Notices

Yard sale benefits Southern Illinois radio service

The Southern Illinois Radio Information Service will hold a yard sale to benefit the reading service Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, at the service¹s headquarters at 1003 S. Oakland St.

For more information, contact Joey Helleny, director, at 453-4354 or joeyhelleny@wsiu.pbs.org.

Originating from studios at the University, Southern Illinois Radio Information Service is a nonprofit organization that provides a reading and information service for blind, visually impaired and print-disabled individuals. Recordings are offered free to anyone in the listening area who is unable to read normal printed material.

A/P Staff Council to hold spring meeting May 6

The Administrative/Professional Staff Council will hold its annual spring constituency meeting at 3 p.m. Monday, May 6, in the fourth-floor video lounge in the Student Center.

Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement Rickey N. McCurry is the scheduled guest speaker.

Fantasy auction raises money for WSIU

Bid on exotic trips, jewelry, artwork or sports memorabilia during the 13th annual Friends of WSIU Fantasy Auction, set for Saturday, June 1, in the Student Center Ballrooms.

Proceeds benefit WSIU Public Broadcasting, home of WSIU-TV and WSIU/WUSI/WVSI-FM.

The evening includes live music, a dinner buffet featuring regionally produced wines and the live and silent auctions.

Tickets are $60 with $30 considered a tax-deductible contribution.

For more information, contact Laura Davis Cobin, auction coordinator, at 453-4287 or lcobin@siu.edu.

Effects of estrogen topic of Sigma Xi lecture

Neurobiologist Pauline Maki will talk about the protective effects estrogen has on the brains of menopausal women during a free, public lecture set for 4 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in Room 205 of Lindegren Hall.

With National Institute on Aging colleague Susan Resnick, Maki spent two years comparing the brains of 12 older women who received estrogen replacement therapy with the brains of 16 older women who did not receive the therapy. Theirs was the first such long-term study to use positron emission tomography, or PET, scanning equipment that can provide three-dimensional ³maps² of brain activity.

In an article published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging in June 2000, Maki and Resnick reported that women on estrogen scored higher on memory tests. They also found that over time, the brains of these women aged differently. They had better blood flow to some of the regions that are often affected by Alzheimer¹s disease and other dementias.

Maki said it will require several more years ‹ and the results of a much larger study ‹ to draw definite conclusions about the value of estrogen replacement therapy on memory function, but she believes it is possible that the hormone may protect against the normal and abnormal memory changes that come with age.

The campus chapter of Sigma Xi, an international honor society for science and engineering researchers, is sponsoring Maki¹s lecture. The University has had a chapter since 1966.

Choral groups to end year with spring extravaganza

A spring concert by the Concert Choir, Choral Union and Orchestra will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in Shryock Auditorium.

The program includes a cappella selections by Guillaume Costely and Salamone Rossi (sung in French and Hebrew respectively), a Moravian hymn, a choral cycle by Lloyd Pfautsch and contemporary music by Ron Jeffers and Dan Locklair. The Concert Choir will premiere two new compositions, ³Sing Ye Praises² and ³At the Cry of the First Bird,² written by director John Mochnick.

The Choral Union and Orchestra will perform ³Mass in the Time of War,² with solos by Haekyung An, soprano; Shannon Capogrecco, mezzo-soprano, Richard Gammon, tenor, and John Trybus, baritone.

The concert concludes with a double-chorus ³Magnificat² with the Concert Choir and Choral Union.

Tickets are $3 for general public and $2 for students.

New Arts Jazz Quartet features guest saxophonist

The New Arts Jazz Quartet features guest artist and saxophonist Todd H. Rewoldt during its spring concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Epiphany Lutheran Church of All Saints, 1501 W. Chautauqua.

The program includes three original compositions by bassist and associate professor of music Phillip Brown.

Other members are associate professor of music Robert E. Allison on trumpet and flugelhorn, Mel Goot on piano and keyboards, and Tom Hensold on drums.

Tickets are $3 for general public and $2 for students and seniors.

May 1, 2002