CHRISTOPHER BAILEY gave a talk on "Teaching Chemistry (And Other Duties) in a Small College Environment" to graduate students and faculty in the Chemistry Department at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, on March 3.

CANDACE COLLMER attended and assisted at a two-day training workshop for newly hired annotators of PAMGO---the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology group, of which she is a member. PAMGO, which is officially associated with the Gene Ontology Consortium, is beginning an NSF-funded, three-year project on annotating the genes of different types of microbes that are pathogens of plants. The meeting was held February 23-24 at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland.

NANCY GILBERTSON and LAURA CAMPBELL presented a recital for flute and piano at Wells College on February 11. Music programmed included a sonata by Robert Muczynski and a sonata by Cesar Frank. Ms. Campbell offered a work titled, "Flying Lessons for Solo Flute" and Ms. Gilbertson performed "A Rag For New Orleans, September 2005" for solo piano by Brian Dykstra.

SIOUXSIE GRADY recently opened her new exhibit "The Whimsical Dreams of August" at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott, New York. This exhibit contains her installation art, photography, and several original theatre pieces. The visual art will be on display at the gallery until the end of March.

JILL HILL will be presenting her research, "Decolonizing Personality Assessment: An Examination of the MMPI-2," as part of a symposium presentation at the 114th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 10–13, 2006. This symposium features all American Indian psychologists presenting a body of research regarding the validity and use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory – 2 with American Indian adults. The discussant of the symposium is renowned American Indian psychologist, Dr. Theresa LaFromboise (Miami), Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Stanford University. The symposium, entitled, "The MMPI-2 and American Indians: Norms, Contexts, Constructions, Meanings, and Controversies," is co-sponsored by APA’s Division 17, Society of Counseling Psychology, and Division 45, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.

JILL HILL, SANDRA MARSHALL, and VICTORIA MUÑOZ led a session titled, "Transforming the Standard: How We’re Making the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum Inclusive and Relevant" as part of the 23rd Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, February 17-18, 2006. They also attended workshops and lectures on white privilege, race and racism, teaching social justice, developing multicultural competence, and the uses of autobiography in teaching and learning across differences. The Winter Roundtable is the longest running continuing professional education program in the United States devoted solely to racial and cultural issues in psychology and education. The Winter Roundtable brings together scholars, practitioners, researchers, social change agents and students interested in the intersections between race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation in psychology and education.

R. JOSEPH HOFFMANN’s article, "London Postscript: 7 July 2005," was published in the Autumn/Winter 2005/6 issue of the Oxford theological journal, Faith and Freedom (58:161), pp 9-24. An expanded version of the same article, "On the Limits of Religious Tolerance: A Liberal Writes Back," is scheduled to appear in the Unitarian publication, the Journal of Liberal Religion on March 25. Professor Hoffmann's assessment of the Dover (PA) School Board "Intelligent Design" case is part of a forum scheduled for the March/April issue of Free Inquiry, "Of Brights and Dims: Why Hard Science Won't Cure Easy Religion."

MATTHEW MCCABE presented a paper titled, "Valuing Unfunded Deferred Compensation Assets in Matrimonial Actions," at the 32nd annual conference of the Eastern Economic Association in Philadelphia on February 25, 2006. He is also a reviewer for the "Journal of Forensic Economics."

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presented a paper, "Colleges' Gender Composition and Prestige: Consequences for the Coeducation Movement of the 1970s," at a regular session of the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) in Boston, February 26, 2006. As Chair of the ESS Publications Committee, Professor Miller-Bernal led the Society in its search for a new publisher for its journal, Sociological Forum. She arranged for five invited publishers to make presentations about their proposals for publishing the journal and facilitated discussions about the proposals' comparative merits.

LAURA PURDY wrote a chapter entitled, "Vitoria's Just War Theory: Still Relevant Today?" for R. Joseph Hoffmann’s book, Just War and Jihad, (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Press, 2006), 255-276. Her review of the book, Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die (by Margaret Battin), has been published online in Journal of the American Medical Association

ERNIE OLSON gave a presentation entitled, "Congregational Circles and Colonial Displacement: Meaning and Place for Kava Drinking in the Diaspora," for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 14, 2006 in Honoululu, Hawaii.

WILLIAM ROBERTS currently has a show at the Saltonstall Art Salon. His work is part of a show entitled, MUSEUM OF THE EARTH; the other artists are Virginia Cobey, Linda Swanson and Craig Mains. Professor Roberts describes his painting as an emotional and psychological process that requires a certain "letting go and staying loose." He does not know what a painting will look like when he begins. Quite often in these paintings, he'll do a portrait then completely paint it out and start over again. Underneath each finished painting are probably six to ten other preliminary paintings. How does he know when a painting is complete? He stated that "something just tells me, and I feel good about how things have pulled together."

CHRISTINA WAHL has been invited to participate in a panel discussion on April 13 that is sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences' "NY Science Alliance for Students and Postdocs." Her topic is how science professionals integrate their science into teaching jobs at small liberal arts colleges. She will be discussing Wells and how we teach hands-on science as part of our curriculum.

XIAOLIANG (LEON) ZHU had an article published on Physical Review B 73, 064115 (2006), in February. The title is "Critical behavior of an elastic Ising model on a stacked triangular net at constant volume." It is a Monte Carlo study of an elastic three-dimensional Ising model, a continuation of his Ph.D dissertation.