(Activities Announced at Faculty Meetings,
May, 2005 - April, 2006)
 

CHRISTOPHER BAILEY participated in a NSF-Funded workshop on Photoelectron Spectroscopy in summer 2005 at the University of Arizona. He had received an email saying that they were overrun with applications, so he feels fortunate to have been selected to attend. Professor Bailey discusses this technique in General Chemistry as a way of understanding atomic electron energies. On March 3, he gave a talk on "Teaching Chemistry (And Other Duties) in a Small College Environment" to graduate students and faculty in the Chemistry Department at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

Professor Bailey escorted Wells students to the 20th annual National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), held this year at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, April 6 - 8. This is the 18th year that Professor Bailey and Wells students have participated in this meeting. The student presenters for 2006, their research topics, and their faculty advisor(s) were:

Jennifer Cole '06, Environmental Studies, "The Impact of Runoff and a Wastewater Treatment Facility on Fecal Contamination in Paines Creek, Aurora, N.Y." Faculty: Niamh O'Leary

Lisa Gibson '06, Sociology, "Changes in Agriculture: An Analysis of Small- and Large-Scale Farms." Faculty: Leslie Miller-Bernal

Melanie Jones '06, Physics, "Imaging Buried Monolayers at Atomic Resolution Using Electron Channeling." Faculty: Dr. David Muller from the Department of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University.

Stephanie Jones '06, Chemistry, "New Building Blocks for Colloid-Based Materials by Imprinting Peanut Shape." Faculty: Dr. Chekesha Liddell from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. Melanie and Stephanie performed their research at Cornell through the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program; their Wells NCUR sponsors were Professors Heinekamp and Bailey, respectively.

Professor of Religion Emeritus ARTHUR BELLINZONI'S "Ancient Apostates," a review of Stephen G. Wilson's Leaving the Fold: Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity, appeared in the December 2005 volume of The Expository Times, published in London. At its meeting in December, the Board of Directors of People For the American Way elected Arthur Bellinzoni to a third three-year term on the Board. Professor Bellinzoni’s article "The Gospel of Luke in the Apostolic Fathers," originally presented in 2004 at a conference at Lincoln College, Oxford University, has been published by Oxford University Press in Trajectories Through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers, one of two volumes in their centennial publication, The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. 

BRUCE BENNETT has poems published in Hummingbird and Knocking on the Silence, the new FootHills Anthology of poems about the Finger Lakes. He read his poetry on September 13 at the Seneca Falls Public Library. Professor Bennett had additional poems published in The Healing Muse, the online journal, Enskyment, and in Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (5^th edition, McGraw-Hill). He gave poetry readings at Bright Hill Center in Treadwell, New York, (with Mary Crow) on September 22 and at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn on September 29. Professor Bennett also read his poems at The Healing Muse publication party at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse on October 5. He has also had had three poems published in the literary journal Iambs & Trochees and a poem published in the journal Rattapallax. Professor Bennett had poems published in Tar River Poetry, Hummingbird, and on the on-line journal Enskyment. A review of his book of poems, Grief and Love, appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar River Poetry. In December, he had a poem published in the on-line journal, Enskyment, and five poems published in the on-line, Innisfree Poetry Journal. Professor Bennett and English major Caitlin Rice read as the featured poets at the PoetryZone Program in the Saratoga Springs Public Library on February 12. He also conducted a poetry workshop for the members of the PoetryZone group. On March 2, Professor Bennett gave a reading at the Yesteryears Café in Auburn, New York. In late March, Clandestine Press published WILL NOBODY STOP THE POET?, a chapbook of humorous poems by Professor Bennett to celebrate April Fools’ Day. He had a third poem published in the on-line journal, Enskyment.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS taught two courses at Cornell University this past summer--one on the personal essay and the other on dramatic literature. This latter course was for rising seniors in high school from New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Houston who received scholarships acknowledging their scholastic achievement. In August she presented a paper entitled, "'The Father Fostered at His Daughter's Breast': Fanny Kemble and The Grecian Daughter," at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in Montreal. Her paper was part of a special session that she organized called "The Erotics of Home: Staging Sexual Fantasy in Romantic Women's Writing." She published the following article, "Teaching Women Playwrights from the British Romantic Period (1780-1840)," in Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900, edited by Jeanne Moskal and Shannon Wooden (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. 140-149). In addition, Texas A&M University Press has under review her manuscript, America's First "Peace-Keepers": Letters Between Mother and Son During the Pre-Korean War Conflict (1946-1948). During the fall semester, Professor Burroughs reviewed manuscripts for the Keats-Shelley Journal and European Romantic Review.  She was also asked to review the dossier of a candidate for promotion to full professor in the Department of English at Swarthmore College. The Modern Language Association Press is reviewing Professor Burrough’s proposal for a volume titled Approaches to Teaching Early British Women Playwrights--to be co-edited with Bonnie Nelson, Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University. In November, she attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) in Toronto where she participated in the Feminist Historiography Working Group. Professor Burrough’s contribution was a paper titled: "'If the informing spirit be mine': Frances Anne Kemble and Theory in Rehearsal." Cambridge University Press has chosen to include Professor Burrough’s book--Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840 (2000)--in its program of paperback reprints within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Burroughs was invited to participate in a conference called "The Performing Society: Britain in the Nineteenth Century" in California in March. Papers will be included in a volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan, part of a series of five edited volumes on "Redefining British Theatre History." Each volume contains essays by leading scholars in the field, and each volume is being inaugurated at a special-invitation conference at The Huntington Library. The volume in which Professor Burroughs’ essay will appear is co-edited by Peter Holland and Tracy Davis. Also in March, she attended a conference in Bourdeaux, France, called "La Satire litteraire depuis la revolution" sponsored by La Centre de Recherche sur les Modernites de l'universite Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III. Her essay, "'If the informing spirit be mine': Frances Anne Kemble and Theory in Rehearsal," has been accepted for a special issue on Romantic Drama to be published by Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research.

MEGHAN CALLAHAN was an invited speaker on September 15 in the Fall 2005 lecture series at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of Binghamton University (SUNY). She gave a paper entitled "'Suor Domenica's Convent': An Example of Female Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Florence."

CANDACE COLLMER and Wells students Monica Chapman, Alicia Lewis, and Jessica Reuter successfully completed a 3-day workshop on Prokaryotic Annotation and Analysis Training at TIGR, The Institute for Genomic Research, in Rockville, Maryland, April 25-27, 2005. This field trip was part of the Wells course, Introduction to Genomics and Bioinformatics, where the students are using their newly-learned skills on a genomics project on the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. This project is part of a collaboration with scientists at Cornell University. Professor Collmer was an invited participant at a Gene Ontology (GO) Annotation Workshop held at Stanford University, June 1-4, 2005. The focus of the workshop was to provide hands-on experience at assigning the appropriate information (i.e. the correct GO terms) to specific genes based on published experiments in the literature. Members of the Gene Ontology Consortium and expert annotators from different genome projects (e.g. mouse, Drosophila, yeast) facilitated the workshop. Professor Collmer was an invited participant in a Gene Ontology (GO) Content meeting held at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, on November 15-16, 2005. Major topics included expansion of the terms previously developed by the PAMGO (Plant Associated-Microbe Gene Ontology) group, of which she is a member, to meet broadened demand as a result of new, federally funded initiatives for annotating genomes of important animal pathogens. Another major topic was the integration of terms for defense responses in plants into the broader area of immune response, which also includes the animal immune system. The PAMGO group recently received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue work on the annotation of genes in important plant pathogens. The grant includes funding for Professor Collmer to work full time on this project during the next three summers. Professor Collmer was one of the authors on a poster presented at the Twelfth International Congress on Plant-Microbe Interactions, held December 14-19, 2005, in Merida, Mexico. The poster was entitled "The PPI Website: Information hub for sequence analysis, genome viewing, Hop effector nomenclature, and ongoing annotation of the genome sequences for three pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae," by Magdalen Lindeberg, Candace Collmer, and Alan Collmer. Professor Collmer attended and assisted at a two-day training workshop for newly hired annotators of PAMGO---the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology group, of which she is a member. PAMGO, which is officially associated with the Gene Ontology Consortium, is beginning an NSF-funded, three-year project on annotating the genes of different types of microbes that are pathogens of plants. The meeting was held February 23-24, 2006, at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland. Professor Collmer attended the annual meeting of the Gene Ontology Consortium, held in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, from March 30 through April 2, 2006. One agenda item at this meeting was the consideration of changes to the Gene Ontology proposed by PAMGO, the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology group, of which Professor Collmer is a member. The changes proposed, and now accepted, allow for more complete annotation of the genes of both plant and animal pathogens that are involved in pathogenesis.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH attended an Executive Board meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held at Fordham University on January 28, 2006. She chaired the Russian History panel at the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies at Fordham University Law School, April 1, 2006

DEBORAH GAGNON attended the 6th Annual Conference on Case Study Teaching in Science sponsored by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University at Buffalo, October 7-8. She presented "Conceal to Reveal: The Mask as a Reflection of Identity" in January at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology in St. Petersburg, Florida. She was awarded the annual Doug Bernstein Award by the Institute Faculty for the work's "originality and creativity" as a pedagogical device for teaching about diversity and identity development. Professor Gagnon, together with colleagues Holly Sweet (MIT), Melissa Terlecki (Cabrini College), and Rebecca Stoddart (St. Mary's College), have had their symposium "Tapping the Creative: Using Self-Expressive Methods in Teaching Psychology" accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in New Orleans, Louisiana. The symposium will focus on how the presenters have used creative self-expressive techniques (photography, drawing, drama, etc.) to teach about psychology and diversity

EDNIE GARRISON presented a paper entitled, "Non-Feminine Femme, Or, How Can a Femme Register as Androgynous-Masculine on a Personality Test?," at the GenderQueer/QueerGenders: Conversation Among Artists, Academics, and Activists conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, February 11-13, 2005. Five Wells student attended this conference with her: Jenna Basiliere, Carrie Elliott, Katie Fong, Eliza Heppner, and Christina Lunsford. Professor Garrison presented a paper entitled, "The Erotics of Femme Smartness," at the Queering Femininities Conference, in Seattle, Washington, May 28-31, 2005. 

EDNIE GARRISON and VICTORIA MUÑOZ co-facilitated a roundtable discussion entitled, "What's Feminist About Single-Sex Education for Women? Students Talk About Protesting the Decision to Go Co-Ed at Wells College' (with students Jenna Basiliere, Meredith Burks, Chelle Carr, Carrie Elliott, Nicole Pellegrino, and Erica Peters), at the Annual National Women's Studies Association Conference in Orlando, Florida, June 9-12, 2005. 

NANCY GILBERTSON and LAURA CAMPBELL presented a recital for flute and piano at Wells College on February 11. Music programmed included a sonata by Robert Muczynski and a sonata by Cesar Frank. Ms. Campbell offered a work titled, "Flying Lessons for Solo Flute" and Ms. Gilbertson performed "A Rag For New Orleans, September 2005" for solo piano by Brian Dykstra.

JEANNE GODDARD began her sabbatical activities in October 2004 with a master class at Hobart and William Smith Colleges entitled, "Space Harmony Applications in Repertory Work." In January 2005 she created movement workshops and full chorus, and lead choreography for the Tri-Cities Opera production of Purcell’s "Dido and Aeneas," with three performances at the Forum Center for the Performing Arts in Binghamton, New York. In March 2005 Professor Goddard performed a concert of repertory work with baritone Steven Stull and pianist George Damp at the First Presbyterian Church, Ithaca, New York. Her review of Janice Ross’s book, Moving Lessons was published in the March issue of the Journal of Dance Education. She also premiered a dance monologue, performed to Ithaca composer Mark Simon’s "Philosopher’s Rag," in a benefit concert for Carol Buckley at the Congregational Church, Ithaca, New York. In May, Professor Goddard showed two solo works, "Sovra balze" and "Lascia ch’io pianga" in the Ithaca Choreographers’ Showcase at the Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca, New York. She also began consultations with June Finch for the revival of Finch’s children’s musical, "Phoebe and the Pheasant" in Provincetown, Massachusetts. June saw Professor Goddard teaching her annual six-week series of modern dance and repertory classes at the CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca, New York. She also co-produced two new music-for-dance albums, with pianist William Moulton of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and with John White of the Ithaca College School of Music. The John White Album will be released on September 15. In July, Professor Goddard co-conceived and co-produced (with Steven Stull) "The Handel Project," a spectacular outdoor evening of Handel arias at the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca. She created choreography and staging for nine dancers, seven singers, and two instrumentalists, one of whom was Assistant Professor of Music Victor Penniman. Set design was by Wells Lecturer in Theatre, Robert DiGiacinto, and Steven Stull. August 2005 took Professor Goddard back to the Cape for rehearsals and performances with June Finch/Danceworks. The production, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, included Finch’s 2004 work, "Nightwatch," as well as the children’s musical, "Phoebe and the Pheasant," in which Goddard played the leading role. Finally, Professor Goddard conceived and co-produced "Re:Cycling," a multidisciplinary performance event at the CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca, New York. Structured improvisations on the lawn and in the studio involved fourteen feisty, independent dancers, three musicians, and enormous pile of paper and plastic. The production included Goddard’s choreography as well as works by colleagues from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and from Ithaca, one of whom was Wells alumna Margaret Irving ’04. 

Professor Goddard performed her 2003 solo, "Aria" and spoke briefly about choreography, dance and healing, at the annual meeting of the Ithaca Suicide Prevention and Crisis Center on October 19. On October 29, she performed her 2002 solo, "Something about a lamp...," with score by Professor Emeritus of English Hugo Theimer, edited by Aurora composer Ethan MacCormick, at the Second Ithaca Choreographer's Showcase produced by Wide-eye Dance Company. With a group of Wells College students and Ithaca dancers, Professor Goddard re-staged and performed a segment of her summer 2005 work, "Re:cycling" as part of American Recycles Day at the Pyramid Mall in Ithaca. Finally, on December 3 and 4, Professor Goddard danced at the annual holiday concert of the Hudson Valley Arts Chorales choir, at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Kingston, New York. In April Professor Goddard produced and directed the Wells College Spring Dance Concert, "Dances Then and Now," and created two new pieces for the program. She hosted guest artist Barbara Dickinson, who performed three solo works and taught two master classes. Professor Goddard is currently serving as an examiner on the field of dance for the International Baccalaureate program at Binghamton High School in Binghamton, New York.

SIOUXSIE GRADY was awarded "Excellence in Direction" by the Theatre Association of New York State for the Wells’ production of "A Piece of My Heart". This is the third year in a row that Ms. Grady has received this award. Joe DeForest also won an award for set and lighting design and the cast won an award for ensemble work. Adjudicator Pam Rapoza had this to say about the production, "This production was a flowing piece of living, breathing Art with beautiful representations and a strong ensemble cast that brought us to Vietnam and the even bigger hell that was ‘coming home’." As an American, and as a woman, I thank this company for reminding us all what humanity is. The play truly grabbed a piece of MY heart." In February Professor Grady presented "Dream House," a talk about her recent performance installation work, at Goddard College as a part of her graduate studies. She also recently participated in a Playback Theatre workshop with members of Playback Theatre NYC, furthering her research in this innovative art form that combines improvisational theatre, music and movement to transform the stories of the audience into the art of theatre. In March, Professor Grady opened her new exhibit "The Whimsical Dreams of August" at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott, New York. This exhibit contains her installation art, photography, and several original theatre pieces. The visual art was on display at the gallery through the end of March.

PILAR GREENWOOD was invited to participate in the International Colloquium "Cervantes and the Frontiers of Fiction: A Celebration of 'Don Quijote': 1605-2005."
She presented a paper entitled, "Cervantes, ¿El autor de la triste figura?: Las ironías de la fama." ("Cervantes, The Author of the 'Sorrowful Countenance'?: The Ironies of Fate").
The colloquium, organized by the Department of Romance Studies, The Society for the Humanities, University Lectures, and other Cornell University programs, was held on April 22-23, 2005, on the Cornell campus and included over 20 international scholars and writers. On April 23, Professor Greenwood read a paper contrasting XVIth century and current perceptions of Cervantes as an author. Professor Greenwood presented a paper at the XXV ALDEEU Conference, which took place in Burgos, Spain, in July 5-9, 2005. Celebrating the linguistic origins of the Spanish language and in collaboration with the "Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua," the conference was a forum for the discussion of linguistic and literary perspectives. Professor Greenwood’s paper, entitled "Más versado en desdichas: Cervantes y la locura de los críticos" ("Acquainted with Controversy: Cervantes and the Critics’ Folly") dealt with the history of literary criticism involving Cervantes’ masterpiece.   Professor Greenwood’s play for children, El árbol de sombrerera (The Hat Tree) has been published in the professional journal, Cuadernos de ALDEEU, Vol. XXI, November 2005, pp. 100-105. 

MICHAEL GROTH attended the Conference on New York State History held at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.  Professor Groth worked with other members of the conference's program committee to plan the June meeting.  He reviewed a manuscript being considered for publication by a major university press and composed an essay entitled "Black Loyalists and African-American Allegiance in the Mid-Hudson Valley," to be published in Joseph Tiedemann and Eugene Fingerhut, eds., The Other Loyalists (SUNY Press, forthcoming)."

SCOTT HEINEKAMP was elected to a four-year term to the Executive Committee of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society. He attended the fall meeting of the New York Section of the American Physical Society on October 14 and 15 at Colgate University and also met with the executive committee on which he serves. The meeting theme was "Einstein's Legacy." Two Wells students also attended. Professor Heinekamp gave a talk for the Ithaca College Physics Colloquium on March 15 on Einstein's work during 1905 ( his annus mirabilis) on Brownian motion, with some more contemporary ways of looking at the problem. He also attended, with two Wells students, the Spring 2006 meeting of the New York Section of the American Physical Society, at Finger Lakes Community College and Infotonics, both in Canandaigua, New York. 

SPENCER HILDAHL’s review of the book, War and The Media: Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003, edited by Mark Connelly and David Welch. I.B. Tauris, 2005, appeared in the January 2006 issue of the library journal, CHOICE.

JILL HILL will be presenting her research, "Decolonizing Personality Assessment: An Examination of the MMPI-2," as part of a symposium presentation at the 114th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 10–13, 2006. This symposium features all American Indian psychologists presenting a body of research regarding the validity and use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 with American Indian adults. The discussant of the symposium is renowned American Indian psychologist, Dr. Theresa LaFromboise (Miami), Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Stanford University. The symposium, entitled, "The MMPI-2 and American Indians: Norms, Contexts, Constructions, Meanings, and Controversies," is co-sponsored by APA’s Division 17, Society of Counseling Psychology, and Division 45, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.

JILL HILL, VICTORIA MUÑOZ, MILENE MORFEI, and DEB GAGNON had their symposium proposal titled, "Transforming the Standard: How We’re Making the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum Culturally Inclusive and Relevant for an Interdependent World" accepted for presentation at the 23rd Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. The Winter Roundtable is the longest running continuing professional education program in the United States devoted solely to cultural issues in psychology and education. This year, the Winter Roundtable continues its tradition of bringing together scholars, practitioners, researchers, social change agents and students interested in the intersections between race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation in psychology and education. The theme of the 2006 conference, "Empowerment and Social Justice in Cultural Psychology and Education," underscores the Roundtable's commitment to recognizing the multiple and complex effects of culture and social location in psychological and educational matters. For more information go to http://www.tc.edu/roundtable/

JILL HILL, SANDRA MARSHALL, and VICTORIA MUÑOZ led a session titled, "Transforming the Standard: How We’re Making the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum Inclusive and Relevant" as part of the 23rd Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, February 17-18, 2006. They also attended workshops and lectures on white privilege, race and racism, teaching social justice, developing multicultural competence, and the uses of autobiography in teaching and learning across differences. The Winter Roundtable is the longest running continuing professional education program in the United States devoted solely to racial and cultural issues in psychology and education. The Winter Roundtable brings together scholars, practitioners, researchers, social change agents and students interested in the intersections between race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation in psychology and education. 

JILL HILL and VICTORIA MUÑOZ presented their paper titled, "Assimilative Pressure, Resistance, and Transformation in Developing Culturally Competent Psychology Curriculum," as part of the paper session, Feminist Perspectives within Academia, at the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference focused on the theme, Intersecting Identities: Multicultural Feminist Perspectives on Women's Lives, March 2006.

JOSEPH HOFFMANN co-authored the application that led to the Center for Inquiry’s unanimous acceptance as an NGO by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Center has been granted "special consultative status" which entitles it to designate official representatives to UN headquarters in New York and UN offices in Geneva and Vienna. He participated in the SUNY/CFI summer honors college at SUNY Buffalo, co-teaching the course, "Sex and the Holy City" with Professor Joyce Salisbury (University of Wisconsin). In July 2005, Professor Hoffmann taught a "parents' class" at Wells Warm-Up, "Just War and Jihad: Theories of Violent Action in Christianity and Islam." His article "The Violent Bear it Away: The ‘Totalizing Imperative’ as a Source of Religious Violence in Islam" was accepted for publication in Faith and Freedom: the Journal of Liberal Religion (Manchester College, Oxford). Following the July 7 bombings in London, he was invited by the editors to join a consultation of religion scholars commenting on the incident, to be published in January. Professor Hoffmann was commissioned in June to write four articles for the New Interpreters Bible, on "Marcion," "Marcionism," "New Testament Canon," and "Christianity, Early Pagan Opposition to." He wrote the introduction to a new edition of Karl Jaspers' and Rudof Bultmann's Myth and Christianity (NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005). Professor Hoffmann did a feature radio interview October 13 with Buffalo NPR station WFBO on the political future of religious right and President Bush's Supreme Court nominees. He has been commissioned to write an introduction to Maurice Goguel's Jesus of Nazareth: Myth or History, reprint edition. Professor Hoffmann has been invited to the membership of the Highlands Institute of American Religious and Philosophical Thought, a research group dedicated to exploring the American liberal religious tradition with special reference to the work of the "Chicago School" and naturalism in American theology and philosophy. Professor Hoffmann has been named a life trustee of the NAC, a human rights organization based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, comprising non-governmental organizations, groups, and people from across the globe who are working to stop religiously-based abuse of children, women, and minority non-citizen residents and refugees. http://nac1.bravehost.com Professor Hoffmann will deliver a plenary session paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Esotericism entitled "Julianus Platonicus: Reconstructing the 'Apostate's' Religious Thought" at the University of California-Davis in June 2006. In late October, he chaired the CSER section of the international congress of the Academy of Humanism in Amherst, New York, "Toward a New Enlightenment." The conference was a coordinated response to the threat of the religious Right to public policy, education, and values-formation. In late January he videotaped a series of six lectures at the Center for Inquiry with a grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, "The New History of Jesus." His book, Just War and Jihad: Violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was published recently by Prometheus Books. He edited and included an introduction to the new edition of Maurice Goguel's book, Jesus the Nazarene, Myth or History, which was published in January by Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York. Professor Hoffmann taught an intensive course during January, "The New History of Jesus" at CFI-Amherst and University at Buffalo Honors College. The course was video-recorded for distribution to schools and colleges, which was made possible by a grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology. His article, "London Postscript: 7 July 2005," was published in the Autumn/Winter 2005/6 issue of the Oxford theological journal, Faith and Freedom (58:161), pp 9-24. An expanded version of the same article, "On the Limits of Religious Tolerance: A Liberal Writes Back," appeared in the Unitarian publication, the Journal of Liberal Religion on March 25. Professor Hoffmann's assessment of the Dover (PA) School Board "Intelligent Design" case is part of a forum scheduled for the March/April issue of Free Inquiry, "Of Brights and Dims: Why Hard Science Won't Cure Easy Religion." His book proposal and sample chapters of The Christ Myth: From God Incarante to the Historical Jesus in Radical Theology has been accepted for publication by E.J. Brill for its Interpretations of the New Testament series.

ETHEL KING-MCKENZIE made presentations in Professor Munoz's Psychology 360L class on November 3 and at the Auburn Community Wide Dialog Group held at the Salvation Army on September 27, 2005.

The Education Program Team, ETHEL KING-MCKENZIE, SUSAN TALBOT, and SUSAN WANSOR made a presentation at the Sociology Conference held at Wells College on October 14 and 15, 2005. The title of their presentation was, "Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century and Beyond: Focus on Diversity and Social Justice."

CYNTHIA J. KOEPP presented an invited lecture entitled "Dialogues and Dramas for Children:  The Enlightened Pedagogy of Louis-François Jauffret," at an international conference on "Education and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (1688-1832)," which took place from September 8-11 at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.  At the same conference she also chaired a panel that looked at science, religion and women's education in the late eighteenth century.  Professor Koepp was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support a year of writing on her current project entitled, "The Forgotten Best-Seller of Eighteenth-Century Europe: the Abbe Pluche's Spectacle de la Nature and the popular enlightenment." The study focuses especially on a new fascination for science and progressive ideas about education and experiential learning that emerged in the decades before the French Revolution.

THEODORE LOSSOWSKI had his multimedia sculptures on exhibit in the String Room Gallery from September 7 through October 6.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO attended the Executive Committee meeting of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) as one of its Vice-President. The meeting was held in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, April 15-17, 2005. His article entitled, "Rethinking Global Design as a Social Value in Search of Alternative Design Paradigms for a 'Democratic World'," was published in In.Form: The Journal of Architecture, Design, and Material Culture, Volume 5: A Global View of Interior Design, published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2005). His book, Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress, was published by United Kingdom, London: Zed Books, July 15, 2005. His article, "International Interventionism, Democracy, and Peace-Building in the Great Lakes of Africa: A Regional Perspective to Challenges," was published in African and Asian Studies, Volume 4, No. 1-2. (Special Issue, 2005). Professor Lumumba-Kasongo participated in the Advanced Placement Program as a reader of Government and Politics, which was held on June 10-19, 2005, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. He renewed his contract for two more years (2005-07) as A Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo served as Chair of the Panel, "Globalization: Theory and Consequences," at the New York Sociological Association’s 53rd Annual Conference held on October 14 and 15 at Wells College. He also presented a paper entitled: "Reflections on Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Social Indicators of Liberal, Social, and Transitional Democracies" at the conference. His book, Who and What Govern in the World of the States?: A Comparative Study of Constitutions, Citizenry, Power, and Ideology in Contemporary Politics, was published by Lanham: Maryland: University Press of America, November 2005. His article, "Congo-Brazzaville: Multipartyism or Illiberal Democracy?," was published in NEWS From the Nordic Africa Institute, No.3 (October 2005): 12:15. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo attended the CODESRIA 11th General Assembly held on December 6-10, 2005, in Maputo, Mozambique (Southern Africa). The topic of his presentation was "A Reflection on Welfare State within the Context of Liberal Globalization in Africa: Is the Concept Still Relevant in the Search for Social Progress Policy Alternative in Africa?" He was also the keynote speaker and a participant in the program on "Shaping New Africa" in the Netherlands. His talk was entitled: "Liberal Democracy in Africa and Its Critics." He was invited to participate in this program by the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NCDO), SAHAN Consultancy (NiZA), and the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN). The program was held in Amsterdam on January 10-15, 2006.

MATTHEW MCCABE presented a paper titled, "Valuing Unfunded Deferred Compensation Assets in Matrimonial Actions," at the 32nd annual conference of the Eastern Economic Association in Philadelphia on February 25, 2006. He is also a reviewer for the "Journal of Forensic Economics."

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presented her paper, "Women’s Colleges Since the 1960s: Responses to the Challenges of Coeducation," at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June 2-5, 2005, at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her paper was part of a panel, Women's Colleges in a Coed Era, formed on the basis of her forthcoming book, co-edited with Susan Poulson. Professor Miller-Bernal’s chapter, "Diverse Responses to Coeducation: Women's 

Colleges in the U.S.," has appeared in the recently published book, Girton: Thirty Years...in the life of a Cambridge College, edited by Marilyn Strathern and Val Horsler (Third Millenium Publishing, UK, 2005). She was an invited contributor to this work. She presented a paper, "Colleges' Gender Composition and Prestige: Consequences for the Coeducation Movement of the 1970s," at a regular session of the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) in Boston, February 26, 2006. As Chair of the ESS Publications Committee, Professor Miller-Bernal led the Society in its search for a new publisher for its journal, Sociological Forum. She arranged for five invited publishers to make presentations about their proposals for publishing the journal and facilitated discussions about the proposals' comparative merits. Professor Miller-Bernal’s co-edited book, Going Coed: Women's Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, was reviewed, along with three other books, in a four-page review in Feminist Collections, Volume 26, number 4, Summer 2005

MILENE MORFEI attended the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans, Louisiana, during January 2006.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ delivered a talk, "Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: When Sex Changes So Can Desire," which presented findings of the Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation study (GISO) at the XVII World Congress of Sexology Montréal, Québec, Canada, in July 2005 as part of the symposium, "Sexual Orientation." Professor Muñoz also presented the paper, "Carmen Miranda, Sylvia Rivera, and Queer Latinidad" at the annual National Women's Studies Association conference, Orlando, Florida, in June 2005. Professor Muñoz was awarded a $5,000 grant from The Small Change Foundation to continue the Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation (GISO) study. The funds are for research assistance and transcription of interviews. This is the second time GISO has been supported by The Small Change Foundation. The first grant was in 2003. Professor Muñoz gave a presentation for the New York Sociological Society Association Conference, October 14, 2005, Aurora, New York titled, "Translating Gender: Transgender Narratives of Race, Class, and Sexuality Or The Grand Narrative and Its Discontents." She had a paper accepted, "Transgender Men of Color: Gender Identity, Race, Culture, and Sexuality," for presentation in the session, "Intersecting Identities: Sexual Orientation, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender" at the American Psychological Association annual conference to be held this August in New Orleans. Professor Muñoz’s paper is sponsored by Division 44 Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues. She has also had another paper accepted for presentation, "The Master Narrative and Transsexual Women: Intersectionalities of Gender, Class, Race, Sexuality and Diagnostic Hegemony," at the annual conference of The Association for Women in Psychology which took place in March in Ann Arbor. Professor Muñoz presented a paper titled, "GID as a Master Narrative: Intersectionalities of Gender, Class, Race, Sexuality, and Diagnostic Hegemony," as part of the paper session Sexual Orientation and its Impact on Identity, at the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2006.

NIAMH O' LEARY was invited to participate in an Oxford Round Table conference at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England in August 2005. The topic of the conference was "Globalization in the 21st Century." Professor O' Leary was also recognized for the second time by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network for her contributions to that organization. She is currently Chair of the Network's Community Outreach Committee. Professor O’Leary was a co-organizer of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network's outreach and public education event: 'Something's Fishy in Cayuga Lake', held at Wells College in November. She has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the Cayuga Nature Center, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on environmental and outdoor education in the Cayuga Watershed. Professor O’Leary attended a Symposium on "Culture, Climate and Change in East Asia" at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, in March 2006.

NIAMH O' LEARY and THOMAS VAWTER were invited to participate in a Regional Watershed and Science Educators Meeting at the Finger Lakes Institute in Geneva in April 2005. They were also invited to make a presentation at the 38th Annual Conference of the New York State Outdoor Education Association, which took place in Ithaca October 6-9. They presented a field and laboratory exercise on calculation of Net Primary Productivity. This exercise was developed at Wells College.

ERNIE OLSON’s presentation "Strengthening and Sustaining Relations Among Haudenosaunee Nations and Local Finger Lakes Communities of Central New York" was accepted for the 2005 World Indigenous People's Conference on Education held in New Zealand during November 2005. He has had a number of photographs included in Eva Mackey's (McMaster University) article "Universal Rights in Conflict" published in Anthropology Today, No. 2, April 2005. Professor Olson participated on a panel presentation for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth 2005 College Colloquia held at Syracuse University November 20, 2005. He presented a paper entitled, "Kerr Dam, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Challenges of Repossession" on the panel "The Language of Dispossession: Indigenous Struggles over Discourse, Land, and Resources" at the New York State Sociological Association Annual Conference held at Wells College October 14 and 15, 2005. Recent Wells graduates Meghan McCune `03 and Ariel Merkel `05 also gave presentations on the panel. Professor Olson has had his presentation "Congregational Circles and Colonial Displacement: Meaning and Place in Tongan Churches of the Diaspora" accepted for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities which was held in Honolulu, January 11-14, 2006. 

VICTOR PENNIMAN performed the Baroque ensemble "Quadro Ithaca" at a benefit concert for Carol Buckley at the First Congregational Church in Ithaca on May 1, 2005.  Ms. Buckley is a singer and founding member of the musical group Women’s Works, who is suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease. On May 8, he performed with Quadro Ithaca in a concert of German and French Baroque music at the First Congregational Church in Ithaca. On May 15, he performed with members of the group "Frogwork" and violist da gamba Alex Korolov in Barler Recital Hall. Selections included works by English composers Simpson, Lawes and Jenkins, and French composer Marin Marais. Professor Penniman showcased and performed on the Ruby Gamba at the Boston Early Music Festival, June 13-19, an international Early Music event held every two years in Boston.  The Ruby Gamba is a solid body electric viola da gamba that has been developed by Jan Goorisen in the Netherlands.  He has been working closely with Mr. Goorisen for the last year to continue to develop the instrument and its repertoire, and he is one of four or five professional players of the instrument in the world. Professor Penniman attended the Viola da Gamba Society of America’s annual Conclave, July 24-31.  He has been chosen to participate in the Society’s new program, the Consort Collective, which has been created solely for professional and professional level players. Professor Penniman performed bi- and tri-weekly with his new group, Kh’mi, throughout the summer to the present in Syracuse, Auburn and Cortland, New York. At the Viola da Gamba Society of America Annual Conclave (Worcester, Massachusetts) on July 26-31, he directed and performed in the Consort Cooperative and performed on the Ruby (electric) Gamba at the banquet. During August 23-25, Professor Penniman performed in the Handel Project at the CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca, New York. He provided the pre-show music for The Little Theater production of Moliere’s Les Ridiculous Presieuses in Auburn, New York, July 15-16 and performed with Women’s Works and Water Bear ensembles in Ithaca on July 17. He also performed a demo showcase for the Ruby Gamba at the Boston Early Music Festival, June 14-17. Professor Penniman spent January engineering, mixing and playing on Kh'mi's new 5-song EP, "Lovers and Thieves." The CD was recorded at Ormesby Productions Studios, Aurora, New York. The CD is available for sale at Dorie's, or copies can be ordered directly from him. Kh'mi appeared at the Fargo on February 8, at the Blue Frog in Cortland on February 10, and appeared at Dinosaur Barbecue in Syracuse on February 20, the Fargo on the 22^nd, and at The Nines in Ithaca on March 4. Professor Penniman appeared on Sammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Ashley Cox's new CD, "Honey By The Pound." The CD was released in March; dates for the supporting tour will be announced at a later date. He appeared with Ashley every Monday in February at Dinosaur Barbecue in Syracuse, at Manhattan's in Hanover Square on February 17, Harry's in Syracuse on February 24, and Om in Syracuse on March 7.

LAURA PURDY gave a talk entitled "A Modest Proposal: COI’s and Some Remedies," at The Ethics of Bioethics conference, sponsored by the ASBH at Union College and Albany Medical College, in Schenectady, NY, April 7-9, 2005. Her paper "Genetic Diseases: Can Having Children Be Immoral?" has been reprinted in Robert Card, Critically Thinking about Medical Ethics, Prentice Hall, 2004. Professor Purdy presented a talk entitled, "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," at the Biomedical Ethics Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, on September 30, 2005. Her book review: "Marriage isn't for Everyone," Marriage on Trial: The Case against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, by Glenn T. Stanton and Dr. Bill Maier, appeared in Free Inquiry, Oct./Nov. 2005, pp. 63-64. Professor Purdy has been elected to the Advisory Board of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics for the term 2005-2007. She has also been elected Senior Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion of the Center for Inquiry, Buffalo, New York. She gave a presentation entitled, "A Bioethics Perspective on Transex Procedures," at the New York State Sociological Association, Aurora, New York, on October 14, 2005. Her talk, "Like a Motherless Child: Fetal Eggs and Families," was accepted for the Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference scheduled for October 23 in Clearwater, Florida, but was preempted by Hurricane Wilma. Her article "Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral" will be reprinted in Michael Cummings, Human Heredity: Principles and Issues, Wadsworth, 7th edition. She presented a paper entitled, "Sex, Lies, and the Religious Right: How the 'Culture of Life' Leads to Misery and Death," to the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, The New Enlightenment, Center for Inquiry, Buffalo, New York, October 29, 2005. Professor Purdy reviewed an article submitted to the journal Bioethics. Her article, "Like a Motherless Child: Fetal Eggs and Families," was published in The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter 2005), 329-34. She wrote a chapter entitled, "Vitoria's Just War Theory: Still Relevant Today?" for R. Joseph Hoffmann’s book, Just War and Jihad, (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Press, 2006), 255-276. Her review of the book, Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die (by Margaret Battin), has been published online in Journal of the American Medical Association. Professor Purdy has been invited to give a talk tentatively entitled, "What Basis is There in Religion for Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Rights?," as part of a panel tentatively entitled, "Religion and Reproductive Freedom," accepted by the American Academy of Religion for it's November 2006 meeting.

WILLIAM ROBERTS photographed the Buffalo Bills/Houston Texans game in Buffalo on September 11, 2005, for the Houston Texans. He was one of three photographers assigned to cover the field for the Texans. Professor Roberts had five paintings featured in an invitational exhibition, "As The Crow Flies" at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York, during November and December. He had two drawings auctioned off at the Maryland Racing Association's annual fund raising dinner in November. Professor Roberts photographed the Army Navy Game in Philadelphia on December 3. He also photographed the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game in Baltimore on December 4, 2005. In March, Professor Roberts had a show at the Saltonstall Art Salon. His work was part of a show entitled, "MUSEUM OF THE EARTH;" the other artists were Virginia Cobey, Linda Swanson and Craig Mains. Professor Roberts describes his painting as an emotional and psychological process that requires a certain "letting go and staying loose." He does not know what a painting will look like when he begins. Quite often in these paintings, he'll do a portrait then completely paint it out and start over again. Underneath each finished painting are probably six to ten other preliminary paintings. How does he know when a painting is complete? He stated that "something just tells me, and I feel good about how things have pulled together." 

JACLYN SCHNURR's paper "Herbaceous Plant Community Responses to Fire in Longleaf Pine Forests" has been accepted for presentation at the 90th meeting of the Ecological Society of American meetings, to be held August 7-12, 2006, in Montreal, Canada. Additionally, Professor Schnurr has been selected as a member of the Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology research team, sponsored by the Education Section of the Ecological Society of America. As a member of the research team, she will work with other ecology faculty to plan the study, which will be carried out during the 2005-2006 academic year, learn about and receive mentoring on basic tools for classroom evaluation and research, and contribute to the collective wisdom about inquiry-based, active ecology teaching.

From November 3-5, ANDRE SIAMUNDELE was at the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he participated in an International Conference on Comparative African Literature. His paper was on Transcultural Articulations in African Literature. He also chaired the session on Exile. On March 25, 2006, Professor Siamundele was the guest of the Yale Resource Center for the Teaching of French and the Council of African Studies to deliver the keynote presentation during the one-day workshop on "Bringing Africa to the Classroom: Practical Approaches to the Study of and Teaching about Francophone Africa"

The anthology written by specialists on contemporary art is to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. JELENA STOJANOVIC is one of the contributors. She had written a chapter on European contemporary art, and her talk on "Contemporary Art?" on April 20 was an excerpt from this chapter. The book is very ambitious, one of the first comprehensive studies on this important topic, and it did require a very long and detailed preparation. A very positive response arrived from the reviewers and the book went to the press in May 2005.

SUSAN TALBOT attended a conference entitled, "Building a Culture of Quality-- An Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound Demonstration Site Seminar," in Rochester with a group of seven education students on October 27-28.

This past fall, the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church in Watertown, New York, conducted by Susan Maxwell, presented a festival of anthems by CRAWFORD THOBURN. Since early September, over half of the Sunday services have featured performances of published compositions or arrangements by Professor Thoburn. On, November 12 in Oswego, and November 13 in Watertown, the Trinity Choir combined for choral evensong with the choir of Oswego's Episcopal Church of the Resurrection. Featured in these services were Professor Thoburn's original composition, "Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee," published by Harold Flammer, Inc. On November 5, the Wells Concert Choir, conducted by Professor Thoburn and accompanied by pianist Nancy Gilbertson, and the Wells Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Laura Campbell, performed for the Wells Family Weekend during the dinner held in the Sommer Center. On November 19, Professor Thoburn conducted the Wells Concert Choir in two twenty-minute performances of holiday music for the tree-lighting ceremony at the Bass Pro Shop in the Auburn Fingerlakes Mall. On December 4, he conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in their 46th annual Holiday Concert in the Barler Recital Hall. The Concert Choir was accompanied in this performance by pianist Nancy Gilbertson and the featured work on the program was Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols," opus 28. As has been the custom in the past, a sizable amount of food was donated by members of the audience, which was forwarded to the Cayuga County Food Pantry. During the holiday season, Professor Thoburn’s published choral compositions and arrangements were widely performed from California to Virginia and points in between. In early December, his original setting of Christina Rossetti's poem "In The Bleak Midwinter" was sung by the Choir of Allegheny College in their concert at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, and later in their Christmas Concert on the college campus. His original composition for unaccompanied mixed voices, "Adam Lay Y-Bounden," published by Mark Foster Music, received several performances during the fall by the St. Martin Singers of London, England, conducted by Mattthew Maule. A recorded performance of "A Christmas Triptych," consisting of three of his original settings of 15th century English texts for unaccompanied mixed voices, has been included in a new CD issued by the professional chamber choir "Voices" from Toronto, Canada, conducted by Ron Cheung. Professor Thoburn is cited and quoted several times in a recently published book entitled, She Has Done A Beautiful Thing For Me, by Dr. Anne Kwantes. This work recounts and discusses the work of thirteen women who have had an important impact on the lives of women in Asia. His contributions are contained in the chapter devoted to his great-grand aunt, Isabella Thoburn, who founded the first college for women in Asia. Professor Thoburn’s arrangement of the English Folksong, "Scarborough Fair," published by Mark Foster Music Inc. was performed by the Women's Ensemble of Allegheny College, conducted by Ward Jamison, in their Spring Concert on April 8, 2006, on the campus in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

THOMAS VAWTER has been named "Principal Scientist" on a project team for EcoLogic, LLC, of Cazenovia, New York. The team has submitted a proposal, "Development of a Vision for the Onondaga Lake Watershed" to the Onondaga Lake Partnership, a consortium of local, state and federal agencies charged with the clean up of Onondaga Lake. If the proposal is accepted, this project will constitute an important part of Professor Vawter's sabbatical leave activities next year. Professor Vawter presented the opening remarks entitled "Thinking Outside the Box (or at least inside a bigger one)" at the Six Mile Creek Partnership's progress report symposium in Brooktondale, New York, on November 1, 2005. His article entitled "Managing Sediment in Six-Mile Creek" was published in the Winter 2005-2006 issue of "The Land Steward," the newsletter of the Finger Lakes Land Trust.

CHRISTINA WAHL has had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Molecular and Developmental Reproduction: Gigli, I., R. Cushman, C. Wahl, and J.E. Fortune (2005, in press) "Evidence for a Role for Anti-Mullerian Hormone in the Suppression of Follicle Activation in Mouse Ovaries and Bovine Ovarian Cortex Grafted beneath the Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane." Ellen Sweet, laboratory manager, and Professor Wahl attended a seminar at Cornell on May 4, 2005, on "Fish Health Management" for which they each received three continuing education credits. Professor Wahl is a contributor to the Ithaca Journal column "Ask a Scientist". So far she has written two pieces for the Journal, the first one was titled "Over-stimulation to inner ear causes tinnitus, or 'ringing'", and appeared on November 25, and the second was titled "Human eye is more like a camera than a computer monitor" and appeared on March 31. Professor Wahl has been re-appointed to another 5-year term as a Courtesy Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cornell, College of Veterinary Medicine, effective September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2010. In December, Professor Wahl attended the American Society for Cell Biology Annual meeting in San Francisco, where she participated in a workshop on science teaching strategies. Professor Wahl has completed a chapter entitled "Periocular Mesenchyme: Neural Crest and Mesodermal Interactions" for Duane's Archives of Ophthalmology. It has been accepted by the editor and will be published in 2006. She completed a peer review of a manuscript for the journal "Vision Research." Professor Wahl was invited to participate in a panel discussion on April 13 which was sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences' "NY Science Alliance for Students and Postdocs." Her topic was how science professionals integrate their science into teaching jobs at small liberal arts colleges. She discussed Wells and how we teach hands-on science as part of our curriculum.

XIAOLIANG (LEON) ZHU had an article published on Physical Review B 73, 064115 (2006), in February. The title is "Critical behavior of an elastic Ising model on a stacked triangular net at constant volume." It is a Monte Carlo study of an elastic three-dimensional Ising model, a continuation of his Ph.D. dissertation.

ELSIE TORRES attended the Book Expo 2005 in New York City in June. While there she evaluated many bibliographic resources in the area of Education, which were shared with Professor Susan Talbot for possible library acquisition.

Librarians FRANKIE ANDERSON, MURIEL GODBOUT, and JERI VARGO attended Academic Libraries 2005 in Saratoga Springs, New York. The conference theme was "The Information Commons: Adapting to the Culture of the Net Generation Students".

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