HEATHER MACALISTER will be presenting two posters this June at the Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, which is part of the annual convention of the American Psychological Society: (1) Teaching Writing in Psychology Classes; and (2) Hosting an Undergraduate Conference in Psychology. The conference will take place in Toronto this year.

LAURA PURDY, during her special leave, was an invited lecturer at the following institutions and conferences during the 1998 academic year: Case Discussion: "Pregnancy and Breast Cancer," Physician Recommendations – Harvard University, April 1998; "The Ethics of Xenotransplantation" – University of Toronto, April 1998; "Designer Babies? Ethics of In Vitro Fertilization and Pre-Implantation Diagnosis" – University of Manitoba, April 1998; "The Unholy Trinity: Pronatalism, Geneticism, and Sexism in Reproduction" – The Santorini Symposium on the Psychological and Ethical Problems of Assisted Reproduction at the Bellonias Foundation, June 1998; "The Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Teaching Model" – 12th International Congress of the International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology in Washington, DC, June 1998; "The Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis" – 18^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences in Boston, MA, September 1998, and at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, March 1999; "Humanizing Physicians" – Celebrating the Humanities Conference at Rochester Institute of Technology, October 1998; "What Feminism Can Do for Bioethics" – Plenary Talk at the 10^th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society in Toronto, 1998, and at the Center for Clinical Ethics, SUNY Buffalo, December 1998, and at the University of Rochester, March 1999. Professor Purdy also participated in more than 27 of the "Local (Toronto) Rounds and talks.

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

MUIN UDDIN presented a paper entitled, "International Trade and Fiscal Efforts in LDCs" at the Eastern Economic Association’s 27^th Annual Conference, which took place February 23-25, 2001, in New York City. He was also a discussant for two papers at the same conference.

The editor of the Neuropsychology Review has requested JENNY YATES' article, "Emotional Complexes' Role in Word Associations of a Split-Brain Woman" for publication as a chapter in a book honoring the late Roger Sperry, Nobel Laureate in Medicine.