CANDACE COLLMER has had a paper accepted for publication in the scientific journal Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. The paper represents work done during her sabbatical leave at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England, and completed at Wells in collaboration with Wells student Jessica Taylor, who is also an author on the paper. It is titled, "The I Gene of Bean: A Dosage-Dependent Allele Conferring Extreme Resistance, Hypersensitive Resistance, or Spreading Vascular Necrosis in Response to the Potyvirus Bean Common Mosaic Virus." Professor Collmer presented a poster at a Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR)-sponsored workshop on good biological research systems, held at Ferris State University in August 2000. She also attended, along with Sandy Shilepsky, the annual meeting of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP) held at Orlando, Florida in June.

NAN DIBELLO attended the National Women’s Studies Association meeting and moderated a panel presentation during the summer. She also served on the Evaluation Task Force for the PLEN Summer Internship on Diversity.

MARGARET FLOWERS was a panelist for the Campus Ministry Luncheon Series discussion on "Faith and Science" at Cayuga Community College last April. The text of prepared remarks has been published on the youth page of the American Scientific Affiliation Web site. Also in April, Professor Flowers conducted the contemporary Easter oratorio, "I Will Follow Christ," performed in Barler Auditorium at Wells.

PILAR GREENWOOD worked to expand the programs of international internships in the Dominican Republic through a partnership with Rotary International during the summer of 2000. A series of meetings with representatives of Rotary International, Dean Ellen Hall, Dean Terry Martinez, Nancy Karpinski, and Professors Victoria Muñoz and Nan DiBello have resulted in opportunities for Wells students for service, fieldwork training, and academic learning in additional settings and locations. Even though sponsored by Rotary International, these internships will be an additional component to our agreement with the University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in the Dominican Republic and can be undertaken either during January or the summer months. The internships could be applied to a number of majors and disciplines.

While on sabbatical leave during Spring 2000, CYNTHIA KOEPP began a new research project on the history of books and publishing in eighteenth century France and England. She was able to work in a number of rare book libraries in the United States and in France, thanks to fellowships from the following institutions: Princeton University Library; the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University, the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the American Bibliographical Society. She was named a Regional Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University (renewable for three years). She also received a grant from the French Studies Program at Cornell to sponsor a conference at Wells during Spring 2001, which will be devoted to some aspect of French culture (and she is looking for others to help shape this event). Her article "Artisans and Entrepreneurs in Diderot's Encyclopédie" has been accepted for a collection entitled, Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading, Oxford University Press, edited by Daniel Brewer and Julie C. Hayes.

J. ROBERT LENNON published a short story, "No Life," in the September 8, 2000, issue of the New Yorker.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO edited a special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology (IJCS) to celebrate the end of the Millennium. He invited more than ten scholars with various educational backgrounds and research interests and from different countries who represented the disciplines of Economics, Environment, Political Science, Comparative Education, Sociology, English, and History to write, using a comparative approach, on empirical reform cases as articulated in various parts of the world. The issue was published in June 2000. This special issue has also been published as a book in Leiden, Netherlands, by the Brill Academic Publishers, 2000.

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies to participate in the "Constitution-Making Conference in Southern Africa." He presented a paper titled, "Constitutional Experiences in Central Africa." The conference was held on July 26-28, 2000, in Harare, Zimbabwe.

On August 2, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo co-chaired the panel "The Welfare States and Developing Countries" in the XVIII World Congress of the International Political Science Association held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. On August 3, he was the convenor and chair of the panel "Toward Party Democracy in Africa: Is the International Environment Now Conducive," and on the 4^th, he was the discussant of the panel "Capitalism, Restructuration and Politics."

HEATHERMACALISTER’s article, "In Defense of Ambiguity: Understanding Bisexuality’s Invisibility Through Cognitive Psychology" will be published in The Journal of Bisexuality's special issue on Bisexual Women. Publication is expected in spring 2001.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL gave two talks on her book, Separate by Degree, in May: on May 15, she spoke to the residents of McGraw House for senior citizens; and on May 25, she spoke to the Ithaca chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

VICTORIA MUÑOZ served as Panel Chair for the GEAR UP proposal review process for the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC, in August. She is currently on an expert panel for a new Web site developed by the American Social Health Association (www.iwannaknow.org). This Web site will serve as part of a larger research effort to study the impact of Internet-based sexual health information on adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions.

NIAMH O’LEARY participated in a three day Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshop at Cornell University in May. The workshop introduced the participants to the basic operations and applications of ArcView software.

ANNE RUSS’s review of the book, There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, appeared in the September 2000 issue of CHOICE.

MUIN UDDIN served as an outside examiner for an Honors Project and Thesis entitled "Urban Indicators: A Fundamental Composite Index" at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He was also one of three oral examiners on June 1 for this thesis and project.

ROSEMARY WELSH presented a paper titled, "Shadows of Evil: Hitchcockian Interpretations from Shadows of a Doubt to Psycho," at a conference on Brainwatching for the Media Studies Watch group at the Ryerson Institute in Toronto, Canada.