Stathopoulos named chair of CDS
Elaine Stathopoulos, professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences and director of the department's Speech Science Laboratory, has been named department chair.

Stathopoulos has been a UB faculty member since 1979.

An active researcher, she has received more than $1.6 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Her research focus-children's speech production-has resulted in numerous publications in scientific journals, including five papers in the past two years.

Stathopoulos will assume the editorship of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research in January. She currently serves as the journal's associate editor.

She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in speech and hearing pathology from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and Madison, respectively, and holds a doctorate in speech pathology and speech science from Indiana University.

Journalist to give keynote at "Sisters in Law" conference
Award-winning journalist Lorraine Dusky will present the keynote address as part of a special centennial conference, "Sisters in Law: A Century of Achievement at UB," sponsored by the Law School.

Dusky will present her talk, titled "Still Unequal: The Shameful Truth About Women and Justice in America," from 9:20-10 a.m. Oct. 22 in the Buffalo/Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway.

She is the author of the 1996 book by the same name, an eye-opening investigation of the nation's legal system and how, at almost every turn, it undermines women's progress.

"In ways you do not even realize, the legal system in this country continues to penalize women-white, black, yellow and brown-simply because they are women," Dusky says. "Yes, we have made progress, yes, there have been reforms over the centuries, but we still have a long way to go because the legal system in this country was devised by affluent men for affluent men. We still are beggars wherever justice is dispensed."

Dusky is a former senior editor of Working Woman and a former columnist for Glamour, and has written for publications that include The New York Times and Newsweek. For more information, contact Mary Ann Rogers at 645-2113.

Research Foundation clarifies mailing of employee survey
Research Foundation Personnel Services did not initiate a recent mailing in which some Research Foundation employees received a questionnaire from a group calling itself Research University Professions, the unit has announced. The Research Foundation does not, as a policy, release home addresses to outside organizations for any purpose. Employees are not obligated to respond to any of these materials. Questions about this mailing should be directed to Kathie Frier or Jill Winiatowski in Research Foundation Personnel, Human Resource Services, at 645-5000, exts. 1000 and 1007, respectively.

Women mentoring program planned
"Getting Organized: Balancing Competing Demands," a session for junior women faculty members, will be held from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday in 252A Farber Hall on the South Campus.

The session is the first offering of the "Women Mentoring Women" program presented by the Association of Women Full Professors and the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG).

For further information, contact IREWG at 829-3451.

Photonics research to be topic of lecture
Groundbreaking research in photonics being conducted in the new multidisciplinary Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics will be the topic of a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

The talk, which will be free and open to the public, is part of the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Lecture Series.

Paras N. Prasad, executive director of the institute, will guide the audience on a video "tour" of things to come in photonics, such as lasers and other optical technologies that may be familiar to consumers from price scanners through cancer treatment.

SOM names Kahl "Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year"
Luiz F. Kahl, president of The Vector Group, LLC and chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, has been named 1999 "Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year" by the School of Management.

The award will be presented at the 50th annual School of Management Alumni Association Awards Banquet, to be held at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 18 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

Established in 1949, the Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year award honors a resident of the Niagara Frontier who has distinguished himself or herself in a career marked by executive success, a proven willingness to assume a leadership role in civic affairs and a demonstration of high personal integrity.

Past recipients include Robert E. Rich, Sr.; Paul L. Snyder; Robert E. Rich, Jr.; Jeremy M. Jacobs; the late Burt P. Flickinger, Jr.; the late Seymour H. Knox III; Sal H. Alfiero; Robert G. Wilmers; Bernard J. Kennedy; Frank L. Ciminelli, and Reginald B. Newman II. Last year's honoree was Brian J. Lipke.

Also being honored at the banquet will be Larry R. Drake, formerly with Graphic Controls Corp., for his outstanding service to the school; Steven H. Shepsman, managing director of Reckson Strategic Venture Partners, for leadership in the real-estate industry, and Charles S. Tirone, a radiologist and chairman of Medical Management Services, Inc., for entrepreneurship.

For further information about the awards banquet, contact John Shellum, assistant dean in the School of Management, at 645-3224.

Environmental institute seeks research proposals
The Environment and Society Institute is seeking project proposals from faculty members to be funded by the Environmental Management Alternatives Program (EMAP).

EMAP provides seed funding for interdisciplinary research and analysis on environmental problems pertaining to the region and shares the research with organizations capable of creating policy based on the research.

All faculty are eligible, and applicants should be faculty affiliates of the institute. Affiliation may be established at http://wings.buffalo.edu/provost/esi//Affwebapp.htm. Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged to apply.

Funding requests should be proportionate to the project and proposals for more that $20,000 are not likely to be funded. Smaller proposals are preferred.

Projects can range from 12-18 months in duration. The beginning date for all projects is January 2000.

The deadline for proposals is 4 p.m. Nov. 5. One digital copy or 14 printed copies must be submitted. To deliver proposals electronically, send an attachment to co-director John Vena at jvena@buffalo.edu. Printed proposals or proposals on floppy disks may be mailed or delivered to the Environment and Society Institute, 719 O'Brian Hall, North Campus.

For more information or to obtain a copy of the proposal format, contact the institute at 645-2159 or .

Acer Colloquium to address youth development
"New Perspectives on Youth Development" will be the topic of the Charlotte C. Acer Colloquium on Urban Education, to be held from 4-6 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

The lecture, sponsored by the Graduate School of Education, is free and open to the public.

The speaker will be Shirley Brice Heath, professor of English and linguistics at Stanford University. Heath will discuss how young people are able-through challenges, demanding standards and deadlines in school-to put the information and skills they learn in school into practice within the community.

Heath is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on sociocultural contexts of learning and relations between oral/written language socialization across cultures and institutional settings. She is on leave from Stanford to research, through the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the various paths of learning taken by young people committed to the economic and social future of their communities. Her most recent work focuses on the impact the arts have on enhancing pro-social, academic and long-term values of youth from economically depressed rural and urban neighborhoods.

Architecture department plans speakers series
Frank Lloyd Wright scholar Robert McCarter will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Performing Arts Center auditorium at Buffalo State College as part of the UB Department of Architecture's Fall Lecture Series.

McCarter, chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Florida, will discuss "The Fabric of Experience: Inside Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses." The lecture is co-sponsored by the Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State.

The series will continue on Nov. 3 with a lecture by Elizabeth Grosz, the Park Professor of Comparative Literature at UB. Grosz, who may be best-known among architects for her theoretical writings on embodiment, identity and spatial organization, will speak at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on the South Campus. Grosz' essay, "Bodies-Cities," was among those published in "Sexuality and Space," a discussion of feminist architectural theory.

K. Michael Hays, chair of the doctoral program in architecture at Harvard University and the 1999 Clarkson Chair at UB, will present three related lectures Nov. 10, 11 and 18 that look at the development of influential architectural theories.

The series, entitled "The Smoothing of Architecture from 1973-1999," will examine "The Autonomization of Type, or, How to Get from Claude Lévi-Strauss to Aldo Rossi" on Nov. 10; "The Mythification of the Semiotic Surface, or, How to Get from Robert Venturi to Roland Barthes" on Nov. 11, and "The De-differentiation of Practices and the Smoothing of Theory, or, How We Got from 1973 to 1999" on Nov. 18.

All three lectures will begin at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby.

For more information on the lecture series, call the Department of Architecture at 829-3485.

Grad school conference set
The Third Annual Minority Student Graduate School Awareness Conference for minority students considering enrolling in graduate or professional school will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 30 in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road.

More than 30 representatives will be on hand from UB, as well as other institutions in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The conference is sponsored by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that funds the SUNY Alliance for Minority Participation Consortium (SUNY AMP) and a New York State Education Department grant which provides funds for the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP).

The conference, which will be free of charge, will include breakfast and lunch. The deadline for registration is tomorrow.

For more information or to register, call 645-2234 or 645-2002.