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

HEATHER MACALISTER participated in the first annual Finger Lakes Undergraduate Psychology Conference on March 31. Two colleagues (one at SUNY-Cortland and one at Le Moyne) and Professor Macalister founded, organized, and chaired the conference in order to provide psychology undergraduates an opportunity to present their work in a supportive atmosphere at a local setting. Almost 40 student presented, and faculty and students from almost 20 different New York colleges were in attendance. The keynote speaker was Dr. Fredda Blanchard-Fields, professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and pioneer in the field of social cognition and aging. The Wells College Department of Psychology and the Wells College Office of the Dean each made a generous contribution in support of the conference and its mission; and the Wells College Psychology Club volunteered their efforts in many facets of conference planning and execution and also set up a very attractive display of Wells College admissions materials at the conference. The Psychology Club has talked about trying to hold next year's FLUPC on the Wells campus.

During her special leave, LAURA PURDY published six new papers, Papers previously published by Professor Purdy were reprinted a total of twelve times.

THOMAS STIADLE, along with Debra Boutin of Hamilton College presented a paper entitled, "Semi-direct Products of Graphs of Groups," at the Joint Meeting of The American Mathematical Society and The Mathematical Association of America at New Orleans in January, 2001.