Kitty Carlisle Hart to give show Oct. 4
The Center for the Arts will present Kitty Carlisle Hart in her one-woman show, "My Life on the Wicked Stage: A Tribute to the American Musical Theater," on Oct. 4.

Hart, an actress, singer and chair emeritus of the New York State Council on the Arts, will perform selections by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers in the show, at 8 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre.

Following the show, a light supper will be served in the theater, which will be transformed into a '40s supper club. Cocktails will be served at 6:30 p.m. The event is a benefit to raise funds for scholarships in arts administration.

Tickets for the performance and pre-show cocktails are $45. Tickets for the performance, cocktails and supper are $90. For information, call 645-6000, ext. 1144.

Finley named to board of National Abortion Federation
Lucinda Finley, professor of law, has been elected to a three-year term on the National Abortion Federation board of directors.

Finley last fall wrote the brief and presented the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York. The court's ruling reaffirmed the right to establish buffer zones around abortion clinics to protect a woman's right to obtain abortion services free from obstruction by anti-choice protesters.

Vicki Saporta, NAF executive director, said Finley has had a long-standing commitment to ensuring women's access to health care, including abortion services. A faculty member since 1989, Finley specializes in reproductive-health law, product liability reform and exposure to toxic products.

Child care to be topic of roundtable
Child care on the North Campus will be the subject of a roundtable discussion to be held from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in 250 Student Union. The program, first in a series being sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs, is free and open to the public.

Panelists will include representatives from the UB Child Care Center Inc., Bethel Head Start Program, undergraduate Student Association, students, faculty, staff, parents, University Advancement and Development, Faculty Senate, Professional Staff Senate, UB's bargaining units, University News Services and University Facilities. For information, call 645-6147.

Voting Faculty to meet Sept. 23
The Voting Faculty of the University at Buffalo will hold its annual meeting at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Center for Tomorrow.

Among the speakers will be President William R. Greiner, who will give the annual report of the president; Peter A. Nicker-son, vice chair of the Voting Faculty and chair of the Faculty Senate, who will speak on plans for senate activities during the 1997-98 academic year, and Claude E. Welch Jr., past chair of the Faculty Senate, who will report on senate activitities during the 1996-97 academic year.

A reception will follow the meeting.

Fellowship to honor S. Mouchly Small
The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), in collaboration with UB, has announced the creation of a post-doctoral fellowship to honor the late S. Mouchly Small, former chair of the UB Department of Psychiatry and a past president of MDA.

The fellowship will provide an annual stipend of $32,000 for six years to a qualified post-doctoral fellow working in one of the areas of neuromuscular disease research within the scope of interest of the MDA and UB.

The committee is seeking UB faculty interested in sponsoring a Professor Small Fellow. A letter of intent, a 100-word summary detailing proposed research and a 100-word description of commitment and ability to provide non-salary support should be sent no later than Oct. 3 to the Professor Small Fellowship Committee, c/o Ed Hewlett, Office of Development, Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

Hewlett can be reached at 645-3381, ext. 245.

Paper by Jin-Yi Cai wins Hao Wang Award
A joint paper by Jin-Yi Cai, associate professor of computer science, and D. Sivakumar, a graduate student in the department, now at the University of Houston, has been awarded the 1997 Hao Wang Award by the program committee of the International Computing and Combinatorics Conference.

WBFO adds three new shows, moves "Car Talk," "Living on Earth"
WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio station, has added three new shows and has moved the popular programs "Car Talk" and "Living on Earth" to more frequent, accessible times.

Host Ira Glass brings "This American Life" to WBFO from WBEZ in Chicago. The program documents contemporary American life from artists' perspectives. It airs on Fridays from 7-8 p.m. and Saturdays from 5-6 p.m.

WBFO has added Michael Feldman's two-hour comedy/quiz show, "Whad'Ya Know" on Saturdays from 8-10 p.m. Feldman challenges callers and audience members with pop tests. Contestants compete for prizes like plastic pink flamingos. Other elements include: "All The News That Isn't," Feldman's monologue satirizing current events; "Thanks for the Memos," comically miswritten and genuine memos submitted by Feldman's fans, and an interview with an unsuspecting resident of "The Town of the Week."

Host Bill Littlefield reminds WBFO listeners that it's "Only A Game" on his quirky program that manages to put sports in perspective while keeping things funny. It airs on Saturdays from 7-8 a.m.

"Car Talk," the popular one-hour call-in show where the Click and Clack brothers attempt to solve listeners' automotive problems, now airs at 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Saturdays and at 5 p.m. on Sundays. "Living on Earth," the investigative newsmagazine that examines aspects of the environment, now airs from 6-7 p.m. on Fridays.

Miller to lecture on software that can aid fight on deadly bacteria
A new software package developed by Western New York researchers that is allowing pharmacologists to begin to design new drugs to fight deadly bacteria will be the topic of a lecture to be held at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22, in Room 201 of the Natural Sciences Complex on the North Campus. Free and open to the public, the talk is sponsored by the UB Sciences Alumni Association of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Russ Miller, professor of computer science and a member of the research team at UB and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute that developed the new software, called SnB, will speak about "Drug Design by Shaking and Baking Atoms."

He will discuss how, with virtually no intervention by the user, SnB is able to solve molecular structures that no other methods have solved. For more information, call Cindy Nydahl at 645-2531.

Public Safety members honored, graduate from Training Academy
One member of the Department of Public Safety was honored and another graduated last month in State University of New York Public Safety Training Academy ceremonies held at the state police academy in Albany.

Dan Jay, an inspector with public safety, received the Director's Award for Excellence in Training Instruction. Jay, who attended Canisius College before joining public safety in 1974, has been an instructor with the academy staff since 1986. He teaches homicide and death investigation, rules of evidence and physical evidence.

Graduating during the ceremony was Officer Dean L. Swoger, who joined the department this summer. He is a graduate of SUNY Brockport.

MFC to offer three paralegal courses
Three specialized non-credit certificate courses for paralegals and others interested in paralegal careers will be offered this fall through Millard Fillmore College (MFC). Registration deadline is Sept. 19 for the courses on basic real estate, basic bankruptcy and advanced legal research and writing.

Real estate, which will meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays from Sept. 20 through Oct. 19, will focus on New York real estate law. The bankruptcy course will be held from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sept. 23 through Nov. 18.

Research and writing will meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays from Sept. 20 through Nov. 15. To enroll, students must have completed "Paralegal Principles and Procedures" (MFC 332), or have written permission from the instructor based on previous experience or education. Call 829-2202.

Two new books published by faculty
"Sex, Kids and Politics: Health Services in Schools" by Catherine Emihovich, associate professor of counseling and educational psychology, Graduate School of Education, and Carolyn D. Herring-ton, Florida State University, has been published by Teachers College Press. It provides information necessary to a discussion of a wide range of problems: STDs, teen pregnancy, contraception, AIDS, shrinking health coverage and high school budgets, limitations of managed health care and school-board politics.

"Introduction to IDDQ Testing," by Sreejit Chakravarty, associate professor of computer science, and P.J. Thakikaran of Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., who received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, has been published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Volunteers sought for hypertension study
Adults 18 and older with high blood pressure are needed to participate in two studies being conducted by Theodore Her-man, clinical professor of medicine. The studies will evaluate investigational antihypertensive medications.

Participants will receive free physical exams, electrocardiograms and lab tests. They also will receive from $200 to $500 for participating in one of two 12-week studies. Call 838-1295.