CATHERINE BURROUGHS's review of two recent books on Romantic closet drama appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of the on-line periodical, Romantic Circles Reviews.

At the New York State Sociological Association meetings in Rochester on October 22 and 23, LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presented a paper, "Changing Meanings of Single-Sex Education for Women." At these meetings, she also served as a discussant for a session on teaching strategies. At a women's studies conference, "Girls and Women Claiming an Education," at New Paltz on November 6, Professor Miller-Bernal presented a paper entitled, "Listening to Women: Students' Views of their Educational Experiences in Women's Colleges and Coeducational Colleges."

NIAMH O'LEARY presented a paper entitled, "Evaluation of Monoculture and Mixed Cropping as Selection Environments for the Identification of Corn Genotypes Adapted to Intercrop with Bean," at the 91st annual meeting of the Crop Science Society of America in Salt Lake City. The theme of this year's meeting was "Science Serving Agriculture and Natural Resources."

In March THOMAS STIADLE spoke at the Math Education Colloquium at St. Cold State University on "Real Numbers, Adic Numbers, and Arithmetic." In April, he spoke at the Math Research Colloquium at Murray State University on "Algebraic K-Theory and Complexes of Groups." During May, Professor Stiadle attended the 37th Annual Cornell Topology Festival.

CHRISTOPHER STURR presented a paper entitled, "Ideology Critique and Film Criticism: Interpretation Versus 'Reading In`," on November 7 at the International Conference on Utopia and Dystopia in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, in Atlanta, Georgia.

A. THOMAS VAWTER continues to serve as a member of the Technical Committee for the Intermunicipal Organization (IO), which represents all municipalities in the Cayuga Lake Watershed. On Wells's behalf, he hosted a meeting of the Technical Committee on campus in September. The Technical Committee consists of representatives from the Genesee/ Fingerlakes Regional Planning Council (G-FLPLC), the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the Cornell Center for the Environment, the US Geological Survey, and other agencies. In October, Professor Vawter, with Niamh O'Leary and Kent Klitgaard, attended a conference entitled, "Research on the Cayuga Lake Watershed." The meeting was sponsored by the US Geological Survey and the Cornell Center for the Environment. At the conference, he (A. Thomas Vawter, Mansi Amin, and Jody Weinstein) presented a poster entitled, "Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Indicators of Water Quality in Two Cayuga Lake Subwatersheds." The poster is currently displayed outside his office in the basement of Zabriskie.

ROSEMARY WELSH presented two papers: "Time and Time Again: Medievalism in Walt Disney" and "The Wonderful Ways of Medieval Imagery in the Wizard of Oz" and was part of the plenary session panel at the Studies of Medievalism Conference in Bozeman, Montana, on September 27. She presented a paper entitled, "Recalcitrant Women, Filmic Utopias," in Atlanta, Georgia, at the International Conference of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts on November 7.