The convocation will recognize a SUNY honorary degree recipient, UB faculty appointed to SUNY Distinguished ranks and 1995 SUNY Chancellor's Award recipients.

Educator and sociologist Sara Lawrence Lightfoot will receive the Doctor of Humane Letters degree. A professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she has published a number of books, including Worlds Apart: Relationships Between Families and Schools, Beyond Bias: Perspectives on Classrooms and The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture.

In 1984, she received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, which supported her work on Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer, the story of her mother, the eminent psychoanalyst Margaret Morgan Lawrence. Lightfoot received the 1988 Christopher Award for literary merit and humanitarian achievement for her book.

Recipient of the Candace Award of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Lightfoot had been a faculty member at Harvard since 1972. She received her baccalaureate degree from Swarthmore College and her doctorate in the sociology of education from Harvard. She has studied at the Bank Street College of Education and is a former fellow of Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

The convocation also will honor five UB faculty appointed in 1994-95 to the SUNY Distinguished Ranks. Recipients include: SUNY Distinguished Professors Suk-Ki Hong of Physiology and Jorge J. Gracia of Philosophy; SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Harold Brody of Anatomy and Cell Biology; and SUNY Distinguished Service Professors John T. Ho of Physics and Murray Levine of Psychology.

In addition, the 1995 SUNY Chancellor's Award recipients will be honored.

Recipients of the Excellence in Teaching Award include Richard R. Almon, Biological Sciences; Stephen J. Free, Biological Sciences; Stacy C. Hubbard, English; Michael S. Hudecki, Biological Sciences; James N. Jensen, Civil Engineering; William A. Miller, Oral Diagnostic Sciences; Johannes M. Nitsche, Chemical Engineering; Judith H. Tamburlin, Clinical Laboratory Science; and Margarita Vargas, Modern Languages and Literatures.

Recipients of the Excellence in Librarianship Award are Gayle J. Hardy-Davis, Reference and Collections, and Cindy Hepfer, Serials and Bindery.

Recipients of the Excellence in Professional Service Award are Rita G. Lipsitz, English, and Judith K. Miller, Purchasing.

The University Convocation is free and open to all members of the campus and community. Campus personnel interested in marching in the procession should call 645-3414 for more information.

A reception in the Center for the Arts Atrium will follow the ceremony.