CYNTHIA J. KOEPP presented a paper entitled "Making Money: Re-reading Diderot's Encyclopédie as a 'How-To' Book," at The 48^th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies that was held at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, on April 13. She was also invited to participate in an international conference devoted to the history of children and childhood jointly organized by Princeton and Carnegie-Mellon Universities that took place April 17-20 in Princeton, New Jersey. Professor Koepp spoke about some of her recent research on pedagogy and eighteenth century publishing in a paper entitled "Curiosity, Science, and Experiential Learning in Eighteenth-Century France."

KARLA LEYBOLD-TAYLOR has been named Vice President for Professional Development for the Middle States Association of Collegiate Registrars and Officers of Admissions (MSACROA), which includes the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. In this position, she will also chair the Professional Activities Committee and serve on the annual meeting's Program Committee.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Institute of African Development at Cornell University to deliver a public lecture, entitled "Reflections on Welfare State for Development in Africa: In Search of Alternative Strategies in the Context of the Paralyzed Unipolar System," on May 2, 2002. He has been selected by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (the German Academic Exchange Service) in Bonn (Germany) to participate in the German Today Program (June 15-June 28, 2002). The program will include visits to the governmental, research, and historic centers, seminars on international affairs to be held in the sites of European Union in Germany and Belgium, and visits of cities. There will be 25 participants in this program including academics, governmental officials, and heads of corporations from the United States and Canada. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo wrote an extensive book review of Opoku Agyeman's book Africa's Persistent Vulnerable Link to Global Politics, San Jose, New York, Lincoln, and Shanghai: University Press, 2001. This review was published in the Journal of Comparative Education and International Relations in Africa (JEDIRAF), nos. 1 and 2, volume 4, 2002.

LAURA PURDY had the following papers published:

• "The Bioethics of Assisted Reproductive Technology," Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, online encyclopedia published by the Nature Group;
• "Priority Setting for New Technologies in Medicine: A Qualitative Study," ( Peter Singer, Douglas K. Martin, Mita Giacomini, and Laura Purdy) British Medical Journal, Vol. 321 (November 25,2000), pp. 1316-1318;
• "Attributions of Cause and Recurrence in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors," (with DE Stewart, AM Cheung, S Duff, F Wong, M McQuestion, T. Cheng, L Purdy, T Bunston), PsychoOncology, Vol. 10, n. 2, 2001:179-83;
• "Xenografts: Are the Risks So Great that We Should not Proceed?" (with Peter Collignon), Microbes and Infection, vol. ¾ (2001), 79-83.;
• "Xenotransplantation: three questions to advance the discourse: A Response," (letter) British Medical Journal: April 28, 2000;
• "In Defense of Hiring Apparently Less Qualified Women," reprinted in Sex and Gender: A Spectrum of Views, ed. Philp and Celia Devine, Wadsworth, 2003.

NIAMH O' LEARY was the event coordinator for two days of environmental education and outreach activities in celebration of National Drinking Water Week. The event was held in Ithaca on May 10th and 11th and was co-sponsored by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and the Tompkins County Health Department.

DAVID REIS traveled to Ottawa on April 27, 2002, to present a paper entitled "Jesus' Farewell Discourse, 'Otherness,' and the Construction of a Johannine Identity" at the American Academy of Religion's Eastern International Regional Meeting.

THOMAS STIADLE attended the annual Cornell Topology Festival on May 4, 2002. On, April 27, 2002, he took a student to the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held at Hamilton College. In addition to attending others' talks, Professor Stiadle spoke on "Real Numbers, Place Value and Arithmetic" in the Math Education session.
 

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