During his sabbatical year, CHRISTOPHER BAILEY participated in a course in Solid State Inorganic Chemistry and two courses in Geographic Informations Systems at Cornell University. As part of the GIS courses, he prepared several exercises that will be introduced into the environmental studies curriculum beginning this fall. He attended the NSF-funded ChemConnections Workshop, June 14-18, at Beloit College, Wisconsin, where he learned about the "modular-approach to teaching chemistry," one of the National Science Foundations’ "Systematic Change Initiatives." He will be introducing several of these context-driven modules to his courses over the next year.
Professor Bailey reviewed grant proposals for the National Science Foundations’ Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program in Arlington, Virginia, July 17-20. He attended the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers, October 5-8, at Mount St. Mary’s College, Maryland, where he acted as recording secretary for one session. He presented his work on "Giving Context to the Lab and the Lab Report" at the Gordon Conference on "Innovations in College Chemistry Teaching," held in Ventura, California, January 6-13. Professor Bailey organized Wells participation (including nine students) and attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Kentucky (Lexington), March 15-17. He was asked by publisher J. Wiley to write a review of the textbook, Chemistry: Structure and Dynamics, to be used by the authors in the preparation of the second edition of this text. He gave presentations to Professor Collmer’s "Genetics" and non-majors "DNA and Society" courses on how x-ray crystallography principles helped decipher the structure of DNA. Professor Bailey was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Hazard Library Association in Poplar Ridge and named Treasurer of that organization.
BRUCE BENNETT served as judge for the Newbury Art Association Annual Spring Poetry Contest. The contest drew 504 entries, sent in from poets from 24 states. All of the winners were invited to read their prize-winning works at an Awards Day Reading on May 20. Professor Bennett also presented several of his poems, as well as offer comments on the award winners." During his recent sabbatical leave and over the summer, Professor Bennett published 17 poems in the following magazines: PAINTBRUSH, Light, Tar River Poetry, SMARTISH PACE, nycBIG CITYlit, TROUBADOUR, and RELECTIONS. His chapbook, BRUCE BENNETT; GREATEST HITS 1962-2000, was published by Pudding House Publications. He wrote an essay for PAINTBRUSH and a review for HARVARD REVIEW, and a review of his that originally appeared in THE NATION was reprinted in the journal Contemporary Literary Criticism. Books by Professor Bennett were reviewed in Light and Edge City Review, and poems of his were nominated for inclusion in Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses. Professor Bennett also did a reading and workshop for the Steele Memorial Library in Elmira and read at the McLaughlin Foundation in South Paris, Maine.
BEATRICE FARNSWORTH’s article, "The Rural Batrachka and the Soviet States’ Campaign to Unionize Them," will appear in the Spring 2002 issue of the Journal of Women’s History, which is published by Ohio State University and Indiana University Press.
MARGARET FLOWERS’ essay on "Science, Reason and Faith" has been published in The God Factor. This book, published by HarperCollins, is an anthology of contributions from 50 members of the international scientific community. Professor Flowers is one of only three women from the United States and the only biologist whose work was selected for publication. She has been retained as a content consultant for Prairies, Fields, and Meadows, a combined lecture and laboratory text to be published by the Franklin Watts division of Grolier Press. She returned as an invited fiber arts lecturer-demonstrator for the New York Wool Council at the New York State Fair.
CYNTHIA GARRETT reviewed Gwynne Kennedy's Just Anger: Representing Women's Anger in Early Modern England for Renaissance Quarterly.
NANCY GILBERTSON and LAURA CAMPBELL presented a flute and piano recital in Barler Hall in February. Music included in the program was a solo flute sonata by E.P.E. Bach and piano work by Rameau. Together they performed works by Berkeley, Roussel, Faure, and Bolling.
JEANNE GODDARD spent 3 1/2 weeks in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (late May through mid-June) with her partner, singer Steven Stull. Together they offered four music-and-dance concerts with members of the Mukhtarov family: a lecture-demonstration at the American University in Kyrgyzstan, two concerts at Philharmonic Hall and a gala concert at the State Opera House. Both artists taught master classes. Professor Goddard taught a repertory class at the Choreography College and a modern dance technique class at the ballet studios of the State Opera House. Although Professor Goddard missed Wells College Commencement, she attended commencement ceremonies at AUK, where Mr. Stull sang the Star Spangled Banner with the Kyrgyz army band.
Stateside, Professor Goddard performed with June Finch/Danceworks at the Provincetown Art Association in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on July 28 and 29. She also choreographed, co-produced and performed in the music-and-dance extravaganza, OPERA COWPOKES, including seven dancers, eight singers and seven instrumentalists, with performances at the CRS Barn Studio on August 19 and 20.
PILAR GREENWOOD attended the international conference "2001: A Space Odyssey Between Cathedrals and Skyscrapers," in Leon, Spain, and presented a paper entitled, "Identity in Transnational Spaces: Gender and Nationality in ‘Gringo Viejo` and ‘In the Name of Salome.`" The paper has been selected for publication by the publications committee at the Universidad de Leon. She also chaired a session entitled, "Spanish Women Writers." The conference was co-sponsored by the University of Leon and ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in the United States of America).
KENNETH LARSON was one of sixteen participants in a week-long NEH-sponsored workshop on digital imaging hosted at Cornell University May 14-18. Participants came from throughout the United States and from the National Archives of Sweden. Besides technical concerns such as defining quality metrics the workshop concentrated on management issues, including legal considerations and projecting realistic staffing costs for the creation and ongoing maintenance of digital projects.
Last May, THEODORE LOSSOWSKI juried the graduating student art show at Monroe Community College and awarded prizes for that show in twelve different categories. Currently Professor Lossowski's multi-media sculpture can be seen in the
Show, "The Faculty Selects" in the Tower Fine Arts Gallery at Brockport State College.
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO’s professional activities during spring sabbatical leave include the following.
He published the following articles:
Professor Lumumba-Kasongo started to conduct a major research project in which he is using archives, libraries, internet, interviews, etc., on "Constitution-Making, Citizenship, Power, and Labor in the World of the States in the 21st Century." Countries included in this project are: China, Russia, the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Kenya.Relating to his research project Professor Lumumba-Kasongo also taught a political science seminar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts -Boston.
MILENE MORFEI's article, "Continuity and Change in Parenting Possible Selves: A Longitudinal Follow-Up," was published in the September, 2001 issue of Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL’s book, Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges, was reviewed this summer in two publications, Teachers’ College Record and Contemporary Sociology, The Journal of Reviews of Books in Sociology.
LAURA PURDY had two articles published: "Medicalization, Medical Necessity, and Feminist Medicine," in Bioethics, 15(3), June 2001, 248-261, and "What Feminism Can do for Bioethics," in Health Care Analysis, 9:117-32, 2001.
DAVID REIS was recently awarded a grant from Harvard University's Pluralism Project (http://www.pluralism.org) to document the various religious traditions of Central New York.
LINDA SCHWAB’s essay on "Faith and Experience" has been published in The God Factor, an anthology edited by John Ashton and published by HarperCollins. This anthology, which was released in June 2001 in Australia (United States release expected later this year), contains selected contributions from 50 members of the international scientific community.
CRAWFORD THOBURN presented a lecture entitled, "Mozart’s Masonic Music," at a meeting of the Scipio Lodge #110 F.& A.M. in Aurora. Under his direction on May 13, The Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented "A Celebration of Spring," featuring music for women’s voices from four centuries. Professor Thoburn’s arrangement of a 15th century Dutch folk tune for mixed voices with accompaniment, entitled, "Come Unto Me," has been accepted for publication by Mark Foster Music, Inc. His original setting of Isaac Watts’ poem, "Shepherds, Rejoice!," for accompanied mixed voices has been accepted for publication by Carl Fischer, Inc. This work was commissioned by the Thoburn United Methodist Church of St. Clairsville, Ohio, and received its first performance last December. His letter to the editor of the British journal, Choir and Organ, dealing with the history of the St. Martin Singers of London, appeared in the July/August issue of that publication.
In collaboration with scientists from Cornell's Center for the Environment, THOMAS VAWTER and NIAMH O' LEARY received a research grant for summer work from the USDA's Agricultural Ecosystems Project. The grant funded research into citizen monitoring of water quality in the Cayuga watershed.
In the published proceedings of the conference, "Environmental Research in the Cayuga Lake Watershed," sponsored by the Cornell Center for the Environment and the United States Geological Survey, 12 October 1999, is an abstract from a poster THOMAS VAWTER submitted in collaboration with two former Wells BCS majors, Mansi Amin and Jody Weinstein. The poster and abstract are entitled, "Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Indicators of Water Quality in two Tributaries of Cayuga Lake, New York."
ROSEMARY WELSH has been awarded an appointment as a Regional Visiting Fellow to the Regional Visiting Fellows Program of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. The appointment is from September 1, 2001, through August 31, 2002, with the possibility of renewal for two additional years.
JENNY YATES served
as Parliamentarian for the World Congress of the International Association
of Analytical Psychology at Cambridge University in August. She also presented
a paper on "The Female Self" and chaired the session on Dreams.
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