CHRISTOPHER BAILEY organized Wells' participation at, and attended, the 16th National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in April. The students presenting this year were: Michelle Bunny (History), Elizabeth Miller (FLLC), Elena Napolitano (Art History), and Tsering Choden (BCS). In addition Professor Bailey participated in a NSF-Funded Workshop on "Case Studies in Science" at the University of Buffalo (May 20-24); presented a session on "Thinking Inside the Box", an exercise he developed for his General Chemistry course; presented a talk, "Delineation of the Cayuga Basin: Exercises in Geographical Information Systems (GIS)," for Alumnae College (May 31); attended the 9th Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research at Connecticut College (June 19-23); and attended the Gordon Conference on "Innovations in College Chemistry Teaching" at Connecticut College (June 23-28).

BRUCE BENNETT has had poems published in the journals Reflections and Light, and in the texts, An Exaltation of Forms and Literature: The Human Experience (8th edition).  He read his poems in April at Adams House at Harvard University, and in May for the Union Springs Lions Club.  He also recorded a poem for the CD of the journal Rattapallax, which will appear with the next issue.  His manuscript, “Adult Education,” was selected as a finalist in the 2001 nova House Chapbook Competition.  Professor Bennett’s review, “Preservation Poets,” which appeared in the New York Times Book Review, March 1, 1992, was reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 162, published by the Gale Group.

In August, CATHERINE BURROUGHS was a co-coordinator for the first conference devoted solely to British Romantic drama and theatre. Called "Drama and Theatre History, 1770-1840: New Approaches, Contexts, and Pedagogies," this one-day event was held at a theatre in downtown London, Ontario, and it featured theatre scholars and practitioners from Australia, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. That same week, at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, she chaired a special session called "Romantic Era Drama and Theatre II: Performers and Theatres."

CANDACE COLLMER attended a three-day workshop on "Bioinformatics for Educators" at Rochester Institute of Technology on August 15-17, 2002. The workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and open to both biologists and computer scientists Attendees spent the first two days learning the relevant basics of the other's discipline, and then everyone came together to consider how to design and implement meaningful programs in this new, rapidly expanding area.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH’S scholarly article, "The Rural Batraehka (Hired Agricultural Laborers) and the Soviet Campaign to Unionize Them," was published in the Journal of Women’s History, Volume XIV, no. 1, Spring 2002.

CYNTHIA GARRETT reviewed Margaret Cavendish's Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions for Renaissance Quarterly. Her essay "Sexual Consent and the Art of Love in Early Modern English Literature" was accepted for publication in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.

JEANNE GODDARD choreographed and co-produced the 2002 reincarnation of "OPERA COWPOKES—ALIVE!," an original song and dance extravaganza, at the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca on July 7-11. She also performed with June Finch/Danceworks at the Provincetown Art Association in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 17 and 18. The concert included her vintage solo, "Whither Must I Wander."

In June, CYNTHIA J. KOEPP’s article "Making Money: Artisans and Entrepreneurs in Diderot’s Encyclopédie" appeared in a special issue of Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, entitled, Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading, edited by Daniel Brewer and Julie Candler Hayes. In July she participated in a weeklong seminar on the History of the Book (1400-1800) offered by the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO participated (among 20 other scholars and policymakers who were selected from North America--Canada and the United States) in "Germany Today 2002," which was organized by the Office for International Affairs of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and was sponsored by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The program was held between June 15 and 28, 2002. It included workshops/seminars, visits to the governmental, research, and historic centers, Headquarters of the European Union, Bayer's Global Business, and museums in Bonn, Belgium, Leverkusen, Cologne, Munich, Berlin. Some of the themes of the seminars and roundtable discussions were:

• The Current Trends and Major Issues of Research Policies in Germany;
• Legal Issues Related to Health Care Research and Discovery in Germany;
• Challenges of Global Environmental Change;
• The Catholic Position in the Current Public Discussion on Bioethical Questions with Special Emphasis on Embryonic Stem Cell Research;
• Transatlantic Research Cooperation in a Wider European Context;
• Sustainable Development in A European Union Context;

SANDRA MARSHALL presented a paper entitled, 'Life is Stronger than Theory: Emma Goldman and Anarchist Praxis," at the American Political Science Association’s annual conference over the Labor Day weekend in Boston. The panel was "Emma Goldman's Political Thought."

DAVID REIS reviewed Antigone Samellas's book Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East: An Interpretation in the Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. His grant with the Pluralism Project to study religious communities in Central New York has been renewed.

On May 7, CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the spring concert by the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in Barler Recital Hall. The choir was accompanied by flautist Laura Campbell and pianist Nancy Gilbertson. On May 11, three student singers from his studio, Sarah Beck, Karina Conkrite, and Nandani Sinha, presented a solo vocal recital in Barler accompanied by pianists Nancy Gilbertson and himself. On July 7, one of Professor Thoburn’s original compositions published by Warner Brothers, "Bread of the World," was performed during the morning service at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, by the Nassau Presbyterian Church Choir of Princeton, New Jersey, conducted by Kenneth Kelley. Johann Sebastian Bach served the St. Thomas Church for the last twenty-six years of his life. It is the composer’s burial site and a place of pilgrimage for musicians from around the world. Mark Foster Music recently accepted for publication his original composition, "When Christ Was Born of Mary Free," a setting of an anonymous English text from the Harleian Manuscript (1456) for unaccompanied mixed voices.

MUIN UDDIN’s article, "The Economics of a Nobel Laureate, William Vickrey: An Expert on Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection," was published in Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates of the Twentieth Century, edited by Abu N. M. Wahid, Greenwood Press, July 2002.

CHRISTINA WAHL presented two papers at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in May: one entitled, "Intraocular Pressure in Chicks Raised in Constant Light" (Authors Tong Li, Christina Wahl, and Howard Howland) and the other "Chick Eyes Recovering from Constant Light Exposure have Higher Stromal Cell Counts and Smaller Venous Sinuses but no Change in Stromal Glycosaminoglycan Content," (Authors Christina Wahl, Tong Li, and Howard Howland). During the summer, students Emily Mazur '03 and Yuko Takagi '03 spent ten weeks fully engaged in research with Professor Wahl at Cornell.
 

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