CHRISTOPHER BAILEY's paper describing his classroom exercise, "Thinking Inside the Box," was peer reviewed and published by The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. It is accessible via their web site at the University of Buffalo at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm.

BRUCE BENNETT’s poem, "Camp Version," was published in the magazine 5AM. His review, "A Limpid Medium: The Poetry of David Mason," appeared in the autumn issue of Light.

SARA FRENCH’s article, "A Widow Building in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall," will be published in an anthology called Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe by Ashgate, forthcoming April 2003. She also chaired a session and presented a paper at the Sixteenth Century Studies Association in San Antonio, Texas, in October called, "Hampton Court to Hardwick Hall: Great Halls, Courtyards, and State Rooms in Sixteenth Century English Architecture."

MICHAEL GROTH was invited to speak as a guest lecturer at Mount Saint Mary's College in Newburgh, New York, on November 14. He delivered a lecture entitled "Slavery and Race in the Hudson Valley."

CYNTHIA J. KOEPP participated in a conference on "Liberty, Nature, and Wisdom in the Philosophical Tales of the French Enlightenment" sponsored by the Liberty Fund that took place in October 2002 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Fifteen scholars (including philosophers, literary scholars, historians, political scientists and economists) from the United States, Canada, France, England, and Hungary discussed texts by Diderot, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Madame de Graffigny. Her article "Travail, charité, et prostitution à Besançon, 1740-80: le cas du Bon Pasteur," has been accepted for publication by the French journal Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine. Professor Koepp has also been invited to present a paper on eighteenth-century attitudes toward artisans at a conference entitled "Perceptions of Labour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe" organized by the University of Salzburg and the Free University of Brussels that will take place in Salzburg, Austria, in May 2003.

KARLA LEYBOLD-TAYLOR was elected to a two-year term of Vice President for Professional Development at the 2002 annual meeting of the Middle States Association of Collegiate Registrars and Officers of Admission (MSACROA), held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 2-5. MSACROA comprises the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited to participate in an International Conference on Africa's Intellectual Caravans: bilad as-Sudan and al-Maghaarib, held at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, on November 7-9, 2002. He also made two presentations at the conference: "The African State as 'Problématique' and the Foundation of the Current Crisis," and "Realist Pan-Africanism." His article entitled: "Reconceptualizing the State as the Leading Agent of Development in the Context of Globalization in Africa," was published in the African Journal of Political Science/Revue Africaine de Science Politique, Volume 7, Number 1 (2002). 

VICTORIA MUÑOZ presented her research in the session, "Gender, Orientation, and Transgender Issues" at the annual meeting of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, which was held this year in Montreal.

A paper by NIAMH O' LEARY and Margaret Smith of Cornell's Plant Breeding Department has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. The paper is entitled "Uncovering Corn Adaptation to Intercrop with Bean by Selecting for System Yield in the Intercrop Environment."

LAURA PURDY presented a paper at a panel on "Bioethics as a Social Movement" at the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities on October 27, 2002 in Baltimore. She also presented a paper at the University of Georgia in Athens entitled "Should We Put the 'Xeno' in 'Transplant'?" Professor Purdy gave a radio interview for WUGA. Additionally, she discussed her new paper, "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," with the Bioethics Reading Group at the University of Rochester on November 4, 2002.

On December 7, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers under the direction of CRAWFORD THOBURN presented a concert of choral music for the holidays at the Morgan Opera House in downtown Aurora as a part of the annual "Christmas in Aurora" celebration, which was sponsored by the Aurora Merchants Association. During the holiday season, his published choral works are being widely performed. To date, he has learned of collegiate performances in this country by the choirs of Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, Blackburn College in Illinois, Davidson College in South Carolina, and Nazareth College in New York.
 

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