CHRISTOPHER BAILEY will be participating in an NSF-Funded workshop in Photoelectron Spectroscopy this summer at the University of Arizona. He had received an email saying that they were overrun with applications, so he feels fortunate to have been selected to attend. Professor Bailey discusses this technique in General Chemistry as a way of understanding atomic electron energies.

CANDACE COLLMER and Wells students Monica Chapman, Alicia Lewis, and Jessica Reuter successfully completed a 3-day workshop on Prokaryotic Annotation and Analysis Training at TIGR, The Institute for Genomic Research, in Rockville, Maryland, April 25-27, 2005. This field trip was part of the Wells course, Introduction to Genomics and Bioinformatics, where the students are using their newly-learned skills on a genomics project on the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. This project is part of a collaboration with scientists at Cornell University.

EDNIE GARRISON presented a paper entitled, "Non-Feminine Femme, Or, How Can a Femme Register as Androgynous-Masculine on a Personality Test?," at the GenderQueer/QueerGenders: Conversation Among Artists, Academics, and Activists conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, February 11-13. Five Wells student attended this conference with her: Jenna Basiliere, Carrie Elliott, Katie Fong, Eliza Heppner, and Christina Lunsford. Professor Garrison will be presenting a paper entitled, "The Erotics of Femme Smartness," at the Queering Femininities Conference, in Seattle, Washington, May 28-31, 2005. Professor Garrison and VICTORIA MUÑOZ will co-facilitate a roundtable discussion entitled, "What's Feminist About Single-Sex Education for Women? Students Talk About Protesting the Decision to Go Co-Ed at Wells College' (with students Jenna Basiliere, Meredith Burks, Chelle Carr, Carrie Elliott, Nicole Pellegrino, and Erica Peters), at the Annual National Women's Studies Association Conference in Orlando, Florida, June 9-12, 2005

MICHAEL GROTH worked with other members of the program committee for the Conference on New York State History to plan this year's conference to be held in Syracuse in early June.

SCOTT HEINEKAMP was elected to a four-year term to the Executive Committee of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO attended the Executive Committee meeting of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) as one of its Vice-President. The meeting was held in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, April 15-17, 2005. His article entitled, "Rethinking Global Design as a Social Value in Search of Alternative Design Paradigms for a 'Democratic World'," was published in In.Form: The Journal of Architecture, Design, and Material Culture, Volume 5: A Global View of Interior Design, published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2005)

NIAMH O' LEARY and THOMAS VAWTER were invited to participate in a Regional Watershed and Science Educators Meeting at the Finger Lakes Institute in Geneva in April.

ERNIE OLSON'S presentation "Strengthening and Sustaining Relations Among Haudenosaunee Nations and Local Finger Lakes Communities of Central New York" has been accepted for the 2005 World Indigenous People's Conference on Education to be held in New Zealand during November 2005. Professor Olson has had a number of photographs included in Eva Mackey's (McMaster University) article "Universal Rights in Conflict" published in Anthropology Today, No. 2, April 2005. Professor Olson participated on a panel presentation for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth 2004 Collge Colloquia held at Syracuse University November 20, 2004.

VICTOR PENNIMAN performed the Baroque ensemble "Quadro Ithaca" at a benefit concert for Carol Buckley at the First Congregational Church in Ithaca on May 1.  Ms. Buckley is a singer and founding member of the musical group Women’s Works, who is suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease. On May 8, he performed with Quadro Ithaca in a concert of German and French Baroque music at the First Congregational Church in Ithaca. On May 15, he will perform with members of the group "Frogwork" and violist da gamba Alex Korolov in Barler Recital Hall.  Selections include works by English composers Simpson, Lawes and Jenkins, and French composer Marin Marais. Professor Penniman will be showcasing and performing on the Ruby Gamba at the Boston Early Music Festival, June 13-19, an international Early Music event held every two years in Boston.  The Ruby Gamba is a solid body electric viola da gamba that has been developed by Jan Goorisen in the Netherlands.  He has been working closely with Mr. Goorisen for the last year to continue to develop the instrument and its repertoire, and he is one of four or five professional players of the instrument in the world. Professor Penniman will be attending the Viola da Gamba Society of America’s annual Conclave, July 24-31.  He has been chosen to participate in the Society’s new program, the Consort Collective, which has been created solely for professional and professional level players.

LAURA PURDY gave a talk entitled "A Modest Proposal: COI’s and Some Remedies," g at The Ethics of Bioethics, sponsored by the ASBH at Union College and Albany Medical College, in Schenectady, NY, April 7-9, 2005. Her paper "Genetic Diseases: Can Having Children Be Immoral?" has been reprinted in Robert Card, Critically Thinking about Medical Ethics, Prentice Hall, 2004.

JACLYN SCHNURR's paper "Herbaceous Plant Community Responses to Fire in Longleaf Pine Forests" has been accepted for presentation at the 90th meeting of the Ecological Society of American meetings, to be held August 7-12 in Montreal, Canada. Additionally, Professor Schnurr has been selected as a member of the Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology research team, sponsored by the Education Section of the Ecological Society of America. As a member of the research team, she will work with other ecology faculty to plan the study, which will be carried out during the 2005-2006 academic year, learn about and receive mentoring on basic tools for classroom evaluation and research, and contribute to the collective wisdom about inquiry-based, active ecology teaching.

The anthology written by specialists on contemporary art is to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. JELENA STOJANOVIC is one of the contributors. She had written a chapter on European contemporary art, and her talk on "Contemporary Art?" on April 20 was an excerpt from this chapter. The book is very ambitious, one of the first comprehensive studies on this important topic, and it did require a very long and detailed preparation. However, last week a very positive response arrived from the reviewers and the book is going to the press this month.

THOMAS VAWTER has been named "Principal Scientist" on a project team for EcoLogic, LLC, of Cazenovia. The team has submitted a proposal, "Development of a Vision for the Onondaga Lake Watershed" to the Onondaga Lake Partnership, a consortium of local, state and federal agencies charged with the clean up of Onondaga Lake. If the proposal is accepted, this project will constitute an important part of Professor Vawter's sabbatical leave activities next year.

CHRISTINA WAHL has had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Molecular and Developmental Reproduction: Gigli, I., R. Cushman, C. Wahl, and J.E. Fortune (2005, in press) "Evidence for a Role for Anti-Mullerian Hormone in the Suppression of Follicle Activation in Mouse Ovaries and Bovine Ovarian Cortex Grafted beneath the Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane." Professor Wahl is a contributor to the Ithaca Journal column "Ask a Scientist". So far she has written two pieces for the Journal, the first one was titled "Over-stimulation to inner ear causes tinnitus, or 'ringing'", and appeared on November 25, and the second was titled "Human eye is more like a camera than a computer monitor" and appeared on March 31. Ellen Sweet and Professor Wahl attended a seminar at Cornell on May 4 on "Fish Health Management" for which they each received three continuing education credits.