CANDACE COLLMER and CHRISTINA WAHL attended a multidisciplinary workshop at Cornell University from November 17-19, 2000, entitled "Genomic Futures: Ethical Challenges, Social Choices, and the University." The workshop was organized by the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Cornell Genomics Initiative and was designed to address significant issues raised by genomics and the "new biology."

Professor Collmer recently reviewed an exciting new proposal for an integrated textbook/website model for teaching Molecular Biology for W H Freeman Press.

SUSAN FORBES is currently in production for A Christmas Carol at the Tony Award Winning Trinity Repertory Theatre. She is stage managing, and she assisted director Kevin Moriarity, who is directing the upcoming production of Wit at Syracuse Stage and will be the new Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre. Professor Forbes will have performed over 50 performances of A Christmas Carol from the middle of November to the end of the run on December 24. This production is one of Trinity's largest in many seasons and was highly acclaimed in its reviews. This production includes a cast of approximately 20, a crew of 15, and was mounted with an approximate budget of $475,000.

NANCY GILBERTSON gave a piano recital in her hometown of Salem Ohio, at a branch of her alma mater Kent State University on September 28. She performed music from her CD, "Mediterranean Magic," as well as a Haydn Sonata and two Brahms Intermezzi. The program included Mekta in the Art of Kita by Egyptian composer and KSU professor emeritus, Halim El-Dabh who attended the concert and spoke about his piece. Professor Gilbertson, along with her husband Kim Gilbertson, collaborated with Jeanne Goddard and the Wells College dance students to provide live piano music for the Dance Concert on November 10 and 11 in Phipps Auditorium. The Gilbertson duo played two sets of four hand miniatures, choreographed by Professor Goddard, and Professor Gilbertson performed three pieces for solo piano by DeFalla and Notturno by Respighi, also choreographed by Professor Goddard.

CYNTHIA J. KOEPP delivered a paper entitled "Anticipating the Encyclopédie: Artisans, Mechanical Arts, and the Spectacle de la Nature" at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History that was held at University of California, Los Angeles November 8-11, 2000.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO’s article entitled, "Capitalism and Liberal Democracy as Forces of Globalization with Reference to the Paradigms Behind the Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa," has been published in Politics, Administration and Change: A Multi-disciplinary Social Science Journal, Number 34, (December 2000) by the Center for Public Affairs, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL gave a talk on her book, Separate by Degree, to faculty and students at Scripps College, the women’s college in the Claremont consortium in California, on November 15.

MILENE MORFEI was asked by the book review editor of Journal of Marriage and the Family to review a book entitled, Becoming a Family: Parents' Stories and Their Implication for Practice, Policy, and Research.

SUSAN SANDMAN performed English consort music with Fretwork at a Sunday afternoon program on September 24 at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn. She organized and performed with Fretwork and Elizabethan Conversation in the concert "Bach and Before" on November 6 in the Alice Barler Recital Hall. "Bach and Before" was organized to complement the WLLS 101 units on scientific thought in 17^th and 18^th century Europe. Professor Sandman performed as well with the viol consort of the Schola Cantorum in programs on October 17 and December 19 in Syracuse.

LINDA SCHWAB attended the 27th Annual Scientific Paper Session of the Rochester Academy of Science, held at Roberts Wesleyan College on November 4, 2000 and assisted alumna Maryann Keene '00 in presenting a poster entitled, "Developmental Expression of Phenolic Compounds in Plantago Major (by) Maryann E. Keene, Margaret G. Flowers and Linda S. Schwab."

CRAWFORD THOBURN’s original composition, "There is no Rose of Such Virtue," was performed on December 3 by the choir of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in Jacksonville, Florida, at their annual Advent Procession with Carols. The Cathedral choir also performed this work, published by H.W. Gray, in 1991, 1992, and 1995.

On November 19, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, conducted by Professor Thoburn, performed in concert with the Men’s Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute at the Worcester, Massachusetts, Art Museum. The featured join works, accompanied by orchestra, were the Coronation Anthems, written for the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline of England, by George Frederic Handel. Wells student soloists in the Handel works were sopranos Karina Conkrite and Angela Dockwill and altos Nandani Sinha and Michelle Trickey.

In December the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers gave three performances: on December 2, they sang at the Morgan Opera House as part of the Christmas in Aurora celebration; on December 7, they presented their annual Holiday Concert in Barler Hall; on December 9, they performed at Emerson Park Pavilion in Auburn as part of the annual Festival of Trees program, sponsored by the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. Admission to the Holiday Concert was by donation of non-perishable food items for the Cayuga County Food Pantry.

The Wells Consort, Wells College’s collegium musicum, hosted an evening of recorder playing called a "Big Toot" for recorder players from Ithaca and other areas in the Alice Barler Recital Hall on November 30. The Wells Consort and Elizabethan Conversation played for Christmas in Aurora at the Morgan Opera House on December 2. The program included Anthony Holborne’s renaissance dances on recorders and holiday music on lutes and hurdy-gurdy.

JENNY YATES presented her work in progress for a second book for Princeton Press at the Ithaca Jung Society on December 3. She has been invited to discuss her book on the Near-Death Experience, published by Rutledge, at St. Bonaventure University in March. She has also been invited to give a workshop for Analysts in Training from the United States and Canada in April in Atlanta. The subject will be "The Female Self." Her proposal on this topic has just been accepted for publication by Inner City Press in Toronto. The manuscript is due September 2001. Professor Yates has been invited to participate on a panel on the clinical use of dreams at the World Congress of the International Association of Analytical Psychology in Cambridge, England, in August 2001.