Reporter Volume 26, No.8 October 27, 1994

Duke researcher is Wellcome lecturer
Robert M. Bell, acting director of the Duke University Cancer Center,
has been named Wellcome Visiting Professor at UB and will give the
Wellcome Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, in 114 Hochstetter Hall,
North Campus. The lecture, free and open to the public, is part of the
School of Pharmacy's Pharmaceutical Sciences Day.
	Professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Cancer
Biology at Duke University Medical Center, Bell will speak on the
"Role of Lipid Second Messengers in Cellular Signal Transduction
Pathways." 
	He will spend several days on campus, teaching and in
discussion with students, staff and faculty.

Pulitzer Prizewinner gives Silverman Reading
Richard Howard, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet, critic and translator,
will present the 18th annual Oscar Silverman Memorial Poetry Reading
at 8 p.m. Nov. 10, in 250 Baird Hall, North Campus. The event is free
of charge and open to the public.
	Howard won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his collection of
poetry, "Untitled Subjects," published in 1969. 
	A professor of English at the University of Houston, he is the
author of two works of criticism and 10 volumes of poetry. A member of
the National Academy of Arts and Letters, Howard is poetry editor of
the Paris Review.

Women playwrights' work showcased
UB will present staged readings of plays by women through Dec. 7 in
the Rehearsal Workshop Theatre in the Center for the Arts. The
"brown-bag" readings will take place from noon-1 p.m. and are free of
charge and open to the public.
	The events are sponsored by the Department of Theatre and
Dance and by the International Women Playwrights Center, housed at UB.
	The series opened Oct. 18 with workshops and a performance by
Australian playwrights Sandra Shotlander and Sue Ingleton.
It continues as follows:
	o Nov. 1: "Tissue," by British playwright Louise Page, a
series of brief scenes articulating a woman's experience with breast
cancer;
	o Nov. 8: "Room 17C," by American playwright Rosalyn Drexler,
a comedy-fantasy inspired by Kafka's "Metamorphosis;"
	o Nov. 15: "Men Without Dates," by American Jane Willis,
comedy set in a country-western bar addressing men's confusion toward,
and dependence on, women;
	o Nov. 29: "Over Nothing at All," by French playwright
Nathalie Sarraute, exploring the relationship between two men;
	o Dec. 7: "Fefu and Her Friends," a critically applauded play
by American Marie Irene Fornes that speaks to "the mysteries and
shared hallucinations of the female experience."

Author Van Sertima speaks tonight
Ivan Van Sertima, internationally known author and anthropologist,
speaks at 7:30 p.m. tonight in 148 Diefendorf Hall, South Campus. The
event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Black Student
Union.
	Van Sertima, a professor of African Studies at Rutgers
University, is author of "They Came Before Columbus: The African
Presence in Ancient America," published by Random House in 1977 and
now in its 16th printing. Editor of the Journal of African
Civilizations, he is also a visiting professor at Princeton
University.
	Van Sertima has lectured at more than 100 universities in the
United States and has spoken in the Caribbean, South America and
Europe. Born in Guyana, South America, he holds degrees in African
Studies, linguistics and anthropology.

McLeer named chair of Psychiatry 
Susan V. McLeer, an expert in disorders of sexually abused children
and battered women, has been appointed chair of the Department of
Psychiatry at UB. McLeer was formerly professor and vice chair of the
Department of Psychiatry at The Medical College of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, and director of its Division of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry.
	A member of the American Medical Association's working group
on domestic violence, she has testified on the battered woman syndrome
in several trials. She has published numerous articles and has
lectured widely on domestic violence against women and children, 
	Principal investigator on a four-year study of symptoms and
psychiatric-disorder persistence following child sexual abuse, she
will continue her research at UB in this area and in post-traumatic
stress disorder in children.
	McLeer earned her medical degree and a master's degree in
psychiatry administration from The Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania, now the Medical College of Pennsylvania. 
	Following a pediatric internship at Strong Memorial Hospital,
Rochester, she did her psychiatric residency at the Medical College of
Pennsylvania, and completed a fellowship in child and adolescent
psychiatry there and at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric
Institute.
	She joined the faculty of her alma mater in 1976 and built her
career there in psychiatry and pediatrics. 
	A fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the
Philadelphia College of Physicians, she is a member of several
professional societies, including the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, Physicians for Social Responsibility and
National Coalition of Physicians Against Family Violence.

Network in Aging to hear director of White House Conference
Robert Blancato, incoming executive director of the White House
Conference on Aging, will give the keynote luncheon address at the
Network in Aging of Western New York, Inc.'s 14th annual meeting, to
be held from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 1, in the Buffalo Hilton.
	Blancato will focus on issues facing the elderly, such as
housing and coordinated services, older persons as community
resources, retirement, crime and nutrition. 
	He will gather information from participants to present at the
national White House Conference on Aging next May.
	Based at UB, the Network in Aging is a not-for-profit
educational organization of individuals and institutions in the eight
WNY counties involved in aging and long-term care.

Golden Key Honor Society Inducts 
Four faculty members and 543 juniors and seniors were inducted into
the UB Chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society at its seventh
annual induction ceremony held Oct. 17. 
	Honorary members, nominated by members of Golden Key, are:
Shahid Ahmad, professor of civil engineering; Kulbir Arora, lecturer
in computer science; Dean Millar, assistant dean, School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Joseph Williams, director of
International Student and Scholar Services. Millar presented the
keynote address.
	Donovan Gow, a junior majoring in art history, and Ashok
Sehgal, a senior majoring in chemistry, received a KPMG Peat
Marwick/Golden Key Scholars Award.

Receives award for dissertation
Kathryn A. Foster, assistant professor of planning and design in the
UB School of Architecture and Planning, is one of two winners of the
1993-94 Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM)
Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation in policy
analysis and management. 
	Foster will receive the award at the association's annual
meeting in Chicago Oct. 27-29. 	 	She received her doctorate
from Princeton University, where she was both a Wilson Fellow and a
research fellow at the Princeton Center for Domestic and Comparative
Policy Studies. 
	She graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1979 and
holds a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley
Department of City and Regional Planning.