Flutist and School of Music faculty member Ransom Wilson will be a featured soloist in the Yale Concert Band's third concert of the season on Friday, Feb. 12. Wilson will perform Keith Gates' "Concertino for Solo Flute and Wind Ensemble." Also on the program will be "I Sit Alone in Martin's Church" by Thomas C. Duffy, director of University Bands, "Out of the Depths" by Adolphus Hailstork and "Taras Bulba Suite" by Franz Waxman. The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets. On the following day, the Yale Concert Band will perform a program titled "Music with a Conscience" at Hamden High School. It will feature the above-mentioned works by Duffy, Hailstork and Waxman, as well as Duffy's "Pilgrim's Progress." Tickets for this concert, which will be sold at the door only, are $5 for the general public and $4 for senior citizens and students. For further information on the concerts, call 432-4111.

Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, will lead the first "Books Sandwiched In" in the spring series on Thursday, Feb. 18, 12:10-12:50 p.m. at the United Church on the Green, corner of Temple and Elm streets. Sponsored by the Friends of the New Haven Free Public Library, "Books Sandwiched In" features a prominent member of the New Haven community discussing a recent book. Carter will discuss the book "Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary" by Juan Williams. All of the book discussions are free and open to the public. Participants are invited to bring their own lunch; coffee, tea and cookies will be available for purchase in the basement of the church 11:30 a.m.-noon.

Alan E. Kazdin, professor and chair of the department of psychology, has received the Distinguished Scientist Award given by the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. Kazdin's research focuses on the development, course and treatment of aggressive and antisocial behavior in children and the child, parent, family and contextual underpinnings of child psychopathology and development. He also directs the Yale Child Conduct Clinic, a treatment service for children and families that is affiliated with the psychology department and the Yale Child Study Center. He will be presented his award at a meeting of the American Psychological Association in Boston in August.