BRUCE BENNETT published a poem in The Laurel Review. He gave two readings of his poetry: at Hobart William Smith on March 31 and at the Bookery on April 9. Professor Bennett’s book, Navigating The Distances, was reviewed in the Spring 2000 issue of Harvard Review.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS has been reappointed to the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University for a term running through 2004. She has also just received a contract from Oxford University Press for a two-volume anthology tracing the tradition of British closet drama from the Renaissance to the early 20^th century. This project is due in 2002 and will be titled Between Performance and Text: An Anthology of British Closet Drama, 1550-1900.

CANDACE COLLMER attended a meeting on March 20, 2000, entitled "Who Owns Life?" This meeting was sponsored by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and addressed a host of social, moral, and legal problems created by the rapid pace of development in biotechnology. Participation in the meeting was part of a large project at the Center for Bioethics, where she serves as a member of a focus group that is working to develop educational materials for use in colleges and high schools that are related to the upcoming book, Who Owns Life?. This book is a collection of essays by leading authorities from science, philosophy, law, religion, history, social sciences, bioethics, and industry, all of whom address the complex issues around the ownership and patenting of life—genes, body parts, and even whole organisms.

JEANNE GODDARD choreographed the Tri-Cities Opera production of Amahl and the Night Visitors in December and is currently creating minuets and contra dances for their production of Don Giovanni. In March, Ms. Goddard took a group of ten students to the American College Dance Festival at SUNY Brockport, where she taught a master class in Laban-based modern dance and the students showed two pieces of choreography. Ms. Goddard has also completed a new choreographic work for Cornell composer Karel Husa’s "Twelve Moravian Songs."

NANCY GILBERTSON accompanied LAURA CAMPBELL in a recital of all women’s music at Colgate University on March 7, 2000. Included on the program were a work by Ithaca composer, Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, and a work by Katherine Hoover from New York City, both for flute and piano. Other women composers represented were Thea Musgrave, Donna Kelly Eastman, and Cynthia Folio. Joining Ms. Campbell and Ms. Gilbertson on the program was Ithaca College faculty singer Patrice Pastore.

PILAR GREENWOOD’s poem "Hurting, Burning" has been accepted for publication by the Journal of International Women’s Studies. This journal is published by the Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts. The poem, described by JIWS as "moving and beautiful," will appear in the May issue, which will be posted on line.

KENNETH LARSON was elected chair of the personnel committee of the board of trustees of the South Central Regional Library Council. The Council coordinates the sharing of electronic and print resources among the academic, public, school, and special libraries in 14 counties of the Southern Tier and the Finger Lakes and is the lead agency in creating the prototype for the proposed "New York Online Virtual Electronic Library" (NOVEL).

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL’s book, Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges, has been published by Peter Lang. She will be talking about it as part of a panel on her book at the forthcoming AERA (American Educational Research Association) meetings in New Orleans on April 25. Professor Miller-Bernal has also been asked to contribute a chapter on coordinate colleges to a forthcoming book on single-sex education at the secondary and higher educational levels, being edited by a researcher at Johns Hopkins University.

ANNE RUSS’s review of The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America by Henry Veltmeyer appeared in the April issue of Choice magazine.

CRAWFORD THOBURN’s original composition, "Spirit of God, Descent Upon My Heart," for mixed voices with keyboard accompaniment, published by Mark Foster Music Co., has been recently reviewed in several journals. The reviews have included such comments as "Thoburn has composed anthems for a variety of voice parts published by several different companies. You should carefully consider anything you see with his name on it." Worship Arts. And "…Thoburn has previously distinguished himself as a choral arranger with a gift for setting both early music and American folk hymnody. (This work) moves him into new and different territory, resulting in the creation of a miniature gem for SAB voices and organ… Serious repertoire for the small church choirs is sadly limited, and Thoburn is to be commended for making a notable contribution to it." The Choral Journal (professional journal of the American Choral Directors’ Association).

The Wells Chamber Singers, which Professor Thoburn conducts, have been invited by audition to be one of the ensembles in residence at the Millennium Music Festival in Bad Arolsen, Germany, this coming August 20-26. Prior to the residence at the festival, the group will spend four days rehearsing at Schloss Seehaus in Franconia. The ensemble will present at least four concerts during their residence at the festival and will be staying as guests with families in the city of Bad Arolsen. Plans have been made for day trips to historical and cultural sites in the vicinity, and there will be opportunities for informal music making and socializing with other student performers from Germany, Eastern Europe, and the British Isles. The Wells Chamber Singers are the only American group invited to participate in the festival. We are thankful to WALTRUT DEINERT who has played an essential role in the planning and arranging for this trip.

The Wells College Press published Millennial Afterlives, a book of 23 prose poems by Stratis Haviaras, poet, novelist, and curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. The book was designed by Victor Hammer Fellow, JOCELYN WEBB. Selections from Millennial Afterlives were read by five Harvard poets at a reception in honor of Mr. Haviaras at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 7. Readers included Stratis Haviaras, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Jorie Graham, and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney.