(Activities Announced at Faculty Meetings,
May, 2001 - April, 2002)

During his sabbatical year, CHRISTOPHER BAILEY participated in a course in Solid State Inorganic Chemistry and two courses in Geographic Informations Systems at Cornell University. As part of the GIS courses, he prepared several exercises that were introduced into the environmental studies curriculum in fall 2001. He attended the NSF-funded ChemConnections Workshop, June 14-18, at Beloit College, Wisconsin, where he learned about the "modular-approach to teaching chemistry," one of the National Science Foundations’ "Systematic Change Initiatives." He introduced several of these context-driven modules to his courses this year.

Professor Bailey reviewed grant proposals for the National Science Foundations’ Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program in Arlington, Virginia, July 17-20. He attended the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers, October 5-8, at Mount St. Mary’s College, Maryland, where he acted as recording secretary for one session. He presented his work on "Giving Context to the Lab and the Lab Report" at the Gordon Conference on "Innovations in College Chemistry Teaching," held in Ventura, California, January 6-13. Professor Bailey organized Wells participation (including nine students) and attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Kentucky (Lexington), March 15-17. He was asked by publisher J. Wiley to write a review of the textbook, Chemistry: Structure and Dynamics, to be used by the authors in the preparation of the second edition of this text. He gave presentations to Professor Collmer’s "Genetics" and non-majors "DNA and Society" courses on how x-ray crystallography principles helped decipher the structure of DNA. Professor Bailey was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Hazard Library Association in Poplar Ridge and named Treasurer of that organization.

In March 2002, Professor Bailey served as the external evaluator for the Chemistry Program Evaluation Report at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

BRUCE BENNETT served as judge for the Newbury Art Association Annual Spring Poetry Contest in May 2001. The contest drew 504 entries, sent in from poets from 24 states. All of the winners were invited to read their prize-winning works at an Awards Day Reading on May 20. Professor Bennett also presented several of his poems, as well as offer comments on the award winners." During his recent sabbatical leave last spring and over the summer, Professor Bennett published 17 poems in the following magazines: PAINTBRUSH, Light, Tar River Poetry, SMARTISH PACE, nycBIG CITYlit, TROUBADOUR, and RELECTIONS. His chapbook, BRUCE BENNETT; GREATEST HITS 1962-2000, was published by Pudding House Publications. He wrote an essay for PAINTBRUSH and a review for HARVARD REVIEW, and a review of his that originally appeared in THE NATION was reprinted in the journal Contemporary Literary Criticism. Books by Professor Bennett were reviewed in Light and Edge City Review, and poems of his were nominated for inclusion in Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses. Professor Bennett also did a reading and workshop for the Steele Memorial Library in Elmira and read at the McLaughlin Foundation in South Paris, Maine. In January, he had poems published in Tar River Poetry and Atlanta Review. He gave a reading, sponsored by the Bookery, at the Ithaca Public Library in January. Professor Bennett also served as Judge for the category of Light Verse for the annual North Carolina Poetry Society Poetry Contest. He read his poetry at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference at the University of Louisville on February 22. He had his poems published in Hummingbird and Harpur Palate. Professor Bennett read his poetry in March at Writers and Books in Rochester, New York, as part of the Genesee Reading Series.

Professor Bennett conducted a poetry workshop, sponsored by Friends of the Library, at the Steele Memorial Library, Elmira, New York, on October 6, 2001. His chapbook, WERE I TO TELL YOU, with drawings by William Roberts, and broadside of his poem, "Calligraphy," also with a drawing by Professor Roberts, were published by the Wells College Press on September 19 to commemorate Professor Roberts’ Thirty Year Retrospective. Professor Bennett’s sonnet, "The True Story of Snow White," was published in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Professor Bennett delivered the welcoming remarks to open "Writing by Degrees: National Graduate Creative Writing Conference," at the State University of New York at Binghamton, November 2-4. He presented a reading/discussion of his villanelles and sonnets at the conference on November 3. On November 11, he participated in a reading to celebrate the publication of the book, Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art, at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester. His poem, "Perspectives: A Triptych," on three paintings in the Gallery’s permanent collection, appears in the book. His new book, Hey, Diddle Diddle: Fables of Love and Sex, was published this month by FootHills Press. In January, he had poems published in Tar River Poetry and Atlanta Review. He gave a reading, sponsored by the Bookery, in Ithaca in January. Professor Bennett also served as Judge for the category of Light Verse for the annual North Carolina Poetry Society Poetry Contest.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS has published an article in Volume 23 of the electronic journal, Romanticism on the Net. It is part of the special issue on Romanticism and Sexuality and is titled: "British Women Playwrights and the Staging of Female Sexual Initiation: Sophia Lee's The Chapter of Accidents (1780)." This article will soon be re-printed in a forthcoming special issue of European Romantic Review that will focus on Romantic drama and theatre. In addition, she has published a review essay of a recently-staged early 19th-century play called Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack, which she saw performed a year ago in Arizona at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.

CANDACE COLLMER was selected to attend a two-week summer institute at Dartmouth College in June 2001 on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project. Twenty faculty members from diverse disciplines across the United States and Brazil worked together on a wide range of timely issues. The wealth of resources from the Dartmouth Bioethics Institute were available to Professors Collmer and Purdy as they worked together to plan their new course on this topic for spring semester, 2002. Professor Collmer is being featured in Project Kaleidoscope's 2000-2001 Annual Report as a successful alumna of a PKAL-sponsored, NSF-supported, weeklong Faculty Leadership Institute held in Boca, Colorado.

WALTRAUT DEINERT accompanied a group of Wells students to the Cornell weekend sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Studies Department. The lectures and discussions took place on Sept. 22-23. This year's topic was: Tradition and Transitions: Appropriations of German Thought and Culture.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH’s article, "The Rural Batrachka and the Soviet States’ Campaign to Unionize Them," appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of the Journal of Women’s History, which is published by Ohio State University and Indiana University Press.

During the summer, MARGARET FLOWERS’ essay on "Science, Reason and Faith" was published in The God Factor. This book, published by HarperCollins, is an anthology of contributions from 50 members of the international scientific community. Professor Flowers is one of only three women from the United States and the only biologist whose work was selected for publication. She has been retained as a content consultant for Prairies, Fields, and Meadows, a combined lecture and laboratory text to be published by the Franklin Watts division of Grolier Press. She returned as an invited fiber arts lecturer-demonstrator for the New York Wool Council at the New York State Fair. Professor Flower’s article, "A Sometime Diversion: The Hymn Translations and Original Hymns of John Wesley" has been accepted for publication by Methodist History.

SUSAN FORBES served as the Stage Manager and Assistant to the Director for A Christmas Carol and the New England Premiere of the stage adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules at the Tony award winning Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island, during the 2000-01 academic year. While at Trinity, Professor Forbes assisted Kevin Moriarity on A Christmas Carol. Mr. Moriarity recently took the helm as Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca this past summer; he also directs regularly at Syracuse Stage. In addition, Professor Forbes had the privilege of working closely with Oskar Eustis on The Cider House Rules I and II. Mr. Eustis is a nationally recognized director and dramaturg who served as Mr. Kushner’s dramaturg and mentor of the Tony award winning Angels in America. Professor Forbes also collaborated with scenic designer Eugene Lee on Cider House. Mr. Lee has been the head scenic designer for Saturday Night Live since its inception and won a Tony award for his designs for the Broadway production of Ragtime. Professor Forbes is the only Stage Manager in the history of the Trinity Repertory Company to have work mentioned in a review.

Professor Forbes also assisted Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel in a collaborative writing workshop held in concert with Brown University and Trinity Repertory Conservatory. During her residence at Trinity, she also assisted in a workshop reading of Tony Kushner’s new play, Kabul/Homebody, which recently premiered to critical acclaim in New York and is currently running at Trinity Repertory Company directed by artistic director, Oskas Eustis.

CYNTHIA GARRETT reviewed Gwynne Kennedy's Just Anger: Representing Women's Anger in Early Modern England for Renaissance Quarterly.

NANCY GILBERTSON and Laura Campbell presented a flute and piano recital in Barler Hall in February. Music included in the program was a solo flute sonata by E.P.E. Bach and piano work by Rameau. Together they performed works by Berkeley, Roussel, Faure, and Bolling.

During summer 2000, JEANNE GODDARD taught dance classes at CRS Barn Studio, and performed with June Finch/Danceworks in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and with Jill Becker on the Ithaca Commons and in the lobby of the Clinton House. She was artistic director, choreographer, and performer in "Dances with Friends," a collaborative concert at Wells College with pianists Nancy and Kim Gilbertson, choreographer Jean McGregor of Ithaca College, and visual artist Mary Reynolds of Ithaca. Professor Goddard choreographed three productions for Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York, "Barber of Seville," "Amahl and the Night Visitors," and "Merry Wives of Windsor." She served as outside professional evaluator for Hobart & William Smith Colleges’ faculty dance concert. During the 2000-01 academic year, Professor Goddard’s proudest moment was sharing the stage of the Clemens Center in Elmira, New York, with illustrious dancers and choreographers from New York City and the Fingerlakes/Southern Tier Regions in Jamie Cunningham’s and Tina Croll’s "From the Horse’s Mouth." Participation was by invitation only—she sang a song about a mouse.

Professor Goddard spent 3 1/2 weeks in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (late May through mid-June, 2001) with her partner, singer Steven Stull. Together they offered four music-and-dance concerts with members of the Mukhtarov family: a lecture-demonstration at the American University in Kyrgyzstan, two concerts at Philharmonic Hall and a gala concert at the State Opera House. Both artists taught master classes. Professor Goddard taught a repertory class at the Choreography College and a modern dance technique class at the ballet studios of the State Opera House. Although Professor Goddard missed Wells College Commencement, she attended commencement ceremonies at AUK, where Mr. Stull sang the Star Spangled Banner with the Kyrgyz army band. They toured the countryside by auto and horseback, staying in yurts and drinking fermented wheat mash.

Stateside, Professor Goddard performed with June Finch/Danceworks at the Provincetown Art Association in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on July 28 and 29. She also choreographed, co-produced and performed in the music-and-dance extravaganza, OPERA COWPOKES, including seven dancers, eight singers and seven instrumentalists, with performances at the CRS Barn Studio on August 19 and 20. Professor Goddard performed in two site-specific events in October. On October 14 she took part in the City of Rochester's outdoor event, "Artwalk: Dances on the Avenue," performing Lesley Tillotson's choreography. On October 21 Jeanne performed in Galleria, choreographed by Saga Ambegaokar, a multi-installation event at the Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University. Professor Goddard also choreographed and produced the Wells College Fall Dance Concert, "Our Dances/Our Stories," in collaboration with Professor Susan Forbes, Designer/Tech Director Joe DeForest, and the students from the Page-to-Stage class.

Professor Goddard performed with baritone Steven Stull and pianist Read Gainsford in a program that included original choreography to Vaughan Williams' "Songs of Travel," at the Presbyterian Church in Ithaca on February 27. She also served as outside evaluator for a recent performance of faculty and guest artist works by the Dance Department at SUNY College at Brockport and escorted a group of students to the American College Dance Festival in Boston, where she taught a master class.

PILAR GREENWOOD attended the international conference "2001: A Space Odyssey Between Cathedrals and Skyscrapers," in Leon, Spain, and presented a paper entitled, "Identity in Transnational Spaces: Gender and Nationality in ‘Gringo Viejo` and ‘In the Name of Salome.`" The paper has been selected for publication by the publications committee at the Universidad de Leon. She also chaired a session entitled, "Spanish Women Writers." The conference was co-sponsored by the University of Leon and ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in the United States of America) during summer 2001. Professor Greenwood was invited to contribute an article on aspects of Spanish language and culture for the Bulletin of the Annual Fair in the town of Herencia (Ciudad Real), Spain. Her article entitled, "On the Uses of Hyphenated Last Names Among Medieval Frontier Settlers," (Sobre los apellidos de los herencianos") was published in the September 2001 issue of the Bulletin.

Professor Greenwood, together with seven of her Spanish 203 students, participated throughout the fall semester in "La Hora del Cuento" (Story Hour in Spanish), a program organized by the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca for pre-school and elementary school Spanish-speaking children. As part of the Wells experiential learning and volunteer service learning program, these "Story Hours" took place every last Sunday of the month during the fall term. In addition to the seven students, both Professor Greenwood and Terry Martinez contributed by reading stories in Spanish. On November 24, Professor Greenwood read and then led a dramatized version of her own short story, "El Tlacuache y el Coyote," based on a classic Maya/Aztec myth.

LYDIE HAENLIN and her husband, Jim, were awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for their translation of the poems of Senegalese poet Amadou Lamine Sall. Wells College Press will publish the Haenlins’ translation in a book this coming spring.

SUZANNE HECHT, Professor of French Emerita, has translated a play by Gilles Ségal, En ce temps là l’amour… (In Those Days Love…). Her translation has been approved by the author and approved for publication by his European publishers, Lansman (Belgium).

SPENCER HILDAHL’s review of Women Television Producers: Transformation of the Male Medium, by Robert S. Alley and Irby B. Brown, appeared in the January 2002 issue of CHOICE.

KENNETH LARSON was one of sixteen participants in a week-long NEH-sponsored workshop on digital imaging hosted at Cornell University May 14-18, 2001. Participants came from throughout the United States and from the National Archives of Sweden. Besides technical concerns such as defining quality metrics the workshop concentrated on management issues, including legal considerations and projecting realistic staffing costs for the creation and ongoing maintenance of digital projects.

In May 2001, THEODORE LOSSOWSKI juried the graduating student art show at Monroe Community College and awarded prizes for that show in twelve different categories. Professor Lossowski's multi-media sculpture was part of the show, "The Faculty Selects" in the Tower Fine Arts Gallery at Brockport State College.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO’s professional activities during spring sabbatical leave include the following.

He published the following articles:

1. "Rethinking Educational Paradigms in Africa: Imperatives for Social Progress in the New Millennium," In P. Higgs, N.C. G. Vakalisa, T.V. Mda, and N.T. Assié-Lumumba (Editors.), African Voices in Education, Landsdowne, South Africa: Juta & Co. Ltd. 2000.
2. "Reflection on Nationalistic Discourses and Ethnonationalism in the Struggles for Democracy in Africa," In L. Adele Jinadu (Editor), The Political Economy of Peace and Security in Africa: Ethnocultural and Economic Perspectives, Harare, Zimbabwe: AAPS Books, 2000.
3. "Tribute to President Mzee Laurent-Désiré Kabila’s Assassination: An Attempt to End Three Decades of A Nationalist’s Political Struggle for Independence," Africa Notes, (April 2001).
4. "Globalization, Capitalism, Liberal Democracy, and the Search for New Development Paradigms in Africa," Occasional Paper Series, Volume 5, Number 1 (2001: African Association of Political Science).
5. "President Laurent-Désiré Kabila’s Assassination and Its Implications in the Struggle for Peace, Democracy, and Social Progress in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Great Lakes Region of Africa," Journal of Comparative Education and International Relations in Africa, Volume 3, Numbers 1-2 (December 2000).
6. Two Articles: (1) "United States’ Legacy in Liberia," and (2) "Political Parties and Ruling Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa," both In Robert Dibie (Editor.), The Politics and Policies of Sub-Saharan Africa,Lanham, New York and Oxford: University Press of America, Inc, 2001.

(1)"Reflections on Liberal Democracy and International Debt Issues in Post-Cold War Africa: Which Way Out?," paper presented at the International Conference on Debt held in the Centre Africain d’Études Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG,) Dakar, Senegal on December 11-16, 2001.

(2) "Reconceptualizing the State as the Leading Agent of Development in the Context of Globalization in Africa," paper presented at the African Association of Political Science Biennal Conference held in Yaoundé, Cameroon on June 19-25, 2001.

New Research Project:

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo started to conduct a major research project in which he is using archives, libraries, internet, interviews, etc., on "Constitution-Making, Citizenship, Power, and Labor in the World of the States in the 21^st Century." Countries included in this project are: China, Russia, the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Kenya.

Relating to his research project Professor Lumumba-Kasongo also taught a political science seminar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts -Boston.

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo co-organized a major international conference on "Women and Higher Education in Africa: Engendering Human Capital and Upgrading Human Rights to Schooling," which was held at Cornell University on March 28 and 29. The conference was co-sponsored mainly by the CEPARRED (Pan-African Studies and Research Center in International Relations and Education for Development with its Headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) and the Cornell Program on Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative (PIDI) with also the financial support from more than 15 other academic units at Cornell University and the Office of the Dean of Wells College. Presenters/discussants were scholars, policymakers, international technocrats, diplomats, and students who represented various institutions of higher learning, international organizations, international non-governmental organizations, research centers, and governmental agencies. They came from Brazil, Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Kenya, Mali, Uganda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, etc. Two Wells Faculty members were also among the presenters/discussants in the conference. Sixteen papers were presented. Several Wells students also attended and participated in some sessions of the conference.

LAURA MCCLUSKY’s book Here, Our Culture Is Hard: Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize, was published by University of Texas Press (and is available at Long library). On October 12, she presented a paper entitled "Indigenous and The Media: Trivializing Sustainable Lifeways" at the Learning Sustainability Conference in Buffalo, New York.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL was invited to speak on her book, Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges, at the annual meeting of the Ithaca branch of the American Association of University Women on May 16, 2001. Her book was also reviewed this summer in two publications, Teachers’ College Record and Contemporary Sociology, The Journal of Reviews of Books in Sociology. On September 27 and 28, Professor Miller-Bernal and Dr. Mark Hayward of Penn State University, conducted an outside review of Oberlin College’s Sociology Department. Professor Miller-Bernal was the discussant for a session at the History of Education Society meetings at Yale University on October 19. The title of the session was "Single Gender versus Coeducational Higher Education: Is Separate Ever Really Equal?" On October 12 and 13, she and three Wells students attended the New York State Sociological Association meetings at Canisius College in Buffalo. The students presented some of the findings from the spring Research Methods class’s survey on the racial climate at Wells College. Professor Miller-Bernal has an article forthcoming in a book edited by Amanda Datnow and Lea Hubbard, Doing Gender in Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Single-Sex and Coeducational Schooling, to be published by RoutledgeFalmer Press. The title of her chapter is, "Conservative Intent, Liberating Outcomes: The History of Coordinate Colleges for Women." Her book, Separate by Degree, was reviewed in the fall issue of the History of Education Quarterly. She reviewed an article for possible publication for the journal, Sociological Perspectives. She was one of four sociologists at the Easter Sociological Society meetings in Boston on March 7 who participated in a panel called, "The Art of Collaboration: Pleasures, Pitfalls, and Practicalities." On March 29, Professor Miller-Bernal participated in the CEPARRED & PIDI Conference on Women and Higher Education in Africa: Engendering Human Capital and Upgrading Human Rights to Schooling at Cornell University. She presented and discussed a paper prepared by sociologist Rémi Clignet, "Mismeasuring Gender Disparities in University Enrollments."

MILENE MORFEI's article, "Continuity and Change in Parenting Possible Selves: A Longitudinal Follow-Up," was published in the September, 2001 issue of Basic and Applied Social Psychology. She attended the third annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Savannah, Georgia, Jan. 31 - Feb. 3.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ, Kim VanNorman, senior in Women's Studies, and Anna Cohen, sophomore in Psychology attended the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference held this year in Seattle. Professor Muñoz delivered a paper, "The History of Sex Education: Implications for Contemporary Queer Youth" based on her current research at the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell. All had dinner and lively conversation at Cascadia Restaurant with alumnae Kristina Gray Bartleson, '88 (the pastry chef), Sally Warren Soest, '64, and Jill Mullins, '00. This trip was made possible by the offices of the Dean of Experiential Learning, the Dean of the College, and External Relations.

NIAMH O' LEARY represented the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and the Wells College Environmental Studies Program in a panel discussion following a screening of "The Waterkeepers" at the Cornell Center for the Environment's film festival. She also coordinated the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network's annual outreach event, "Lakefest". Professor O’Leary presented a paper at the Annual Meetings of the Crop Science Society of America, held October 21-25 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The paper, entitled "Selection Criteria for Corn Performance in No-till Cropping Systems," was co-authored by Margaret Smith of Cornell's Plant Breeding Department and Amber Nolder, Wells class of 2001.

NIAMH O' LEARY and THOMAS VAWTER have contributed to the production and editing of the draft Cayuga Lake Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan. Both have facilitated small group discussions at open meetings for public comment on the draft plan. Professor Vawter is a member of the Technical Committee of the Intermunicipal Organization that has drafted the document, and Professor O' Leary is a member of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network's committee currently evaluating the draft. In collaboration with scientists from Cornell's Center for the Environment, Professors O’Leary and Vawter received a research grant for work from the USDA's Agricultural Ecosystems Project. The grant funded research into citizen monitoring of water quality in the Cayuga watershed.

The article entitled "The Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming," co-authored by ERNEST OLSON and Brooke Olson, has been published in the volume Endangered Peoples of North America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive, edited by Tome Greaves and published by the Greenwood Press, 2002. Professor Olson’s review of Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs, by Cathy Small and published by Cornell Press, will be forthcoming in the journal Pacific Studies.

LAURA PURDY had two articles published: "Medicalization, Medical Necessity, and Feminist Medicine," in Bioethics, 15(3), June 2001, 248-261, and "What Feminism Can do for Bioethics," in Health Care Analysis, 9:117-32, 2001. Her book review of From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, by Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, Normal Daniels, and Daniel Wikler, was published in Isis (vol. 92(2):429-30. She gave a presentation on a panel entitled "Eight is More Than Enough" at the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities on October 26. Professor Purdy participated as a Dow Fellow at the Dow Visiting Scholars and Artists Program on November 5 and 6. She taught two classes, gave a public lecture on xenotransplantation, and had a public conversation with Greg Bear, science fiction writer, on issues in genetics and xenotransplantation. Professor Purdy was one of four visitors the other three were Greg Bear, Brian Tokar, and David Burke. The subject of the symposium was genetics.

DAVID REIS was recently awarded a grant from Harvard University's Pluralism Project (http://www.pluralism.org) to document the various religious traditions of Central New York.

LINDA SCHWAB’s essay on "Faith and Experience" has been published in The God Factor, an anthology edited by John Ashton and published by HarperCollins. This anthology, which was released in June 2001 in Australia (United States release expected later this year), contains selected contributions from 50 members of the international scientific community.Professor Schwab presented two invited lectures to the graduate class in "The Formative Era: The Patristic and Medieval Church" at Northeastern Seminary in Rochester, New York: On December 20, "Apologists of the Early Church: Justin Martyr to Athanasius," and on February 21, "God and Matter: Icons and Sacraments."

AMY STAPLES has published an article entitled "Primal scenes/primal screens: ‘The homosocial economy (academy?) of dirty jokes’ and scandalous women who refuse to leave the room" in High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France. In August 2001 she was named a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, where she serves as a consultant to the interdisciplinary French Studies Program.

THOMAS STIADLE attended the Annual Cornell Topology Festival, held May 4-6, 2001, at Cornell University. Professor Stiadle attended the 2001 Albany Group Theory Conference in Rensselaerville, New York, on October 12-14. He reviewed the second edition of Robert Smith's and Roland Minton's "Calculus" for McGraw-Hill.

CRAWFORD THOBURN presented a lecture entitled, "Mozart’s Masonic Music," at a meeting of the Scipio Lodge #110 F. & A.M. in Aurora. Under his direction on May 13, 2001, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented "A Celebration of Spring," featuring music for women’s voices from four centuries. Professor Thoburn’s arrangement of a 15^th century Dutch folk tune for mixed voices with accompaniment, entitled, "Come Unto Me," has been accepted for publication by Mark Foster Music, Inc. His original setting of Isaac Watts’ poem, "Shepherds, Rejoice!," for accompanied mixed voices has been accepted for publication by Carl Fischer, Inc. This work was commissioned by the Thoburn United Methodist Church of St. Clairsville, Ohio, and received its first performance last December. His letter to the editor of the British journal, Choir and Organ, dealing with the history of the St. Martin Singers of London, appeared in the July/August issue of that publication.

Professor Thoburn’s arrangement of Gregor Aichinger’s motet, "Ave Regina Coelorur" for unaccompanied treble voices has been accepted for publication by Mark Foster Music. They have also accepted his original composition, "A Psalm of Praise" for mixed voices with organ accompaniment. This work was commissioned and received its first performance by the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church, Watertown, New York. Professor Thoburn’s arrangement for accompanied mixed voices of the Finnish melody "Nyland" set to the text, "In Heavenly Love Abiding," and published by Carl Fischer, Inc., was favorably reviewed in the November issue of "The Choral Journal," the official publication of the American Choral Director’s Association. Two of his published works for unaccompanied mixed voices, an original setting of "A Lovely Rose" and an arrangement of the French carol, "Whence Comes This Lovely Fragrance," are included in a new commercial Christmas CD by the professional chamber choir "Madrigalia" from Rochester, New York, conducted by Roger Wilhelm. The title of the CD is "Christmas with Harp and Voice," and it will be available at Borders and other book and record shops in the Central New York area. Under the direction of Professor Thoburn, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented a concert for Parent’s Weekend on November 10 in Barler Hall. The choral ensembles were joined for this concert by the Wells Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Laura Campbell. On December 1, the choral ensembles presented a concert at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora for the annual "Christmas in Aurora" celebration. Mark Foster Music Publishers has accepted two more of Professor Thoburn’s original compositions for publication, "Adam Lay Y-bounden" and "I Sing of a Maiden." Both are settings of anonymous 15^th century English texts for unaccompanied mixed voices. His original published work was sung during the holiday season by many choral groups. Notable performances thus far include his setting of "A God and yet A Man," which has been sung several times during the Advent season by the choir of St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jacksonville, Florida, under the direction of John Barray, and "In the Bleak Midwinter" sung by the choir of Allegheny College, conducted by Ward Jameson. In December the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, conducted by Professor Thoburn and accompanied by pianist Nancy Gilbertson, presented their annual holiday concert to a large and enthusiastic audience in Barler Hall. A sizeable amount of canned and packaged food donated by the audience was collected and delivered to the Cayuga County Food Pantry for distribution to needy individuals and families in the community. During the holiday season recordings of two of his choral works, "Whence is that Lovely Fragrance Flowing" and "A Lovely Rose is All My Song," performed by the chamber chorus "Madrigalia under the direction of Roger Wilhelm, were featured on broadcasts from WXXI FM in Rochester, New York. Professor Thoburn’s published choral work was featured in a workshop sponsored by the Taiwan Theological Seminary located in Taipei on February 4, 2002. Under the direction of Professor Thoburn, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented two concerts with The Men’s Glee Club of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. On February 17, they performed at the Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, and on March 3, they sang at the Sommer Center. Each choral group performed alone and then combined to present three compositions by the contemporary English composer, John Tavener, "The Lamb," "Funder Ikos," and "Song for Athene," as well as Ralph Vaughan Williams’ "Mass in g Minor." The student soloists in the Vaughan Williams were sopranos Sarah Beck and Karina Conkrite and altos Nandani Sinha and Michelle Trickey.

In the published proceedings of the conference, "Environmental Research in the Cayuga Lake Watershed," sponsored by the Cornell Center for the Environment and the United States Geological Survey, 12 October 1999, is an abstract from a poster THOMAS VAWTERsubmitted in collaboration with two former Wells BCS majors, Mansi Amin and Jody Weinstein. The poster and abstract are entitled, "Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Indicators of Water Quality in two Tributaries of Cayuga Lake, New York." Professor Vawter delivered a presentation entitled "Linking Public and Scientific Inputs in Water Quality Monitoring" at a symposium on water monitoring in the Cayuga Lake Watershed held at Wells College in March. He presented the results of water quality research done in collaboration with Niamh O' Leary and colleagues from Cornell's Center for the Environment.

CHRISTINA WAHL attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in Washington, D.C. in December.  In addition to several days of great science, she attended the keynote addresses.  Among the speakers were Christopher Reeves, who spoke in advocacy of educating Congress about science in general and about stem cell research in particular.  Also speaking was Craig Ventner, the CEO of Celera and the man who made all the headlines by coming up with a technique that sequenced the human genome in a fraction of the time the "traditional" science community expected it would take.  He spoke about the amazing potential for science in the years ahead that will develop as bioinformatics becomes refined and more accessible to scientists and others. Professor Wahl published a paper with her colleagues, R. A. Cushman and J.E. Fortune, entitled "Bovine Ovarian Cortical Pieces Grafted to Chick Embryonic Membranes:  A Model for Studies on the Activation of Primordial Follicles." It was published by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in their journal, Human Reproduction volume 17, no. 1 pp. 48-54, 2002.

ROSEMARY WELSH has been awarded an appointment as a Regional Visiting Fellow to the Regional Visiting Fellows Program of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. The appointment is from September 1, 2001, through August 31, 2002, with the possibility of renewal for two additional years.

JENNY YATES was interviewed online by a writer at the Center for Writing Excellence at the University of Oregon, Portland, regarding her split-brain research with Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry. It is available on the cgjungpage.org. She served as Parliamentarian for the World Congress of the International Association of Analytical Psychology at Cambridge University in August. She also presented a paper on "The Female Self" and chaired the session on Dreams. In October, Professor Yates gave a paper entitled, "On the Pulse of Mourning," at meeting of Jungian analysts from the United States and Canada in Montreal. During March, Professor Yates was invited to speak on her book, Jung on Death and Immortality, for the Triangle Jung Society in Chapel Hill and in Wilmington, North Carolina. She has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

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The special edition of Welford Taylor’s book, The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes (originally published in 1999 by David Godine) was published in September. Its author, Welford Taylor, delivered a lecture on J. J. Lankes on September 19 to celebrate the Wells Press edition. Professor Taylor’s lecture was entitled, "Wells (Re)Visited. The WELLS COLLEGE PRESS has published Christina Pugh’s chapbook, Gardening at Dusk, as part of its new Emerging Writers Chapbook Series.

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