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Carol S. Pearson, dean of the Center on Analytical Psychology at the Mt. Vernon Institute, Mt. Vernon College, Washington, D.C., will be keynote speaker for the annual conference of the WNY Regional Committee of the American Council on Education/National Identification Program (ACE/NIP). The conference will be held April 25 in the Center for Tomorrow.

The program theme is Success Mapping: Leadership from the Inside Out.

Pearson has extensive experience as an administrator and teacher at Goucher College, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Maryland at College Park. She was recently appointed a Senior Fellow for the ACE Office on Women and Senior Scholar for the National Association for Women in Education.

The author or co-author of six books, she holds a Ph.D. in English from Rice University.

At the conference, Muriel A. Moore, president of Buffalo State College and former vice president for public service and urban affairs at UB, will receive the eighth annual Bernice Poss Award given for outstanding efforts for the advancement of women professionals.

Registration fee for the conference is $40, which includes a buffet lunch. Contact Chris Sauciuniac at 645-3544 for registration information.

UB members of the conference planning committee include Kathy Evans Brown, Donna Domino, Denise Hood, Anastasia Johnson, Leslie J. McCain, Kim Pachetti, Sandra Peters and Christine Sauciuniac. UB Conference Facilitators will be Karen Noonan, associate vice president for Undergraduate Education and Donna Rice, associate vice president for Student Affairs.

WEB SITE HONORS

ARIES, the articulatioN Web site of the Office of Transfer and Articulation Services in the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, has been selected as the "Microsoft Higher Education Website for April 1997."

ARIES, or Articulation Reporting Information Evaluation System, was developed by Jennifer Gottdiener, director of transfer and articulation services, and Frank D'Arrigo, director of undergraduate services, to distribute and maintain course articulation information. It takes data from UB's degree audit articulation tables, which are stored in UB's data warehouse, and displays easily read articulation reports comparing home campus courses to courses at other campuses.

Users may access reports for any of the more than 1,500 transfer colleges and universities and request either lists of all the articulation for a particular campus, or articulation for single departments, sorted by courses at either campus. The Web site was honored for its innovative application of Microsoft technology to create a unique solution to the problem of distributing up-to-date course articulation reflecting the constant changes in curricular information. It can be viewed at http://aries.buffalo.edu

THE JOURNAL OF World Anthropology, Ezra Zubrow, editor-in-chief, has been named one of the best education-related sites on the Web by the education Index. Hugh W. Jarvis is editor and operations manager, with technical support by Jim Gerland and Mark Winer.

The journal is an electronic journal dedicated to scholarship in all fields of anthropology and publishes articles on academic research, matters of theory and methodology, the education of the public and book, software and film reviews. Journal issues are announced over the Internet through the listserver list jwa@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu and are immediately available on the Web server wings.buffalo.edu at UB (http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/anthropology/jwa).

NEW YORK STATE HEALTH COMMISSIONER TO SPEAK AT SPRING CLINICAL DAY

"Rationing of Health Care" will be the theme of the 60th Annual Spring Clinical Day, to be held from 7:30 a.m. to noon April 26 in the Buffalo Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst.

Spring Clinical Day is sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Barbara A. DeBuono, New York State health commissioner, will present the Stockton Kimball Memorial Lecture at the noon luncheon. She will discuss the role of academic health centers in the future of health care.

The event is open to the public. There is a registration fee for non-alumni and non-dues-paying alumni of the medical school.

The program will focus on state Health Department plans for health-care delivery and financing; an update on mergers of Western New York hospitals and what they mean for physicians; strategies for avoiding pitfalls and maximizing advantages of managed-care organizations, and discussion of physicians' concerns about health-care policy and delivery.

Program topics and presenters will be:

n 8:15 a.m.-"Western New York Hospitals and Managed Care"-John Friedlander, CEO of the CGF Health System, the interim corporate name of the system merging Buffalo General, Millard Fillmore and Children's hospitals.

n 9 a.m.-"Managed Care Across America"-Steven R. Peskin, president of NCI Managed Care and medical director of NCI Consulting of Princeton, N.J., and medical director of Medisphere Communications in New York City.

n 10:15 a.m.-"Practicing Medicine Under Managed Care"-Irene S. Snow, UB clinical associate professor of medicine and a 1980 graduate of the UB medical school.

n 10:45 a.m.-"Rationing of Health Care in America"-panel discussion involving the presenters and DeBuono.

For registration and information, call 829-2778.

ELDER GIVES PRESENTATION AT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

Sarah Elder, professor of media study, presented a screening and a discussion on The Drums of Winter/Uksuum Cauyai, a documentary of dance, music and spirit in the Yup'ik world, at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian on March 9. The presentation was part of the Media Talk series organized by the Film and Video center of the National Museum of the American Indian, located in the old U.S. Customs House near Battery Park, N.Y.

Elder is a co-founder and director of the Alaska Native Heritage Film Center, encompassing 25 years of work with native communities in Alaska. With co-founder Leonard Kamerling, she pioneered community collaborative filmmaking, in which indigenous community members work with the filmmakers to shape the production's content and point of view.

FOUR FRESHMEN TO APPEAR IN HABITAT BENEFIT

The Four Freshmen, America's stellar jazz vocal group, will return to UB's Center for the Arts May 8 in a benefit concert for Habitat for Humanity/Buffalo and the UB Student Habitat Chapter. The concert, with the George Beck Orchestra under John Hasselback, will be in Mainstage, Center for the Arts, at 8 p.m. The Freshmen appeared at UB last June for Habitat.

Concert tickets are available at the Center for the Arts box office and at Ticketmaster locations.

LITTAUER FOUNDATION GIFT BOLSTERS UB ROLE AS JUDAICA RESOURCE

The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation of New York City has given a $20,000 gift to UB to endow the Lucius N. Littauer Judaica Book Fund. This is the first named fund for UB's Judaic Studies program. Proceeds from the endowment will be used to purchase books, periodicals, CD-ROMs and other library materials for faculty, student and public use in the university's libraries.

According to Samuel Paley, director of the UB Judaic Studies program, the libraries' current Judaica holdings exceed 8,000 volumes. This makes UB's libraries among the largest resources of Judaica in Western New York.

UB began teaching Judaic Studies informally in the late 1930s, and in the 1970s an interdisciplinary Judaic Studies program was established within the Department of Classics. Now, approximately 250 students enroll in Judaic Studies courses each semester.

Upadhyaya gives paper on responsive computing systems

Shambhu Upadhyaya, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering, presented an invited paper March 13 in the Third ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design at Anaheim, Calif. The paper, "Path-based Fault Injection," was co-authored with Tim Tsai, Hong Zhao, Sandy Hsueh and Ravi Iyer of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Path-based fault injection is an approach to increase the efficiency of computer system dependability evaluation.

Upadhyaya carried out this work while on sabbatical leave at the Center for Reliable and High Performance recruiting, University of Illinois. The research was supported in part by the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA).

He is on the editorial board of the International Journal on Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering.

UB professor to judge Finger Lakes art exhibition

James Pappas, an artist and associate professor of African-American Studies at UB, will serve on a panel of jurors for the 1997 Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition.

The art exhibition, to be held July 12-Sept. 7 at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, is one of the most prestigious juried exhibitions in the region. On the jury with Pappas are Merry Foresta, senior curator, National Museum of American Art, and Kate Carmel, former chief curator of the American Craft Museum.

UB TO SPONSOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH MICROSCOPY

Several hundred scientists from 19 countries whose specialty lies in probing the microscopic world will converge on Buffalo for "Focus on Multi-Dimensional Microscopy 1997," to be held April 27-30 in the Buffalo Hilton.

Sponsored by the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the meeting is the premier, international conference for scientists working in research microscopy. It is a joint meeting of the 10th International Conference on 3D Image Processing in Microscopy and the Ninth International Conference on Confocal Microscopy.

The scientific program will include the most dramatic breakthroughs in medical, material, industrial and educational uses of microscopy, such as the recent development of an optical tweezers and microscalpel, which use light to manipulate or slice through microscopic structures. New methods of diagnosing diseases through tele-pathology and the use in the classroom of remote-control microscopy over the Internet will be presented.

UB researchers will make presentations on their development of X-ray tomography, the first technique to allow scientists to non-destructively probe and image in three-dimensions solid samples, such as human teeth and industrial materials at high resolution. Papers also will be given on laser scanning confocal microscope and the two-photon fluorescent microscope. Also to be discussed are advances in near-field, atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy, techniques that provide scientists with the ability to "see" structures on an atomic scale.

The world's major research microscope manufacturers and image-processing software vendors will exhibit their products. Short courses that introduce microscopy technologies also will be given.

P.C. Cheng, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the conference program director. Co-organizers are the Royal Microscopical Society, Academia Sinica (Taipei) and the International Society of Molecular Morphology.

UB faculty may register at a reduced rate of $50; students may register for $20. Copies of conference proceedings (the Journal of Cell Vision) are available for UB faculty and students for $40.

For more information, call UB's Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Laboratory, 645-3868, or send e-mail to: FMM97@corn.eng.buffalo.edu, or visit the conference homepage at http://corn.eng.buffalo.edu/FMM97