The program, free and open to the public, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, 2640 N. Forest Road, Amherst.

Featured speakers will be Lee A. Albert and Lucinda Finley. Alan Carrel, vice dean of the UB School of Law, will serve as moderator.

Supreme Court decisions they will discuss involve affirmative-action programs, separation of church and state and Congress' power.

POST-BEIJING ROUNDTABLE TO BE HELD OCT. 12

The Women's Studies Program and the Asian Studies Program will co-sponsor "Report from Beijing," a roundtable to be held from 7-9:30 p.m. Oct. 12 in Room 330 of the Student Union on UB's North Campus.

Speakers will include Pat Shelly of the UB School of Social Work and Department of American Studies; Joan Sulewski, UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and president of UB's UUP Health Sciences Chapter; Bruce Liu, UB Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy; Jane Fisher of Canisius College, and Shirley Joseph, a Buffalo activist for women.

The panel will give eyewitness reports of the historic women's conference in China, including video of the opening ceremony, followed by an open discussion of the issues raised, including sexual and reproductive rights, violence against women and the economics of development.

A reception will follow. The program is free and open to the public.

DRUG STUDY TO PAY PARTICIPANTS $125 PER DAY

Healthy adults ages 18-40 are being recruited by researchers to participate in medication research studies in the UB Clinical Pharmacokinetics Research Center at Millard Fillmore Hospital/Gates Circle.

Participants, who must have flexible schedules, will be reimbursed up to $125 per day upon completion of the studies. Those interested in participating should call 887-4584 and leave their name and telephone number on the answering machine.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR UB KIDNEY STUDY

Volunteers ages 18-70 who have kidney impairment or kidney disease with elevated serum creatinene and BUN (blood urea nitrogen) are needed for a UB study. Participants, who cannot be on hemodialysis, will be required to visit the UB Clinical Pharmacokinetics Clinical Research Center in Millard Fillmore Hospital/Gates Circle six times for eight hours each.

At the completion of the study, each participant will be reimbursed $1,200. Those interested in participating should call 887-4584 and leave their name, telephone number and the words "study 1128" on the answering machine.

COPPENS FIRST RECIPIENT OF DAVID HARKER AWARD

Philip Coppens, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UB, has been selected as the first recipient of the David Harker Award from the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.

The award, which recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of the science of crystallography, will be presented Nov. 8 at a special Nobel Prize 10th anniversary celebration to be held in the UB Center for the Arts.

Coppens, a member of the UB faculty since 1971, is a crystallographer widely published in the field of applied physics and engineering. He has served as president of the American Crystallographic Association and holds a Drs. degree and a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). In 1989 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the University of Nancy, France.

The award was established to honor the memory of the late David Harker, a world-class authority in the field of crystallography, who served as the first chair of the UB Department of Biophysics. He was director of Roswell Park's Biophysics Research Department and director of the Center for Crystallographic Research. Harker dedicated his life to the advancement of crystallography; his life and works still serve as a role model to aspiring young scientists.

"PORTRAITS IN STEEL" RECEIVES BOOK AWARD

"Portraits in Steel," the nationally celebrated collaborative work on Buffalo steelworkers by UB history professor Michael Frisch and documentary photographer Milton Rogovin, both of Buffalo, has received the 1995 Book Award from the Oral History Association-the first ever presented by the organization. It will be given next month at the annual meeting in Milwaukee.

The book, published by Cornell University Press in 1993, features oral histories of steel-industry workers who discuss their jobs and their lives before, during and after the shut down of the region's steel companies and affiliated industries in the 1970s.

Dale Trevelen, president of the association, said that the selection committee was particularly impressed with the book's 'refreshing authenticity.' "They recognized Milton Rogovin's photographs as both dignifying their subjects and documenting continuity and change in the lives of the featured steelworkers and their families," he said. The committee noted that "Frisch's thoughtful interviews brilliantly complement the photographs, not only enhancing the dignity of his subjects but empowering them as well."

He added that Frisch's "beautifully written introduction...provides a succinct history of the political and economic evolution of Buffalo, New York...offering insight into the historical causes of social change and affords an elegant context for the photographs and interviews, which illuminate the meaning in human terms of the 'post-industrial world.'"

BLOOD CIRCULATION EXPERT TO PRESENT RAHN LECTURE

Alan C. Groom, professor of medical biophysics at the University of Western Ontario and an expert on mammalian microcirculation, will present the fifth annual Hermann Rahn Memorial Lecture.

The lecture, "The Microcirculation: Blood Cells and Cancer Cells," will be delivered at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12, in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the South Campus. Sponsored by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, it is free and open to the public.

Groom's distinguished career has spanned four decades. A native of Surrey, England, he earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from London University, where he conducted radioisotopic studies of circulation in hypotension.

He served as lecturer in physics at London University's St. Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1958-66 and, during that time, came to Buffalo as a research associate in the UB Department of Physiology. While at UB, he worked with Leon Farhi, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Physiology, on perfusion and diffusion limitations to inert gas exchange in human tissues.

Groom emigrated to Canada in 1966 and joined the Biophysics Department at the University of Western Ontario. He rose through the ranks to become professor and chair of the department, a position he held until 1987.

His research career has focused on the mammalian circulatory system, which he has studied with a variety of sophisticated biophysical techniques. He is currently studying the passage of metastatic cancer calls into the microcirculation using videomicroscopy.

Groom has served as president of the Biophysical Society of Canada and the American Microcirculatory Society. He is associate editor of the journal Cell Biophysics.

He has been honored by numerous lectureships, scholarships and research awards from the Microcirculatory Society of North America, the Medical Research Council of Canada and the Fulbright Commission.

The lecture honors Rahn, former chair of the UB Department of Physiology, whose pioneering research in environmental physiology helped provide the foundation for today's aerospace and undersea medicine. Rahn died in 1990.

WOMEN'S CLUB PLANS OCTOBER EVENTS

A day bus trip to Seneca Falls on Oct. 12 is a special Celebrate 50! anniversary event scheduled by the Women's Club of the University at Buffalo. The group will tour the National Women's Hall of Fame, which includes the Women's Rights National Historic Park, and visit the Seneca Falls Historical Society.

A luncheon is planned at historic Bellhurst Castle in Geneva, followed by a tour and wine tasting at the Knapp Vineyard in Romulus. Josie Lapetina is chair of the event, assisted by Aurilia Holloway and Lorey Repicci.

Other October events:

The Book Group meets Oct. 9 at 12:30. Pat Lerner will lead a discussion of The Shipping News by E. Anne Prouly. Enid Margolis is hostess, with Velina Ruckenstein and Haya Farhi as co-hostesses.

The Bridge Group meets Oct. 16 at Dandelions Restaurant from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., for intermediate and advanced play. Bridge Flight sessions will be scheduled.

The Evening Gourmet Group meets Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. with Dawn Halvorson as hostess for an evening of "Quick Recipes." For each meeting a theme is chosen and the committee selects recipes and prepares the food to be sampled.

The French Conversation Group will meet for lunch and conversation at the home of Rolene Pozarney on Oct. 20 at 12:30 p.m.

The Needlework Group, chaired by Lois Sindoni and Anne Marie Nalalino, will meet Oct. 26 at 12:30 at the home of Patricia Addelman, to work on their own projects and share a light lunch.

Bowling meets every Monday at 10 a.m. at Sheridan Lanes for three games of open bowling.

The Tennis Group, chaired by Marie Schillo and Ann Shub, meets every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3 p.m at Amherst Hills Tennis Club.

Membership in the club is open to any woman who is interested in service to the university and the purposes of the Women's Club.

ROKITKA NAMED TO PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL BOARD

Mary Anne Rokitka, UB assistant professor of physiology, has been named to a three-year term on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology: Advances in Physiology Education.

Rokitka, director of undergraduate studies in the Physiology Department, recently completed a three-year term as associate dean of the Undergraduate College. She was instrumental in developing science courses for non-science majors and developed an honors seminar, "Life in Space," for UB Honors Scholars.

A recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rokitka was recognized for her commitment to Life Sciences by awards from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. She is a member of a publisher's focus group developing a physiology textbook for undergraduates.

FIRST ZALESKI LECTURE TO BE GIVEN OCT. 26

The first Marek B. Zaleski Memorial Lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Grupp Fireside Lounge at Canisius College. Piotr Wrobel, noted Polish historian and author at the University of Toronto, will discuss "1945: Poland at the End of World War II." The lecture is free and open to the public.

Zaleski, a professor of microbiology at UB, known here and abroad for his dedication to Poland's Solidarity movement, died in December. His tireless support of the movement, instrumental in leading his native country toward a free government, earned him the Cross of Merit, one of Poland's highest awards.

In 1984, Zaleski and the Rev. Benjamin Fiore, S.J., of Canisius College, translated into English the sermons and essays of the Rev. Jozef Tischner, who supplied from the pulpit the underlying spiritual philosophy of the Solidarity movement. Three years later, Zaleski assisted in the English translation of Lech Walesa's autobiography.

Zaleski interviewed Walesa and translated his Christmas message to the Buffalo community from 1985-87 through the efforts of WBFO.

He served on the academic board of UB's Center for Polish Studies and the board of directors of Canisius College's Permanent Chair of Polish Culture.

The program is sponsored by the Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College.