Jeanne Goddard, Professor of Dance, taught four weeks of modern dance classes at the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca in July. She was also invited to join the Ithaca Summer Piano Institute for an improvisational performance with pianist John White. In August she choreographed, co-wrote, and co-produced “Opera Cowpokes ALIVE!” with Steven Stull and colleagues from Cornell University, Ithaca College, and the Ithaca community. Also in August, Jeanne produced “Moving Landscapes 6”, a choreographers’ showcase that featured work by dancers from Cornell, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Ithaca, Binghamton, Rochester, and Geneva. Ms. Goddard’s premiered her quartet, “Three Studies for a Decorated Vessel” and directed two group improvisations in collaboration with musicians from Ithaca and Geneva. Finally, Professor Goddard created “Sunset Wings”, her first choreography for a Middle Eastern dance ensemble.
Michael Groth, Professor of History, gave a series of public presentations this summer. In June, he discussed religious revival and reform in New York’s “Burned Over District” at the Good Shepherd Catholic Community’s Men’s Club. Professor Groth was also a participant in a speakers series sponsored by the Seward House in Auburn commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. His August presentation at the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood focused on Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation.”
Kent Klitgaard, Professor of Economics, paper entitled “The Failed Growth Economy, Stagnation, and the Biophysical Limits to Growth” appeared in Volume 1, number 1 of The International Journal of Social Science Research pages 140-157.
Richard Loosemore, Lecturer in Physics, completed a chapter that is to be published in a book next year. The title of the chapter is “Qualia Surfing” and the book is “Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds”, edited by Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick, published by Wiley.
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Professor of Political Science, had the following publications, (1) “Recurrent Crisis in the Eastern DRC: Petty Imperialism and Reconceptualizing the Peace Process,” Kujenga Amani (Social Science Research Council), 2013. (2) “Africa and Asia Relations,” African and Asian Studies, Volume 12, Numbers 1 and 2 (2013).
Professor Lumumba-Kasongo attended the following: The 38th Annual Meeting of the New York African Studies Association, which was held on April 3-6, 2012 at the University of Binghamton, New York. He served as the Discussant on the Panel of the Land Reforms in Africa; He also presented his paper on the Case of the Land Reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo;
The Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 12-15, 2013. As a member of Jury of Education Research in Africa of the ADEA, he presented the report of the Jury to the Executive Committee and Scientific Committee of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), which is a member of the CIES.
The Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association held in Chicago, Illinois, on August 29-September 1, 2013.
He was selected by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa as the Facilitator of the Advanced Research Project on ” Peace, Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa” (11 countries); The First workshop on this topic was held in Arusha, Tanzania, on August 19-23, 2013. He also presented 4 papers in the workshop.
In the Fall and Spring Semesters 2012-2013, Lumumba-Kasongo was invited to serve as an external evaluator of the dossiers of 2 candidates for the promotion of full Professors in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Sudan and the Department of Political Science at University of Utah.
As an External Examiner at the University of Ghana, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo also evaluated the MA Thesis from the University of Ghana in Legon, 2012-2013.
Laura J. McClusky, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Maya Educational Foundation (MEF). Convinced that education is key to empowerment, the Maya Educational Foundation supports all levels of educational projects from literacy classes to university scholarships for Maya people throughout Guatemala, southern Mexico and Belize. Laura J. McClusky will serve a four year term on the Board.
Milene Morfei, Professor of Psychology, contributed a chapter titled, “Psychology, Sustainability, and Sense of Place” to _Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences_ (in press). Editors: W. P. Boring & W. Forbes; Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University Press.
Daniel Renfrow, Associate Professor of Sociology, and eight Wells students volunteered with the AIDS Ride for Life. The group worked the Montezuma—Verdi Signs pit stop where they served refreshments and cheered on the riders completing the full 100 mile course around Cayuga Lake. The event raised over $230,000 for the Southern Tier AIDS Program. This is the second year that Professor Renfrow and students have volunteered with the ride.
Christina Wahl, Associate Professor of Biology, in August served as a reviewer for a CAREER grant proposal on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
Also in August, Professor Wahl prepared a poster for the Empire State Honey Producers (ESHPA) on the topic of “Honey Bee Anatomy and Honey Bee Health” which was on display throughout the New York State Fair under the Wells College logo. Professor Wahl donated an ancient type of beehive called a “skep” with information on how it was used for display at the ESHPA booth. She also volunteered at the NYS Fair for four days, during which she educated visitors on the biology of the bee, the nature of honey, and explained how honeys differ depending on what type(s) of plant contribute the nectar that bees use to make honey. Professor Wahl was proud to sell her comb honey for the first time at the Fair this year, thus renewing a family tradition that extends back through four generations of Wahl family beekeepers
Christopher Bailey, Professor of Chemistry, attended and participated in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, April 10-14, 2013. Also attending were three Wells College students. Melissa Fortin presented two papers, “Deviation of and Conformity to the Campus Pet Policy” (Psychology, Professor Markowitz), and “Creating a Reservoir Management Plan for the Hinckley Reservoir Using Operations Research” (Mathematics, Professor Moore). This latter paper was co-authored with several other Wells students, including Pamela Badian-Pessot, Rebecca Doyle, and Louisa Suarez. Theresa Mendez also presented two papers, “The “Signifyin(g)” Indian in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” (English, Professor Burroughs), and “The Real Housewives of Big Brother: Surveillance and Stylistic Strategies in Reality TV” (Film and Media Studies, Professor Lohn). Robyn Moody presented a paper on “The Humanization of Death in The Book Thief” (English, Professor Burroughs). Wells College students have presented their work at every NCUR Conference since 1989. Next year’s conference will be at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Foy Story by Eddie Foy III and edited by Catherine Burroughs, Professor of English, has just been published in Los Angeles by the Eddie Foy III Foundation (2012.) This book contains a Foreword by Jerry Lewis, and the book jacket reads in part: “It is the ultimate showbiz autobiography spanning three generations from Vaudeville to Big-Time TV in Hollywood.” In addition to discovering Sally Fields and casting most of the well-known television series of the 1960s, 70’s, and 80’s (ranging from Mash, Cheers, Bewitched, Happy Days, Charlie’s Angels, Dennis the Menace, and The Flying Nun to Mork and Mindy, Hill Street Blues, Room 222, and Barney Miller), Eddie Foy III is now the author of an invaluable book for students of television and film history. Here he reveals anecdotes about his grandfather, the Vaudeville star, who founded Actors’ Equity with Lionel Barrymore, as well as provides pages of advice to actors about the audition and casting process in Hollywood. A pioneer in Made-for-Television movies, Eddie Foy cast A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (1989), which was “an award-winning movie that inspired and instigated the sweeping legal reform for battered housewives and domestic violence.”In addition, Catherine has had published the following: Rev. of Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theatre Arts. By Francesca Saggini. (Trans. Laura Kopp). Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. 27.1 (2012): 107-109.
Brad Frazier, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religion, served as a referee for *International Journal for Philosophical Studies* for an article on the American philosopher, Richard Rorty.”
William Ganis, Associate Professor of Art History, had his review of the “Kelly Richardson: Legion” exhibition of video installations at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, published in the “Critics’ Picks” column of Artforum, in March 2013.
In March, Dr. Ganis also gave a talk, “Respawns: Video Games and Seriality,” at the State University of New York Oswego Lecture as a part of the the SUNY Oswego Visiting Artist Series.
Nancy Gil, Director of the Book Arts Center, and Katie Baldwin, Victor Hammer Fellow, Wells’ seventh Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book Arts, completed the printing and binding of the first 35 copies of ‘What Longing Is’ by poet Janis Esch ’10. This chapbook, designed, printed and bound by the Wells College Press, was available for the poet’s on-campus reading on Wednesday, April 17. An edition of 100 will be completed in the next few weeks.
Scott Heinekamp, Professor of Physics, organized the 108th semiannual symposium of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society, which was hosted by Wells (for her first time) on April 19th and 20th. This meeting’s theme was “Recent Advances in Physics” and the 80 attenders heard talks on both the experimental breakthrough and the theoretical understanding of the Higgs boson (the keynote talk was by Professor Carl Hagen, he of the so-called ‘Englert-Brout-Guralnik-Hagen-Higgs-Kibble” symmetry-breaking mechanism for hadron mass generation), physics outreach and careers, the recent discovery of “super-earths” and “super-venuses”, and talks on breakthroughs in biophysics and exotic materials (including graphene and biolipid membranes).
Kent Klitgaard, Professor of Economic, paper “Heterodox Political Economy and the Degrowth Perspective,” appeared in Sustainability on January 21, 2013, pp. 276-297
Kent gave expert testimony on “Internal and biophysical Limits to Growth in the Second Half of the Age of Oil” to the Joint Political Advisory Committee of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation of the North American Free Trade Agreement on April 24-25, 2013 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Matthew McCabe, Lecturer in Business, published his paper entitled “An Introduction to the Economics of Collateral Sources” in the course book for Basics of Trial Practice – After the Verdict, published by the New York State Bar Association, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, April 2013. Mr. McCabe also served as faculty for the Continuing Legal Education program entitled “Basics of Trial Practice – After the Verdict” in Syracuse, New York on April 12, 2013. Mr. McCabe presented information concerning the economic aspects of collateral source evaluations and the economics of post- verdict evaluations under New York State Civil Practice Laws and Rules Articles 50A and 50B.
Vic Muñoz, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, participated in the seminar “Metodologia Descolonizadora En La Investigacion y El Proceso Educativo,” as part of the Seminario Permanente de Metodos de Investigacion hosted by the Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. This annual seminar invites international scholars to present their research methodologies over the course of three days to faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students. Internationally respected researcher and educator, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, author of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples and Pro Vice Chancellor Maori at Waikato University, Aotearoa/New Zealand was the invited speaker for the seminar this year. April 16 – 18, 2013.
Daniel Renfrow, Associate Professor of Sociology, contributed a chapter on the social psychology of gender and race to the Handbook of Social Psychology, edited by John Delamater and Amanda Ward. The chapter is co-authored with Judy Howard, Divisional Dean and Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington.
Jaclyn Schnurr, Associate Professor of Biology, gave an invited presentation at Ithaca College on April 11 titled “Short and long term consequences of seed predation in temperate forests.”
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