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The Nathaniel Cantor Scholarship Fund, the second set up by Cummings, will provide an annual scholarship for sociology or anthropology undergraduate students. Cantor, who joined the UB faculty in 1928, served as chair of the sociology and anthropology departments from 1944 until his death in 1957.

Fredrick W. Seidl, dean of the UB Graduate School of Social Work, emphasized that this support will enable many undergraduate students to fulfill their educational and professional goals.

As a student, Cummings respected and admired Cantor's teaching abilities, which touched thousands of students. More than 65 years after attending UB, Cummings is paying homage to his mentor. Retired director of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division of the state Department of Education, Cummings lives in Sun City, Ariz.

"Dr. Cantor was a kind, understanding person," added Cum-mings. "I saw him as an outstanding teacher, as well as a cherished friend."

FORMER SURGEON GENERAL TO SPEAK AT CONFERENCE
Joycelyn Elders, former United State Surgeon General, will be a keynote speaker at a Tri-State Conference on AIDS Oct. 17 sponsored by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Erie County Medical Center Healthcare Network.

Elders is a pediatric endocrinologist and a professor at the University of Arkansas Medical School. She will speak on psychosocial issues related to HIV and AIDS and will discuss the state of HIV and AIDS in the U.S., and its effect upon young people. Elders will emphasize the importance of health and human sexuality education in the schools as a means of AIDS prevention.

The conference, to be held Oct. 17 and 18 at Chautauqua Institution, will also feature John G. Bartlett, professor of medicine and chief, division of infectious diseases, at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Bartlett, at the forefront of AIDS treatment for many years, was recently appointed to the AIDS Clinical Trials Group executive committee. He will speak Oct. 18.

For more information, call 645-3705.

ARTWORK COLLECTION DONATED BY LAW FIRM
A New York City law firm has donated a 74-piece artwork collection, valued at $80,000, to the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.

Donated by Sidley & Austin, the collection features works by several well-known artists, including Dennis Oppenheim, Michael Kenna, Lita Albuquerque, Grace Knowlton and Dan Graham. An exhibit of photographs, prints and textiles from the collection was held recently in the gallery, which falls under the auspices of the UB Faculty of Arts and Letters.

"The academic and surrounding community will have the opportunity to view various distinctive pieces by many outstanding artists," said Jack Brimm, director of administration for the New York branch of Sidley & Austin, headquartered in Chicago. "Sidley & Austin is committed to supporting higher education." The firm, one of the largest in the U.S., has 750 lawyers who represent Fortune 100 businesses, associations and prominent individuals.

HAILEAB TO LECTURE ON FOSSIL DATING, HUMAN EVOLUTION
Dr. Bereket Haileab of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., will be the special invited guest speaker at lectures on fossil dating and the origin and evolution of humans Oct. 16 and 18 at UB.

Haileab, a native of Eritrea, worked with the UB research team in Eritrea the past two summers. He worked closely with the Richard Leakey paleoanthropological group in Kenya and has done field work in many East African countries.

He is co-author of two papers with Paul H. Reitan, UB professor of geology, which have been accepted for presentation at meetings of the Geological Society of America in Denver later this month.

Haileab's first lecture, part of the Department of Geology Pegrum Lecture Series, is "Tephra Stratiography and Geochronology of Plio-Pleistocene Sediments from Turkana Basin, Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya," to be given Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 3:30 p.m. in 454 Fronczak Hall. It is directed at the problems of determining the absolute ages of the layers in which fossil evidence is found at different sites.

A special lecture, "Environment and Evolution of Early Hominids in East Africa," on the origin and evolution of humans as determined by studies of paleoanthropologists and geologists working together in the birthplace of humanity, will be presented Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. in the Natural Sciences Complex.

His visit is sponsored by the Department of Geology, Graduate Group on Evolution and Environment, Department of Anthropology, Council on International Studies and Programs Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Faculty of Social Sciences.

UB LIBRARIANS PUBLISH BOOK ON EXPOSITION
David Bertuca, associate librarian, University Libraries-Central Technical Services, Don Hart-man, associate librarian, Lock-wood Library, and Sue Neumeister, associate librarian, University Libraries-Central Technical Services, are authors of a new book, The World's Columbian Exposition, A Centennial Bibliographic Guide (Greenwood Press, 1996). The 440-page volume comprehensively documents the influence of the exposition on American culture during the 20th century.

OCT. 14 SYMPOSIUM SET ON SERVICE LEARNING FOR FACULTY, STAFF
Ira Harkavy, associate vice president and director, Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania will be keynote speaker Oct. 14 at a symposium for faculty and staff on service learning.

The symposium, to be held in 280 Park Hall from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., will explore the goal of successfully linking public service or service learning with research and scholarly activities.

Harkavy, one of the nation's leading authorities on service learning and building community partnerships, has written and lectured extensively on the need for greater community involvement by institutions of higher education. He has received numerous grants to further research in this field and his recent work to revitalize West Philadelphia neighborhoods surrounding the University of Pennsylvania campus has become a national model.

A distinguished panel of deans and senior faculty will lead a discussion on opportunities for service learning and public outreach at UB, focusing on their place in the tenure and promotion process.

PARTICIPANTS SOUGHT FOR PANIC DISORDER RESEARCH

Do you suffer from sudden rushes of intense fear and anxiety that appear out of the blue? Are these fearful episodes accompanied by rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, sweating and trembling?

If so, and you are at least 18 years of age, you may be eligible to participate in research on panic disorder being conducted by the UB departments of Psychology, Physical Therapy and Exercise Science, and Psychiatry.

Participation will begin with a diagnostic interview, with appointments being scheduled at individuals' convenience at the UB North Campus. Participants will receive $50 upon completion of the procedure.

Individuals with heart or lung disease, seizure disorders or who are pregnant are not eligible for the study.

Anyone interested in participating should contact the UB Center for Anxiety Research at 645-3650, ext. 337.

RICHARD SIGGELKOW IS AUTHOR OF NEW BOOK

Richard A. Siggelkow, UB professor emeritus of counseling and educational psychology, is the author of a new book, The Unmaking of A College President, published in Sanborn, NY. Siggelkow's book is a fictional account of how four inside candidates compete for a college presidency that is desired also by others not officially in the chase.

Siggelkow, who spent 48 years in higher education, served under five presidents at the University at Buffalo, retiring in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in counseling from the University of Wisconsin in 1953, where he taught and served as associate dean of the school of education. He came to UB in 1958. In addition to 50 articles in educational journals, he authored Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Seige (Prometheus Books) in 1991.

HOWARD WOLF TO SPEAK AT AMHERST COLLEGE

Howard Wolf, UB professor of English, will speak Nov. 18 at Amherst College under the auspices of the Amherst Library. The talk, "Autobibliography, a Place in Time: On Shaping a Collection," and an exhibition will mark the 25th year of a collection that Wolf has been building in the Special Collections unit of the Amherst College Library since 1971. Wolf, a graduate of Amherst, received an M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

The collection includes writings, published and unpublished, of a number of UB's literary faculty members past and present, including Professor Carl Dennis; Lyle Glazier, professor emeritus and Mac Hammond, professor emeritus.

Included are descriptive letters, personal and historical, so the collection blends autobiography with bibliography and constitutes what Wolf calls an "autobibliography," as well as a social history of the American literary academy during the period 1950-2000.