CHRISTOPHER BAILEY served as the external evaluator for the Chemistry Program Evaluation Report at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
BRUCE BENNETT read his poetry on March 19 at Writers and Books in Rochester, New York, as part of the Genesee Reading Series.
SUSAN FORBES served as the Stage Manager and Assistant to the Director for A Christmas Carol and the New England Premiere of the stage adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules at the Tony award winning Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island, during the 2000-01 academic year. While at Trinity, Professor Forbes assisted Kevin Moriarity on A Christmas Carol. Mr. Moriarity recently took the helm as Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca this past summer; he also directs regularly at Syracuse Stage. In addition, Professor Forbes had the privilege of working closely with Oskar Eustis on The Cider House Rules I and II. Mr. Eustis is a nationally recognized director and dramaturg who served as Mr. Kushner’s dramaturg and mentor of the Tony award winning Angels in America. Professor Forbes also collaborated with scenic designer Eugene Lee on Cider House. Mr. Lee has been the head scenic designer for Saturday Night Live since its inception and won a Tony award for his designs for the Broadway production of Ragtime. Professor Forbes is the only Stage Manager in the history of the Trinity Repertory Company to have work mentioned in a review.
Professor Forbes also assisted Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel in a collaborative writing workshop held in concert with Brown University and Trinity Repertory Conservatory. During her residence at Trinity, she also assisted in a workshop reading of Tony Kushner’s new play, Kabul/Homebody, which recently premiered to critical acclaim in New York and is currently running at Trinity Repertory Company directed by artistic director, Oskas Eustis.
SUZANNE HECHT, Professor of French Emerita, has translated a play by Gilles Ségal, En ce temps là l’amour… (In Those Days Love…). Her translation has been approved by the author and approved for publication by his European publishers, Lansman (Belgium).
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO co-organized a major international conference on "Women and Higher Education in Africa: Engendering Human Capital and Upgrading Human Rights to Schooling," which was held at Cornell University on March 28 and 29. The conference was co-sponsored mainly by the CEPARRED (Pan-African Studies and Research Center in International Relations and Education for Development with its Headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) and the Cornell Program on Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative (PIDI) with also the financial support from more than 15 other academic units at Cornell University and the Office of the Dean of Wells College.
Presenters/discussants were scholars, policymakers, international technocrats, diplomats, and students who represented various institutions of higher learning, international organizations, international non-governmental organizations, research centers, and governmental agencies. They came from Brazil, Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Kenya, Mali, Uganda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, etc. Two Wells Faculty members were also among the presenters/discussants in the conference. The total number of 16 papers was presented. Several Wells students also attended and participated in some sessions of the conference.
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL was one of four sociologists at the Easter Sociological Society meetings in Boston on March 7 who participated in a panel called, "The Art of Collaboration: Pleasures, Pitfalls, and Practicalities." On March 29, Professor Miller-Bernal participated in the CEPARRED & PIDI Conference on Women and Higher Education in Africa: Engendering Human Capital and Upgrading Human Rights to Schooling at Cornell University. She presented and discussed a paper prepared by sociologist Rémi Clignet, "Mismeasuring Gender Disparities in University Enrollments."
THOMAS VAWTER delivered a presentation entitled "Linking Public and Scientific Inputs in Water Quality Monitoring" at a symposium on water monitoring in the Cayuga Lake Watershed held at Wells College in March. He presented the results of water quality research done in collaboration with NIAMH O' LEARY and colleagues from Cornell's Center for the Environment.
Jenny Yates has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
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