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Olean native and noted public health researcher to = give=20 lecture March 11 at St. Bonaventure University

Olean native = and University=20 of Georgia scientist John E.Vena, Ph.D., will visit St. = Bonaventure=20 University this month to share insights into how individual rights = must be=20 balanced with public health protections.

At 7 p.m. = Thursday, March=20 11, Vena will give a public lecture, =93Health Disparities and = Challenges to=20 You for Global Health,=94 in Dresser Auditorium of the John J. = Murphy=20 Professional Building at St. Bonaventure. The greater Olean area = community=20 is welcome to attend as Vena addresses questions such = as:

=95What is = public heath and=20 how can we address the disturbing health disparities in the U.S. = and=20 globally?

=95What paths = can you take,=20 following the Franciscan traditions, to meet the challenges ahead? =

Steps to = self-renewal and=20 personal and career strategies will be highlighted.

Vena will = also lead=20 discussions on public health issues during a forum with faculty = and staff=20 on Friday, March 12, and with SBU=92s health care students on = Saturday,=20 March 13, at Mt. Irenaeus.

Vena, who = earned a=20 bachelor=92s degree in biology at St. Bonaventure, studies factors = that=20 affect the health of populations and is presently researching = occupational=20 and environmental risk factors that impact breast, lung and = bladder=20 cancers.

At the = University of=20 Georgia=92s College of Public Health, Vena is head of the = Department of=20 Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the University of Georgia = Foundation=20 Professor in Public Health. He also is a Distinguished Cancer = Scholar with=20 the Georgia Cancer Coalition, which selects scientists engaged in = the most=20 promising areas of cancer research who can strengthen the = state=92s research=20 talent, capacity, infrastructure and funding.

Vena has = published=20 extensively in the field of environmental and occupational = epidemiology=20 and his studies have included descriptive and analytic studies of = air and=20 water pollution, bladder cancer and drinking water contaminants,=20 occupational exposures, health of municipal workers including = firefighters=20 and police officers, diet, electromagnetic fields and persistent=20 environmental toxicants. He has published extensively in cancer=20 epidemiology especially on breast, lung and bladder cancer, = including=20 case-control studies of occupational and environmental risk = factors.=20

He has led a = multi-project=20 cohort study of New York state sportsmen investigating the effects = of=20 persistent environmental toxicants. Outcomes under investigation = included=20 adverse reproductive and developmental effects and biomarkers of=20 intermediate effects, including endocrine disruption and a newly = funded=20 study will be looking at cancer risks. He was an invited speaker = to the=20 President=92s Cancer Panel in December 2008.

Before = joining the=20 University of Georgia, he served as professor and chair of the = Department=20 of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Arnold School of Public = Health at=20 the University of South Carolina. Vena was professor of social and = preventive medicine at the State University of New York at = Buffalo, School=20 of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and a research fellow at = Roswell Park=20 Cancer Institute (1981-2003) and director of the Environment & = Society=20 Institute (1999-2003).

He received = his B.S. in=20 biology from St. Bonaventure and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in=20 epidemiology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. A = native of=20 Olean, Vena is also a graduate of Archbishop Walsh High = School.

Vena is a = Fellow of the=20 American College of Epidemiology and the American Epidemiological = Society,=20 a member of the International Society for Environmental = Epidemiology,=20 Society for Epidemiologic Research and the American Public Health=20 Association (APHA) and serves on the Governing Council for = Epidemiology=20 for APHA. Vena served on the National Academy of Science Committee = for the=20 evaluation of the impact of oceans on human health in 1999 and the = Committee on Gulf War and Health: Pesticides and Health, = Solvent/Cancer=20 Panel in 2002-2003.

He has served = as external=20 reviewer for both the Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology = Branch=20 Intramural program at The National Cancer Institute and the = Epidemiology=20 Branch Intramural Program at the National Institute of = Environmental=20 Health Sciences and has served on numerous NIH grant review = panels.=20

Vena = presently serves on=20 the Scientific Advisory Board for the Environmental Protection = Agency.=20 Since 1981, Vena has taught courses in epidemiologic methods and=20 applications in occupational health and in environmental health = and has=20 mentored graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and junior = faculty.=20

His visit to = St.=20 Bonaventure is sponsored by the University=92s Franciscan Center = for Social=20 Concern and Clare College. =

The St. Bonaventure community looks to benefit = from the=20 newest Lenna Visiting Professor Dr. William M. Shea.

Shea=92s career has focused on the intersection = of the=20 Catholic intellectual tradition with modern culture. He has held = academic=20 positions at the Catholic University of America, the University of = South=20 Florida, St. Louis University and the College of the Holy Cross.=20 Additionally, Shea has been a fellow at Harvard, Yale, and the = Smithsonian=20 Institution.

Shea has authored two books, =93The Naturalist = and the=20 Supernatural: A Study in Horizon and an American Philosophy of = Religion=94=20 and =93The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in = America.=94

He has also written more than 50 articles in = scholarly and=20 professional papers and edited three volumes of academic essays on = American religion. Dr. John Apczynski and the Department of = Theology at=20 St. Bonaventure nominated Shea, a Columbia graduate, for the Lenna = Visiting Professorship.

=93This work directly addresses what the = community at St.=20 Bonaventure officially considers its primary academic purpose, = namely to=20 explore the relevance of the Catholic intellectual heritage for=20 contemporary life in the United States and globally,=94 said = Apczynski.

Shea will give two public lectures: the first, = =93Cardinal=20 Ratzinger and Me,=94 on Thursday, March 18, at 7 p.m. in the = Dresser=20 Auditorium of the Murphy Professional Building at SBU, and the = second,=20 =93The Cost of Intellectual Solidarity,=94 in Plassmann Room 111 = at SBU on=20 Monday, March 22, at 4 p.m. He will also participate in classroom=20 discussions and exercises. The Lenna Endowed Visiting = Professorship is=20 made possible through the gifts of Elizabeth S. Lenna Fairbank and = the=20 late Reginald A. Lenna of Jamestown. The endowment is designed to = bring=20 distinguished scholars in their field to St. Bonaventure and = Jamestown=20 Community College. The university usually hosts one or two Lenna = Visiting=20 Professors per academic year.

The endowment allows a school or department to = bring in a=20 professor who might not have been considered due to financial=20 restrictions. The Lenna Visiting Professor stays on campus for two = weeks,=20 and Shea will be the 24th since its establishment in 1990.

Brass Roots Trio to = perform=20 'American Impressions' at SBU's Quick Center

Brass Roots Trio will perform its = popular=20 =93American Impressions=94 program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 12, = in the=20 seventh concert of the Friends of Good Music season at St. = Bonaventure=20 University=92s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

=93American Impressions=94 is a = lively program that=20 captures vignettes of the many aspects of American culture with = music=20 ranging from Aaron Copland=92s =93Rodeo=94 to Billy Joel=92s = =93Root Beer Rag.=94=20 Brass Roots Trio brings to life memories of Mississippi River = boats and=20 the musical legends they carried from New Orleans, Southern gospel = revivals, and the haunting beauty of Appalachian melodies.

Brass Roots Trio members (from = left) Christina=20 Ciraulo, Rosetta Senkus Bacon and Travis Heath With three = musicians and a=20 multitude of instruments =96 piano, horn, trumpet, flugelhorn, = cornet and=20 violin =96 Brass Roots Trio dazzles audiences with pyrotechnic = virtuosity=20 and exquisite sounds. Its members, Rosetta Senkus Bacon, Travis = Heath and=20 Christina Ciraulo, infuse their music with passion and exuberant = energy,=20 and their spontaneity and presentation establish an immediate = connection=20 with the audience.

Formed in 2005, Brass Roots Trio = has played to=20 standing ovations and rave reviews in every corner of the United = States=20 and the United Kingdom. Their tours have included performances at = Oxford=20 University, St. James Piccadilly in London and the Chicago Brass = Festival,=20 and they appeared on NPR programs several times.

The trio performed at the White = House in 2009.=20 Other appearances include The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., = Lincoln=20 Center in New York, Banff Centre in Canada, the Guinness Jazz = Festival in=20 Ireland, and at cultural centers in Switzerland, England, = Scotland,=20 Lithuania, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Dubai, South = Africa,=20 Taiwan, Japan, China, Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia. = This=20 performance is supported in part by the New York State Council on = the=20 Arts.

Tickets are $20 at full price, $16 = for St.=20 Bonaventure staff and senior citizens, and $5 for students. For = tickets=20 and additional information, call The Quick Center box office at = (716)=20 375-2494. For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick = Center=20 opens its galleries one hour before the performance and keeps them = open=20 throughout the intermission.

Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. = to 5 p.m.=20 Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. = Museum=20 admission is free and open to the public year round. For more = information,=20 visit www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.

Jesus and=20 Captain America Take Center Stage for Upcoming Talk at St.=20 Bonaventure

The Visiting Scholars program at St. Bonaventure University is=20 sponsoring a lecture March 16 by Dr. Robert Jewett titled = =93Jesus, Captain=20 America, and Barack Obama: The Superhero Myth in Contemporary = American=20 Culture.=94

The talk will look at the various ways in which popular images = of=20 superheroes have influenced American thinking about both religion = and=20 politics, often to our collective detriment. It will take place in = Walsh=20 Center Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Jewett is one of the leading New Testament scholars in the = world.=20 Since his retirement in 2000 from his longtime position as = professor of=20 New Testament Interpretation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological = Seminary=20 in Evanston, Ill., he has served as visiting professor of New = Testament at=20 the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Dr. Jewett has published 20 books and nearly 150 academic = articles=20 covering a wide range of topics across the discipline of New = Testament=20 studies, including =93Paul's Anthropological Terms=94 (1971), =93A = Chronology of=20 Paul's Life=94 (1979), =93Paul the Apostle to America=94 (1994), = =93Captain=20 America and the Crusade Against Evil=94 (2003), =93Romans: A = Commentary=94=20 (2007), and =93Mission and Menace: Four Centuries of American = Religious=20 Zeal=94 (2008).

He has also held a number of leadership positions in the = Society of=20 Biblical Literature (the principal professional organization in = the field=20 of New Testament studies), the Society for New Testament Studies, = and the=20 Catholic Biblical Association, and served on the editorial board = of a=20 number of the leading professional journals in the field. =

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Architect to lecture on journey to = China,=20 photo exhibition at SBU's Quick Center

Architect Beverly Foit-Albert=92s photography = exhibition=20 =93Chinese Buildings and Sites: Architecture of Heaven and = Earth=94 has opened=20 in the Mezzanine Gallery of The Regina A. Quick Center for the = Arts at St.=20 Bonaventure University.

Foit-Albert will lecture on her experiences in = China that=20 led to the creation of the exhibition and the writing of a book, = =93China=92s=20 Sacred Sites,=94 in a public lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 11, = at The=20 Quick Center.

Foit-Albert, founder and president of the = architectural firm=20 Foit-Albert Associates in Buffalo, frequently travels = internationally to=20 study and provide advice about the historic preservation and = adaptive=20 reuse of buildings in parts of the world experiencing rapid = economic=20 development.

In 1995, she and photographer John Valentino = traveled with a=20 Chinese professor to many historical sites in the People=92s = Republic of=20 China including Beijing=92s Forbidden City and the Shibaozhai = Temple, a=20 12-story wooden structure that clings to a towering rock wall = along the=20 Yangtze River. The photographic exhibit takes visitors to these = and other=20 sites, revealing philosophical tenets that hold lessons for those = involved=20 in the design and appreciation of buildings.

There is a fundamental difference between Chinese = and=20 Western religious architecture, Foit-Albert asserts in her book. = In the=20 West, builders inspired by the biblical mandate to take dominion = over the=20 earth have designed towns in which architectural elements visually = assert=20 ownership over the landscape. In China, by contrast, where man is = seen as=20 an organic part of nature, buildings merge with their sites.

Foit-Albert=92s talk is free and open to the = public.

The photo exhibition will run at The Quick Center = through=20 April 25. The Quick Center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday = through=20 Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Museum admission is = free=20 and open to the public year round. For more information, visit=20 www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.

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