Driving Miss Daisy Motors onto the Wells College Campus 

A Mixed Company from Philadelphia stages this award-winning play

The Wells College Arts and Lecture Series Committee is pleased to announce that Driving Miss Daisy is the theatre component of the 2003-04 series offerings. Produced and presented by A Mixed Company out of Philadelphia, the performance will take place on Saturday, May 8 at 7:30 pm in Phipps Auditorium on the Aurora campus. Prices are $3 students/children, $6 seniors/Wells, and $10 general admission. Tickets may be purchased from the box office or the college bookstore the week preceding the show, or at the door the night of the performance. Please call 315/364-3456 to reserve tickets.

Set in Atlanta between 1948 and 1972, this Pulitzer Prize winning play by Alfred Uhry tells the story of an elderly Jewish matron (Daisy Werthan) and her black chauffeur (Hoke Coleburn), who is hired by Daisy’s upwardly mobile son (Boolie). At first, Daisy is none too happy about being forced to rely on a black man. But Hoke gradually wins her over, and the two slowly develop a deep-rooted affection for each other. 

Uhry does not address the issue of prejudice directly in Miss Daisy. It is through Hoke’s patient and often firm example that insight about social injustices is revealed. Uhry presents a fiercely independent woman, growing physically frail and increasingly forced to accept help, and a proud, hard working black man who needs a job. In the 25-year frame of the play, the changing world is reflected. A situation created from need becomes, with warmth, humor, and poignancy, a deep friendship rooted in caring. 

This three-character play gives a sometimes sentimental, sometimes bittersweet, always engaging view of life based on Uhry’s remembrances of growing up in the South. In 1989, Driving Miss Daisy was made into a motion picture starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, and Dan Aykroyd.

The Wells College Arts and Lecture Series features professional guest artists and performers who are brought to campus to enrich the cultural and academic components of Wells as a learning community. The acts are selected annually by a committee comprised of Wells faculty, staff, administrators, and students.

For more information about Driving Miss Daisy and the Arts and Lecture Series at Wells, please contact associate dean for campus involvement Meagen Mulherin at 315/364-3428 or visit the college's website at www.wells.edu.

April, 2004

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations to address graduates 
on May 29

Wells College President Lisa Marsh Ryerson is pleased to announce that Catherine Bertini, under-secretary-general for management of the United Nations, will be Wells’ 2004 Commencement speaker. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 29 on the Aurora campus. The Times of London Magazine has named her one of “The World’s Most Powerful Women.” Bertini is currently the senior American official in the United Nations Secretariat. Her primary responsibility is administering the United Nations’ human, financial, and physical resources. 

“I am thrilled the senior class has selected as their Commencement speaker a woman leader whose reputation goes far beyond the boundaries of the United States,” said Ryerson. “Cathy Bertini’s career reflects the value and necessity of women’s leadership in the global community. She has eased the suffering of millions of people whose lives have been touched by famine, war, and volatile political conditions. Wells is the ideal location to both honor her and share her wisdom.”

Under-Secretary-General Bertini earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Albany and has received honorary degrees from nine universities in four countries. In addition, she has taught at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, was awarded the Prize of Excellence from the Association of African Journalists, and was a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. 

Before assuming her current position, she served for a decade as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) – the largest international humanitarian agency in existence. In 2001, under her direction, WFP provided food aid to 77 million people in 82 countries. 

Bertini is credited with assisting millions of victims of wars and natural disasters throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In particular, she has been widely praised for her efforts to end famine in North Korea, averting starvation in Afghanistan, ensuring the provision of food supplies during the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo, and preventing mass starvation that threatened 16 million people in the Horn of Africa due to a massive drought. She also visited the Mid-East, including Gaza and the West Bank, to assess humanitarian needs and assist in the planning process for the Road Map to Peace. 

Prior to joining WFP, Bertini served as United States Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services and as Acting Assistant Secretary of the Family Support Administration in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. 

For more information about Catherine Bertini’s commencement address at Wells College, please contact Gwen Webber-McLeod, director of communications, at 315/364-3260 or by email at gmcleod@wells.edu.

April, 2004

Senior thesis production mounted by performing arts majors

Wells College seniors will be mounting two Christopher Durang one-act comedies this spring. The senior thesis production will be performed in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, on Saturday, May 1 at 7:30 pm and on Sunday, May 2 for a matinee performance at 2:00 pm. The show is free and open to the public.

Entitled Durang/Durang, senior Performing Arts majors Dana Finegan and Diana Gallego will be respectively directing and producing The Actor’s Nightmare and For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls. Both acts were written by Durang.  A cast of Wells students joins them, with production assistance by Wells technical director Joseph DeForest, visiting theatre professor Siouxsie Grady, and dance professor Jeannie Goddard. 

Playwright Christopher Durang was born in 1949 in Montclair, New Jersey. Educated at Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, he has had plays both on and off Broadway including The Nature and Purpose of the Universe; Betty's Summer Vacation; Titanic; A History of the American Film; The Marriage of Bette and Boo; and his most popular, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You. He won Obie Awards for Sister Mary Ignatius and The Marriage of Bette and Boo, received a Tony nomination for "Best Book of a Musical" for A History of the American Film, and received a Drama Desk nomination for Betty's Summer Vacation. 

The Actor’s Nightmare is a play about George Spelvin, a very confused accountant who wanders into a theatre during a dream and is immediately cast to replace Edwin Booth in that evening’s performance. He is joined by an A-list of historical theatrical figures including Henry Irving, Sarah Siddons, and Dame Ellen Terry.

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls is a parody of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Spend an evening with Amanda, Tom, and Lawrence Wingvalley as they entertain a lady caller, Virginia Bennett. By the end of the evening, everything that could go wrong does, and we feel pity for the chronic hypochondriac Lawrence and his collection of glass cocktail stirrers.

Seniors Dana Finegan of New Oxford, Penn. and Diana Gallego of Roselle, New Jersey will direct and produce Durang/Durang as their thesis production. A thesis production is the capstone of an academic career in the performing arts at Wells, and is a requirement for graduation. 

Other Wells students involved in this effort include Angie Azevedo ’07 (Stage Manager), Kimberlee Clark ’07 (Ginny; Henry Irving/Executioner), Rachel Crosbie ’07 (Amanda Wingvalley), Tiffany Dever ‘06 (Crew), Marielle Gallagher ’07 (Lawrence Wingvalley), Johanna Gorton ’07 (Meg), Rachel Remby ’06 (Assistant Stage Manager), Hannah Salomon ’04 (Dame Ellen Terry), Laura Tennen ’07 (George Spelvin), and Kendal Turner ’04 (Tom Wingvalley; Sarah Siddons).

To learn more about Durang/Durang and the performing arts at Wells College, please call Dance Professor Jeanne Goddard at 315/364-3213

April, 2004

“Spring Fever” rolls into Aurora

The Wells College Programming Board is pleased to announce Spring Weekend 2004. Scheduled for Saturday, April 24, this rockin’ event is sure to please everyone, especially the college crowd. Spring Fever will take place on the Wells College campus on Route 90 in the village of Aurora. The general public gets in for $5 at the gate. Spring Fever is free for the Wells community.

The fun begins at 12:30 on the lawn in front of the Sommer Student Center. A three band line-up promises lots of awesome live music. VooDoo Blue of Baltimore fires it up at 1:00 with their distinctive alternative funk-rock style. At 2:20, groove to the ska/reggae/punk music of Coolie Ranx. Wrapping up a great day of live tunes, Antigone Rising, a hard driving “girl band” from the Big Apple, will rock the stage from 3:40 – 4:45 pm. A brilliant fireworks display will cap off Spring Fever at 9:00 pm.

General admission is $5.00 at the gate the day of the event. Special novelty activities include the “Adrenaline Rush” obstacle course, water wars, sand art, and bead jewelry making. The public is invited to bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy vendor booths, games, dancing, a barbeque, craft tables, and more. Beer, soft drinks, and food will be available for purchase. No recording devices, coolers or outside food or beverages permitted. 

Spring Fever will be held rain or shine. For more information, please contact the Office of Campus Involvement at 315/364-3428 or check out the college’s calendar of events at www.wells.edu/whatsnew/calendar.htm. Band information may be found on each of their websites: www.vdbmusic.com, www.coolieranx.net, and www.antigonerising.com.

April, 2004

Donald Jackson will speak on the creation of the hand-written Saint John’s Bible

The Wells College Book Arts Center is proud to announce that Donald Jackson will present the 19th Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Memorial Book Arts Lecture at Wells College. The slide lecture will take place at 8:00 pm on Friday, April 30 in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, on the Aurora campus. The public is cordially invited to attend this free lecture, entitled Walking in the Footsteps of Giants: The Creation Processes of The Saint John's Bible. A reception outside of Phipps will follow. The lecture is part of Matter and Spirit, the international book arts symposium taking place at Wells College April 29 - May 1. 

Jackson’s lecture will present a personal interim account of the images, inspirations, and processes involved in the creation of a handwritten and illuminated Bible. Commissioned in 1998 by the Benedictine Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, this monumental seven-volume work employs the talents of a team of artists, scribes, scrutchers, illuminators, illustrators, and schedulers. As the artistic director of the Saint John’s Bible, Jackson oversees the numerous aspects of this epic work at his scriptorium in Wales. His studio/workshop at the Calligraphy Center in Wales is the only calligraphy atelier in the United Kingdom where artist-calligraphers are still regularly employed as assistants maintaining the highest traditions of this ancient art in a modern context.

Donald Jackson is well known to calligraphers throughout the world as official Scribe to the Crown Office of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in which capacity he executes Historic Royal documents including Letters Patent under The Great Seal and Royal Charters. He was decorated in 1984 by the Queen with the Medal of The Royal Victorian Order (MVO), which is awarded for personal services to the Sovereign.

Jackson is an elected Fellow and past chairman of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators, and past Master of the 600-year-old Guild of Scriveners of the city of London. His innovative work and inspirational teaching, together with books, a film series and exhibitions in Europe, North America, Puerto Rico, Australia and China have led to his being widely acknowledged as a seminal influence in Western calligraphy over the past 25 years. 

It was the first International Assembly of Lettering Artists seminar, inspired by Jackson, that brought him to Saint John’s University in 1981. Jackson returned several times over the years, and in the summer of 1996, served as one of the keynote speakers at Servi Textus: The Servants of the Text, a symposium that included a calligraphy exhibition featuring Jackson’s work.

Mr. Jackson’s lecture is part of a semi-annual series made possible through the Heiland-Garretson Book Arts Lecture Fund, established by Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 and sustained through the generosity of her family. Mr. Jackson’s lecture is part of the Wells Book Arts Center’s symposium entitled Matter and Spirit: The Genesis & Evolution of the Book, which will bring together presenters and attendants from around the world. Matter and Spirit will be held April 29 - May 1, 2004 on the Wells College campus. 

For registration materials and more information about this event, please contact the Wells Book Arts Center by phone at 315-364-3420 or by email at bookartscenter@wells.edu, or visit www.wells.edu/bookarts.

April, 2004

Almost ten percent of the college's senior class will participate

Nine Wells College students have been invited to present the results of their original research at the 18th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) to be held April 15-18 at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). Students presenters, their research topics, and their faculty advisors are:

- Miranda Junge '04 (sociology major), "America's Misinterpretation of Migrant Farmworkers from Latin America," Professor of Sociology Leslie Miller-Bernal.

- Sarah Knowlton '04 (psychology major), "Female Sexual Dysfunction: Integrating Approaches to Treatment," Associate Professor of Psychology Victoria Munoz.

- Kate Lankin '04 (biological and chemical sciences major), "Observing the Effect on Growth and Possible Caspase Activation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Using the Monoterpene, D-Limonene," Assistant Professor of Biology Christina Wahl and Visiting Instructor of Biology Kathleen Arnink.

- Alice Lo '04 (religious studies major), "God in Global Justice: Understanding and Bridging the Gap Between Religious and Secular Activists in the Global Justice Movement," Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion Ernie Olson.

- Karie Myers '04 (biological and chemical sciences major) "Dispersal Distance and Genetic Diversity in Three Species of Butterflies," Professor of Biology Thomas Vawter. 

- Caitlin Northrup '04 (environmental studies major), "The Effects of Farm Management on Soil Invertebrate Communities," Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Niamh O' Leary.

- Melissa Samons '04 (biological and chemical sciences major), "Cytotoxic
Effects of Azaspiracid on Human Lymphocyte Cells," Assistant Professor of Biology Christina Wahl.

- Eberle Schultz '04 (biological and chemical sciences), "Influence of Lobular Carcinoma In Situ on Recurrence of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma," Assistant Professor of Biology Christina Wahl.

- Judit Temesvary '05 (international studies major), "Trade Relations Between Europe and Africa: Dependency in North-South Economic Cooperation," Professor of Political Science Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasango.

This will be the 16th year Wells Professor of Chemistry Christopher has accompanied students to the conference. "This year's participants represent about 10% of the senior class," he said. "I doubt there are any other colleges or universities participating at the conference that can match this number."

Professor Bailey attributes Wells' success in this area to the large number of faculty members at the college who believe in and support undergraduate research. 

Wells students have extraordinary opportunities to work closely with their professors on original research. Most majors offer academic credit for research activities, and students are required to complete a senior creative or research project before graduation. 

This emphasis on research in the undergraduate curriculum at Wells, similar to graduate-level studies at other colleges and universities, gives students an advantage whether they plan to continue their studies or enter a career immediately after graduation.

This year NCUR participants come from over 300 colleges and universities representing almost every state in the nation. Since its inception in 1987, NCUR has become a major annual event drawing over 2,000 undergraduates, faculty, and administrators to hear and discuss undergraduate creative and scholarly work. 

In addition, NCUR presents an opportunity to hear nationally prominent speakers and for faculty to discuss educational policy, programs, and funding for undergraduate scholarly work. More information about NCUR may also be found at: www.NCUR.org.

April, 2004

The For the remainder of the spring 2004 semester, the Wells College Science Colloquium Series will present the results of in-depth research conducted by students in various scientific disciplines. 

Presentations will be given at 12:30 p.m. in Zabriskie Hall on the Wells campus in Room 102. All these events are free and open to the public. Below are the dates when presentations will be made and their titles:

Wednesday, April 14: Michelle Husain ’04 (mathematical and physical sciences major) will present “Loudness and Dynamic Range in Cochlear Implant Listeners.”

Friday, April 16: Emelie Cuppernell ’04 will present “Wind Energy: A Site Evaluation” and Amanda Pingitore ’04 will present “Operations Research and Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Both are mathematical and physical sciences majors.

Friday, April 23: Karie Myers ’04 will present “Dispersal Distance and Genetic Diversity in Three Species of Butterflies” and Christina Taylor ’05 will present “Wolbachia-induced Speciation in the Wasp Genus Nasonia.” Both are biological and chemical sciences majors. 

Friday, April 30: Eberle Schultz ’04 (biological and chemical sciences) will present “The Effect of Lavendula angustifolia Essential Oil on Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.”

Friday, May 7: Sarah Valley ’04 will present “Understanding the Menstrual Cycle: Teaching Secondary Students How Eggs Become Fertile” and Kelly Langerfeld ’04 will present “The Effect of Light on Stromal Cell Density in Chick Embryo Corneas.” Both are biological and chemical sciences majors.

Friday, May 14: Kate Lankin ’04 will present “Observing the Effect on Growth and Possible Caspase Activitation in Saccharomyces cervisiae Using the Monoterpene, D-Limonene” and Kathleen Cornell ’04 will present “Wings of Evolution: A Biological Retrospective on Butterfly Evolutionary Research.” Both are biological and chemical sciences majors.

As this series of high-quality presentations reflects, Wells students have extraordinary opportunities to work closely with their professors on original scientific research. Majors in scientific fields offer academic credit for research work, and students are required to complete a senior research project before graduation.

Nine Wells students were selected this spring to present the results of their research efforts at the 18th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis.

“I enjoy taking Wells students to the Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research because it gives them a chance to compare themselves to their peers from other colleges and universities,” said Wells Professor of Chemistry Chris Bailey. “They find their research endeavors are more profound and more analytic than those of students from most other schools. With this contrast they come to realize their close interactions with faculty combined with the autonomy given them in performing their research are unique features of Wells.”

This emphasis on research in the undergraduate curriculum at Wells, similar to graduate-level studies at other colleges and universities, gives students an advantage if they plan to continue their studies or enter careers in scientific fields.

Two Wells faculty members organize the Science Colloquium Series: Niamh O’Leary, associate professor of environmental studies, and Carol Shilepsky, professor of mathematics and computer science. Other faculty members in the sciences contribute by inviting speakers and organizing the colloquia that focus on internships.

According to Professor O’Leary, this series brings scientists and speakers in a variety of science-related fields to campus. “These presentations keep students and faculty up-to-date with current scientific research and connected with the wider scientific community. It also serves as a venue for students to explore possible career paths and for Wells faculty to present their original research,” she says.

For more information about the Wells College Science Colloquium Series, visit <http://aurora.wells.edu/~science/> or call 315.364.3279. 

April, 2004

An Activist Theatre Collective Since 2001 - Changing the World, One Sexist City at a Time

Scampering across the stage, Guerrilla Girls On Tour will be on the Wells College campus April 14 and 15, 2004. The internationally acclaimed anonymous theatre collective will give a stage performance at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, April 14 in Barler Recital Hall. The troupe combines street theatre antics with art activism for an inspiring, intriguing show. The performance is free and the public is invited to attend.

Guerrilla Girls On Tour will bring to the Wells College campus a focus on the disenfranchisement experienced by women artists and artists of color.  While students are well trained in the technique and craft of their chosen art, they are not provided with the tools needed to critically examine and confront the sexism and racism they are bound to face in their future careers.  This cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary event will serve to educate the community about the current state of sexism while at the same time proving that feminists are funny.

Guerrilla Girls On Tour is a diverse company of theatre artists and comediennes. This signature performance - Guerrilla Girls On Tour Gig - is a 70-minute energetic romp through their herstory: an up-to-date account of their latest actions in politics, the performing arts, and the media. GGOT creates original plays, street actions, visual work, and residency programs that dramatize women’s history and advocate on behalf of women and artists of color.

In order to put the focus of their work on the issues they address, each member works under the name of a deceased female artist and performs wearing a gorilla mask.  The 20-member troupe has toured 25 states and 5 countries, bringing their brand of satirical performance art and activism against discrimination, sexism and racism to places like the Republic of Georgia, Eastern Europe and South America. 

While at Wells College, GGOT will also conduct a master class and visit students in the classroom. 

Guerrilla Girls on Tour is proudly sponsored by the Women's Resource Center, LBQTA, the Collegiate Association, Women's Studies, Art History, Performing Arts, the dean of students, the dean of the college, the Office of Intercultural Programs, and Residential Life.

For more information about Guerrilla Girls on Tour and their performance at Wells College, please contact Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Ednie Garrison at 315/364-3272. More information on GGOT may also be found on their website: www.guerrillagirlsontour.com.

April, 2004

“Dancing the Journey” features student and faculty choreography

The Wells College Performing Arts Department proudly presents Dancing the Journey, this spring’s student and faculty dance concert. The show will run Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17, beginning promptly at 7:30 pm in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall. Prices are $3 students/seniors, $5 Wells community, and $7 for the general public. Tickets are available from the box office the week preceding the show (call 315/364-3456) or at the door the night of the performance.

Dancing the Journey features a collection of unique choreographic works with a wide range of musical accompaniments. This year’s concert features original dance thesis work by graduating seniors Lindsay Connor and Margaret Irving, as well as new and repertory pieces by guest artist Elizabeth Wilmot-Bishop and Wells College faculty member Jeanne Goddard.  The twenty students of the Wells College Dance Ensemble will perform a varied program of ballet and modern dance choreography.

Lindsay Connor’s Reach, an abstract work, develops movement themes of reaching, rising, and falling into richly textured ensembles and solos. Connor’s work is formal in structure, built upon theme and variation and set to the adagio and rondo allegretto movements of Beethoven’s Waldstein piano sonata. Photographic Images is choreographed by Margaret Irving and set to an eclectic score by various contemporary musicians, including Ithaca artist and dj canGuru. The piece explores relationships, alienation and the struggle to define identity. Irving calls her work “an autobiography…a memoir…a photo...giving only so much information.” Memories are captured and revealed through a series of moving and still images.

Guest artist Elizabeth Wilmot-Bishop contributes Les ailes de neige, a contemporary ballet blanc for eight women, evoking images of wind and snow, set to Schubert’s Impromptu no. 2 in E flat major. Wells dance professor Jeanne Goddard reprises Songs of Travel, a large-scale dramatic work to the Vaughn Williams song cycle of the same name, and premiers Vaccai, a series of studies based on traditional vocal exercises and culminating in a lush septet set to Lascia ch’io pianga from Handel’s Rinaldo.

For more information about Dancing The Journey and dance classes at Wells, please contact dance professor and director Jeanne Goddard at 315/364-3213. 

April, 2004

The Music Department at Wells College is pleased to offer an evening of flute and piano music. On Saturday, April 10, music lecturers Nancy Gilbertson and Laura Campbell will present a free concert at 8:00 pm in Barler Recital Hall. The public is cordially invited to attend. A reception with the musicians will follow the recital.

The evening's program includes the Poulenc Flute Sonata, Bartok’s Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms, and Suite Antique by John Ritter. Also on the program will be a piece entitled Three Chants for flute solo by Ann Silsbee. Ms. Silsbee was a composer, poet, and artist who lived in Ithaca for many years. She passed away in August 2003. Campbell worked with Silsbee on several projects and dedicates this performance in her memory. 

Nancy Gilbertson has taught music at Wells College since 1987. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance from Kent State University in Ohio. She has been a dedicated private piano teacher since 1973, and an active soloist and accompanist in central New York since moving to Moravia in 1986. Nancy released her first recording, Mediterranean Magic, in 2000. 

Laura Campbell is instructor of chamber music at Wells College and instructor of flute at Colgate University, where she is also the principal flutist of the Colgate Symphony. She completed her B.M. in Music Performance and Education from Southern Illinois University and her M.S. in Music Education from the University of Illinois. Her recording of Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy's “Windrider/Final Ascent” is available on the CD Evocations from Capstone Records, Society of Composers, Inc. and she has recently released a CD of flute and harp music with harpist Myra Kovary entitled Morning Light.

For more information about the performance, please contact Nancy Gilbertson at 315/364-3343.

April, 2004

Wells College students Caitlin Northrup and Sarahjane Locke will present the results of their senior research projects in the college’s Science Colloquium Series on Friday, April 9. The presentations will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Zabriskie Hall, Room 102, on the Wells campus in Aurora. The event is free and open to the public.

An environmental studies major, Northrup will present her research on “The Effects of Soil Management on Soil Invertebrate Communities.” Locke’s research presentation is entitled, “Possible functions for Btn2p and Ist2p in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae model for Batten disease.” She is a biological and chemical sciences major. 

The Wells Science Colloquium Series is organized by two Wells faculty members: Niamh O’Leary, associate professor of environmental studies, and Carol Shilepsky, professor of mathematics and computer science. Other faculty members in the sciences contribute by inviting speakers and organizing the colloquia that focus on internships.

According to Professor O’Leary, this series brings scientists and speakers in a variety of science-related fields to campus. “These presentations keep students and faculty up-to-date with current scientific research and connected with the wider scientific community. It also serves as a venue for students to explore possible career paths and for Wells faculty to present their original research,” she says.

For more information about the Wells College Science Colloquium Series, visit <http://aurora.wells.edu/~science/> or call 315.364.3279. 

April, 2004

Jamison Green to meet with students, discuss gender topics

Wells College welcomes consultant, speaker, panelist, and author Jamison "James" Green to the Aurora campus. Green will address the public on two occasions while at Wells. On Thursday, April 8 at 7:00 pm in the Art Exhibit Room, Green will read from his new book Becoming a Visible Man and talk about female-to-male transsexual history and politics. Refreshments will follow.

The second gathering will be an informal chat on “Transgender and Gender Issues.” This talk will take place at 12:00 Noon on Friday, April 9 in the same location. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Jamison Green is an internationally known leader within the transgender movement. He has appeared in eight documentary films, and is the recipient of numerous awards given by national transgender organizations. James has been delivering educational presentations about transsexual and transgender issues and experience since 1989. His talks appeal to transsexuals and non-transsexuals alike.

Mr. Green is known as an advocate for the legal protection, medical access, safety, civil rights and dignity of trans people. He has published several essays and articles, and writes a monthly column for PlanetOut.com. Becoming A Visible Man will be published in late spring 2004. 

This program is part of the Transgender Speaker Series coordinated by Professor of Psychology Victoria Muñoz in collaboration with the Wells Student Diversity Committee and the Office of Intercultural Programs and Services. The purpose of the series is to raise awareness and educate about transgender issues.

To learn more about Jamison's talk, please call Professor Muñoz at 315/364-3248.  Additional information about Jamison may also be found on: www.jamisongreen.com

April, 2004

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