Jann Pasler, this year's Flora Stone Mather Visiting Professor in the department of music, is a writer, producer of documentary films and researcher of musicology.

She will discuss her research in the first talk in the returning Spotlight on Case Women lecture series that features the contributions in research and scholarship that women at Case Western Reserve University are making. Pasler will speak at noon February 26 in the Guilford House first-floor lounge.

Since 1981, Pasler has been a professor at the University of California at San Diego. At Case, she has been teaching courses on women in music and gender and music.

Among Pasler's works are "Debussy, Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes: The Emergence of a New Musical Logic," which was the topic of her doctorate dissertation from the University of Chicago in 1981. She is the editor of "Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician and Modernist" and "Useful Music, of Why Music Mattered in the Third Republic France."

She has produced the films, "Taksu: Music in the Life of Bali" and "The Great Ceremony to Straighten the World." Both have earned numerous awards.

Her lecture is sponsored by the Case Center for Women.

For additional information, contact the center at 368-0985.

Case Western Reserve University's Second Annual faculty/staff vs. students basketball game, a fund-raiser for the National Youth Sports Program directed by Dennis Harris from the Case physical education and athletics department, will take place at 5:30 p.m. February 20 in Horsburgh (Emerson) Gym.

Halftime entertainment will include shooting contests to raise money and concessions sponsored by student organizations.

The event is sponsored by the university's Share the Vision committee with support from the Interfraternity Congress, the undergraduate class officers and Case Staff Advisory Council.

Admission is $1.

Go to http://ess.case.edu/vision for details.

The Women Historians of Greater Cleveland will present a lecture by Indira Falk Gesink, assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Baldwin-Wallace College, on "19th Century Islamic Legal Reform and the Rise of Islamic Militancy."

The lecture is at 4:30 p.m. in the Baker-Nord Center in Clark Hall (Room 206).

Gesink will challenge the view portrayed by the American media that Islamic militancy is a consequence of a stagnant law more suitable to 7th century Arabia than to 20th century global society. She will explore how Islamic legal tradition includes mechanisms for adapting to social change and how a revival of these mechanisms during the 19th century has produced militancy in the 20th century.

For information, contact Virginia Dawsom at 216-421-9622.

Nominations for the Case Western Reserve University Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize, which recognizes exceptional achievement by an active or emeritus member of the faculty, are due March 18.

Case annually awards the Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize to recognize a faculty member whose exceptional achievements in teaching, research and scholarly service have benefited the community, the nation and the world. The honor, which is conferred at the university's annual commencement convocation, includes a monetary award of $5,000.

A committee chaired by the provost will recommend a recipient from nominations submitted by members of the university community.

Any member of the university community may submit one or more nomination letters not to exceed two pages in length. Additional letters of support are not necessary.

Mail nomination letters to the attention of Mary Ann Pelot, The Hovorka Prize Committee, c/o Office of the President and the Provost, Adelbert Hall (7001).

The Case Western Reserve University Center for Women Book Club's next selection will be dramatized on stage April 28 through May 29 as part of the Great Lakes Theater Festival Series in partnership with the Cleveland Public Theatre.

The club will discuss "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich March 3, "Woman of the Silk: A Novel" by Gail Tsukiyama April 7 and "Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman May 5.

All three meetings are from noon to 1 p.m. in room 720 of Crawford Hall.

To learn more, contact Rosemary Alexander at 216-368-2008 or rosemary.alexander@case.edu.

Now that work has started on Case Western Reserve University's North Residential Village, questions or concerns directly related to the construction should be directed to Whiting-Turner Bradley Construction, 1691 East 118th Street, 216-229-0629.

A public meeting to update the community on the project is expected to take place in March. Details are forthcoming.

For more information, contact Carmella Gambatese, 216-368-3909 or carmella.gambatese@case.edu, or go to http://housing.case.edu/construction/default.html.

As of February 1, Case Western Reserve University's disbursement order form cannot be used to reimburse travel expenses for employees or non-employees. Instead, the travel expense report that is found online at the travel Web site should be used. Call Frank Basich at 216-368-6092 with questions.

The Case Share the Vision committee is seeking class proposals for Spring 2004 SatCo (Saturday College) courses and welcomes ideas from faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university.

SatCo offers the opportunity to teach (and take) courses just for the sake of intellectual stimulation, curiosity and fun. Past SatCo courses have ranged from ballroom dance to skydiving to hiking to the history of Black English along with leadership, jogging, photography, filmmaking, public speaking, field trips and more.

Go to http://ess.cwru.edu/vision/satco for more information and for the online class proposal form. Proposals are due February 23.

For more information, contact Mayo Bulloch, mayo.bulloch@case.edu, or Tim Dodd, timothy.dodd@case.edu.

NewCAT The New Center for Art & Technology (NewCAT), BizArt and the Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) at Case Western Reserve Unviersity's Weatherhead School of Management will present the first in a series of related digital arts and business programs designed to educate the public in the concept of the creative digital arts as a medium for economic growth in the Northeast Ohio region.

The first program, entitled Interactive Design & Technologies will involve presenters from local companies including EDR Media, Impact Communications and Kaleidoscope.

The two-day program on February 20-21 will take place at the Peter B. Lewis Building. Sessions are from 9 a.m. to noon each day.

In a related event, NewCAT will host the public opening of "bits&pieces@PBL," a digital art exhibition, which is a collaborative installation presented by NewCAT and BizArt.

For more information on the Creative Arts & Industries initiative or to register for the Interactive Design & Technologies forum, contact the REI office at 216-216-368-5534.

For more information on NewCAT, visit http://www.newcat.org.

The Center for Health Promotion Research, department of epidemiology and biostatistics, at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, will conduct the second in a series of seminars on community-based health promotion research, with a particular focus on lifestyle changes.

The seminar "Development and Use of Handheld Computers for School-based Data Collection" will be presented by Erika Trapl and Elaine A. Borawski of the Center for Health Promotion Research and Paul Stork from the Case Weatherhead School of Management.

The seminar is from noon to 1 p.m. February 20 in room 105 of the Biomedical Research Building. Lunch will be provided.

RSVP (for lunch count) to margaret.roudebush@case.edu or 368-1617.

The Case Western Reserve University ADVANCE Distinguished Lectureship will feature five presentations February 16-18.

The lectures include "Opportunities with Nanoarchitectures: The Importance of Nothing and the Unimportance of Periodicity" at 4 p.m. February 16, followed by "Silica Nanoarchitectures Incorporating Self-organized Protein Superstructures with Gas-phase Biofunctionality," at 5 p.m. February 16, both in room 108 of Clapp Hall. Refreshments will be served.

A talk on "Can Title IX do for Women in Science and Engineering What it has done for Women in Sports?" will take place at 4 p.m. February 17 in Strosacker Auditorium. A reception will follow.

Then on February 18, a presentation will feature "Integrating the Multifunction Necessary for Electrochemical Power into Mesoporous Nanoarchitectures" at 11:30 a.m. in room 119 of the Kent Hale Smith Building.

The lectureship also features a question-and-answer session with students will be at 1:30 p.m. in room 709 of the Olin Building.