PILAR GREENWOOD was invited by the Latino Civic Association of Ithaca to participate in this year’s celebration of the Latino Heritage/Culture Month (September 15-October 15). On September 23, together with a group of Latino and Hispanic authors, she participated in the second annual "Tertulia," reading a selection from her children’s poetry and short fiction. The CAP/ Decentralization Program, the Community School Music and the Arts (CSMA), the City of Ithaca Mayor’s Office, and the Tompkins County Board of Representatives cosponsored this annual event, among others.

MICHAEL GROTH participated in a conference entitled, "The Changing Meaning of the American Revolution," on October 7 at Marist College. The event was sponsored by the Hudson Valley Studies Program at Marist College and the New York Council for the Humanities to commemorate the 225^th Anniversary of the Revolution in the region. Professor Groth delivered a lecture entitled, "Slavery, the American Revolution, and the Hudson River Valley."

SCOTT HEINEKAMP has reviewed six chapters of the upcoming text, Electromagnetism, by Pollack & Stump, for the publisher Addison, Wesley, Longman. He has also been appointed Visiting Professor of Physics in Cornell University’s Department of Applied Engineering Physics for the period July 2000 to January 2001.

SPENCER HILDAHL’s review of the book, Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market," by Alexandra Chasin, appeared in the October 2000 issue of CHOICE.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL attended the annual meeting of the New York State Sociological Association at SUNY College at Potsdam on October 13 and 14. She presented a paper based on her research methods class’s research, "It’s All Relative: A Comparison of Attitudes Toward Sex Education in Schools in a Conservative Upstate New York City versus the State of South Carolina." She also participated in a panel with six other sociologists, "State of the Art Sociology: Past, Present, and Future."

JOSEPH PALERMO’s book, Robert F. Kennedy and the Democratic Party 1965-1968, will be a featured title from Columbia University Press in April 2001.

CRAWFORD THOBURN’s original composition for unaccompanied mixed voices entitled, "Out of Your Sleep Arise, and Wake," has been accepted for publication by Mark Foster Music, Inc. The Wells Chamber Singers, under his direction, participated in the International Youth Music Festival in Bad Arolsen, Germany, from August 20 through the 26^th. During their residency at the Festival, they performed seven times in six days for large and responsive audiences in Amoeneburg, Calden, and Cassel, as well as in Bad Arolsen. The singers were also featured on Hessian State Radio and in the newspapers, and reviewers praised their performances. WALTRUAT DEINERT was instrumental in arranging their participation in the Festival and for their travel and housing arrangements while in Germany.

MUIN UDDIN presented "College from an Economics Professor’s Point of View" at the Johns Hopkins University's 2000 College Colloquium, on October 15, 2000, at Syracuse University. The purpose of this annual colloquium is to offer high school sophomores, juniors, seniors and their parents a chance to familiarize themselves with the college process and to explore various educational choices by hearing from college students, university level advisors and professors. In the same colloquium, Professor Uddin also participated in an Academic Panel consisting of professors of several disciplines in the sciences and humanities. He also took the opportunity to speak about Wells to those present and to distribute Wells' Admissions Brochure. Faye Justicia-Linde `01 participated as a speaker on the student panel.

A water quality biomonitoring project proposed by THOMAS VAWTER and NIAMH O’LEARY was among those chosen for endorsement by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization in July. The Intermunicipal Organization selected eleven watershed-based environmental projects to include as recommended action items in their interim report to the Department of State. The Department of State is funding development of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Management Plan.

CHRISTINA WAHL has been appointed as a Courtesy Assistant Professor with the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, from September 1, 2000, through August 31, 2005. On October 4 and 5, she attended the Extramural Associates Program Workshop of the National Institutes of Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on October 5, 6, and 7, she attended the Northeast Regional Teaching Workshop at Cook College, Rutgers University. Professor Wahl co-authored the recently published paper, "The Primordial to Primary Follicle Transition," (J.E. Fortune, R.A. Cushman, C.M.Wahl, S. Kito) in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Vol. 163, pp.53-60, 2000.