Reporter Volume 25, No.13 December 2, 1993

computer science

APPOINTED TO APA COMMITTEE:
William J. Rapaport, associate professor of computer science and a
member of the UB Center for Cognitive Science, has been appointed to a
second two-year term on the Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy of
the American Philosophical Association, beginning July 1, 1994.
	Rapaport was an invited participant at an interdisciplinary
conference on "Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution" at York
University in Toronto, Oct. 22-24. He addressed the topic, "Can
Computers Understand Language? A Cognitive Science Approach to
Understanding Narrative Texts," reporting on work done by the SNePS
Research Group of the Computer Science Department and Discourse and
Narrative Research Group, Center for Cognitive Science.

art
NAMED JUROR:
Harvey Breverman, professor of art, has been selected as juror for
three national exhibitions: "Drawing '93," Brigham Young University
(November); Audubon Artists 52nd Annual Exhibition, New York City
(December), and the National academy of Design 169th Annual
Exhibition, New York City (January).
	A solo exhibition of Breverman's work is at Brigham Young
University Art Gallery through Dec. 17.
	Breverman, who last January received the Audubon Artists Gold
Medal of Honor and Prize in Graphics at the National Arts Club in New
York City, is a former Fellow of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Royal Academy, Amsterdam.

architecture and planning
HONORED FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Ruth Bryant, assistant to the dean of the School of Architecture and
Planning, will receive the Brotherhood/Sisterhood Award in Community
Service from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, during a
Jan. 27 luncheon at the Hyatt Regency. 
	Bryant will be among a "select group of citizens and
organizations" honored for "exemplary acts and deeds of service to the
cause of promoting brotherhood and sisterhood in our local community."

	A UB graduate, Bryant has been involved in more than 20 civic
and community organizations over the past 15 years. She heads the
local "YW's" committee to plan its 125th birthday celebration in 1995,
and served as a division chair in the 1993 United Way Campaign. She
was recently named to the board of The Buffalo Foundation.