A U.S. Army brigadier general will talk to the UC Davis cadet corps about the changing role of women in the military on Tuesday, April 25. Patricia Hickerson, deputy commanding general for the Army, will speak at 5:45 p.m. in 6 Wellman Hall on the Davis campus. Hickerson is one of a very small number of women who completed the Infantry Officers Advanced course. By federal law, the infantry branch is restricted to men only. Among the positions Hickerson has held during her 27-year military career are admission officer at the U.S. military academy at West Point, administrative assistant to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C., and, most recently, the deputy commanding general of the army's recruiting command. Of the 90 ROTC cadet corps at UC Davis, 20 are women.