They will get a look at dance and acting rehearsals and the work of media-study and art students. That evening, the group will be guests at a dinner hosted by President William R. Greiner. On Oct. 8, they'll attend the homecoming parade and visit the alumni tent party before watching the UB-Colgate football game from the president's box. Expert on aging, fitness to lecture Waneen Wyrick Spirduso, an internationally known scholar in the field of the aging of the human motor system, will present the 1994 J. Warren Perry lecture Oct. 7 at 6 p.m., in the Katharine Cornell Theater. The Perry lecture is sponsored by the UB School of Health Related Professions.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Spirduso, a Mauzy Regent's Professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, holds a joint appointment in the College of Pharmacy. Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education for 14 years, she also served as interim dean of the College of Education. Her career has centered on the effects of aging, health and fitness on the information process involved in producing and controlling rapid movements. Spirduso has served as president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, and of the American Academy of Physical Education.