(Activities Announced at Faculty Meetings,
May, 2002 - April, 2003)
 

KATHLEEN ARNINK presented research at the 32nd Annual New York Wine Industry Workshop on April 4, 2003. Her presentation was entitled, "Interactions Between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Oenococcus oeni."

CHRISTOPHER BAILEY organized Wells' participation at, and attended, the 16th National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in April 2002. The students presenting were: Michelle Bunny (History), Elizabeth Miller (FLLC), Elena Napolitano (Art History), and Tsering Choden (BCS). In addition Professor Bailey participated in a NSF-Funded Workshop on "Case Studies in Science" at the University of Buffalo (May 20-24); presented a session on "Thinking Inside the Box", an exercise he developed for his General Chemistry course; presented a talk, "Delineation of the Cayuga Basin: Exercises in Geographical Information Systems (GIS)," for Alumnae College (May 31); attended the 9th Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research at Connecticut College (June 19-23); and attended the Gordon Conference on "Innovations in College Chemistry Teaching" at Connecticut College (June 23-28). Professor Bailey’s paper describing his classroom exercise, "Thinking Inside the Box," was peer reviewed and published by The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. It is accessible via their web site at the University of Buffalo. "The Chemistry of Cooley's Anemia," a Case Study written by Professor Bailey and Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir from St. Cloud State University, was peer reviewed and published by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University of Buffalo. This particular Case Study was developed for the course in bioinorganic chemistry taught by Professor Bailey last semester. To read the case and its teaching notes and Professor Bailey’s paper go to: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm.

Professor Bailey organized Wells' participation in, and attended, the 17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, held March 13-15, 2003, at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Student presenters (and their respective faculty sponsors) included: Brooke Andersen (Spencer Hildahl), Sociology; Tracy Flynn (Catherine Burroughs), English; Megan McCarthy (Spencer Hildahl), Sociology; Meghan McCune (Ernest Olson), Anthropology; Sarah Steinkamp (Laura McClusky), Sociology/Anthropology; Yuko Takagi (Christina Wahl), Biological and Chemical Sciences; Tara Venezio (Candace Collmer and Thomas Vawter), Biological and Chemical Sciences.

BRUCE BENNETT has had poems published in the journals Reflections and Light, and in the texts, An Exaltation of Forms and Literature: The Human Experience (8^th edition). He read his poems in April 2002 at Adams House at Harvard University, and in May for the Union Springs Lions Club. He also recorded a poem for the CD of the journal Rattapallax, which will appear with the next issue. His manuscript, "Adult Education," was selected as a finalist in the 2002 nova House Chapbook Competition. Professor Bennett’s review, "Preservation Poets," which appeared in the New York Times Book Review, March 1, 1992, was reprinted in Contemporary literary Criticism, Vol. 162, published by the Gale Group. Professor Bennett’s poem, "Phenomena," appeared in the fall 2002 issue of Rattapallax; he read his poem at the reading celebrating the magazine’s publication at the Midtown Manhattan Library on September 14. Professor Bennett read his poetry in the Renata Rewald Writers Series at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora on September 21. He also read at Keuka College with other FootHills Publishing poets on October 1. He had two poems published in The Healing Muse, three fables in Green Mountains Review "Comedy in Contemporary American Poetry" Special Issue, and five poems in Edge City Review. Professor Bennett read his poetry in the FootHills Authors Reading at Wells on October 17. His poem, "Camp Version," was published in the magazine 5AM. His review, "A Limpid Medium: The Poetry of David Mason," appeared in the autumn issue of Light. Professor Bennett’s new book, Funny Signals, has been published by FootHills Publishing. Funny Signals, a full-length collection of political poems and fables, includes the complete text of Professor Bennett’s 1989 FootHills chapbook, To Be a Heron, which was dedicated to Ronald Reagan. Funny Signals is dedicated to our current leader, George W. Bush. He read his poems at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1, and at a FootHills Authors Reading at Downtown Writers in Syracuse on March 7. His essay/interview, "Gavin Ewart and Civil Humor: An Interview with Stephen W. Delchamps," appeared in the Winter 2002-03 issue of Light. His poem, "Patterns," was published in the March 2003 issue of Hummingbird. Professor Bennett had three poems published in Tar River Poetry and a poem in The Edge City Review. He also read his poems in Ithaca at a reading of FootHills authors sponsored by the Ithaca Community Poets on March 22. 

In August 2002, CATHERINE BURROUGHS was a co-coordinator for the first conference devoted solely to British Romantic drama and theatre. Called "Drama and Theatre History, 1770-1840: New Approaches, Contexts, and Pedagogies," this one-day event was held at a theatre in downtown London, Ontario, and it featured theatre scholars and practitioners from Australia, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. That same week, at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, she chaired a special session called "Romantic Era Drama and Theatre II: Performers and Theatres." Professor Burroughs was one of five scholars invited to participate in a symposium sponsored by The Juggernaut Theatre Company in New York City in late October. This event was called "The First 100 Years: The Professional Female Playwright," and it was held at The American Airlines Theatre on 42nd Street. At the symposium, scenes written by 17th- and 18th-century British female playwrights were performed by professional actors, and Professor Burroughs introduced the 1798 play written by Joanna Baillie. The audience was composed of approximately 200 designers, playwrights, dramaturgs, actors, and directors working in New York City--many of whom are aiming to bring these playwrights and their work to contemporary theatres. The event was filmed for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. While at the symposium, Professor Burroughs was invited to serve as the dramaturg for the world premiere of a Joanna Baillie tragedy, Count Basil (1798), to be performed at the Horizons Theatre in Washington DC in June. Horizons Theatre, founded by Leslie Jacobson twenty-five years ago, features plays that focus on women's experiences. During the past year, Professor Burrough’s book, Women in British Romantic Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2000), received favorable reviews in the following journals: 19th-Century Studies, English Studies, Romanticism on the Net, 19th-Century Literature, and 18th-Century Studies. 

On another note, Professor Burroughs has just been asked by the family of Jonas Barish to be the respositor for his extensive notes on closet drama. Mr. Barish was a professor at Berkeley, who recently passed away, leaving behind an unfinished book on closet drama. This book was to have been the follow-up to his influential 1981 publication, The Antitheatrical Prejudice. 

TERRENCE CHOUINARD’s work, produced by his Wing & the Wheel Press, is on display at the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in an exhibit titled "Under the Influence: Teachers and Students in the Book Arts." Also on display in this exhibit is the Wells College Press "Gardening at Dusk," which was printed by Wells students in the second level letterpress class. He has also been nominated for membership in the Grolier Club, America's oldest (founded in 1884) and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts.

AVA CILIBERTI was nominated and accepted for inclusion in the Marquis Who's Who of American Women, 2003 edition.

CANDACE COLLMER attended a three-day workshop on "Bioinformatics for Educators" at Rochester Institute of Technology in August 2002. The workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and open to both biologists and computer scientists Attendees spent the first two days learning the relevant basics of the other's discipline, and then everyone came together to consider how to design and implement meaningful programs in this new, rapidly expanding area. Professor Collmer attended the third ASM (American Society for Microbiology) and TIGR (The Institute for Genomic Research) Conference on Microbial Genomes in New Orleans from January 29 to February 1, 2003. This was the first leg of one of her projects for her sabbatical leave next year, when she will be learning about bioinformatics and some of the companies developing and using sophisticated computer tools for the analysis of biological data. She commends Michelle Landers for obtaining a grant from the Kauffman Collegiate Entrepreneurship Network, which will support some of her work on bioinformatics next year. One additional goal of that grant is to connect Wells students with entrepreneurs at companies engaged in bioinformatics.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH’S scholarly article, "The Rural Batrachka (Hired Agricultural Laborers) and the Soviet Campaign to Unionize Them," was published in the Journal of Women’s History, Volume XIV, no. 1, Spring 2002. Professor Farnsworth was invited to be a member of the Executive Board of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. She attended an Executive Board meeting at Columbia University on January 18 and chaired the history section at the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual meeting held at Hunter College in New York City on March 22, 2003.

SUSAN FORBES adapted and directed Shakespeare's As You Like It for the Auburn Players. This production was performed throughout Cayuga County including the Wells College Amphitheatre. It was awarded two Merit Awards by the Theatre Association of New York. The production was remounted on October 3-6 at Cayuga Community College as part of a Condensed Shakespeare Festival for the Auburn Players. 

Professor Forbes produced and directed The Schemings of Scapin in September. Approximately 550 people saw the production. The Scapin Production won the following merit Awards by the Theatre Association of New York: Merit Award For Outstanding Accomplishment in Acting to the cast; Merit Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Scenic, Lighting and Mask designs to Joe DeForest; Merit Award to the Musical Director, Musicians, Movement Coach, Hair and Wig Designer, Stage Manager and Crew for Outstanding Work in enhancing the production; Merit Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Costume Design to Judith Johnson; Merit Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Directing to Susan Forbes. Professor Forbes’ production of As You Like It was selected as a competitor/finalist at the Theatre Association of New York State Festival in November. She, along, with Victor Penniman and a number of students from the Scapin production, will be there at the awards ceremony to receive merit awards. Professor Forbes has been elected to the Cayuga County Arts Council and will serve on a special advisory committee for the renovation and restoration of the historic Schines Theatre in downtown Auburn.

SARA FRENCH’s article, "A Widow Building in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall," was published in an anthology called Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe by Ashgate, April 2003. She also chaired a session and presented a paper at the Sixteenth Century Studies Association in San Antonio, Texas, in October called, "Hampton Court to Hardwick Hall: Great Halls, Courtyards, and State Rooms in Sixteenth Century English Architecture."

CYNTHIA GARRETT read her short story, "In Season," in September as part of the Renate Rewald Writers Series at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora. In October, Professor Garrett participated in a panel discussion for high school students and their families, held at Syracuse University. The panel was part of a program administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Professor Garrett reviewed Margaret Cavendish's Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions for Renaissance Quarterly. Her essay "Sexual Consent and the Art of Love in Early Modern English Literature" was accepted for publication in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.

NANCY GILBERTSON presented a solo piano recital in February in Barler Hall. Music on the program was "Children's Corner" by Debussy, two early works by Rachmaninoff, "China Gates" by American minimalist composer John Adams, which was written in the 1970's, and one of the "war" sonatas (written during World War II), Sonata No. 7 by Prokofieff. This program was also presented at Moravia Central High School.

JEANNE GODDARD choreographed and co-produced the 2002 reincarnation of "OPERA COWPOKES—ALIVE!," an original song and dance extravaganza, at the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca in July. She also performed with June Finch/Danceworks at the Provincetown Art Association in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in August. The concert included her vintage solo, "Whither Must I Wander." This past fall Professor Goddard arranged three guest artist residencies on behalf of students: a semester long ballet technique class, a week-long floor barre intensive with Cynthia Williams of Hobart-William Smith Colleges, and a choreographic premier by Lesley Tillotson, performed by students in the Fall Dance Concert, "Dances Unveiled." Professor Goddard also produced and directed the concert, setting one new work and restaging four pieces from repertory. Off campus, Professor Goddard provided choreography for a new multimedia production of Dracula at Barnes Hall, Cornell University. In March, Professor Goddard accompanied a group of students to the Northeast Regional American College Dance Festival conference at SUNY Buffalo. Professor Goddard taught master classes in modern dance technique and Laban Movement Analysis, took two master classes with distinguished instructor Bill Evans, and attended performances and adjudication sessions.

During PILAR GREENWOOD’s sabbatical leave last fall, she participated in the XXII Annual ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in the United States) conference celebrated in Granada, Spain, June 15-18. She presented a paper entitled, "Meaning/Signifying: Four Hispanic Women Poets in the USA," which is expected to be published by the Universidad de Granada 2003. In September she delivered a formal speech that opened the Annual Festival and Fair in Herencia, Spain. The speech, entitled "Tradition and Change in Herencia: The Old and the New," was co-authored and co-delivered with Davydd J. Greenwood and was carried on regional autonomous television channels #3 and #4 of Castilla-La Mancha, on local and regional radio, and was published by the regional newspaper, Canfali, in its September 27, 2002, issue. In October, Professor Greenwood participated in the conference, "The Past as Future," a series of intellectual round tables and workshops or "Jornadas" organized at the International Institute "Casa de Velázquez" at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. International scholars from France, Spain, Mexico, Italy, and the United States presented papers and led discussions in which Professor Greenwood participated. In December, Professor Greenwood was invited to lead a performance of two of her children’s plays at the local preschool in Herencia, Spain. These two plays, "El tlacuache y el coyote" and "Mr. Pérez Mouse," which she wrote in rhyme form, introduce learning about other cultures to young audiences and will also be performed at a second school in the spring of 2003. Professor Greenwood has been invited back to those schools and is working on a bilingual (Spanish/English) collection of plays for children.

After a particularly successful meeting of the Conference on New York State History held on the Wells campus during the summer of 2001, MICHAEL GROTH was invited to serve as a permanent member of the program committee for the conference.  In March 2002, Professor Groth worked with the committee at the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown to plan the 2002 conference in Saratoga Springs.  In June, he attended a weeklong seminar at Columbia University co-sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.  Entitled "Slavery Studies Today," the seminar, conducted by Professor David Brion Davis of Yale University, brought together approximately three dozen faculty members from CIS-member institutions for intensive discussion of historiography and pedagogy. Professor Groth's essay entitled "Laboring for Freedom" appeared in Mighty Change, Tall Within, a volume on the African-American experience in New York State published by SUNY Press this winter." Professor Groth was invited to speak as a guest lecturer at Mount Saint Mary's College in Newburgh, New York, on November 14. He delivered a lecture entitled "Slavery and Race in the Hudson Valley." Professor Groth met with other members of the Program Committee for the Conference on New York State History in Binghamton on February 4 to begin work on the program for this year's conference to be held at Bard College in June.  He gave an interview to the Poughkeepsie Journal relating to his essay, "Laboring for Freedom in Dutchess County," which has appeared in Mighty Change, Tall Within, a volume on the African-American experience in New York and the Hudson Valley, published by SUNY Press.

SPENCER HILDAHL reviewed the book, Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated by Information Technology, by Abbe Mowshowitz, for the November 2002 issue of CHOICE. His review of the book, Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, was published in the December issue of CHOICE.

KENT KLITGAARD delivered a paper entitled, "Environmental Racism in Cayuga County: A GIS Approach," at the 55th Annual convention of the New York State Economics Association in Buffalo, New York, on October 19. He also chaired the session on "Applied Microeconomics," and discussed a paper on "The Shadow Price of Morality."

CYNTHIA J. KOEPP presented a paper entitled "Making Money: Re-reading Diderot's Encyclopédie as a 'How-To' Book," at The 48^th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies that was held at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, on April 13, 2002. She was also invited to participate in an international conference devoted to the history of children and childhood jointly organized by Princeton and Carnegie-Mellon Universities that took place April 17-20 in Princeton, New Jersey. Professor Koepp spoke about some of her recent research on pedagogy and eighteenth century publishing in a paper entitled "Curiosity, Science, and Experiential Learning in Eighteenth-Century France." In June, Professor Koepp’s article "Making Money: Artisans and Entrepreneurs in Diderot’s Encyclopédie" appeared in a special issue of Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, entitled, Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading, edited by Daniel Brewer and Julie Candler Hayes. In July she participated in a weeklong seminar on the History of the Book (1400-1800) offered by the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Professor Koepp participated in a conference on "Liberty, Nature, and Wisdom in the Philosophical Tales of the French Enlightenment" sponsored by the Liberty Fund that took place in October 2002 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Fifteen scholars (including philosophers, literary scholars, historians, political scientists and economists) from the United States, Canada, France, England, and Hungary discussed texts by Diderot, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Madame de Graffigny. Her article "Travail, charité, et prostitution à Besançon, 1740-80: le cas du Bon Pasteur," has been accepted for publication by the French journal Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine. Professor Koepp has also been invited to present a paper on eighteenth-century attitudes toward artisans at a conference entitled "Perceptions of Labour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe" organized by the University of Salzburg and the Free University of Brussels that will take place in Salzburg, Austria, in May 2003.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Institute of African Development at Cornell University to deliver a public lecture, entitled "Reflections on Welfare State for Development in Africa: In Search of Alternative Strategies in the Context of the Paralyzed Unipolar System," on May 2, 2002. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo wrote an extensive book review of Opoku Agyeman's book Africa's Persistent Vulnerable Link to Global Politics, San Jose, New York, Lincoln, and Shanghai: University Press, 2001. This review was published in the Journal of Comparative Education and International Relations in Africa (JEDIRAF), nos. 1 and 2, volume 4, 2002.

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo participated (among 20 other scholars and policymakers who were selected from North America--Canada and the United States) in "Germany Today 2002," which was organized by the Office for International Affairs of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and was sponsored by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The program was held between June 15 and 28, 2002. It included workshops/seminars, visits to the governmental, research, and historic centers, Headquarters of the European Union, Bayer's Global Business, and museums in Bonn, Belgium, Leverkusen, Cologne, Munich, Berlin. Some of the themes of the seminars and roundtable discussions were: The Current Trends and Major Issues of Research Policies in Germany; Legal Issues Related to Health Care Research and Discovery in Germany; Challenges of Global Environmental Change; The Catholic Position in the Current Public Discussion on Bioethical Questions with Special Emphasis on Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Transatlantic Research Cooperation in a Wider European Context; Sustainable Development in A European Union Context.

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo also co-coordinated the work of the Institute of Governance 2002 of the Council of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), which was held in Dakar, Senegal between August 3 and 28, 2002. The theme of the institute was "Intra-State Challenges in Africa." His article entitled: "Reflections on the African Renaissance and Its Pragmatic Implications for Deconstructing the Past and Reconstructing Africa" was published in the Journal of La Renaissance Noire/Black Renaissance, Volume 4, No. 1 (Spring 2002). Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited to participate in an International Conference on Africa's Intellectual Caravans: bilad as-Sudan and al-Maghaarib, held at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, in November. He also made two presentations at the conference: "The African State as 'Problématique' and the Foundation of the Current Crisis," and "Realist Pan-Africanism." His article entitled: "Reconceptualizing the State as the Leading Agent of Development in the Context of Globalization in Africa," was published in the African Journal of Political Science/Revue Africaine de Science Politique, Volume 7, Number 1 (2002). Professor Lumumba-Kasongo attended the 10th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) held in Kampala, Uganda, December 8-13, 2002. The topic of the paper presented was: "Reflections on Liberal Democracy and International Debt Issues in Post-Cold War Africa." He was invited by the Department of Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University on February 27, 2003, to give a public lecture in its Annual Lecture Series; the topic of the paper presented was: "Conflicts, Transition, and Reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo."

SANDRA MARSHALL presented a paper entitled, ""'Life is Stronger than Theory: Emma Goldman and Anarchist Praxis," at the American Political Science Association’s annual conference over the Labor Day weekend in Boston. The panel was "Emma Goldman's Political Thought."

LAURA MCCLUSKY received word that the editors of The Encyclopedia of New York State accepted her entry on Keuka College, a former Finger Lakes women's college. Her review of the book, Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain," will appear in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

MICHAEL MIGDAL co-authored the article, "Self-awareness, deindividuation, and social identity: Unraveling theoretical paradoxes by filling empirical lacunae," which has been accepted for publication by the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The other authors were B. Mullen, and D Rozell. He presented his research entitled, "Correlating measures of group variability: Separate measures are not equivalent," at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Los Angeles, California, in February.

MILENE MORFEI attended the 25th annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology in St. Petersburg, Florida in January. She had a manuscript accepted for publication by the Journal of Adult Development entitled, "Agentic and Communal Generative Behavior in Four Areas of Adult Life: Implications for Psychological Well-Being." Professor Morfei has been invited to participate in a summer session of the Oxford Round Table, which will be held at St. Anthony's College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, from August 10 - 15, 2003.  This annual session of the Round Table will be devoted to the topic of human and civil rights with particular reference to women's rights and issues of gender discrimination in both the public and private sectors. 

VICTORIA MUÑOZ has had her research on transgender identity and sexual orientation accepted for publication by The Haworth Press. Her new book will be included in their Gay and Lesbian Studies series and is tentatively titled, Orienting Gender, Disorienting Sex. Professor Muñoz attended "Sex in the Stacks," a conference at Cornell’s Human Sexuality Collection introducing primary source research on sexuality. At the University of Connecticut, Professor Muñoz was an invited lecturer for the GLBTQ Awareness Month and the Out to Lunch Lecture Series where she presented her research on transgender identities and their interplay with sexual orientations. At the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Professor Muñoz was the keynote speaker for Latin Night where she gave a talk on the tensions between individual and group identities among Latinas and Latinos. Professor Muñoz presented her research in the session, "Gender, Orientation, and Transgender Issues" at the annual meeting of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, which was held this year in Montreal. Professor Muñoz served as a reviewer for the textbook, Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies, to be published by Sage Publications. Professor Muñoz traveled to La Habana, Cuba, to participate in the 16th World Congress of Sexology held from March 10 through 14. The congress was held under the auspices of the World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization and organized by the Cuban National Center for Sexual Education. Professor Muñoz presented her research on transgender identity and sexual orientation in a symposium on Gender Identity Disorders. Research studies on transsexualism by endocrinologists, psychiatrists, counselors, plastic surgeons, educators, and others from Spain, Puerto Rico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, Cuba, and other countries were also presented thus providing an opportunity to compare findings internationally.

NIAMH O’LEARY was the event coordinator for two days of environmental education and outreach activities in celebration of National Drinking Water Week. The event was held in Ithaca in May 2002 and was co-sponsored by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and the Tompkins County Health Department. A paper by Professor O’Leary and Margaret Smith of Cornell's Plant Breeding Department has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. The paper is entitled "Uncovering Corn Adaptation to Intercrop with Bean by Selecting for System Yield in the Intercrop Environment."

NIAMH O' LEARY, TOM VAWTER and their collaborators at Cornell's Center for the Environment received USDA research funds to support summer work on assessing the reliability of water quality data collected by citizen volunteers in the Salmon Creek Watershed. Professors O’Leary and Vawter also attended a three-day conference on "Remote Sensing Education" in Auburn in June. Conference topics included basic and advanced techniques in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the application of these techniques in the classroom. Professors O’Leary and Vawter jointly delivered a talk entitled, "Citizen Involvement in the Cayuga Lake Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan," in Ithaca College's Biology Seminar Series on March 6. 

VICTOR PENNIMAN directed the music for the Scapin production and performed with the group, discontinuo. They received merit awards from the Theater Association of New York State for Outstanding Work in enhancing the production. Professor Penniman performed with discontinuo, an award-winning electric Baroque ensemble, on April 4 in Phipps Auditorium. discontinuo, is the result of collaboration among three early music performers who began experimenting with the possibilities of playing 17th and 18th century music on 20th century electric instruments. 

LAURA PURDY had the following papers published:

"The Bioethics of Assisted Reproductive Technology," Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 
online encyclopedia published by the Nature Group;

"Priority Setting for New Technologies in Medicine: A Qualitative Study," ( Peter Singer, Douglas K. Martin, Mita Giacomini, and Laura Purdy) British Medical Journal, Vol. 321 (November 25,2000), pp. 1316-1318;

"Attributions of Cause and Recurrence in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors," (with DE Stewart, AM Cheung, S Duff, F Wong, M McQuestion, T. Cheng, L Purdy, T Bunston), PsychoOncology, Vol. 10, n. 2, 2001:179-83;

"Xenografts: Are the Risks So Great that We Should not Proceed?" (with Peter 
Collignon), Microbes and Infection, vol. 3/4 (2001), 79-83.;

"Xenotransplantation: three questions to advance the discourse: A Response," (letter) 
British Medical Journal: April 28, 2000;

"In Defense of Hiring Apparently Less Qualified Women," reprinted in Sex and Gender:

A Spectrum of Views, ed. Philp and Celia Devine, Wadsworth, 2003. 

Professor Purdy also served as outside evaluator for a promotion to full professor of philosophy (Wright State University) 

A paper entitled, "Waiting Lists for Radiation Therapy: A Case Study," co-authored by Professor Purdy (David D'Souza, Douglas Martin, Andrea Bezjak, and Peter Singer), was published in BMC Health Services Research (2001) 1:3. A 2-page review of her book, Embodying Bioethics (1999, with Anne Donchin) has appeared in Politics in the Life Sciences, March 2002, 21(1): 72-72, by Rachel Ankeny. Professor Purdy contributed blurbs to two scholarly books, one published by UC California Press and the other published by Indiana University Press. Professor Purdy presented a paper at a panel on "Bioethics as a Social Movement" at the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities in October in Baltimore. She also presented a paper at the University of Georgia in Athens entitled "Should We Put the 'Xeno' in 'Transplant'?" Professor Purdy gave a radio interview for WUGA. Additionally, she discussed her new paper, "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," with the Bioethics Reading Group at the University of Rochester on November 4, 2002.

DAVID REIS traveled to Ottawa on April 27, 2002, to present a paper entitled "Jesus' Farewell Discourse, 'Otherness,' and the Construction of a Johannine Identity" at the American Academy of Religion's Eastern International Regional Meeting. Professor Reis reviewed Antigone Samellas's book Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East: An Interpretation in the Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. His grant with the Pluralism Project to study religious communities in Central New York has been renewed. Professor Reis’s paper "Jesus' Farewell Discourse, 'Otherness,' and the Construction of a Johannine Identity" was accepted for publication in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. Professor Reis was invited to Claremont, California, to participate in the conference "Luke and Mimesis: Imitations of Classical Literature in Luke-Acts."  He presented a paper entitled "The Areopagus as Echo Chamber: Mimesis and Intertextuality in Acts 17."  This paper has also been accepted for publication in The Journal of Higher Criticism.

SARAH ROBERTS' book Red Geometry was exhibited at the Third National Book and Paper Arts Biennial in Chicago during the months of September and October. Professor Roberts gave a presentation on "Poetic Vision and the Aesthetics of Print" at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. True False, a 23-foot accordion book created by Sarah Roberts, is on exhibit this month at the annual Center for the Book invitational in Iowa City, Iowa.

Drawings by WILLIAM ROBERTS appeared in seven different editions of the "Saratoga Sketchbook" published by the Syracuse Post-Standard during August and September of 2002. An exhibition of his paintings, photography, and drawings was held at the Saratoga Arms in Saratoga Springs during July, August, and September. This was the 23rd consecutive annual exhibition at Saratoga for Professor Roberts. Sponsored by The Syracuse Post-Standard, Professor Roberts was credentialed as a media photographer for the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Arlington Park in Chicago on October 26. An exhibition of his abstract paintings was held in March and April at Gallery 15 in Rochester, New York. A broadside featuring the drawing of Professor Roberts and a poem by Bruce Bennett, entitled "Calligraphy," a chapbook, entitled "Were I To Tell You," by Bruce Bennett featuring the drawings of Professor Roberts, and a chapbook, entitled "Il Penseroso & L'Allegro," by poet Ed Skoog featuring the drawings of William Roberts were published and printed by the Wells College Press. . 

THOMAS STIADLE attended the annual Cornell Topology Festival in May 2002. In April 2002, he took a student to the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held at Hamilton College. In addition to attending others' talks, Professor Stiadle spoke on "Real Numbers, Place Value and Arithmetic" in the Math Education session. For a week in June at Colorado State University, Professor Stiadle read Advanced Placement calculus exams as a faculty consultant for the Educational Testing Service. Almost 200,000 American and International students annually take Advanced Placement exams in calculus. Math instructors from around the country gather to read the written portions of these exams, make professional contacts, and engage in discussions on curricular and pedagogical issues. 

On May 7, 2002, CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the spring concert by the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in Barler Recital Hall. The choir was accompanied by flautist Laura Campbell and pianist Nancy Gilbertson. On May 11, three student singers from his studio, Sarah Beck, Karina Conkrite, and Nandani Sinha, presented a solo vocal recital in Barler accompanied by pianists Nancy Gilbertson and himself. On July 7, one of Professor Thoburn’s original compositions published by Warner Brothers, "Bread of the World," was performed during the morning service at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, by the Nassau Presbyterian Church Choir of Princeton, New Jersey, conducted by Kenneth Kelley. Johann Sebastian Bach served the St. Thomas Church for the last twenty-six years of his life. It is the composer’s burial site and a place of pilgrimage for musicians from around the world. Mark Foster Music recently accepted for publication his original composition, "When Christ Was Born of Mary Free," a setting of an anonymous English text from the Harleian Manuscript (1456) for unaccompanied mixed voices. Professor Thoburn conducted the college choral ensembles in a joint concert with the Men’s Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a symphonic orchestra at the Sommer Center on October 27. The major collaborative work on the program was Ludwig van Beethoven’s "Mass in C Major" op.86, which featured student vocal soloists Angela Dockwiller and Nandani Sinha. An unusual feature of the occasion was that several Wells Choir alumnae from the classes of 1973 through 2002 rehearsed with the current choir for several weeks and took part in the performance, which received a standing ovation from a capacity crowd. On November 10, Professor Thoburn conducted the college choral ensembles in a joint concert for Parents’ Weekend with the college Chamber Orchestra conducted by Laura Campbell in Barler Recital Hall. On December 7, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers under the direction of Professor Thoburn presented a concert of choral music for the holidays at the Morgan Opera House in downtown Aurora as a part of the annual "Christmas in Aurora" celebration, which was sponsored by the Aurora Merchants Association. During the holiday season, his published choral works are being widely performed. To date, he has learned of collegiate performances in this country by the choirs of Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, Blackburn College in Illinois, Davidson College in South Carolina, and Nazareth College in New York. Professor Thoburn conducted the annual Holiday Concert by the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers on December 11. Several noteworthy performances of his choral compositions took place during December. Ward Jamison conducted the Allegheny College choir in a performance of his recently published setting of "Nowell, Out of Your Sleep Arise and Wake" in a concert at the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later in a performance on the Allegheny campus. Another performance of this composition was given by the Davidson College choir, directed by Raymond Sprague, and in a recording of this performance was subsequently broadcast on South Carolina Public Radio. A recording of his composition, "A Lovely Rose is All my Song," sung by Madrigalia, a professional chamber choir from Rochester, New York, conducted by Roger Wilhelm, was broadcast extensively on Public Radio International during the holiday season.

MUIN UDDIN’s article, "The Economics of a Nobel Laureate, William Vickrey: An Expert on Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection," was published in Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates of the Twentieth Century, edited by Abu N. M. Wahid, Greenwood Press, July 2002.

CHRISTINA WAHL presented two papers at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in May: one entitled, "Intraocular Pressure in Chicks Raised in Constant Light" (Authors Tong Li, Christina Wahl, and Howard Howland) and the other "Chick Eyes Recovering from Constant Light Exposure have Higher Stromal Cell Counts and Smaller Venous Sinuses but no Change in Stromal Glycosaminoglycan Content," (Authors Christina Wahl, Tong Li, and Howard Howland). During the summer, students Emily Mazur '03 and Yuko Takagi '03 spent ten weeks fully engaged in research with Professor Wahl at Cornell. Professor Wahl participated in research that led to the presentation of the following abstract at the 9th International Conference on Myopia, held in Hong Kong on November 10-14: Li, T., C. Wahl, and H.C.Howland (2002) Comparison of varying diurnal light periods on the growth of the chick eye. 9th International Conference on Myopia 10-14 November Hong Kong Section, Program and Abstract Book p. 34, Abstract no. 70. Professor Wahl attended the national convention of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) held in Philadelphia from March 26-31. She is a member of the Society for College Teachers within the Association. Professor Wahl obtained valuable insights into the goals and pedagogical approaches used by high school teachers in preparing students for college courses in the sciences. She participated in a luncheon for the Society of College Teachers, where she had an interesting discussion with John Penick, President-Elect of NSTA and chair of the Science Education Department at North Carolina State University.

ROSEMARY WELSH presented a paper entitled, "David Alfaro Siqueiros: March to Humanity," at the 17th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 9. She also chaired two sessions as Moderator and attended the business meeting of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.

The Book Arts Center was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Kauffman Foundation, which will go to support a national book arts symposium to be held on campus at the end of April 2004.

The Wells College Press has published Professor Emeritus of French Suzanne Hecht’s translation of Gilles Ségal’s play, In those days, love… The publication of this translation is a noteworthy accomplishment for Professor Hecht, who is proud of having received the author’s permission to translate his work. Thanks go to the members of the Book Arts Center staff, Terry Chouinard, Nancy Gil, and Sarah Roberts; as well as to Professor Emeritus Alan Clugston, Librarian Jeri Vargo, Professor Linda Lohn, and Attilio Rezzonico, former manager of the Wells College Bookstore, for their various roles in bringing Professor Hecht’s work to fruition.
 

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