WALTRAUT DEINERT together with Gesa Falk, Senior Lecturer at Cornell University and Wells alumna, researched the professional and personal background of Else Mentz Fleissner and Otto S. Fleissner for the Marbach Archives, Germany. The article will be published in 2002 in the Internationales Germanistenlexikon, a chronicle of German philologists from the 19th to mid-20th century. She organized and accompanied a group of Wells students who participated in a weekend conference on Oct 21 and 22 at Cornell University. The conference was sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Program and the German Studies Department for upstate New York college students. The topic, which was addressed in lectures followed by discussions, was: "The New Germany within Europe." Professor Deinert initiated and organized the visit and concert of the big band "Smoke Revival Orchestra" from Bad Arolsen, Germany to Wells College from October 9-13 with the help and support of President Ryerson, conference coordinator Anne McCarthy, Dean Martinez, Dean Ryan and Professor Thoburn.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH chaired a panel, "Russia’s ‘Other Women:’ Non-Industrial Workers in the 1920s," at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies meeting in Denver, Colorado, November 9-12.

DIANE KOESTER has received over 17 requests from the National Academic Advising Association for a copy of her "Advising Handbook for Students." She has also made this available online for Wells students.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Association for Continuing Education at Case Western Reserve University to participate in a debate on "Globalization." The topic of his presentation was "Globalization, Its Claims, and Its Contradictions with a Special Reference to International Political Economy and Democracy." The event, held on October 13-16 in Cleveland, Ohio, was sponsored by the Wells College Office of Alumnae and the Case Western Reserve University. He was invited by the Cornell African Students Association (CASA) to deliver a public lecture on October 26 at Cornell University. The topic of the lecture was: "The Problematique of Liberal Democracy as a Global Paradigm for Development in the Post-Cold War Africa: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo."

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL attended a one-day mini-conference, "Going Coed: The Historical Transformation of Single-Sex Colleges," at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 19. Conference participants were asked to read her book, Separate by Degree, in preparation for a faculty, staff, and student discussion of it during the conference. She also attended the American Educational Studies Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, from November 1 to 5, where her book was the subject of a symposium. Professor Miller-Bernal was asked to review a book, The Kaleidoscope of Gender, that Wadsworth is considering publishing.

MILENE MORFEI served as the Wells Chapter Xi delegate at the Phi Beta Kappa Triennial Council in Philadelphia, PA (Oct. 19 - 22).

NIAMH O' LEARY recently organized and coordinated two outreach activities for the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network. "Lakefest," held in Seneca Falls in August, brought together over 120 members of the general public and the Watershed Network to find out about the work and activities of several local environmental groups. "Water In, Water Out," held in Ithaca in October, provided members of the general public and the Watershed Network with an opportunity to learn about the path of water from creeks in the southern part of the watershed to Cayuga Lake, via their homes, businesses, farms, and water treatment facilities.

THOMAS STIADLE attended the 2000 Albany Group Theory Conference sponsored by SUNY at Albany, October 13, 14 and 15, 2000. In addition to standard geometric group theory fare, he detected a small boom in applications of group theory and topology to binary trees and computer science.

CRAWFORD THOBURN’s arrangement of the Finnish folk melody, "In Heavenly Love Abiding," for mixed voices with organ accompaniment, published by Carl Fischer Inc., was performed by a festival choir consisting of singers from all over the Diocese of Kansas at Grace Episcopal Cathedral in Topeka on November 4. On November 11, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, conducted by Professor Thoburn, presented a concert of music for women’s voices in Barler Recital Hall to a large receptive audience, including parents and prospective students. Included in the program were selections by Bach, Brahms, Hassler, and Pergolesi, renaissance part-songs, folksongs, and spirituals.

The WELLS COLLEGE PRESS has published a reprint of Leslie Norris’s Norris’s Ark, which originally appeared from Tidal Press in 1988.

ROSEMARY WELSH presented a paper entitled, "Botero’s Buoyant Bubbles," on the panel she organized and chaired, "Odyssey to Bliss Through Madness," at the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 2 to 5. She has also had her paper, "Sacred Geometry Re-Visited," accepted for the Annual Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan.