BRUCE BENNETT read his poems at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1, and at a FootHills Authors Reading at Downtown Writers in Syracuse on March 7. His essay/interview, "Gavin Ewart and Civil Humor: An Interview with Stephen W. Delchamps," appeared in the Winter 2002-03 issue of Light. His poem, "Patterns," was published in the March 2003 issue of Hummingbird.

TERRENCE CHOUINARD’s work, produced by his Wing & the Wheel Press, is on display at the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in an exhibit titled "Under the Influence: Teachers and Students in the Book Arts." Also on display in this exhibit is the Wells College Press "Gardening at Dusk," which was printed by Wells students in the second level letterpress class. He has also been nominated for membership in the Grolier Club, America's oldest (founded in 1884) and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts. 

The Book Arts Center was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Kauffman Foundation, which will go to support a national book arts symposium to be held on campus at the end of April 2004.

CANDACE COLLMER attended the third ASM (American Society for Microbiology) and TIGR (The Institute for Genomic Research) Conference on Microbial Genomes in New Orleans from January 29 to February 1, 2003. This was the first leg of one of her projects for her sabbatical leave next year, when she will be learning about bioinformatics and some of the companies developing and using sophisticated computer tools for the analysis of biological data. She commends Michelle Landers for obtaining a grant from the Kauffman Collegiate Entrepreneurship Network, which will support some of her work on bioinformatics next year. One additional goal of that grant is to connect Wells students with entrepreneurs at companies engaged in bioinformatics.

SUSAN FORBES has been elected to the Cayuga County Arts Council and will serve on a special advisory committee for the renovation and restoration of the historic Schines Theatre in downtown Auburn.

NANCY GILBERTSON presented a solo piano recital on February 2 in Barler Recital Hall. Music on the program was "Children's Corner" by Debussy, two early works by Rachmaninoff, "China Gates" by American minimalist composer John Adams, which was written in the 1970's, and one of the "war" sonatas (written during World War II), Sonata No. 7 by Prokofieff. This program was also presented at Moravia Central High School.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO attended the 10th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) held in Kampala, Uganda, December 8-13, 2002. The topic of the paper presented was: "Reflections on Liberal Democracy and International Debt Issues in Post-Cold War Africa." He was invited by the Department of Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University on February 27, 2003, to give a public lecture in its Annual Lecture Series; the topic of the paper presented was: "Conflicts, Transition, and Reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo."

LAURA MCCLUSKY received word that the editors of The Encyclopedia of New York State accepted her entry on Keuka College, a former Finger Lakes women's college. Her review of the book, Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain," will appear in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

MICHAEL MIGDAL co-authored the article, "Self-awareness, deindividuation, and social identity: Unraveling theoretical paradoxes by filling empirical lacunae," which has been accepted for publication by the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The other authors were B. Mullen, and D Rozell. He presented his research entitled, "Correlating measures of group variability: Separate measures are not equivalent," at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Los Angeles, California, in February.

NIAMH O' LEARY and THOMAS VAWTER jointly delivered a talk entitled, "Citizen Involvement in the Cayuga Lake Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan," in Ithaca College's Biology Seminar Series on March 6. 

DAVID REIS’s paper "Jesus' Farewell Discourse, 'Otherness,' and the Construction of a Johannine Identity" was accepted for publication in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 

SARAH ROBERTS gave a presentation on "Poetic Vision and the Aesthetics of Print" at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. True False, a 23-foot accordion book created by Sarah Roberts, is on exhibit this month at the annual Center for the Book invitational in Iowa City, Iowa.

The Wells College Press has published Professor Emeritus of French Suzanne Hecht’s translation of Gilles Ségal’s play, In those days, love… The publication of this translation is a noteworthy accomplishment for Professor Hecht, who is proud of having received the author’s permission to translate his work. Thanks go to the members of the Book Arts Center staff, Terry Chouinard, Nancy Gil, and Sarah Roberts; as well as to Professor Emeritus Alan Clugston, Librarian Jeri Vargo, Professor Linda Lohn, and Attilio Rezzonico, former manager of the Wells College Bookstore, for their various roles in bringing Professor Hecht’s work to fruition.
 

Earlier Announcements of Faculty Accomplishments

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