CHRISTOPHER BAILEY and Nancy Karpinski attended the Spring 1999 Conference and Open House for Health Professions advisors at the New York Chiropractic College. Professors BAILEY, TOM VAWTER, AND NIAMH O’LEARY, along with DEAN HALL, participated in the Project Kaleidoscope workshop on "Environmental Studies: Issues for New and Expanding Programs," at Brown University, June 18-20. Professor Bailey chaired a session on "Active Learning in Chemistry," at the 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers, September 17, at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.

ARTHUR BELLINZONI, as a result of his service on the Board of Directors of People for the American, Way, has been invited to join the national Board of Directors of GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Based in New York, GLAAD works to advance an agenda of full equality for gays and lesbians. Professor Bellinzoni and actor Alec Baldwin, representing the Board of Directors of People for the American Way, delivered public testimony on April 14 at a public hearing before a New York State Senate committee in support of hate crimes legislation for New York State.

This past summer,BRUCE BENNETT had poems published in four literary magazines, Tar River Poetry, Paintbrush, Piedmont Literary Review, and Reflections. His poems were also published in three anthologies: Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture In American Poetry (Indiana University Press), in Prentice Hall Canada’s Grade 7 Language Arts Anthology, and in WESTERN WIND: An Introduction to Poetry, Fourth Edition, McGraw-Hill. Professor Bennett’s essay "X. J. Kennedy’s Poetry for Children: A User’s Guide, " appeared in Paintbrush, Autumn, 1999. Professor Bennett’s book, Navigating the Distances: Poems New and Selected, was published by Orchises Press. The jacket cover of Navigating the Distances was designed by Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book Arts JOCELYN WEBB and features her artwork. Navigating the Distances has received a starred review in the current issue of Booklist, and the jacket cover by Jocelyn is also reproduced in that issue of Booklist. Professor Bennett’s chapbook AH, FIRENZE! was published by Clandestine Press. All proceeds from the sale of AH, FIRENZE! will be used to support the Wells College Book Arts Center. He had three poems published in The Second WORD THURSDAYS Anthology, Editor Bertha Rogers, Bright Hill Press, 1999. "In Remembrance," a memorial tribute to Robert Wallace, appeared in the Autumn 1999 issue of Light. He read his poetry at Keuka College on October 26.

On behalf of the College, Professor Bennett received a three-year grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to support Writers’ Appearances for the Visiting Writers Series. Oh behalf of the Book Arts Center, Professor Bennett received a grant from the Kaplan Foundation which will enable the Wells Press to publish Sincerely Yours, Victor Hammer, the collection of Victor Hammer’s letters to Janet Lewis relating to his publication of her 1948 poetry book, The Earth-Bound.

Professor Bennett gave three poetry readings during November. He read at Harvard University on November 12, at a book signing for Navigating The Distances in Belmont, Massachusetts, on November 13, and at the Professors Place Restaurant in Watkins Glen on November 17. His essay, "Not Philosophers or Angels: An Appreciation of Gail White," was published in the Winter 1999 issue of Light. A feature article about Professor Bennett and Navigating The Distances, entitled "Better Verse," written by Bridget Meeds, appeared in the January 19, 2000, issue of the Ithaca Times. On January 22, he gave a reading for the Ithaca Community Poets at Tompkins County Museum. Navigating The Distances, has gone into a second printing. In February, Professor Bennett read his poems at the "Twentieth Century Literature Conference" at the University of Kentucky in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a featured writer at SUNY Binghamton on March 9 and 10. He gave a reading of his poetry on March 9 and held a discussion of his work with the Contemporary American Writers class the morning of the 10^th. Professor Bennett published a poem in The Laurel Review. He gave two readings of his poetry: at Hobart William Smith on March 31 and at the Bookery on April 9. Professor Bennett’s book, Navigating The Distances, was reviewed in the Spring 2000 issue of Harvard Review.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS’s essay on Fanny Kemble’s poems appeared in the edited volume, Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, published by the University Press of Kentucky this past summer. In June, she chaired a session on technology and the future of higher education at the 4^th National Writing-Across-the-Curriculum conference held at Cornell. Her review of two recent books on Romantic closet drama appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of the on-line periodical, Romantic Circles Reviews. Professor Burroughs read one manuscript and a book proposal on British women playwrights for Theatre Journal and Broadview Press in December. After many years in the pipeline, an essay she wrote in the early `90s on Keats’s poem Lamia and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Beautiful and Damned will be published this spring by the University of Georgia Press, in an edited volume called F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives. She was recently asked by Houghton Mifflin to review the forthcoming Riverside Shakespeare Electronic Concordance. Professor Burroughs has been reappointed to the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University for a term running through 2004. She has also just received a contract from Oxford University Press for a two-volume anthology tracing the tradition of British closet drama from the Renaissance to the early 20^th century. This project is due in 2002 and will be titled Between Performance and Text: An Anthology of British Closet Drama, 1550-1900.

CANDACE COLLMER was a selected participant in a Bioethics Institute for life science faculty members held at Iowa State University from May 29 to June 3, 1999. This institute, funded by the National Science Foundation, involved 25 faculty members who spent more than 40 hours studying ethical theory, thinking about ways to discuss moral decision-making with students, and constructing case studies for classroom use. In October, she attended the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. This conference, officially linked to the Nobel Foundation, Sweden, and held every year at Gustavus Adolphus College, links an audience of several thousand with the world’s foremost scholars and researchers in debate centered on contemporary issues related to the sciences. This year’s thought-provoking focus was "Genetics in the New Millennium." Professor Collmer also was a participant in a workshop entitled "Genomics: How Do We Teach in the Middle of a Revolution?" held December 11 in Washington, D.C. This was a special workshop sponsored by the Education Committee as part of the American Society for Cell Biology’s 39^th Annual Meeting. She attended a meeting on March 20, 2000, entitled "Who Owns Life?" This meeting was sponsored by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and addressed a host of social, moral, and legal problems created by the rapid pace of development in biotechnology. Participation in the meeting was part of a large project at the Center for Bioethics, where she serves as a member of a focus group that is working to develop educational materials for use in colleges and high schools that are related to the upcoming book, Who Owns Life?. This book is a collection of essays by leading authorities from science, philosophy, law, religion, history, social sciences, bioethics, and industry, all of whom address the complex issues around the ownership and patenting of life—genes, body parts, and even whole organisms.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH chaired a session at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on "Female Non-Industrial Workers in the Soviet 1920s and 1930s" in March.

MARGARET FLOWERS served as scientific consultant for the Rangeley School District, Rangeley, Maine, and was requested to compile a floristic survey and herbarium collection of the woody plants for Reed Enterprises, Inc. of North New Portland, Maine. Her interdisciplinary laboratory exercises, produced under the New Pathways in Chemistry grant, were purchased by the Commonwealth of Virginia for use in their public school system. Professor Flowers’ radio interview on research in the college curriculum, produced by NPR affiliate WAMC for the nationally syndicated "Best of Our Knowledge," was aired in August. Professors Flowers and Schwab presented an analysis of the controversy surrounding the revised Kansas State science education standards at the Lions Club meeting in Union Springs on September 28. Their paper was entitled, "Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy: Recent Developments."

SUSAN FORBES directed a summer camp for girls for the Wells College Conferences this past summer. The weeklong intensive performing arts camp offered courses in private voice and instrumental, tap jazz and modern dance, and in acting, improvisation and technical theatre. Thirty girls studied, rehearsed and prepared a 50-minute performance of selections from the musical Annie. Nancy Gilbertson also served as a private instructor. Professor Forbes produced and directed a black box production of absurdist drama entitled "Acts of Menace." This production brought two artists-in-residence to the Wells campus. The evening consisted of Harold Pinter’s "The Dumb Waiter," Joan Schenkar’s "The Lodger," and Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit." Professor Forbes arranged for playwright Joan Schenkar to be in residence to see the production, to participate in an audience talkback about the work, and to offer a writing workshop. Schenkar is an Obie nominated playwright whose work is seen globally. In addition, the "No Exit" cast was completed with guest actor Jonathan Robinson, an accomplished professional actor who recently relocated to Syracuse. The production was attended by approximately 400 people over five performances. Professor Forbes has been working toward completing a multi-media certificate course at the United Digital Artists center and agency in New York and Boston. She will soon be a certified multi-media artist with an emphasis on interactive design.

NANCY GILBERTSON presented "Mediterranean Magic," a piano recital of music from the Mediterranean area, featuring music from Spain, Italy, Greece, Israel, and Egypt last spring. She also collaborated with LAURA CAMPBELL on a program of flute and piano music for Horizon Performances of Moravia on April 11, 1999. Composers represented on this program were Enesco, Bach, Katherine Hoover, Albeniz, and Claude Bolling. On April 29, Ms. Gilbertson took her Wells piano students to Westminster Manor in Auburn to give a recital for the senior citizens living there. In October, Ms. Gilbertson gave a recital of piano music from Greece, Italy, Egypt, Israel, and Spain at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center. She has recorded and produced this same music on her first CD titled Mediterranean Magic, which was released in December and is available in the Wells Book Store. The CD includes a first recording of the work entitled "Mektà in the Art of Kità by Egyptian composer, Halim El-Dabh. On February 3 she performed selections from the CD at the Civic Morning Musical luncheon recital at the Everson Museum in Syracuse. Ms. Gilbertson accompanied LAURA CAMPBELL in a recital of all women’s music at Colgate University on March 7, 2000. Included on the program were a work by Ithaca composer, Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, and a work by Katherine Hoover from New York City, both for flute and piano. Other women composers represented were Thea Musgrave, Donna Kelly Eastman, and Cynthia Folio. Joining Ms. Campbell and Ms. Gilbertson on the program was Ithaca College faculty singer Patrice Pastore.

JEANNE GODDARD directed and co-produced the workshop performance of "House of Butterflies," an original opera, at the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca in May 1998. During her sabbatical leave, she traveled in Denmark and Finland, attending performances of the Royal Danish Ballet, the Moscow Ballet, and various modern dance performers. She visited the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, where she met with colleagues in the Department of Physical Education and toured their newly renovated facility. In October, 1998, Professor Goddard was a guest artist at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, teaching three levels of modern dance and a Laban/Bartenieff workshop, as well as serving as adjudicator for a concert of student choreography. From February 1 through March 5, 1999, Professor Goddard was a guest artist at Ithaca College, teaching modern dance and dance history. In March she choreographed the Tri-Cities Opera production of Mozart’s "The Magic Flute" and offered a movement workshop for cast and chorus. She directed and Performed "Odyssey" with the Firehouse Dance Company at the Ithaca Festival in June. Her solo choreographic project, "Natural Studies," developed in various outdoor settings during the summer, and she also performed in June Finch’s lecture-demonstration, "How to Make a Dance" as part of the Provincetown Art Association series, Forum 99. At this time, she contracted with June Finch/Danceworks and with visual artist Bob Bailey to participate in the Wells College Fall Dance Concert in October 1999. In August, she performed three works, two of which she choreographed, in Summerdance 99 at the CRS Barn Studio, and last weekend she participated in the video-music-dance production, "Luonnotar," also at CRS Barn.

Professor Goddard choreographed the Tri-Cities Opera production of Amahl and the Night Visitors in December, 1999, and is currently creating minuets and contra dances for their production of Don Giovanni. In March, Ms. Goddard took a group of ten students to the American College Dance Festival at SUNY Brockport, where she taught a master class in Laban-based modern dance and the students showed two pieces of choreography. Ms. Goddard has also completed a new choreographic work for Cornell composer Karel Husa’s "Twelve Moravian Songs."

PILAR GREENWOOD, from June 1-4, 1999, attended the international conference "A New Millennium: From the Altamira Caves to the Internet" in Santander, Spain. The conference was co-sponsored by, among other institutions, the Autonomous University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain), the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao (Spain), and ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in the USA). She participated in the panel "Nuevos Conocimientos, Nueva Universidad (New Knowledge, New University) with a paper entitled, "Posicionalidad y Multiculturalismo en los años 1990’s" (Positionality and Multiculturalism in the `90’s). This paper has been selected for publication by the publications committee at the Universidad de Cantabria. Professor Greenwood coordinated a panel and presented a paper entitled "Theoretical and Pedagogical Multicultural Issues in the Foreign Language Classroom" at the "Gaudy Night Conference: Celebrating Women’s Colleges" at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, November 12-13. The title of the panel was "Multiculturalism Education in the Context of Small Women’s Colleges" and was entirely composed of Wells College faculty; participants were Breny Mendoza , Victoria Muñoz, and Susan Sandman. Professor Mendoza’s paper was entitled "What is at Stake in Multiculturalism;" Professor Muñoz’s paper was entitled "The Strangest Things Happen: How I Learned to Tolerate and Then Accept Heterosexuality;" and Professor Sandman’s title was "Diversity in Music History Courses." The panelists have accepted an invitation to present it again at the Wells Collegiate and Diversity Day Conference to be held in March 2000. Leslie Miller-Bernal also presented a paper entitled "Variations Among Women’s Colleges: Degrees of Separatism." Professor Greenwood’s poem "Hurting, Burning" has been accepted for publication by the Journal of International Women’s Studies. This journal is published by the Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts. The poem, described by JIWS as "moving and beautiful," will appear in the May issue, which will be posted on line.

MICHAEL GROTH delivered a lecture entitled "From Slavery to Freedom in the Hudson River Valley" at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, on October 28. The lecture was part of the college’s lecture series, "The People and History of the Hudson River Valley." He delivered a second lecture at the Dutchess County Historical Society on October 30. Professor Groth has also been invited to contribute to a volume on African-American life and history in New York State, and a second volume on the Revolution in New York.

ELLEN HALL chaired a session at the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officers Institute in Williamsburg, Virginia. The conference entitled "Academic Leadership Today: Creating Connections to Nurture Change" was held November 6-9.

SPENCER HILDAHL was asked by the library review journal, Choice, to monitor and analyze a web site for a 30-day period and to write a review of it. His review of World-Systems Archive, URL was published in the May 1999 issue of Choice. In addition, his review of the book Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences (Beacon Press, 1999) appeared in the July/August issue of Choice. His review of the book, A Nation of Meddlers, by Charles Edgley and Dennis Brissett appeared in the September 1999 issue of CHOICE. Professor Hildahl’s review of O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality by Darnell Hunt (Cambridge, 1999) appeared in the November 1999 issue of CHOICE. His review of Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism by James B. Twitchell (Columbia, 1999) also appeared in that issue.

CYNTHIA KOEPP chaired a panel entitled, "Divorce Across the Revolutionary Divide: Staging Marriage Crises in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France," at the 11^th Triennial Berkshire Conference on the History of Women that was held June 4-6, 1999, at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. In August she was the outside reader of a Ph.D. dissertation in French History at the University at Buffalo.

KENNETH LARSON was elected chair of the personnel committee of the board of trustees of the South Central Regional Library Council in March, 2000. The Council coordinates the sharing of electronic and print resources among the academic, public, school, and special libraries in 14 counties of the Southern Tier and the Finger Lakes and is the lead agency in creating the prototype for the proposed "New York Online Virtual Electronic Library" (NOVEL).

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Auburn Human Rights Commission to give a talk as the keynote speaker for the Juneteenth Day Celebration on June 10. The title of his speech was "Global Values and Diversity as Human Rights: Imperatives for Building the World in the 21^st Century with Confidence and a Sense of Direction." The Local Amnesty International in Ithaca interviewed him twice on "The Political Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa and Prospect for the Peace" in June on local public television, Channel 13. He attended and delivered a paper entitled, "Capitalism and Liberal Democracy as Forces of Globalization with a Reference to the Paradigms Behind the Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa," at the 12^th African Political Science Congress in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Association of the African Women Researcher for Development in Africa (AAWORD) to attend its 5^th General Assembly and Seminar on July 19-24 in Dakar, Senegal. The paper presented was "Theoretical Perspective on Capitalism and Welfare States and Their Responses to the Question of Social Inequality with a Particular Attention to Gender Inequality: What Lessons for Africa?" He has accepted an invitation by the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association to be a convenor and chair of the panel on "Toward Party Democracy in Africa: Is the International Environment now Conducive?" for the XVIII World Congress of the International Political Science to be held in Quebec City, Canada, in August 2000. In August 1999, he accepted the invitation by the Chief Editor to join the Editorial Board of the International Third World Studies Journal and Review starting in September 1999. The journal is published by the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Organizing Committee of the 31^st Annual Conference of the African Heritage Studies Association to give a talk at its plenary session. The topic he presented was "Political Conflicts and Pan-African Issues in the 21^st Century." The conference was held on October 14-17 at the Clarion Hotel in Ithaca. In December, he was invited by the chairman of the Ph.D./MA Program in Political Science, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, to give public lectures on "The Agricultural Policy in Tanzania as the Foundation of Julius Nyerere’s African Socialism: What Should be Learned at the End of Cold War Era," and on "The Political Legacy of Julius Nyerere," in New York City. He was invited by the Institute for African Development at Cornell University to give a public lecture on "Re-conceptualizing the State as an Agency of Social Progress: The Case of Africa" on February 3. Professors Dan Schultz and Maryanne Felter of Cayuga Community College at Auburn invited him to give a lecture on "Comparative Dimensions of the Implications of Colonialism in Africa with a Particular Reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo" on February 10.

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." Professor Miller-Bernal has been asked to serve as an editorial consultant for the journal Sex Roles by reviewing a manuscript submitted for publication. She attended the 70^th annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore from March 2-5. On March 2, she presented her paper, "Separatism as an Educational Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equity," in a session entitled "Education and Diversity." On March 3, she was one of a panel of authors in a session entitled, "Authors Meet Audience: New Books on Gender-Related Themes," where she spoke on her forthcoming book, Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges. Professor Miller-Bernal has also begun serving on the Publications Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society. Recently her book, Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges, has been published by Peter Lang. She spoke about it as part of a panel on her book at the AERA (American Educational Research Association) meetings in New Orleans on April 25. Professor Miller-Bernal has also been asked to contribute a chapter on coordinate colleges to a forthcoming book on single-sex education at the secondary and higher educational levels, being edited by a researcher at Johns Hopkins University.

MILENE MORFEI’s manuscript, "Continuity and Change in Parenting Possible Selves: A Longitudinal Follow-Up," has been accepted for publication by the journal, Basic and Applied Social Psychology." The article will appear in a special edition on social psychology and aging. Alana Cordeiro `99 is one of the co-authors of the paper. Professor Morfei presented a paper entitled, "Agentic and Communal Generativity Themes in the Possible Selves of Midlife Parents" in Nashville on February 4. The occasion was the first annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ was a reviewer and panel chair for the GEAR UP program. GEAR UP is a new US Department of Education program to prepare, through rigorous academic support, low-income and at-risk students for college. She also participated in two professional development seminars, "Working with African-American Clients and Families," through the University of Rochester Medical Center and "Clinical Sociobiology: Darwinian Feelings and Values," through the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

NIAMH O’LEARY was elected to the Board of Directors of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network. The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network is a community-based organization that advocates for a healthy and sustainable Cayuga Lake watershed. In June, Professor O’Leary participated in the final session of a three-part workshop in biomolecular visualization at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This hands-on NSF-funded program was designed to train faculty in the use of three-dimensional molecular visualization software and to facilitate its incorporation into their teaching. She 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 91^st 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." Professor O’Leary’s article, "Breeding Corn for Adaptation to Two Diverse Intercropping Companions," appeared in the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. The article was co-authored by Margaret Smith of the Plant Breeding Department at Cornell. Professor O’Leary presented the content of this article to the Wells faculty in last March’s Faculty Club.

ERNEST OLSON presented a paper entitled, "Rooted Traditions and Flowing Talk: Kava in Tonga and Fiji," to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 13. He also presented the following papers during February: "Healing Traditions in the Pacific," for a medical anthropology class at Ithaca College on February 3; "The Positioning of the Pulpit in the Fono: Church and Community in the Tongan Village" for the session, "Meetings as a Cross-Cultural Context Among Pacific Islanders," at the annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada, on February 17; "Sugar Cane and Kava: Separate Roots, Entangled Contexts," for the session "Transformations of Food and Drink," at the annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropology of Oceania, Vancouver, Canada, on February 18. Professor Olson is serving as a reviewer and assessor for grant proposals for research in the Pacific Islands, which are submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, Ottawa, Canada. On March 1, he had a radio interview with Anita Purcell for Radio New Zealand International of Wellington, New Zealand. The topic of the interview focused on the nature of kava ceremonies in Pacific Island cultures and was aired on public broadcast throughout the Pacific Islands during the week of March 5-11.

ANNE RUSS presented a talk entitled, "Interesting Characters and Divine Secrets: Biography as Women’s History," at Alumnae College in May, 1999. Her review of the book, We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960, appeared in the summer issue of Choice. In June, Professor Russ participated on the Berkshire Book Prize Committee at the Berkshire Conference on Women’s History at the University of Rochester. She also moderated a panel on "Public Health and Welfare in New York City" for the New York State Historical Association at Hartwick College in June. Professor Russ’s review of We Have Come To Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960 appeared in the October 1999 issue in Choice. Her review of The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America by Henry Veltmeyer appeared in the April issue of Choice magazine.

SUSAN SANDMAN participated in a concert of English music for viola da gamba consort entitled "Frogwork" at the Iva Smith Gallery in Hammond, New York, on August 6, 1999. She performed in the concert "Music of Shakespeare’s Time" on May 1 and July 23 at Wells College and, with Elizabethan Conversation and Friends, participated in a program of Baroque music by Bach and Marais" on October 1 at Wells. With the Schola Cantorum viol consort, Professor Sandman performed a concert of Ockeghem at the Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in Syracuse on October 17. Her recording, "The Medieval Lady," has received favorable reviews in The American Record Guide, The Journal of Singing (published by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Pan Pipes and The Sunday Gazette (Schenectady, New York) and Muze (provides reviews for online merchants).

LINDA SCHWAB served as a pre-publication reviewer for two textbooks in the Workshop Chemistry Project series, "Principles of General, Organic and Biochemistry," by Pratibha Varma-Nelson and Mark Cracolice, and "The Workshop Model: Peer Leadership and Learning, A Guidebook," David K. Gosser, senior editor. Laboratory modules from the New Pathways to Chemistry project, which Professor Schwab is co-director, were purchased by the Commonwealth of Virginia for use throughout the state. An interview with Professor Schwab on undergraduate research at Wells aired the week of August 9 on the nationally syndicated radio program, "The Best of Our Knowledge" (a production of WAMC, Albany, New York).

In March, 1999, 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 37^th Annual Cornell Topology Festival. Professor Stiadle spoke on "Generalized Waldhausen K-Theory and Homology with Stratified Coefficients" at the weekly Cornell Topology Seminar on November 16, 2000.

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.

CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the Wells Concert Choir on October 5 in a performance which was videotaped by television station WCNY (Channel 24) from Syracuse for inclusion in the holiday special, "Holiday Harmonies." The program was telecast on November 27, December 25, and several other times during the holiday season. On October 10, he was invited to guest-conduct the choir of the Thoburn United Methodist Church of St. Clairsville, Ohio, in a performance of his published composition, "Immortal Love, Forever Full," at services marking the 200^th anniversary of the founding of the church. The church was the Thoburn family church when they first came to America and is named in honor of his great grandfather Bishop James Mills Thoburn and his sister, Isabella, who were missionaries in India and Malaysia in the 19^th century. Isabella was the founder of the first women’s college in Asia. On October 17, Professor Thoburn conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber singers in a joint concert with the Men’s Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute at the Sommer Center. The featured work was the "Mass in G Major" by Carl Maria von Weber sung by the combined choirs accompanied by vocal soloists and full orchestra. The Concert Choir was accompanied by Nancy Gilbertson and the orchestra included Wells instrumentalists prepared by Laura Campbell. Nandani Sinha `03 was the alto soloist in the Weber Mass. Carl Fischer, Inc. has accepted his arrangement of the Finnish melody, "In Heavenly Love Abiding," for mixed voices with accompaniment.

On December 4, the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performed as part of "Christmas in Aurora" at the Morgan Opera House. Later that evening they repeated this performance at Emerson Park Pavilion in Auburn for the annual Festival of Trees. On December 8 the ensembles presented their annual Holiday Concert in Barler, assisted by pianist Nancy Gilbertson. Featured on the program was Benjamin Britten’s "A Ceremony of Carols" with soloists Quinn Smith `03 and Nandani Sinha `03. The large collection of food donated by members of the audience was given to the Cayuga County food pantry in Auburn. On December 12, the Concert Choir collaborated with the Men’s Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and orchestra for two performances in New York City at the Church of the Good Shepherd in the morning and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the afternoon. Featured work in both performances was the "Mass in G Major" (Jubelmesse) by Carl Maria von Weber. Nandani Sinha `03 was alto soloist. In mid-December, the professional chamber choir Madrigalia from Rochester, conducted by Roger Wilhelm, presented performances in Auburn, Canandaigua, and Rochester of a program entitled "My Dancing Day," which featured five of his published compositions and arrangements.

Professor Thoburn’s original composition, "Spirit of God, Descent Upon My Heart," for mixed voices with keyboard accompaniment, published by Mark Foster Music Co., has been recently reviewed in several journals. The reviews have included such comments as "Thoburn has composed anthems for a variety of voice parts published by several different companies. You should carefully consider anything you see with his name on it." Worship Arts. And "…Thoburn has previously distinguished himself as a choral arranger with a gift for setting both early music and American folk hymnody. (This work) moves him into new and different territory, resulting in the creation of a miniature gem for SAB voices and organ… Serious repertoire for the small church choirs is sadly limited, and Thoburn is to be commended for making a notable contribution to it." The Choral Journal (professional journal of the American Choral Directors’ Association).

The Wells Chamber Singers, which Professor Thoburn conducts, have been invited by audition to be one of the ensembles in residence at the Millennium Music Festival in Bad Arolsen, Germany, this coming August 20-26. Prior to the residence at the festival, the group will spend four days rehearsing at Schloss Seehaus in Franconia. The ensemble will present at least four concerts during their residence at the festival and will be staying as guests with families in the city of Bad Arolsen. Plans have been made for day trips to historical and cultural sites in the vicinity, and there will be opportunities for informal music making and socializing with other student performers from Germany, Eastern Europe, and the British Isles. The Wells Chamber Singers are the only American group invited to participate in the festival. WALTRUT DEINERT has played an essential role in the planning and arranging for this trip.

MUIN UDDIN’s paper entitled, "The Economics of a Nobel Laureate," has been accepted for publication in an upcoming book, The Nobel Laureates and the Frontiers of Economics: A Popular Reading, edited by Professor Abu Wahid of the University of Tennessee, to be published by the University Press of America. Professor Uddin presented this paper to the Faculty Club in the last academic year. In June, he served as an outside examiner for two Honors Theses in Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He presented "College from an Economics Professor’s Point of View" at the Johns Hopkins University’s 1999 College Colloquium on October 10 at Syracuse University. The purpose of this annual colloquium is to offer high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and their parents a chance to familiarize themselves with the college process and to explore various education choices by hearing from college students, university-level advisors and professors. In the same colloquium, Professor Uddin participated in an Academic Panel consisting of professors of mixed disciplines in the sciences and humanities. He also took the opportunity to talk about Wells to those present and to distribute the Wells’ Admissions Brochure. Professor Uddin participated in the 2000 Central Banking Seminar of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from January 10 through the 12^th in New York City. Among the numerous topics discussed at this 3-day seminar were: The Federal Budget Outlook, The U.S. Economic Outlook, The Formulation of U.S. Monetary Policy, The Global Economic Outlook, The European Monetary Union, Issues Facing the Federal Reserve, and the Environment for the Financial Services Industry.

JERI VARGO attended the Libraries 2000 conference on September 30 and October 1 in Albany. She also attended the annual South Central Regional Library Council meeting on October 8 in Cooperstown, New York.

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.

JOCELYN WEBB was one of three jury panelists for the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) in Miami, Florida. The panelists selected winners for the NFAA Visual Arts Fellowship Residency, which takes place at the South Florida Art Center. Ms. Webb was selected to be a juror by Erik Denker, the curator of prints and drawings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

The Wells College Press published Millennial Afterlives, a book of 23 prose poems by Stratis Haviaras, poet, novelist, and curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. The book was designed by Victor Hammer Fellow, JOCELYN WEBB. Selections from Millennial Afterlives were read by five Harvard poets at a reception in honor of Mr. Haviaras at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 7. Readers included Stratis Haviaras, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Jorie Graham, and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney.

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.

JENNY YATES’s book on The Near-Death Experience was the subject of a two-hour talk show on New Haven radio on August 29. Her book, Encountering Jung on Death and Immortality, has just been released by Princeton University Press. She spoke at the Ithaca Jung Society on December 12 on this book and the New Alexandrian Bookstore sponsored a book signing. Professor Yates was invited to participate on a panel of Syracuse professors and alumni on alternative careers to academia for Ph.D.s in Religion on February 19.
 

Earlier Announcements of Faculty Accomplishments

Combined Listing, May, 1998 - April, 1999
Combined Listing, May, 1997 - April, 1998
Combined Listing, May, 1996 - April, 1997