 - 2
UAlbany Performing Arts Center presents: Laser Vaudeville at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Theatre, Performing Arts Center, main campus. For ticket information, call 442-3997 or visit the Website at www.albany.edu/pac.

February 2, Friday
New York State Writers Institute Classic Films Spring Series presents: Onegin, directed by Martha Fiennes. Adapted from the novel by Aleksander Pushkin at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. Free and open to the public.

February 4, Sunday
UAlbany Department of Music presents: Notes in Midwinter Piano Music from Africa, Europe and the U.S. with Max Lifchitz at 3 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, main campus. For ticket information, call 442-3997.

WORK
Jan. 24 - Feb. 18, 2000

Work features video photography, drawing, performance and installation by artists: Dexter Buell, James Cullinane, Lee Etheredge IV, Tara Fracalossi, Meighan Gale, David Kasdorf, Mark Lombardi, Josh Singer and Richard Wager.

A closing reception will held for the artists February 17 from 5 to 8 p.m.

For more information call 442-4035 or visit the website at www.albany. edu/museum.

February 5, Monday
Harvard Professor to Give Lecture at UAlbany
The Department of Biological Sciences will present a lecture by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Richard Losick at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center. The title of the lecture is How Simple Cells Talk to Each Other. It is free and open to the public.

Losick will present Asymmetric Division and Cell Fate in the Department of Biological Sciences on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 4:10 p.m. in Biology 248A.

February 5 - 6
New York State Writers Institute Classic Films Spring Series presents: The films of Julian Schnabel beginning with Basquiat, on Monday at 7:30 p.m. and Before Night Falls, on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. Julian Schnabel will present film commentary and answer questions after Tuesday’s screening. Free and open to the public.

February 5, Monday
UAlbany Women’s Basketball at Navy at 7:30 p.m. For ticket information, call the box office at 442-4683.

Save Africa from AIDS Committee Meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Campus Center 370.

February 6, Tuesday
Institute for the Advancement of Health Care Management School of Business, University at Albany presents: A Legislative Healthcare Update: A Report from the New York State Senate and Assembly, featuring Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and Senator Kemp Hannon from 7:45 to 9:30 a.m. at the New York State Nurses Association, 11 Cornell Road, Latham, N.Y. For more information, call 442-3913.

The University English Department presents: Cultures of Conflict and Reconciliation lecture series with Barbara Harlow on What is She Doing There? Women as Legitimate Targets, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Chapel House. Free and open to the public.

February 7, Wednesday
UAlbany Men’s Basketball at Stony Brook at 7 p.m. For ticket information, call the box office at 442-4683.

February 8, Thursday
Francophone Lecture Event: Franco-American History as Borderland History: The Case of Plattsburgh, New York by Sylvie Beaudreau at 4 p.m. in Humanities 354. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Franco-American Federation. For more information, contact Cynthia Fox at 442-4102 or cf301@cnsvax.albany. edu.

The Nonprofit Education Initiative at the Center for Women in Government is hosting the 4th Annual Research and Knowledge Exchange to offer an opportunity for nonprofit practitioners and academics to exchange information and ideas on issues of mutual concern from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Milne Hall. For more information, visit the center’s Website at www.cwig.albany.edu.

The New York Chapter of the American Marketing Association and the University at Albany present the 4th Annual Building Brands and Business on the Web Internet Symposium, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Albany Marriott on Wolf Road. For more information, contact Dennis Kennedy at 437-4956 or e-mail: dkennedy@uamail.albany.edu.

UAlbany Women’s Basketball vs Binghamton at 7 p.m. For ticket information, call the box office at 442-4683.

February 9, Friday
New York State Writers Institute Classic Films Spring Series presents: Contempt, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, in French with English subtitles, at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. Free and open to the public.

Department of Biological Sciences Spring Seminar Series 2001 presents: Stephen S. Easter on Modulation of the Cell Cycle During the Embryonic Development of the Zebra Fish Retina at 3 p.m. in Biology Room 248. For more information, contact John Schmidt at 442-4306.

February 10, Saturday
UAlbany Men’s Basketball vs Colgate at 7:30 p.m. For ticket information, call the box office at 442-4683.

The Department of Africana Studies will sponsor a summer program, Summer in Ghana 2001. This three -week summer program is scheduled for July 8 - July 31. Call 442-4730 or visit the Africana Studies Website at www.albany.edu/africanaghana.html. Applications should be submitted immediately.

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February 11 - 17
Sexuality Week 2001

Coordinated by Middle Earth Assistance Program, University Counseling Center and funded by the Student Association. Will feature guest speaker Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard.

For complete schedule refer to the Web site: http://www.albany.edu/
feature2001/sexuality_week/