United Way honors senior vice president Senior Vice President Robert J. Wagner has received the United Way Leadership Award for Outstanding Public Service from United Way of New York State. Wagner has chaired the board of United Way of New York State since 1995 and was instrumental last year in the record-breaking success of UB's SEFA campaign. The position is open to graduate students only, and offers a tuition scholarship for the spring semester, as well as a salary. The colloquium, sponsored by the School of Law Environmental Concentration, will be held at 4 p.m. in Room 212 of O'Brian Hall on the North Campus. The colloquium will be open to the public.
Participation also can earn credit.
For details, contact Professor Errol Meidinger. The reading will be presented in memory of Oscar Silverman, the distinguished UB scholar and teacher who chaired the Department of English and directed the university libraries. Silverman also helped to develop UB's remarkable collection of 20th-century poetry. Mueller, who fled from Nazi Germany with her family at the age of 15, also is a translator from the German and has translated a verse play, a contemporary novel and three volumes of prose and poetry by writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Her work has appeared in major literary journals, as well as in The Atlantic and The New Yorker.