BRUCE BENNETT published five poems in the magazine Reflections and two poems in Light. His book, Navigating the Distances: Poems New and Selected, received lengthy reviews in Tar River Poetry and the on-line journal Able Muse. From July 30 to August 4, 2000, Professor Bennett was Poet-in-Residence at the Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institution. He gave a public reading on July 30, a lecture to the Chautauqua Women’s Club on August 2, and conducted a week-long poetry workshop entitled, "The Practice of Poetry: Form and Meaning." Professor Bennett’s chapbook, Last Words, a selection of 62 comic epitaphs, was published by Clandestine Press. Proceeds from the sale of Last Words will be used to support the activities of the Book Arts Center. Professor Bennett was Featured Poet for his book NAVIGATING THE DISTANCES on the POETRY DAILY website (www.poems.com) on September 28, 2000. The featured poem from his book was "In a Time of War." The material relating to Professor Bennett will be on POETRY DAILY for a year and may be accessed under Archive at www.poems.com/archive. Professor Bennett’s chapbook, Separations: Seven Sonnets, was published by Clandestine Press. Proceeds from the sale of Separations will be used to support the activities of the Book Arts Center. He had three poems published in the Autumn 2000 issue of LIGHT. Professor Bennett’s collection of new and selected poems, Navigating The Distances, received notice in Ticket, the magazine section of the Ithaca Journal, December 7, as among books published during the past year by local authors.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS reviewed a book proposal for Broadview Press for an anthology of plays by British Romantic women writers in the summer of 2000. Professor Burroughs presented a paper entitled, "British Women Playwrights and the Staging of Female Sexual Initiation," in September at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, which took place at Arizona State University. She also co-chaired a special seminar for NASSR attendees to discuss "the state of scholarship on Romantic drama and theatre." The following week, Professor Burroughs attended the Board of Visitors meeting at Wake Forest University to discuss the issue of faculty salaries and the endowment. In October, her edited volume was published by Cambridge University Press. Called Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840, the book was featured in December on the net in a multi-object environment (or MOO) event—an online conversation during which scholars in the field "chat" about the issues the book raises. At the same time a review essay of the book was available at the website, Romantic Circles, an online periodical devoted to the study of romantic-period literature and culture. Additionally, Fields of Knowledge, which publishes an "infography" online, has hired Professor Burroughs to supply six superlative citations in the field of women in romantic theatre, and Broadview Press has asked her to supply a "blurb" for the back cover of the new edition of Joanna Baillie’s plays.

CANDACE COLLMER has had a paper accepted for publication in the scientific journal Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. The paper represents work done during her sabbatical leave at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England, and completed at Wells in collaboration with Wells student Jessica Taylor, who is also an author on the paper. It is titled, "The I Gene of Bean: A Dosage-Dependent Allele Conferring Extreme Resistance, Hypersensitive Resistance, or Spreading Vascular Necrosis in Response to the Potyvirus Bean Common Mosaic Virus." Professor Collmer presented a poster at a Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR)-sponsored workshop on good biological research systems, held at Ferris State University in August 2000. She also attended, along with Sandy Shilepsky, the annual meeting of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP) held at Orlando, Florida in June. Professor Collmer and Professor Wahl attended a multidisciplinary workshop at Cornell University from November 17-19, 2000, entitled "Genomic Futures: Ethical Challenges, Social Choices, and the University." The workshop was organized by the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Cornell Genomics Initiative and was designed to address significant issues raised by genomics and the "new biology." Professor Collmer recently reviewed an exciting new proposal for an integrated textbook/website model for teaching Molecular Biology for W H Freeman Press.

WALTRAUT DEINERT together with Gesa Falk, Senior Lecturer at Cornell University and Wells alumna, researched the professional and personal background of Else Mentz Fleissner and Otto S. Fleissner for the Marbach Archives, Germany. The article will be published in 2002 in the Internationales Germanistenlexikon, a chronicle of German philologists from the 19th to mid-20th century. She organized and accompanied a group of Wells students who participated in a weekend conference on Oct 21 and 22 at Cornell University. The conference was sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Program and the German Studies Department for upstate New York college students. The topic, which was addressed in lectures followed by discussions, was: "The New Germany within Europe." Professor Deinert initiated and organized the visit and concert of the big band "Smoke Revival Orchestra" from Bad Arolsen, Germany to Wells College from October 9-13 with the help and support of President Ryerson, conference coordinator Anne McCarthy, Dean Martinez, Dean Ryan, and Professor Thoburn.

NAN DIBELLO attended the National Women’s Studies Association meeting and moderated a panel presentation during summer 2000. She also served on the Evaluation Task Force for the PLEN Summer Internship on Diversity.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH chaired a panel, "Russia’s ‘Other Women:’ Non-Industrial Workers in the 1920s," at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies meeting in Denver, Colorado, November 9-12. Professor Farnsworth chaired a panel on "19^th Century Russian Religion and Society" at the annual Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference held at Cornell University on March 31, 2001.

MARGARET FLOWERS was a panelist for the Campus Ministry Luncheon Series discussion on "Faith and Science" at Cayuga Community College last April. The text of prepared remarks has been published on the youth page of the American Scientific Affiliation website. Also in April, Professor Flowers conducted the contemporary Easter oratorio, "I Will Follow Christ," performed in Barler Auditorium at Wells.

SUSAN FORBES stage managed and assisted director Kevin Moriarity in the production of A Christmas Carol at the Tony Award Winning Trinity Repertory Theatre. Mr. Moriarity directed the production of Wit at Syracuse Stage and will be the new Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca. Professor Forbes performed over 50 performances of A Christmas Carol from the middle of November to the end of the run on December 24. This production was one of Trinity's largest in many seasons and was highly acclaimed in its reviews. This production included a cast of approximately 20, a crew of 15, and was mounted with an approximate budget of $475,000.

NANCY GILBERTSON gave a piano recital in her hometown of Salem Ohio, at a branch of her alma mater Kent State University on September 28. She performed music from her CD, "Mediterranean Magic," as well as a Haydn Sonata and two Brahms Intermezzi. The program included Mekta in the Art of Kita by Egyptian composer and KSU professor emeritus, Halim El-Dabh who attended the concert and spoke about his piece. Professor Gilbertson, along with her husband Kim Gilbertson, collaborated with Jeanne Goddard and the Wells College dance students to provide live piano music for the Dance Concert on November 10 and 11 in Phipps Auditorium. The Gilbertson duo played two sets of four hand miniatures, choreographed by Professor Goddard, and Professor Gilbertson performed three pieces for solo piano by DeFalla and Notturno by Respighi, also choreographed by Professor Goddard.

PILAR GREENWOOD worked to expand the programs of international internships in the Dominican Republic through a partnership with Rotary International during the summer of 2000. A series of meetings with representatives of Rotary International, Dean Ellen Hall, Dean Terry Martinez, Nancy Karpinski, and Professors Victoria Muñoz and Nan DiBello have resulted in opportunities for Wells students for service, fieldwork training, and academic learning in additional settings and locations. Even though sponsored by Rotary International, these internships will be an additional component to our agreement with the University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in the Dominican Republic and can be undertaken either during January or the summer months. The internships could be applied to a number of majors and disciplines. Professor Greenwood was invited by the Latino Civic Association of Ithaca to participate in this year’s celebration of the Latino Heritage/Culture Month (September 15-October 15). On September 23, together with a group of Latino and Hispanic authors, she participated in the second annual "Tertulia," reading a selection from her children’s poetry and short fiction. The CAP/ Decentralization Program, the Community School Music and the Arts (CSMA), the City of Ithaca Mayor’s Office, and the Tompkins County Board of Representatives cosponsored this annual event, among others.

MICHAEL GROTH participated in a conference entitled, "The Changing Meaning of the American Revolution," on October 7 at Marist College. The event was sponsored by the Hudson Valley Studies Program at Marist College and the New York Council for the Humanities to commemorate the 225^th Anniversary of the Revolution in the region. Professor Groth delivered a lecture entitled, "Slavery, the American Revolution, and the Hudson River Valley."

SCOTT HEINEKAMP has reviewed six chapters of the upcoming text, Electromagnetism, by Pollack & Stump, for the publisher Addison, Wesley, Longman. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Physics in Cornell University’s Department of Applied Engineering Physics for the period July 2000 to January 2001.

SPENCER HILDAHL’s review of the book, Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market," by Alexandra Chasin, appeared in the October 2000 issue of CHOICE.

LOUISE HOFFMAN BROACH, who is advising the Onyx and providing major assistance to Diane Koester in independent study in communications for students who are learning about journalism, was appointed News Editor of the Auburn Citizen, effective March 19. Brian Lovell, The Citizen's managing editor, invited Ms. Hoffman Broach to apply for the position upon hearing from Onyx Editorial Board member Jennifer Miller '01, who is interning at the Citizen this semester, that Ms .Hoffman Broach might be interested in joining the Citizen's staff. Ms. Hoffman Broach has been the Onyx's external advisor since Fall 1999.

While on sabbatical leave during Spring 2000, CYNTHIA KOEPP began a new research project on the history of books and publishing in eighteenth century France and England. She was able to work in a number of rare book libraries in the United States and in France, thanks to fellowships from the following institutions: Princeton University Library, the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University, the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the American Bibliographical Society. She was named a Regional Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University (renewable for three years). She also received a grant from the French Studies Program at Cornell to sponsor a conference at Wells during Spring 2001, which will be devoted to some aspect of French culture (and she is looking for others to help shape this event). Her article "Artisans and Entrepreneurs in Diderot's Encyclopédie" has been accepted for a collection entitled, Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading, Oxford University Press, edited by Daniel Brewer and Julie C. Hayes. Professor Koepp delivered a paper entitled "Anticipating the Encyclopédie: Artisans, Mechanical Arts, and the Spectacle de la Nature" at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History that was held at University of California, Los Angeles November 8-11, 2000. Professor Koepp chaired a session entitled "Rethinking Labor in the Revolutionary Era," at the 47th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, which took place March 8-11, 2001, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

DIANE KOESTER has received over 17 requests from the National Academic Advising Association for a copy of her "Advising Handbook for Students." She has also made this available online for Wells students.

J. ROBERT LENNON published a short story, "No Life," in the September 8, 2000, issue of the New Yorker.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO edited a special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology (IJCS) to celebrate the end of the Millennium. He invited more than ten scholars with various educational background and research interests and from different countries who represented the disciplines of Economics, Environment, Political Science, Comparative Education, Sociology, English, and History to write, using a comparative approach, on empirical reform cases as articulated in various parts of the world. The issue was published in June 2000. This special issue has also been published as a book in Leiden, Netherlands, by the Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies to participate in the "Constitution-Making Conference in Southern Africa." He presented a paper titled, "Constitutional Experiences in Central Africa." The conference was held on July 26-28, 2000, in Harare, Zimbabwe. On August 2, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo co-chaired the panel "The Welfare States and Developing Countries" in the XVIII World Congress of the International Political Science Association held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. On August 3, he was the convenor and chair of the panel "Toward Party Democracy in Africa: Is the International Environment Now Conducive," and on the 4^th, he was the discussant of the panel "Capitalism, Restructuration and Politics." Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Association for Continuing Education at Case Western Reserve University to participate in a debate on "Globalization." The topic of his presentation was "Globalization, Its Claims, and Its Contradictions with a Special Reference to International Political Economy and Democracy." The event, held on October 13-16 in Cleveland, Ohio, was sponsored by the Wells College Office of Alumnae and Case Western Reserve University. He was invited by the Cornell African Students Association (CASA) to deliver a public lecture on October 26 at Cornell University. The topic of the lecture was: "The Problematique of Liberal Democracy as a Global Paradigm for Development in the Post-Cold War Africa: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo." Professor Lumumba-Kasongo article entitled, "Capitalism and Liberal Democracy as Forces of Globalization with Reference to the Paradigms Behind the Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa," has been published in Politics, Administration and Change: A Multi-disciplinary Social Science Journal, Number 34, (December 2000) by the Center for Public Affairs, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

HEATHER MACALISTER participated in the first annual Finger Lakes Undergraduate Psychology Conference on March 31. Two colleagues (one at SUNY-Cortland and one at Le Moyne) and Professor Macalister founded, organized, and chaired the conference in order to provide psychology undergraduates an opportunity to present their work in a supportive atmosphere at a local setting. Almost 40 students presented, and faculty and students from almost 20 different New York colleges were in attendance. The keynote speaker was Dr. Fredda Blanchard-Fields, professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and pioneer in the field of social cognition and aging. The Wells College Department of Psychology and the Wells College Office of the Dean each made a generous contribution in support of the conference and its mission; and the Wells College Psychology Club volunteered their efforts in many facets of conference planning and execution and also set up a very attractive display of Wells College admissions materials at the conference. The Psychology Club has even talked about trying to hold next year's FLUPC on the Wells campus! Professor Macalister’s article, "In Defense of Ambiguity: Understanding Bisexuality’s Invisibility Through Cognitive Psychology" will be published in The Journal of Bisexuality's special issue on Bisexual Women. Publication is expected in spring 2001. Professor Macalister will be presenting two posters June 2001 at the Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, which is part of the annual convention of the American Psychological Society: (1) Teaching Writing in Psychology Classes; and (2) Hosting an Undergraduate Conference in Psychology. The conference will take place in Toronto this year.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL gave two talks on her book, Separate by Degree, in May 2000: on May 15, she spoke to the residents of McGraw House for senior citizens; and on May 25, she spoke to the Ithaca chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Professor Miller-Bernal attended the annual meeting of the New York State Sociological Association at SUNY College at Potsdam on October 13 and 14. She presented a paper based on her research methods class’s research, "It’s All Relative: A Comparison of Attitudes Toward Sex Education in Schools in a Conservative upstate New York city versus the State of South Carolina." She also participated in a panel with six other sociologists, "State of the Art Sociology: Past, Present, and Future." Professor Miller-Bernal attended a one-day mini-conference, "Going Coed: The Historical Transformation of Single-Sex Colleges," at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 19. Conference participants were asked to read her book, Separate by Degree, in preparation for a faculty, staff, and student discussion of it during the conference. She also attended the American Educational Studies Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, from November 1 to 5, where her book was the subject of a symposium. Professor Miller-Bernal was asked to review a book, The Kaleidoscope of Gender, that Wadsworth is considering publishing. Professor Miller-Bernal gave a talk on her book, Separate by Degree, to faculty and students at Scripps College, the women’s college in the Claremont consortium in California, on November 15. She participated as a local author in the grand opening of the new Tompkins County Library on January 13. She took part in book signings and gave a brief ten-minute talk on her book, Separate By Degree. On January 24, she was the guest speaker for the Syracuse University, Higher Education roundtable lunch series. Her talk was entitled, "Making Coeducation Equal Education: Lessons from Women's Colleges."

MILENE MORFEI served as the Wells Chapter Xi delegate at the Phi Beta Kappa Triennial Council in Philadelphia, PA (Oct. 19 - 22). Professor Morfei was asked by the book review editor of Journal of Marriage and the Family to review a book entitled, Becoming a Family: Parents' Stories and Their Implication for Practice, Policy, and Research. She attended the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology in St. Petersburg, Florida, Jan. 3 - 6.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ served as Panel Chair for the GEAR UP proposal review process for the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC, in August. She is currently on an expert panel for a new website developed by the American Social Health Association (www.iwannaknow.org). This website will serve as part of a larger research effort to study the impact of Internet-based sexual health information on adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions.

NIAMH O’LEARY participated in a 3-day Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshop at Cornell University in May. The workshop introduced the participants to the basic operations and applications of ArcView software. Professor O’Leary organized and coordinated two outreach activities for the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network. "Lakefest," held in Seneca Falls in August, brought together over 120 members of the general public and the Watershed Network to find out about the work and activities of several local environmental groups. "Water In, Water Out," held in Ithaca in October, provided members of the general public and the Watershed Network with an opportunity to learn about the path of water from creeks in the southern part of the watershed to Cayuga Lake, via their homes, businesses, farms, and water treatment facilities.

JOSEPH PALERMO’s book, Robert F. Kennedy and the Democratic Party 1965-1968, was a featured title from Columbia University Press in April 2001.

LAURA PURDY, during her special leave, was an invited lecturer at the following institutions and conferences during the 1998 academic year: Case Discussion: "Pregnancy and Breast Cancer," Physician Recommendations – Harvard University, April 1998; "The Ethics of Xenotransplantation" – University of Toronto, April 1998; "Designer Babies? Ethics of In Vitro Fertilization and Pre-Implantation Diagnosis" – University of Manitoba, April 1998; "The Unholy Trinity: Pronatalism, Geneticism, and Sexism in Reproduction" – The Santorini Symposium on the Psychological and Ethical Problems of Assisted Reproduction at the Bellonias Foundation, June 1998; "The Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Teaching Model" – 12th International Congress of the International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology in Washington, DC, June 1998; "The Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis" – 18^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences in Boston, MA, September 1998, and at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, March 1999; "Humanizing Physicians" – Celebrating the Humanities Conference at Rochester Institute of Technology, October 1998; "What Feminism Can Do for Bioethics" – Plenary Talk at the 10^th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society in Toronto, 1998, and at the Center for Clinical Ethics, SUNY Buffalo, December 1998, and at the University of Rochester, March 1999. Professor Purdy also participated in more than 27 of the "Local (Toronto) Rounds and talks. She also published six new papers; already published papers were reprinted a total of twelve times. During her special leave from Wells College, Professor Purdy had three books published: Violence Against Women: Philosophical Perspectives, coedited, with Stanley French and Wanda Teays, Cornell University Press, 1998; Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances, coedited, with Anne Donchin, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999; and Bioethics, Justice, and Health Care (a textbook), with Wanda Teays, Wadsworth, 2001.

DAVID REIS’s article, "Saying as Doing: Performative Prayer and Mystical Ascent in Hermetic Hymnody," will be published in Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism 20 (2001). He also presented a paper on this topic at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN, on November 18, 2000. His review of You Will Not Taste Death: Jesus and Epicureanism, by Jack W. Hannah, was published in the Review of Biblical Literature (www.bookreviews.org/Reviews/0967005302.html), and his review of Richard Klein’s Roma versa per aevum: Ausgewählte Schriften zur heidnischen und christlichen Spätantike was published in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.07.05. (ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-07-05.html). Professor Reis presented a paper entitled, "The Greeks’ Embassy to Achilles: Mapping the Terrain of an Infelicitous Performance," at the AAR Eastern International Regional Meeting in Ithaca, NY, on March 30, 2001.

ANNE RUSS’s review of the book, There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, appeared in the September 2000 issue of CHOICE.

SUSAN SANDMAN performed English consort music with Fretwork at a Sunday afternoon program on September 24 at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn. She organized and performed with Fretwork and Elizabethan Conversation in the concert "Bach and Before" on November 6 in the Alice Barler Recital Hall. "Bach and Before" was organized to complement the WLLS 101 units on scientific thought in 17^th and 18^th century Europe. Professor Sandman performed as well with the viol consort of the Schola Cantorum in programs on October 17 and December 19 in Syracuse.

LINDA SCHWAB attended the 27th Annual Scientific Paper Session of the Rochester Academy of Science, held at Roberts Wesleyan College on November 4, 2000 and assisted alumna Maryann Keene '00 in presenting a poster entitled, "Developmental Expression of Phenolic Compounds in Plantago Major (by) Maryann E. Keene, Margaret G. Flowers and Linda S. Schwab."

THOMAS STIADLE attended the 2000 Albany Group Theory Conference sponsored by SUNY at Albany, October 13-15, 2000. In addition to standard geometric group theory fare, he detected a small boom in applications of group theory and topology to binary trees and computer science. Professor Stiadle, along with Debra Boutin of Hamilton College presented a paper entitled, "Semi-direct Products of Graphs of Groups," at the Joint Meeting of The American Mathematical Society and The Mathematical Association of America at New Orleans in January 2001.

CRAWFORD THOBURN’s original composition for unaccompanied mixed voices entitled, "Out of Your Sleep Arise, and Wake," has been accepted for publication by Mark Foster Music, Inc. The Wells Chamber Singers, under his direction, participated in the International Youth Music Festival in Bad Arolsen, Germany, August 20-26. During their residency at the Festival, they performed seven times in six days for large and responsive audiences in Amoeneburg, Calden, and Cassel, as well as in Bad Arolsen. The singers were also featured on Hessian State Radio and in the newspapers, and reviewers praised their performances. Waltruat Deinert was instrumental in arranging their participation in the Festival and for their travel and housing arrangements while in Germany. Professor Thoburn’s arrangement of the Finnish folk melody, "In Heavenly Love Abiding," for mixed voices with organ accompaniment, published by Carl Fischer Inc., was performed by a festival choir consisting of singers from all over the Diocese of Kansas at Grace Episcopal Cathedral in Topeka on November 4. On November 11, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, conducted by Professor Thoburn, presented a concert of music for women’s voices in Barler Recital Hall to a large receptive audience, including parents and prospective students. Included in the program were selections by Bach, Brahms, Hassler, and Pergolesi, renaissance part-songs, folksongs, and spirituals. Professor Thoburn’s original composition, "There is no Rose of Such Virtue," was performed on December 3 by the choir of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in Jacksonville, Florida, at their annual Advent Procession with Carols. The Cathedral choir also performed this work, published by H.W. Gray, in 1991, 1992, and 1995. On November 19, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, conducted by Professor Thoburn, performed in concert with the Men’s Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute at the Worcester, Massachusetts, Art Museum. The featured joint works, accompanied by orchestra, were the Coronation Anthems, written for the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline of England, by George Frideric Handel. Wells student soloists in the Handel works were sopranos Karina Conkrite and Angela Dockwill and altos Nandani Sinha and Michelle Trickey. In December the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers gave three performances: on December 2, they sang at the Morgan Opera House as part of the Christmas in Aurora celebration; on December 7, they presented their annual Holiday Concert in Barler Hall; on December 9, they performed at Emerson Park Pavilion in Auburn as part of the annual Festival of Trees program, sponsored by the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. Admission to the Holiday Concert was by donation of non-perishable food items for the Cayuga County Food Pantry. The Wells Consort, Wells College’s collegium musicum, hosted an evening of recorder playing called a "Big Toot" for recorder players from Ithaca and other areas in the Alice Barler Recital Hall on November 30. The Wells Consort and Elizabethan Conversation played for Christmas in Aurora at the Morgan Opera House on December 2. The program included Anthony Holborne’s renaissance dances on recorders and holiday music on lutes and hurdy-gurdy. Professor Thoburn’s original composition, "Shepherds, Awake!," received its first performance by the Sanctuary Choir of the Thoburn United Methodist Church in St. Clairsville, Ohio, on December 24, 2000. This anthem, scored for mixed voices with keyboard accompaniment, is a setting of a text by Isaac Watts and was commissioned by the church in celebration of the 200^th anniversary of its founding. In late January, the Wells Chamber Singers, conducted by Professor Thoburn, released a new compact disk of music performed and recorded during their residency at the Millennium Youth Music Festival based in Bad Arolsen, Germany, last August. Included on the compact disk, which is available in the college bookstore, are classic selections for women’s voices from the 16^th through the 20^th centuries, as well as settings of American folksongs and spirituals.

MUIN UDDIN served as an outside examiner for an Honors Project and Thesis entitled "Urban Indicators: A Fundamental Composite Index" at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He was also one of three oral examiners on June 1, 2000, for this thesis and project. Professor Uddin presented "College from an Economics Professor’s Point of View" at the Johns Hopkins University's 2000 College Colloquium, on October 15, 2000, at Syracuse University. The purpose of this annual colloquium is to offer high school sophomores, juniors, seniors and their parents a chance to familiarize themselves with the college process and to explore various educational choices by hearing from college students, university level advisors and professors. In the same colloquium, Professor Uddin also participated in an Academic Panel consisting of professors of several disciplines in the sciences and humanities. He also took the opportunity to speak about Wells to those present and to distribute Wells' Admissions Brochure. Faye Justicia-Linde `01 participated as a speaker on the student panel. Professor Uddin presented a paper entitled, "International Trade and Fiscal Efforts in LDCs" at the Eastern Economic Association’s 27^th Annual Conference, which took place February 23-25, 2001, in New York City. He was also a discussant for two papers at the same conference.

A water quality biomonitoring project proposed by THOMAS VAWTER and NIAMH O’LEARY was among those chosen for endorsement by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization in July 2000. The Intermunicipal Organization selected eleven watershed-based environmental projects to include as recommended action items in their interim report to the Department of State. The Department of State is funding development of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Management Plan.

CHRISTINA WAHL has been appointed as a Courtesy Assistant Professor with the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, from September 1, 2000, through August 31, 2005. On October 4 and 5, she attended the Extramural Associates Program Workshop of the National Institutes of Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on October 5, 6, and 7, she attended the Northeast Regional Teaching Workshop at Cook College, Rutgers University. Professor Wahl co-authored the recently published paper, "The Primordial to Primary Follicle Transition," (J.E. Fortune, R.A. Cushman, C.M.Wahl, S. Kito) in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Vol. 163, pp.53-60, 2000. "Cryptic Responses to Tissue Manipulations in Avian Embryos" by Professor Wahl and Drew M. Noden has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, published by the Pergamon Press. This article is one of a series written in honor of Viktor Hamburger's 100th birthday, and in the spirit of his pioneering studies on the movements of cell populations within embryos, undertakes to describe some of the far-reaching morphogenetic effects on tissues that result from surgical manipulation of very young embryos. Viktor Hamburger was a student of Hans Spemann, who received the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1935 for the discovery (with his student Hilde Mangold) of the vertebrate organizer--a group of cells in the very early embryo which dictate the animal's future body axis. Drew Noden was a student of Viktor's, and Christina was a student of Drew's. Thus the tradition of experimental embryology lives on at Wells. On March 9, Drew Noden delivered a Wells College Science Colloquium on the topic of "how the embryo builds its head and puts muscles there." Drew is internationally renowned for his work on the neural crest and head development.

The WELLS COLLEGE PRESS has published a reprint of Leslie Norris’s Norris’s Ark, which originally appeared from Tidal Press in 1988.

ROSEMARY WELSH presented a paper entitled, "Botero’s Buoyant Bubbles," on the panel she organized and chaired, "Odyssey to Bliss Through Madness," at the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 2 to 5. She has also had her paper, "Sacred Geometry Re-Visited," accepted for the Annual Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Professor Welsh presented a paper titled, "Shadows of Evil: Hitchcockian Interpretations from Shadows of a Doubt to Psycho," at a conference on Brainwatching for the Media Studies Watch group at the Ryerson Institute in Toronto, Canada.

The editor of the Neuropsychology Review has requested JENNY YATES' article, "Emotional Complexes' Role in Word Associations of a Split-Brain Woman" for publication as a chapter in a book honoring the late Roger Sperry, Nobel Laureate in Medicine. Professor Yates was invited to present a paper on Jung’s Concept of the Self at a national meeting of Jungian analysts in Boulder, Colorado, on October 19. Professor Yates presented her work in progress for a second book for Princeton Press at the Ithaca Jung Society on December 3. She was invited to discuss her book on the Near-Death Experience, published by Rutledge, at St. Bonaventure University in March. She was also invited to give a workshop for Analysts in Training from the United States and Canada in April in Atlanta. The subject was "The Female Self." Her proposal on this topic has just been accepted for publication by Inner City Press in Toronto. The manuscript is due September 2001. Professor Yates has been invited to participate on a panel on the clinical use of dreams at the World Congress of the International Association of Analytical Psychology in Cambridge, England, in August 2001.

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