CHRISTOPHER BAILEY and Nancy Karpinski attended the Spring 1999 Conference and Open House for Health Professions advisors at the New York Chiropractic College. Professors BAILEY, TOM VAWTER, AND NIAMH O'LEARY, along with DEAN HALL, participated in the Project Kaleidoscope workshop on "Environmental Studies: Issues for New and Expanding Programs," at Brown University, June 18-20.
Professor Bailey is chairing a session on "Active Learning in Chemistry," at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers, September 17, at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.
BRUCE BENNETT had poems published in four literary magazines, Tar River Poetry, Paintbrush, Piedmont Literary Review, and Reflections. His poems were also published in three anthologies: Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture In American Poetry (Indiana University Press), in Prentice Hall Canada's Grade 7 Language Arts Anthology, and in WESTERN WIND: An Introduction to Poetry, Fourth Edition, McGraw-Hill. Professor Bennett's essay "X. J. Kennedy's Poetry for Children: A User's Guide, " appeared in Paintbrush, Autumn, 1998.
Professor Bennett's book, Navigating the Distances: Poems New and Selected, was published by Orchises Press. The jacket cover of Navigating the Distances was designed by Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book Arts JOCELYN WEBB and features her artwork. Navigating the Distances has received a starred review in the current issue of Booklist, and the jacket cover by Jocelyn is also reproduced in that issue of Booklist.
CATHERINE BURROUGHS's essay on Fanny Kemble's poems appeared in the edited volume, Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, published by the University Press of Kentucky this past summer. In June, she chaired a session on technology and the future of higher education at the 4th National Writing-Across-the-Curriculum conference held at Cornell.
CANDACE COLLMER was a selected participant in a Bioethics Institute for life science faculty members held at Iowa State University from May 29 to June 3, 1999. This institute, funded by the National Science Foundation, involved 25 faculty members who spent more than 40 hours studying ethical theory, thinking about ways to discuss moral decision-making with students, and constructing case studies for classroom use.
MARGARET FLOWERS has served as scientific consultant for the Rangeley School District, Rangeley, Maine, and was requested to compile a floristic survey and herbarium collection of the woody plants for Reed Enterprises, Inc. of North New Portland, Maine. Her interdisciplinary laboratory exercises produced under the New Pathways in Chemistry grant, were purchased by the Commonwealth of Virginia for use in their public school system. Professor Flowers' radio interview on research in the college curriculum, produced by NPR affiliate WAMC for the nationally syndicated "Best of Our Knowledge," was aired in August.
NANCY GILBERTSON presented "Mediterranean Magic," a piano recital of music from the Mediterranean area, featuring music from Spain, Italy, Greece, Israel, and Egypt. The program was performed at Barler Hall on February 28. She also collaborated with LAURA CAMPBELL on a program of flute and piano music for Horizon Performances of Moravia on April 11. Composers represented on this program were Enesco, Bach, Katherine Hoover, Albeniz, and Claude Bolling. On April 29, Ms. Gilbertson took her Wells piano students to Westminster Manor in Auburn to give a recital for the seniors living there.
JEANNE GODDARD directed and co-produced the workshop performance of "House of Butterflies," an original opera, at the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca in May 1998. During September, she traveled in Denmark and Finland, attending performances of the Royal Danish Ballet, the Moscow Ballet, and various modern dance performers. She visited the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, where she met with colleagues in the Department of Physical Education and toured their newly renovated facility. In October, 1998, Professor Goddard was a guest artist at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, teaching three levels of modern dance and a Laban/Bartenieff workshop, as well as serving as adjudicator for a concert of student choreography.
From February 1 through March 5, 1999, Professor Goddard was a guest artist at Ithaca College, teaching modern dance and dance history. In March she choreographed the Tri-Cities Opera production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and offered a movement workshop for cast and chorus. She directed and Performed "Odyssey" with the Firehouse Dance Company at the Ithaca Festival in June. Her solo choreographic project, "Natural Studies," developed in various outdoor settings during the summer, and she also performed in June Finch's lecture-demonstration, "How to Make a Dance" as part of the Provincetown Art Association series, Forum 99. At this time, she contracted with June Finch/Danceworks and with visual artist Bob Bailey to participate in the Wells College Fall Dance Concert this October. In August, she performed three works, two of which she choreographed, in Summerdance 99 at the CRS Barn Studio, and last weekend she participated in the video-music-dance production, "Luonnotar," also at CRS Barn.
PILAR GREENWOOD, from June 1-4, attended the international conference "A New Millennium: From the Altamira Caves to the Internet" in Santander, Spain. The conference was co-sponsored by, among other institutions, the Autonomous University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain), the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao (Spain), and ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in the USA). She participated in the panel "Nuevos Conocimientos, Nueva Universidad (New Knowledge, New University) with a paper entitled, "Posicionalidad y Multiculturalismo en los años 1990's" (Positionality and Multiculturalism in the `90's). This paper has been selected for publication by the publications committee at the Universidad de Cantabria.
SPENCER HILDAHL was asked by the library review journal, Choice, to monitor and analyze a web site for a 30-day period and to write a review of it. His review of World-Systems Archive, URL was published in the May 1999 issue of Choice. In addition, his review of the book Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences (Beacon Press, 1999) appears in the July/August issue of Choice.
CYNTHIA KOEPP chaired a panel entitled, "Divorce Across the Revolutionary Divide: Staging Marriage Crises in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France," at the 11th Triennial Berkshire Conference on the History of Women that was held June 4-6, 1999, at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. In August she was the outside reader of a Ph.D. dissertation in French History at the University at Buffalo.
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Auburn Human Rights Commission to give a talk as the keynote speaker for the Juneteenth Day Celebration on June 10. The title of his speech was "Global Values and Diversity as Human Rights: Imperatives for Building the World in the 21st Century with Confidence and a Sense of Direction." The Local Amnesty International in Ithaca interviewed him twice on "The Political Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa and Prospect for the Peace" in June on local public television, Channel 13. He attended and delivered a paper entitled, "Capitalism and Liberal Democracy as Forces of Globalization with a Reference to the Paradigms Behind the Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa," at the 12th African Political Science Congress in Dakar, Senegal.
Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Association of the African Women Researcher for Development in Africa (AAWORD) to attend its 5th General Assembly and Seminar on July 19-24 in Dakar, Senegal. The paper presented was "Theoretical Perspective on Capitalism and Welfare States and Their Responses to the Question of Social Inequality with a Particular Attention to Gender Inequality: What Lessons for Africa?" He has accepted an invitation by the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association to be a convenor and chair of the panel on "Toward Party Democracy in Africa: Is the International Environment now Conducive?" for the XVIII World Congress of the International Political Science to be held in Quebec City, Canada, in August 2000. In August 1999, he also accepted the invitation by the Chief Editor to join the Editorial Board of the International Third World Studies Journal and Review starting in September 1999. The journal is published the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
MILENE MORFEI's manuscript, "Continuity and Change in Parenting Possible Selves: A Longitudinal Follow-Up," has been accepted for publication by the journal, Basic and Applied Social Psychology. The article will appear in a special edition on social psychology and aging. Alana Cordeiro `99 is one of the co-authors of the paper.
VICTORIA MUÑOZ was a reviewer and panel chair for the GEAR UP program. GEAR UP is a new US Department of Education program to prepare, through rigorous academic support, low-income and at-risk students for college. She also participated in two professional development seminars, "Working with African-American Clients and Families," through the University of Rochester Medical Center and "Clinical Sociobiology: Darwinian Feelings and Values," through the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
ANNE RUSS presented a talk entitled, "Interesting Characters and Divine Secrets: Biography as Women's History," at Alumnae College in May. Her review of the book, We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960, appeared in the summer issue of Choice. In June, Professor Russ participated on the Berkshire Book Prize Committee at the Berkshire Conference on Women's History at the University of Rochester. She also moderated a panel on "Public Health and Welfare in New York City" for the New York State Historical Association at Harwick College in June.
LINDA SCHWAB served as a pre-publication reviewer for two textbooks in the Workshop Chemistry Project series, "Principles of General, Organic and Biochemistry," by Pratibha Varma-Nelson and Mark Cracolice, and "The Workshop Model: Peer Leadership and Learning, A Guidebook," David K. Gosser, senior editor. Laboratory modules from the New Pathways to Chemistry project, which Professor Schwab is co-director, were purchased by the Commonwealth of Virginia for use throughout the state. An interview with Professor Schwab on undergraduate research at Wells aired the week of August 9 on the nationally syndicated radio program, "The Best of Our Knowledge" (a production of WAMC, Albany, New York).
MUIN UDDIN's paper entitled, "The Economics of a Nobel Laureate," has been accepted for publication in an upcoming book, The Nobel Laureates and the Frontiers of Economics: A Popular Reading, edited by Professor Abu Wahid of the University of Tennessee, to be published by the University Press of America. Professor Uddin presented this paper to the Faculty Club in the last academic year. In June, he served as an outside examiner for two Honors Theses in Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
JENNY YATES's book on The Near-Death Experience was the subject of a two-hour talk show on New Haven radio on August 29.
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