BRUCE BENNETT had a poem published in the journal 5:AM and two poems published in the anthology Presenting the Turkey: The Fabulous Story of a Flamboyant and Flavorful Bird, edited by Sabine Eiche and published by Central Di in Florence, Italy. Professor Bennett read with poets from The Poets Grimm Anthology at the Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University at New Brunswick on October 24. He participated in a reading/discussion relating to poetry and politics at Canastota Public Library on October 19.
CANDACE COLLMER presented a Faculty Club talk at Wells College on October 22 entitled: "A Rose by any other name...." ...but How to Find Them All in the Age of Genomics? (or, Pathogens, Genes, and Bioinformatics). She also presented a seminar to the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell University on November 2 entitled: "New Gene Ontology (GO) Terms for Annotating Microbe Genes Involved in Pathogenesis/Symbiosis"
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women has awarded its 2003 book prize for a collaborative work to Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, edited by Allison Levy and with a contribution by SARA L. FRENCH. Professor French also presented a paper at the annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University on October 23. Her paper was entitled "Building Gender in(to) the Elizabethan Prodigy House."
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presided at a session at the New York State Sociological Association at the State University of New York at Oswego on October 8. The session combined two original sessions on technology and the information age, and political sociology. At the same meetings, a Wells student, Amy Truax '07, sponsored by Professor Miller-Bernal, was awarded the undergraduate student prize for the paper she presented, "Prostitution in the United States: Victimless Crime or Oppressive Force of the Patriarchy?"
SARAH ROBERTS, MARGOT ECKE and TERRENCE CHOUINARD exhibited work last month at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery. The exhibit entitled 'Image/Word: The Intersection of Art and Literature' included WCP books & broadsides as well as independent work by each of the Victor Hammer Fellows, including Jocelyn Webb. In addition Margot Ecke and Terrence Chouinard gave gallery talks on September 16.
WILLIAM ROBERTS’ exhibited his paintings and drawings at the Sola' Gallery in Ithaca from September 10 through the 30th. His solo exhibition, entitled " Birds and Horses" included 15 new watercolor, goauche and tempera studies. He photographed the Genesee Valley Hunt Cup races for Steeplechase Times and the Chronicle of the Horse on October 9. Professor Roberts attended the Breeders' Cup races in Grand Prairie, Texas, on October 30 for the Syracuse Post Standard. His Breeders' Cup Sketchbook appeared in the Post Standard on Sunday October 30. He is currently exhibiting 13 new paintings at the Delavan Gallery in Syracuse. The exhibit runs from November 4 through the 27th.
On November 5, CRAWFORD THOBURN represented his undergraduate alma mater, Allegheny College, at the installation of Nancy Cantor as the eleventh and first woman Chancellor of Syracuse University. One of his arrangements, a setting for mixed voices of the English carol, "The Holly And The Ivy," published by The Concordia Publishing House, is being performed as part of a graduate conducting recital at the Southwest Missouri State University in November. An article, with picture, about his listing in the 59th edition of "Who's Who In America" appeared in the November issue of "The American Organist," the national journal of the American Guild of Organists.
JACLYN SCHNURR co-authored a paper that has been accepted for publication in Ecoscience: Tripler, C.E., C.D. Canham, R.S. Inouye and J.L. Schnurr, "Competitive hierarchies of temperate tree species: interactions between resource availability and white-tailed deer."
