Reporter Volume 26, No.5 October 6, 1994 Carrel is vice dean for administration at law school Alan S. Carrel, associate dean for external affairs in the UB School of Law, has been appointed to the new position of vice dean for administration in the law school. In his new position, Carrel will have authority over non-academic matters. He will continue to direct alumni affairs, career development, fund-raising and public relations, and now also will oversee student services, expenditure controls, space allocations, personnel matters and student disciplinary problems. In addition, he will represent the law school with university officials concerning finances and facilities. Carrel, who graduated from the UB law school in 1967, practiced law in Buffalo for 11 years and was a partner in the firm of Rosen, Yasinow, Roberts, Rich & Carrel when he joined the law school staff as associate dean in 1978. He is a member of the Bar Association of Erie County, American Association of Law Schools, New York State Bar Association, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, National Society of Fund Raising Executives and the American Bar Association. An alumnus of Hamilton College, Carrel is a director of the Legal Aid Bureau and past president of Jewish Federation Housing. Chemistry holds open house in new building UB's Department of Chemistry will hold an open house from noon-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Complex on the North Campus. The open house is part of Homecoming Weekend. Keynote speaker will be Rudolph A. Marcus, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992 for studies in electron transfer processes. Marcus will speak about "Theory and Experiment in Science" at 1 p.m. A reception and poster display of UB research projects will begin at noon. Welcoming remarks will be made by Jerome B. Keister, chair of chemistry, and Joseph J. Tufariello, dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. A demonstration and talk on the multimedia features of the lecture halls will be given by Robert D. Allendoerfer, associate professor of chemistry. The eight-story, $45 million science complex, which opened this fall, houses UB's departments of Chemistry and Geology. The Department of Chemistry had been headquartered in Acheson Hall on the South Campus since 1958. To make reservations for the Chemistry Open House, call 645-3705. Chinese dissident to speak Oct. 8 Wang Juntao, a chief player in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, will speak at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, in Room 5 of Diefendorf Hall on the South Campus. Wang will speak in Chinese and his presentation will be simultaneously translated into English. The presentation is free of charge and open to the public. During the infamous Tiananmen Square demonstration of 1989, Wang and his associates were forced to flee Beijing. Tracked down by the government, they were captured and brought to trial in 1991. Due to the efforts of his wife, Hou Xiaotian, and friends throughout the world, and U.S. diplomatic pressure, he was released from a 13-year prison sentence earlier this year on the condition that he leave the country. He is now at Harvard University. Wang's presentation is co-sponsored by the June 4 Memorial Fund; the Graduate Student Association, Multidisciplinary Discussion Group, Chinese Literature Club and the Chinese Students and Scholars Club, all at UB, and the Buffalo Council on World Affairs. Symposium set on clinical dentistry State-of-the-art research and treatment of oral and maxillofacial infections will be the focus of a Symposium in Clinical Dentistry, to be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 14, in the Amherst Holiday Inn, Niagara Falls Boulevard. The program will be dedicated to former UB dental Dean James A. English. Speakers will discuss current research advances and how they can benefit patients and dentists in clinical practice. Norman D. Mohl, UB professor and chair of the Department of Oral Diagnostic Services, will moderate a panel of speakers. Cost of the program, which includes lunch and refreshments, is $155 for dentists and $95 for staff. For more information, call 829-2320. Education alumni head universities Two alumni of the UB Graduate School of Education have been named presidents of universities. Arthur Elliott Levine, recognized as one of the nation's best-known commentators on educational trends, has been named the president of Teachers College at Columbia University. He is the ninth president in the college's 107-year history. Harley E. Flack was appointed president of Wright State University, a metropolitan university in Dayton, Ohio, with an enrollment of more than 17,000. Levine, who received a doctoral degree in higher education and sociology from UB in 1976, was named the school's distinguished alumnus of 1988. He co-authored "Reform of Undergraduate Education," with John Weingart, which won the 1974 Book of the Year Award from the American Council on Education. Levine's "Handbook on Undergraduate Curriculum," published in 1978, stems from his UB doctoral dissertation. The author or editor of nine books and more than 50 articles, he has advised more than 250 colleges and universities on curriculum and other academic-affairs n from UB in 1971. He held numerous positions at UB, including assistant dean in the School of Health Related Professions. He served as the founding dean of the College of Allied Health Sciences at Howard University from 1974 to 1987, and became vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. In 1989, he was appointed provost and executive vice president of Rowan College of New Jersey, formerly Glassboro State College. Flack has published numerous articles and books, including "African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics," and the upcoming "Case Studies in Allied Health," co-authored with Robert Veatch, director of the George-town University Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He has served as president of the National Society of Allied Health and as founding editor of its journal. Flack has composed more than 25 works for piano and voice, and recently published "The Goree Suite," pieces for voice and African instruments. Gift funds study to help asthma sufferers Rohne-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceutical Inc. has made a gift of more than $35,000 in support of the UB Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging Center. The grant, which will fund a study of the penetration of widely used asthma medication into human lungs, makes the UB PET Center the first facility in the country to perform lung imaging of a drug's distribution in lung tissue, said Edward Bednarczyk, the study's principal investigator and clinical instructor in the UB School of Pharmacy. A multidisciplinary research team will create a safe, radioactive form of the drug used in asthma inhalers. Six volunteers will be given the medication, and its penetration into the lungs will be tracked with the PET camera. Michael D. Randall named to new post Michael D. Randall, director of the Office of Financial Aid for the past seven years, has been named associate director of the Office of Institutional Analysis at UB. Randall, who joined UB in 1979 as a graduate assistant, has been an instructor in the Center for Management Development in the UB School of Management and the assistant director for Financial Aid Systems, where he worked closely with the University Computing Center to implement a new mainframe computer application for the financial aid office. He also was assistant director of student finances and records. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in business administration from UB. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the New York State Financial Aid Administrators Association, the New York State Organization of Bursars and Business Administrators, and the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Elias Eldayrie, director of the Office of Student Accounts, will serve as interim director of the Office of Financial Aid. Sax Quartet premieres Flapper Era Dances The premier performance of Flapper Era Dances, a musical composition by Allen Sigel, UB professor emeritus of music, will be performed by the Amherst Saxophone Quartet at 8 p.m. Oct. 10 in Slee Hall. Inspired by the musical milieu in America during the 1920s, Flapper Era Dances has four movements: tango, fox-trot, hesitation waltz and Charleston. Sigel, a member of the UB faculty from 1960 to 1992, was principal clarinetist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra prior to that. He is the author of five music books, numerous articles and commercial recordings as a clarinetist. The Amherst Saxophone Quartet is a resident faculty ensemble at UB. Tickets for the concert are $5 and $10. For more information, call 645-2921.