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2003-2004 Faculty Accomplishments
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(Activities Announced at Faculty Meetings,
May, 2003 - April, 2004)
 

Cornell University has named LEGRACE BENSON as one of two Cornell Civic Fellows for this academic year. The special project supported for this fellowship is a joint effort of the local currency, Ithaca HOURS, and Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County seeking to enhance job opportunities and expenditure choices for low-income families. Economists and public policy experts on the faculty may be interested to learn more about the program from Professor Benson.

BRUCE BENNETT served on the Panel of Judges for 2003-04 Saltonstall Residencies. He also had four poems published in the Spring 2003 issue of Iambs & Trochees. In June, Professor Bennett had three poems published in the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, eds. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson (Story Line Press 2003). One of those poems, "The Skeptical Prince," was featured on The Poets’ Grimm website. Another, "The True Story of Snow White," was featured on the Verse Daily website, June 24, 2003. His book of political fables and satire, Funny Signals, was reviewed by Richard Wakefield in the August 2003 issue of Light. The New York State Council on the Arts awarded the Visiting Writers Series a five-year grant, beginning during the current year. Professor Bennett and Vice President and Treasure Diane Hutchinson worked together on this grant for the College. 

Professor Bennett also had three poems published in The Formalist. He gave two poetry readings: one at the Geneva Summer Arts Festival at Geneva Free Library on August 7 and the other for the Watkins Glen Writers Group at the J.W. Brace Bookstore in Watkins Glen on August 25. His poem, "The True Story of Snow White," was published in the textbook/anthology Literature: The Human Experience, Shorter 8th Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003). He also had two poems in the just published edition of The Healing Muse, an issue which also includes essays by Victor Hammer Fellow Sarah Roberts and recent graduate Nicole Moro. A revised edition of Professor Bennett’s 1994 Wells Press chapbook, "Her poetry manuscript is currently circulating," was published by Clandestine Press. Professor Bennett gave a reading of his poetry at the Canastota Public Library on October 22 as part of the library’s "100th Anniversary Poetry Reading Series." His poem, "Sick Cats," was published in the Fall 2003, 25th Anniversary issue of Tar River Poetry. Professor Bennett’s book, The Deserted Campus, a collection of poems with accompanying drawings by David Grossvogel, was published by Clandestine Press. He had three poems published in the magazine, Reflections, and a poem published in the Pudding House Publications anthology, Urgent Care for the World. Professor Bennett had four poems published in IAMBS & TROCHEES and two poems in LIGHT. On April 8, he read his poetry at the Guernsey Memorial Library in Norwich, New York. 

The "IEEE Circuits and Systems Society" has accepted MOHAMED BINGABR’s manuscript, "Recovery of Corrupted DCT Coded Images Based on Reference Information," for publication as a Transactions Paper. He presented a paper entitled, "An Image Quality Measure for Image Communication," at the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference in New York City, October 5-8.

During summer 2003, CATHERINE BURROUGHS led discussions in Washington, D.C., and New York City following performances of the world premiere of Joanna Baillie's 1798 tragic play, Count Basil, staged by Horizons Theatre--the oldest company in the United States devoted to producing plays by women. She also chaired a special session on the drama and theatre of Joanna Baillie at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in New York City. In July, Professor Burroughs’s article on a 1780 play by Sophia Lee was reprinted in a special issue of European Romantic Review subtitled "Romantic Drama: Origins, Permutations, and Legacies." Professor Burrough’s 1996 article on Joanna Baillie, which was reprinted in 1999, has just been reprinted again in the first-ever collection of critical essays on Baillie--from Routledge. The bibliographical information is as follows: "'A Reasonable Woman's Desire': The Private Theatrical and Joanna Baillie's The Tryal" in Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays. Ed. Thomas Crochunis. Routledge, 2004. 187-205. Recently, Professor Burroughs served as one of the advisors of the new production by Cornell’s Interactive Theatre Ensemble (CITE)--"Absit Invidia (No Offense Intended)"-- which designs short plays based on real-case scenarios for viewing by employees in corporate and other workplace environments. Professor Burroughs has been invited to serve as a section editor for the website, "British Women Playwrights Around 1800" (BWP1800site). The co-founders of the site wrote: "After taking stock of the past history and current needs of the BWP1800 site, we've decided that the time is ripe to invite colleagues with an interest in the site to play roles in guiding portions of its ongoing development. …We're looking for someone who would generate ideas for development of scholarly content in consultation with us, coordinate communication with those invited to contribute, and manage appropriate processes of peer review and text preparation."

LAURA CAMPBELL performed with the "Society for New Music" at the Everson Museum in Syracuse on November 9. Women composers, Libby Larsen and Barbara White, wrote both the works that she performed. On November 23 Ms. Campbell participated in the premier of a musical theater production of the children's story "My Father's Dragon" in Ithaca. It was produced by the organization, "Music's Recreation," which is based in Ithaca. It has as its goal to provide classical musical experiences to young audiences.

TERRENCE CHOUINARD represented the Wells Book Arts Center at the recent Guild of Bookworkers Standards in Excellence Meeting held in Denver, Colorado, in November. Also of note, Mr. Chouinard and NANCY GIL produced over 500 posters for the State Theatre of Ithaca promoting the sold out performance by Gillian Welch.

CANDACE COLLMER has been awarded a Research Opportunity Award (ROA) from the National Science Foundation to support her work during summer 2003 in the laboratory of Jack Werren at the University of Rochester.  Dr. Werren is a world-renowned expert on the small parasitoid wasps that Professors Collmer and A. Thomas Vawter have been studying with Wells biology students for the past two years. The first results of that research were presented publicly by Wells students at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in March 2003.

Binder-in-Residence DONIA CONN had an article on the Springback Account Book Binding (co-authored with Peter Verheyen, former Binder-in-Residence) published in the most recent issue of The New Bookbinder, Journal of Designer Bookbinders, UK. She will be teaching a workshop on this topic in Austin, Texas in May.

NICK DAVIS has been elected President of the Board of Directors of 7th Art Corporation, the non-profit organization that manages and oversees Ithaca's two arthouse cinemas, Cinemapolis and Fall Creek Pictures. He was an invited speaker at QGrad 2003 Queer Studies Conference at UCLA, presenting a paper entitled "Citizen Haynes, or Theses on a Philosophy of Queer History." The paper is a reading of Todd Haynes' film "Velvet Goldmine" through the lenses of Kierkegaard's philosophy, Benjamin's historicist aesthetics, and the formal influences of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane."

WALTRAUT DEINERT organized the participation of several Wells students at the Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service Conference (DAAD) at Cornell on the weekend of Sept. 20-21; she accompanied the students. The topic this year was: "Flower Power? The German Green Party Turns Twenty: Revisiting Environmental Politics in the 21st Century." The German Studies Department at Cornell co-sponsored the conference. 

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH participated in an Executive Board meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies at Columbia University on January 17, 2004. She chaired the session on Russian History at the March 27, 2004, meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held at Columbia University in New York City.

ERIKA FEIGENBAUM successfully defended her dissertation in January. Professor Feigenbaum has published an article entitled, "Making the Philosopher Cry," in Off Our Backs feminist journal. The essay appeared in the January-February 2004 issue. Professor Feigenbaum's essay "Some of my Best Friends are Straight" was also selected for a reading at the June 2004 National Women's Studies Association conference.

In September, SARA FRENCH was consulted by the BBC in their preliminary research for a program in the Britain's Best Buildings series on Hardwick Hall. Their producer contacted her as a result of her dissertation, "Women, Space & Power: The Building and Use of Hardwick Hall in Elizabethan England" and her recently published article, "A Widow Building: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall." Professor French was a workshop presenter at the "Attending to Early Modern Women Conference" at the University of Maryland from November 6-8. The interdisciplinary workshop, entitled, "Commemorative Labors: Women and the Construction of Monuments," was co-chaired by Michelle Dowd of Fordham University and Susan Comilang of George Washington University. Elena Napolitano '02, now in the graduate program in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture and Professor French’s former student, also attended the conference. Professor French was notified in February that she was named to Marquis's Who's Who Among American Women for 2004. She was invited by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Visual Culture Forum at Binghamton University to give a lecture entitled "Micro-Managing Female Space: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall" on March 24, 2004.

CYNTHIA GARRETT’s essay "Sexual Consent and the Art of Love in the Early Modern English Lyric" was published in the Winter 2004 issue of Studies in English Literature.

EDNIE GARRISON’sarticle, "Contests for the Meaning of 'Third Wave Feminism': Feminism and Popular Consciousness," has been solicited for publication in Third Wave Feminism: a Critical Exploration, edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca Munford (Palgrave). Her article, "Are We On a Wavelength Yet?: On Feminist Oceanography, Radios and Third Wave Feminism," has been solicited for publication in The Third Wave: Questions and Complexities for Feminists in the 21st Century, edited by Jo Reger.

NANCY GILBERTSON presented a solo piano recital at Wells College on February 28, 2004. The program, "A Little Something for Everyone," showcased an array of styles, including jazz influenced piano rags by College of Wooster composer, Brian Dykstra; preludes based on Gregorian chant melodies by Ottorino Respighi; novelettes by Francis Poulenc; some early Spanish dances by Enrique Granados; and "Danzas Argentinas" by Alberto Ginastera. She presented a recital with Laura Campbell on April 10, 2004, at Wells College. The program included music for flute and piano by composers John Rutter and Francis Poulenc. Ms. Gilbertson played several dances in Bulgarian rhythm and "From the Diary of a Fly" by Bela Bartok from Mikrokosmos Book VI. Ms. Campbell played "Three Chants" by the late Ithaca composer, Ann Silsbee, on bass flute, alto flute and regular flute.

JEANNE GODDARD choreographed the Tri-Cities Opera production of Verdi's "Rigoletto," which ran for three nights at the Forum Theatre in Binghamton last May. On campus, Professor Goddard co-hosted, with Performing Arts and Women's Studies faculty, Leeny Sack's presentation of "The Survivor and the Translator" in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. She co-produced, choreographed and performed in "Opera Cowpokes ALIVE: The Best of Opera Cowpokes," with August performances in Ithaca and Syracuse. She also produced and created a new work for the CRS Barn Studio Choreographers' Showcase in July. Professor Goddard was selected as one of three recipients of the Distinguished Alumna Award for the Zodiaque Dance Company of Buffalo, and was commissioned to set a piece for the gala celebration on November 15, 2003. She provided choreography for the Tri-Cities Opera production of Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffman", opening in October at the Forum Center for the Performing Arts in Binghamton. Professor Goddard spent the last week of January at Houghton College where she taught a movement workshop for voice students and provided choreography for their opera scenes program, directed by Steven Stull and Shirley Close. Professor Goddard performed a new work, to a suite of short Stravinsky pieces, at the Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College School of Music, on Sunday, April 4. Ms. Goddard performed at the invitation of the Ariadne String Quartet, who accompanied her on stage.

SIOUXSIE GRADY was pleased to announce the following Merit Awards by the Theatre Association of New York State for the Wells production of "Anton in Show Business." The show was adjudicated by Paul Nelson. Formal presentations of these awards were held at Festival 2003 in November. Excellence in Direction and Production Concept Execution to Siouxsie Grady, Joe DeForest and Robert N. Bernard; Excellence in Acting to Whitney Sampson for her portrayals of Ralph/Wikewitch/Joe Bob; Meritorious Achievement in Acting to Dana Finegan for her portrayal of Joby. Professor Grady has been asked to serve as judge for the Hangar Theatre's LAB Company New Play Festival Playwriting Competition. The Dance and Theatre faculty recently produced a series of workshops in Arts Pedagogy. Guest artists Lesley Tillotson, Jeanne Goddard, and Professor Grady spoke on subjects ranging from age appropriate theatre and dance activities to classroom dynamics to the art of play. 

PILAR GREENWOOD’s article "Significado/Significando: poetas hispanas contemporáneas" ("Meaning/Signifying: Four Current Hispanic Poets") was published in June 2003, in the volume Andalucia y las Américas: Crisol de Mestizajes, of the Serie Collectae, Granada Linguistica of the University of Granada. In June 8-12, she attended the symposium entitled "Jaén, Crossroads and Cultural Encounters" held at the XXIII Assembly of ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in the USA). On July 10, Professor Greenwood chaired the session entitled, Literatura contemporánea, dedicated to contemporary literature in Spanish speaking countries. Professor Greenwood read a paper at the XXIX Annual Conference of Literaturas Hispánicas, organized by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and celebrated October 16-19, 2003. The theme of this year’s conference was Theater and Fiction. Her paper was entitled "Performativity and Mimesis in ‘La Fiesta del Chivo," a play by Jorge and Veronica Triana. The play centers on the dictatorship of the Dominican strongman Rafael Leónidas Trujillo." Professor Greenwood was invited to submit this paper for publication in a volume about 20th century dictators seen through the eyes of writers and other artists. Invited by the graduate program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at St. Johns University (Jamaica Queens, New York), Professor Greenwood delivered a lecture on March 22, 2004. The title of her lecture was "Violencia como Identidad Performativa en ‘La Fiesta del Chivo’"(Violence as Performative Identity in "The Feast of the Goat"). Her book review of the novel "Entre dos luces: modelo de un destino antillano" (Twilight: Model for a Caribbean Destiny) by the Cuban novelist and playwright Julio Matas), has been published in the Vol. II, n. 4, March, 2004, of the journal, Linden Lane Magazine. This journal is dedicated to Cuban literature in exile and is directed by Belkis Cuza Malé, widow of its founder, the Cuban writer Heberto Padilla.

MICHAEL GROTH was invited to participate in a summer institute on Hudson Valley history and culture sponsored by the National Heritage Area Education Program and the U.S. Park Service at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. He delivered a presentation on African-American history and culture of the region on July 14 to several dozen primary and secondary school educators, archivists, museum professionals, public historians, park rangers, and environmentalists." Professor Groth was invited to participate in a speakers' series on Hudson Valley Life and Culture sponsored by the Museum of the Hudson Highlands in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. His lecture on October 15 focused on the African-American history and culture of the valley. He has also been invited to serve as a reviewer for a manuscript under consideration for publication by SUNY Press." Professor Groth attended a meeting of the program committee for the Conference on New York State History held in Binghamton on January 29. He and others members of the committee are planning this year's conference scheduled for early June at Skidmore College."

LYDIE AND JIM HAENLIN were invited by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Orleans (France) to present their translation of Lamine Sall's poetry books. The poet was present and the book, published by the Wells College Press, was available for sale. The event took place on March 18, 2004. Students enrolled in our program in Paris attended the event as well.

SCOTT HEINEKAMP attended the American Association of Physics Teachers Conference, "Introductory Calculus-Based Physics Teaching," in Arlington, Virginia, from October 31 through November 2, 2003. He has also been appointed to a five-year position as Adjunct Professor at Cornell University in the Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, effective November 1, 2003.

In August, JOSEPH HOFFMANN was appointed director of the Council for Critical Studies in Religion (CI@ SUNYBuffalo) and editor of the Journal for Critical Studies in Religion. He presented a paper entitled, "Marcion the Hypsistarian: On the Syrian Origins of Marcion's Philosophy," at the XIV International Congress on Patristic Studies at the University of Oxford, August 14-18. His paper will be published in Studia Patristica, 2004-05. In March Professor Hoffmann gave the keynote address, ""Love Incarnate: Classical, Christian and Gnostic Models of a Platonic Myth," for the plenary session of the South Africa Academy of Religion at the University of Natal, Pietermartizberg, South Africa. The following two books have been catalogued for release in spring 2004: "Julian: Against the Galileans," Prometheus Books and "Faith and Foeticide: Abortion and the Right to Life in Early Christianity, Peter Lang/Oxford-Vienna. In addition, Professor Hoffmann is currently working on the "Genealogy of Morals Project at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Specifically he is working with Task Group VIII on the transformation of the idea of virtue in 12th century theology, with special reference to Islamic-Christian interchange. Professor Hoffmann was invited to participate, along with Dr Charles Maxfield and Marie Catherine Agen, on the panel, "Engaging Philosophy: Perspectives on Peace " at the First Congregation Church in Ithaca on November 7. His presentation was entitled, "The 'Interfaith Movement': Quantifying the Gains." On November 11, Professor Hoffmann presented a lecture entitled, "Religious Pluralism in the Middle East? Prospects as Problems," at the 15th Annual Interfaith Center Memorial Lecture at SUNY Cortland. On November 21, he presented a public lecture entitled, "Defining Jerusalem: Culture Wars in the Third and Twenty-First Century" at SUNY Amherst’s Center for Inquiry Institute. 

Professor Hoffmann signed a contract in January with Trinity Press for One True Gospel: Marcion's Theology, Canon and Church (a revised edition of a 1984 study). On February 6, he taped two half-hour segments for Humanist Perspective, a nationally syndicated public access TV program on the role of the public understanding of religion in the United States in the global religious environment. (Aired over Rochester -- RCTV, Cable Channel 15 -- Sundays, 11:00 a.m., and Wednesdays, 8:00 p.m.) Professor Hoffmann’s review of the Passion of the Christ (The Gospel according to Mel) for the Institute for Humanist Studies is online at http://humaniststudies.org/enews/passion.html. He was a guest on Equal Time (a live radio program for the New York City metro area) to discuss the film on March 7. Professor Hoffmann will lead the panel in Early Christianity and present a paper entitled, "On Whose Intercession?" The Testimony of Blood in Second Century Theology" at the Eastern International Meeting of the American Academy of Religion at Cornell, April 30, 2004. The theme of this year's conference is Religion and Violence.

KENT KLITGAARD delivered a paper entitled, "Substitution and Sustainability: Towards a Microfoundations of Ecological Economics," at the Annual Meetings of the New York State Economics Association in New York City on October 10.

CYNTHIA J. KOEPP traveled to Salzburg, Austria, to present an invited paper on her recent research entitled "Advocating for Artisans: the Abbé Pluche and his Spectacle de la nature" at a conference on "Perceptions of Labour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," organized by the University of Salzburg and the Free University of Brussels, on May 23-25, 2003. Her review essay of four new books on French economic history, entitled "Learning to Calculate," has just been published in the journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1, Fall 2003. The books reviewed included Carol Blum, Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, Power in Eighteenth-Century France; Yves Citton, Portrait de l'économiste en physiocrate: critique littéraire de l'économie politique; Gerard Klotz, ed., Politique et économie au temps des Lumières; Gilbert Faccarello, ed., Studies in the History of French Political Economy: from Bodin to Walras. Professor Koepp presented a paper entitled "Pedagogy and Experiential Learning in the Abbé Pluche's Spectacle de la nature" at the 31stt Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History that took place from October 30-November 2 at Newport Beach, California.

The South Central Regional Library Council presented KENNETH LARSON with a certificate of appreciation at its annual meeting on October 17 in recognition of his two terms of service on the council’s board of trustees. In recent years he has served as chair of the board’s Personnel Committee and secretary of the board. The Council coordinates resource sharing and provides training for its members, which include academic libraries, public and school library systems, hospital libraries, and special libraries in a fourteen county region of south-central New York and the Southern Tier. 

LINDA LOHN delivered her paper "Hard Boiled or Over Easy: Viewing the Body, Transcending the Self in Male-Dominated and Lesbian Detective Novels" at the annual meeting of the New York College English Association in New York City in April.

The Faculty Art Show in the String Room Gallery during October included wooden and aluminum sculptures and pottery by THEODORE LOSSOWSKI; paintings by WILLIAM ROBERTS; photographs by REBECCA MELLO EAGAN; decorated pottery by AVA CILIBERTI; and ceramic sculptures by JEFF KELL and GERARD FERRARI.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the organizing committee to be the keynote speaker at the International Conference on Identity and Space, which was held in May 2003 at Binghamton University. The title of his talk was "Re-definitions of Territoriality, National Identity, and Global Democratic Values in the Post-Cold War Era." On June 10-17, 2003, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo participated in the Advanced Placement Services as a reader in Government and Politics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He attended and participated in the 13th Biennial Congress of the African Association of Political Science and the 19th International Political Science World Congress, held in Durban, South Africa between June 24 and July 5, 2003. The paper he presented at the African Association of Political Science Biennial Congress was "Reflections on Principles and Values of Liberal Democracy and International Debt Issues: Can they singularly or together engender New Developmental Paradigms in Africa?" He also chaired four panels in both congresses. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was delegated by the Executive Committee of the African Association of Political Science to have a direct and live interview with the South African Broadcasting Company (SABC) on July 3, 2003 in its regular news time on "Why are we having the congresses in Durban, South Africa?" 

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was elected Vice President of the African Association of Political Science at the Continental level, representing the Central African Region (10 countries) and member of its Executive Committee. From July to early August 2003, he was at Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, where he has an appointment as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education. His contract at the Center is for two years (from May 1, 2003 to March 31, 2005) renewable. This is the first time that the center has appointed a non-Japanese to this position. Professor Lumumba-Kasongohas accepted the invitation by the Editor-in-Chief of becoming a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the quarterly Journal of Administration of the Faculty Administration, the official journal of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As one of the Vice-Presidents of the African Association of Political Science and a member of its Executive Committee, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo attended its Annual Executive Committee meeting held in Yaounde, Cameroon (Central Africa), between November 10 and12. He had an article entitled, "What is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)?: A General Reflection on Its Objectives and Claims," published in the Journal of Comparative Education and International Relations in Africa/Revue d'Education Comparée et des Relations Internationales en Africa (JEDIRAF) Volume 5, Number 1-2 (December 2003): pp. 1-14. In the same edition, he had an extensive book review essay on Guy Martin’s World Politics: A Pan African Perspective, Trenton and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002 published, pp. 153-162. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo published an article entitle, "Re-definitions of Territoriality, National Identity, and Global Democratic Values in the Post-Cold War Era,"· in Identity and Space, edited by Andrea E. Frohne and published by Binghamton University Envisioning (2004). He was invited by the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), a research center of the South African Government, to participate in the conference on "10 Years After Apartheid/10 Years of Freedom," which took place in Pretoria, South Africa, on March 24-26, 2004. He chaired the panel on "Pan-African Perspectives on South African Transition." Professor Lumumba-Kasongo published an article entitled, "Re-definitions of Territoriality, National Identity, and Global Democratic Values in the Post-Cold War Era,"· in Identity and Space, edited by Andrea E. Frohne and published by Binghamton University Envisioning (2004). He was invited by the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), a research center of the South African Government, to participate in the conference on "10 Years After Apartheid/10 Years of Freedom," which took place in Pretoria, South Africa, on March 24-26, 2004. He chaired the panel on "Pan-African Perspectives on South African Transition." 

LAURA MCCLUSKY's book, Here, Our Culture Is Hard: Stories of Domestic Violence from A Mayan Community in Belize, was reviewed in the August issue of "American Ethnologist." She was invited to participate in the first national Engineers Without Frontiers Conference at Cornell University where she conducted a workshop entitled, "Belize Basics: Culture and Development in the Central American Nation with A Caribbean Beat." In addition, Professor McClusky was invited to participate in the SUNY Buffalo's Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender's second annual Gender Matters Conference. Her paper was entitled, "Jaguars, Rum Punch and Maya Angelou: I Got Everything I Needed Off The Internet." She also presented a paper entitled, "Critical Mass: The Meanings of ‘Bicycle Culture's’ Anarchist Uprising," at the New York State Sociological Association meetings at Siena College on October 18-19. Professor McClusky’s book, Here, Our Culture Is Hard, was reviewed in the December issue of American Anthropologist, the journal of the American Anthropological Association. The Journal of Latin American Studies and Anthropos also recently published reviews. 

HEATHER MEYER co-authored a chapter entitled, "Bullying and Peer Victimization in Schools," for the textbook, Intervention with Children & Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (P.A. Meares and M.W. Fraser (Eds.) Boston: Allyn & Bacon). Professor Meyer coauthored a paper, entitled, "Teachers’ reasoning about school fights, contexts and gender: An expanded Cognitive Developmental Domain approach," (H.A., Astor, R.A., & Behre, W.J. 2004) published this month in Aggressive and Violent Behavior, 9, pp. 45-74. She also has had two papers accepted for publication: "School safety interventions: Best practices and programs," in Children and Schools (Astor, R.A., Meyer, H.A., Benbenishty, R., Marachi, R., & Rosemond, M.); and "Relationship violence prevention education in schools: What's working, what's getting in the way, and what are some future directions" (Meyer, H.A. & Stein, N. in press) in The American Journal of Health Education.

During her sabbatical year, LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presented a paper at the Eastern Sociological Society meeting in Philadelphia on March 1, 2003, entitled, "Stratification in Higher Education: Women’s Colleges and Historically Black Colleges Compared." She gave a talk in January to faculty and graduate students at Newnham College, Cambridge University entitled, "The Shifting Views of American Feminists on Women’s Colleges." Her paper, "Conservative Intent, Liberating Outcomes: The History of Coordinate Colleges for Women," was published as a chapter in Gender in Policy and Practice, edited by Amanda Datnow and Lea Hubbard, RoutledgeFarmer Press, 2002. Her review of Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: A History, by Peter J. Knapp with Anne H. Knapp, was published in the History of Education Quarterly, vol. 42, Fall 2002. She also presented a paper with Susan Gunn Pevar entitled, "Slowly Only at First: Women Enter Historically Black Lincoln University," at the History of Education Society meetings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in November 2002. Another review of her book, Separate by Degree, appeared in the Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 73, May/June 2002.

Professor Miller-Bernal’s book, co-edited with Susan Poulson, Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, is due to be published by Vanderbilt University Press in Spring 2004. In August, she led an informal discussion roundtable, "Sociological Imagination Applied: Understanding Higher Education in the Latter Half of the 20th Century," at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta. Professor Miller-Bernal presented a paper with Susan Pevar at the Organization of American Historians' annual meeting in Boston, MA. The paper, "Adjusting to Change: Historically Black Lincoln University (PA) After the Brown Decision," was part of a session entitled, "University Admissions Policies and the Supreme Court: From Desegregation to Affirmative Action to the End of Racial Preferences." On April 22, 2004, she will serve as the outside examiner for an honors student's thesis in Women's Studies at Hobart and William Smith. Professor Miller-Bernal's co-edited book, Going Coed: Women Students' Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, is due to be published in May by Vanderbilt University Press. It is a "featured title" whose description can be read at www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/miller-bernal.html.

Professor Miller-Bernal, with her co-editor Dr. Susan Poulson of the University of Scranton, has been awarded a second book contract by Vanderbilt University Press for their History of Education series. The book is provisionally entitled, The Coeducation Challenge: Women's Colleges Since the 1960s. She attended the New York State Sociological Association meetings at Siena College, October 24-25. Professor Miller-Bernal was given a plaque, honoring her with the Distinguished Service Award, at the Association's Awards Luncheon. She also gave a talk entitled, "Reflections of an Insider/Outsider on British Culture." Her book, Separate by Degree, was reviewed in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Vol. 38, #2-3, 2002). Professor Miller-Bernal was a co-organizer of three sessions on the sociology of higher education for the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting in New York City on February 21, 2004. The three sessions were: Academic Careers and the Changing Political Economy of Higher Education, Historical and Comparative Issues in Higher Education, and Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Higher Education. Professor Miller-Bernal also served as presider for the last two of these sessions and presented her own paper, "Changing Forms of Discrimination Against Women Academics at Cambridge University, 1869-2003," in the session on Historical and Comparative Issues. In March, Professor Miller-Bernal presented a paper with Susan Pevar at the Organization of American Historians' annual meeting in Boston, MA. The paper, "Adjusting to Change: Historically Black Lincoln University (PA) After the Brown Decision," was part of a session entitled, "University Admissions Policies and the Supreme Court: From Desegregation to Affirmative Action to the End of Racial Preferences." On April 22, 2004, she will serve as the outside examiner for an honors student's thesis in Women's Studies at Hobart and William Smith. Professor Miller-Bernal's co-edited book, Going Coed: Women Students' Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, is due to be published in May by Vanderbilt University Press. It is a "featured title" whose description can be read at www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/miller-bernal.html.

MILENE MORFEI was an invited delegate at the Oxford Round Table at St. Anthony's College in Oxford University in August 2003. This session of the Round Table was 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. People to People Ambassador Programs, through the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, invited Professor Morfei to participate in its January program in South Africa. The delegation participated in an exchange of research and information with colleagues and professionals in South Africa, addressing social issues and social change. Professor Morfei’s manuscript, "Agentic and Communal Generative Behavior in Four Areas of Adult Life: Implications for Psychological Well-Being," appeared in the January edition of the Journal of Adult Development.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ was awarded a $500 grant by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality to support the transcription of interviews for her study on transgender identities and sexual orientations. Professor Muñoz received a grant of $5,000 from The Small Change Foundation to support the hiring of a research assistant and interview transcription for the Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Study. She received assistance in obtaining this grant from Michelle Landers. Professor Muñoz was an invited speaker at Syracuse University for the "Transgender Teach In" where she and Stephanie Cyganovich discussed the GISO Study. In collaboration with Tiffany Silliman, Will Liberi, Alice Lo, Lily Cavanaugh, Professors Burroughs and Garrison, and Dean Morales, Muñoz planned and implemented a residency with Bear Bergman to raise awareness and educate about transgender issues on campus.

In April NIAMH O' LEARY participated in the "Science on Seneca" program, a limnology workshop for educators aboard Hobart-William Smith Colleges' educational and research vessel the HWS William Scandling. Since summer 2002 she has been active on a sub-committee of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization whose goal is to make a similar vessel available for educators on Cayuga Lake. In April 2003 The Haendal was launched with Wells students aboard as the first to experience this "floating classroom" on Cayuga Lake. She also coordinated two days of environmental education and outreach activities in celebration of National Drinking Water Week. The event was held in Ithaca in May 2003 and was co-sponsored by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and the Tompkins County Health Department. Professors O’Leary and Vawter have had a paper accepted for publication by the Journal of Freshwater Ecology. "Assessing Water Quality Using Two Taxonomic Levels of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Analysis: Implications for Volunteer Monitors" is co-authored with Linda Wagenet and Max Pfeffer of Cornell University.

ERNEST OLSON presented a paper entitled, "The Hawaiian 'awa Bar: Cultural Renewal or Religious Sacrilege?" for the session "Entitled Identity" at the Northeastern Anthropological Annual Meeting held in April of 2003 at the University of Vermont. Professor Olson also served as chair for this session and was a discussant for another session "Beyond the Classroom: The Importance of Undergraduate Field Study, a session of presentations from students of Wells College and Ithaca College. Professor Olson was a member of a panel presentation of "Public Anthropology and the SHARE Project: Bridging Native and Non-Native Cultures in Local Communities." The panel and subsequent graduate workshop, were sponsored and hosted on October 21 and 22 by the Anthropology Department, McMaster University. This fall, Professor Olson completed an encyclopedic entry, Religion in Tonga, for the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, The Gale Group. He was invited to participate in the session, "Conceptions of Social Relationships in Pacific Societies," for the annul meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania held February 25-28 in Salem, Massachusetts. Professor Olson’s paper "Discipline for the Body in the Flow of Time: The Tongan Kava Party" has been accepted for publication in Time, Self, and Society: The Cross-Cultural Embodiment of Time in Illness and Health, an edited volume to be published by the University of Arizona Press. Professor Olson served as faculty sponsor and discussant for the session "Young Anthropologists in the Field: Skill Building and Professional Development at Home and Abroad" at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association held at Dartmouth College March 26-28, 2004. The session consisted of students and faculty from both Wells College and Ithaca College and included the presentations of Miranda Junge ’04, "Labor and Loss: Latin American Migrant Farmworkers in the United States;" Emilie Smith `04, "Grassroots Development of Sustainable Agriculture: Why NGOs Should Lead the Charge in Senegal;" and Meghan McCune `03, "Community Collaboration in Researching the Cayuga Land Claim: A Model for Participatory Research in Anthropology."

LAURA PURDY’s article, "Why Children Shouldn't Have Equal Rights," (originally published in 1994) was reprinted in Children's Rights, edited by Michael D. Freeman, and published in November 2003 (for the series Library of Essays on Rights).

DAVID REIS and Professor Emeritus Arthur Bellinzoni were invited to Oxford University to participate in "The New Testament and Apostolic Fathers" conference.  The conference marked the centenary of the publication of the influential work The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers.  Professor Reis' paper was entitled "Following in Paul's Footsteps: Mimesis and Power in Ignatius of Antioch," and Professor Bellinzoni's paper was entitled "The Gospel of Luke in the Apostolic Fathers." Professor Reis' paper "Following in Paul's Footsteps: Mimesis and Power in Ignatius of Antioch" and Professor Bellinzoni's paper "Luke in the Apostolic Fathers" will likely appear in the centennial celebration volume The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers to be published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.

SARAH ROBERTS' book-length poetry manuscript Blue Ground was announced in June 2003 as a finalist for publication in this year's National Poetry Series. Her essay "The Talisman," which explores the intersection of vision and blindness, appeared in The Healing Muse. Ms. Roberts' letterpress work was included in a group exhibit at Union College in Schenectady, New York, that celebrated the work of contemporary women printers.

WILLIAM ROBERTS’ drawings entitled "Saratoga Sketchbook" appeared in the Syracuse Post Standard every Sunday from July 27 through September 7. He exhibited paintings, drawings, photographs and prints at the Saratoga Arms Hotel for his 23rd annual exhibition in Saratoga Springs, New York. In addition, Professor Roberts’ sketches were featured in the Saratoga Special during August 2003. He participated as an awards judge for the "2003 Made In New York Juried Exhibition" at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. His new paintings were included in the October Faculty Art Exhibition in the String Room Gallery. Professor Roberts covered the Breeder’s Cup Championship Races at Santa Anita, Arcadia, California, on October 25 for the Syracuse Post Standard. During January Professor Roberts participated as a judge in the New York State Scholastic Art Competition. The competition was held at Onondaga Community College. His oil painting "Sublime," 6' by 5', which is owned by the Saratoga Arms Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York, was featured in the February 2004 issue of "Victorian Homes." Professor Roberts served as a judge for the Saltonstall Foundation for Grants in the Arts during March 2004. An exhibition of his paintings and drawings has been scheduled at the Delavan Gallery in Syracuse during November 2004. This exhibit features his recent series of abstract-shaped paintings.

CAROL SHILEPSKY spent the 2002-03 year working on client-side and server-side web programming. Among the sites she designed and implemented are http//www.allisonladd.com for ceramicist Allison Ladd and http//www.addlestone.org for her granddaughter's preschool. She and Professor Sandy Shilepsky redesigned the Wells premed site, adding a database for student registration and advisor notes. She also completed a monograph, "Minimal HTML," for use in classes and possible publication.

ARNOLD SHILEPSKY spent his sabbatical year learning about web construction, mathematics, and the health professions. He created websites for several of his courses and, with Carol Shilepsky, improved and added database functionality to the pre-health professions web site. He attended the joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America and the biennial meeting of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions. He learned about the search engine Google and spoak about it in the October Faculty Club.

On March 24, THOMAS STIADLE spoke on "In Defense of (Good) Lectures" at the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. On April 12, he took MPS seniors Gwendolyn Bryson and Karen McKeen to the Tenth Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held this year at Union College in Schenectady. Karen presented "Using Edge Information to Correct Corrupted Images," based on her MPS Senior Project. Professor Stiadle spoke on "Malthus Meets Geometry," which connects interesting phenomena in geometry and population growth. They all attended a variety of talks by undergraduates and faculty. On April 22, Professor Stiadle presented "p-adics, Place Value, and Arithmetic" to the Mathematics Seminar at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. 

CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in the annual Spring Concert on May 7, 2003, in Barler Hall, accompanied by pianist Nancy Gilbertson. On May 31, he participated in a panel discussion on the subject, "Music in the Small Liberal Arts College," during the reunion weekend at his alma mater, Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. During the afternoon, the reunion choir, composed of 160+ singers representing college classes from 1937 to the present, performed his original choral composition, a setting of Christina Rossetti’s "In the Bleak Midwinter" in their reunion concert. Professor Thoburn conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, accompanied by Nancy Gilbertson, in a concert for Parents's Weekend on November 9 in Barler Recital Hall. Mark Foster Music, Inc. has accepted for publication two of his choral works for women's voices: an edition of "Alle-psallite cum-luya" a 13th century English motet and an arrangement of "O Sing To The Babe" (Susanni) a German Carol. Under the direction of Professor Thoburn, The Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performed at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora on December 6, as a part of the "Christmas in Aurora" celebration. On December 7, they presented their annual Holiday Concert, accompanied by Nancy Gilbertson. A sizable collection of food, donated by members of the audience, was delivered to the Cayuga County Food Pantry. Two of his arrangements for accompanied mixed voices, "The Adoration of the Wise Men," a French carol published by Carl Fischer, Inc. and "My Dancing Day," an English tune published by Coronet Press, have been recorded by the professional chamber choir, Madrigalia from Rochester, conducted by Roger Wilhelm. These selections are included in the group's latest CD entitled "Madrigalia Live For Christmas" which is now available at Border's and other upstate record stores. Several of Professor Thoburn’s published choral compositions and arrangements have been selected for performance in various graduate-conducting recitals around the country. Most recently he has learned that his setting for unaccompanied mixed voices of the African-American spiritual "Steal Away to Jesus," published by Tetra-Continuo Music, will be performed in a graduate-conducting recital in March at the Louisiana State University School of Music in Baton Rouge.

MUIN UDDIN was a member of a Ph.D. Dissertation Advising and Examining Committee in Economics at Syracuse University during 2002-03. The dissertation was successfully defended on April 11, 2003. Professor Uddin was invited by the German Academic Exchange Service to be a member of a team of North American academicians and scholars who participated in a series of conferences on a Special Information Program, entitled "Europe Today: Bi- and Multilateral Patterns in an Enlarged European Union," held in Europe during June 2003. The meetings covered issues of political, socioeconomic, and cultural reality in Europe with special attention on globalization, demographic challenges, human resource development, immigration, and a host of other contemporary issues concerning EU. From June 15-17, 2003, at the University of Bonn, he participated in several sessions on "New Constitution for a Larger EU," "The EU-American Diplomatic Relationship," and "The Future of Education and Training in Europe." He was also a discussant for a session on "Politics and Economics in an Enlarged EU: Challenges and Opportunities." From June 18-19, at the European Parliament in Brussels, he was a participant and discussant for sessions on "Current Issues in European Politics," "Europe’s Common Defense Policy and NATO," "The European Research Area and the Bologna Process and the Socrates-Erasmus Programme," "The Institutional Reform for European Parliament," and "Economic and Social Integration of the New Member States."

From June 20-22 at the German Parliament and Foreign Ministry in Berlin and in the City of Potsdam, Professor Uddin moderated a session on "Mobility and Integration of Corporations and Work Force in Europe from an Economics Point of View," and participated in sessions and roundtable discussions on a host of other topics. From June 22-23 at the European University Viadrina and at the City Hall in Frankfurt/Oder, he chaired a session on "Immigration and Demographic Problems in Europe," and participated in sessions and roundtable discussions on Border Security and Immigration" and "Building a New European Identity." From June 23-24 at Adam Mickiewicz University and at the City Hall in Poznan, Poland, he was a participant and discussant in sessions and roundtable discussions on "The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Polish Economy," "Polish Immigration and EU," and "Poland’s Role as a New Member State of the European Union." From June 25-27 at Freie Universitat, at the Federal Office Building and at Jolly Hotel Vivaldi in Berlin, he moderated a session, led a roundtable discussion, and participated in several sessions on "Transatlantic Academic Relations in the Context of EU Enlargement," "German Foreign Policy and the Future of World Order," "Current Issues of German-American Cooperation," and "Germany’s Role in the European Union: The Media Point of View."

A. THOMAS VAWTER led a cruise and workshop on elements of limnology for Tiohero Tours of Ithaca on August 30, 2003. Tiohero Tours operates the MV Haendel, the vessel that also serves as the Floating Classroom on Cayuga Lake. Professor Vawter helped host a conference at Wells College on Cayuga Lake Watershed Monitoring on October 14. The conference was sponsored by the Technical Advisory Committee of the Intermunicipal Organization and by Cornell's Center for the Environment. A dozen or so scientists from our region presented results of environmental monitoring projects they are conducting in the basin. 

CHRISTINA WAHL attended the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology from May 3-10, 2003. This international meeting had over 7,000 attendees and 5,100 presentations. She presented one poster, "Growth of the scleral venous sinus system in chicks exposed to constant light," (Wahl, C.M, T. Li, and H.C. Howland (2003), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Abstract 1978) and was co-author on two others: "The effects of alternately covering the eyes, or the pineal gland and eyes of chicks raised under constant light," (T. Li, C. Wahl, and H.C. Howland (2003), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Abstract 1977); and "Comparison of effects of varying diurnal light periods on the growth of the chick eye," (H.C. Howland, T. Li, and C. Wahl. (2003), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Abstract 1976). Professor Wahl is collaborating on a recently funded USDA grant submitted by J.E. Fortune, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, on the topic of small follicle activation in mammalian ovaries. Professor Wahl will be presenting two research papers at the annual Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from April 25-29. The presentations are: Wahl, C., T. Li, H.C. Howland (2004) Effects of light and melatonin on chick corneas grown in culture. Association for Research in Vision and Opththalmology. Abstract 4293; and Li, T., C. Wahl, and H.C. Howland (2004) Age dependent ocular changes of chicks under constant light, and recovery from them, in normal illumination. Abstract 4291. This year, there are 5,610 presentations of original research at this international forum for work in vision science. Over 16,000 people attend the conference, which is the largest vision research meeting in the world.

BARBARA WEJNERT was recently nominated by her former students from her Gender & Society classat Cornell to receive a special recognition for the Advancement of Women Locally and Internationally (awarded on March 9, at A.D. White House). 

International Accomplishments:

  • Kyrgyzstan, Senegal and Mali: collection of data on effect of democratization on women’s well-being. 
  • Invited presentation at SASE, 15th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics LEST, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26 - 28, 2003 
  • Paper presentation: VII International Women’s Policy Research Conference at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, June 2003, in Washington, D.C 
  • Research Grant: Soros Open Society (with Alma Djumabajeva) Summer 2003
Selected Presentations since summer 2003:
  • An Interactive Model of World Democratization: A Multilevel Analysis. Invited Presentation at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 15th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics LEST (Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail) Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26 - 28, 2003 
  • Health Status of Women in Democratizing Post-Communist Countries: Ukraine, Poland and Kyrgyzstan. VII International Women’s Policy Research Conference at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in June 2003, in Washington, D.C. (with Andrea Parrot) 
  • An Interactive Model of World and Regional Democratization: A Multilevel Analysis. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003 
  • Presider and Discussant of a session on Diffusion and Institutionalization and Social Movements. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003 
  • Presentation: Wells College, Social Science Colloquium: "Muslim Women at the Time of Global Development and Democratization" (October 2003)

  • Wells College, Social Science Colloquium: "Politics of Arts and Arts of Politics" (May 2003) 
  • University of Toronto: Faculty of Social Science Colloquium: "Relative Predictive Power of socioeconomic and diffusion variables in world and regional democratization: 1800-1999, November 2003 
  • University of Texas, Faculty of Behavior Science Colloquium: "The Effect of World Democratization on the Well-being of Women: Multilevel Regression Models," January 2004 
  • Cornell University, Sociology Colloquium: "Will Democratization of Iraq Democratize the Middle East? Socioeconomic vs. Diffusion Predictors of Democratization," Feb. 2004
Publications since summer 2003 - journal articles - included only refereed journals 
  • Wejnert, B. (2003) Effects of Growth of Democracy and Transition to Market-Based Economies on Women’s Well-Being. Journal of Consumer Policy, 26: 465-493. 
  • Wachowiak A., Wejnert B. (2003) Wspomnienia poswiecone pamieci wybitnego Familiologa, Profesora Zbigniewa Tyszki (Marriage and the Family) (in Polish), No. 4(8): 38-45. 
  • Wejnert, Spring 2004. Democratization and the Transition to a Market-Based Economy and Women’s Health in The Post-Communist Countries: Poland, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan in: World Health Organization, 2004. The Globalization, Gender & Health. Research Monograph (publication in Spring 2004) 
  • Wejnert, B., Djumabaeva A. Spring 2004. From Patriarchy to Egalitarianism? Parental Roles in Democratizing Poland and Kyrgyzstan. Marriage and Family Review 
In press forthcoming summer 2004:
  • Wejnert, B. (Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, forthcoming 2004). Entry on Jacob Bronowski. 
  • Wejnert, B. (American Sociological Review) Socioeconomic and Diffusion Predictors of World and Regional Democratization: 1800 -- 1999. 
Upcoming
  • May 2004 - traveling with series of lectures to Kyrgyzstan, followed by a lecture at Warsaw University, in Warsaw, Poland. 
  • June 2004 – Presenting a talk at the Society of Advancement of Socio-Economics, Washington DC, International Congress. 
  • August 2004 - Presenting at the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco.
JERI VARGO and ELSIE TORRES attended the conference, "Assessment: Measuring Services and Resources in Academic Libraries," on October 3 in Syracuse.

The Wells Book Arts Center is proud to announce as part of its upcoming symposium this spring that Donald Jackson, Scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, will present the 19th Swartzburg Book Arts Lecture entitled "Walking in the Footsteps of Giants: The Creation Processes of The Saint John's Bible." This presentation will be the first time Donald Jackson has ever given a personal interim account of images, inspirations and processes involved in the creation, with a team of collaborators - artists, scribes, scrutchers, illuminators, and schedulers of the seven volume handwritten and illuminated bible for Saint John's Abbey and University, Minnesota.
 
 

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