Cornell University has named LEGRACE BENSON as one of two Cornell Civic Fellows for this academic year. The special project supported for this fellowship is a joint effort of the local currency, Ithaca HOURS, and Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County seeking to enhance job opportunities and expenditure choices for low-income families. Economists and public policy experts on the faculty may be interested to learn more about the program from Professor Benson.

BRUCE BENNETT’s poem, "The True Story of Snow White," was published in the textbook/anthology Literature: The Human Experience, Shorter 8^th Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003). He also had two poems in the just published edition of The Healing Muse, an issue which also includes essays by Victor Hammer Fellow Sarah Roberts and recent graduate Nicole Moro. A revised edition of Professor Bennett’s 1994 Wells Press chapbook, "Her poetry manuscript is currently circulating," was published by Clandestine Press.

The "IEEE Circuits and Systems Society" has accepted MOHAMED BINGABR’s manuscript, "Recovery of Corrupted DCT Coded Images Based on Reference Information," for publication as a Transactions Paper. He presented a paper entitled, "An Image Quality Measure for Image Communication," at the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference in New York City, October 5-8.

WALTRAUT DEINERT organized the participation of several Wells students at the Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service. Conference (DAAD) at Cornell on the weekend of Sept. 20-21 and accompanied the students. The topic this year was: "Flower Power? The German Green Party Turns Twenty: Revisiting Environmental Politics in the 21st Century." The German Studies Department at Cornell co-sponsored the conference. 

JEANNE GODDARD provided choreography for the Tri-Cities Opera production of Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffman", opening this month at the Forum Center for the Performing Arts in Binghamton.

JOSEPH HOFFMANN has been invited to participate, along with Dr Charles Maxfield and Marie Catherine Agen, on the panel, "Engaging Philosophy: Perspectives on Peace " at the First Congregation Church in Ithaca on November 7. His presentation is entitled, "The 'Interfaith Movement': Quantifying the Gains." On November 11, Professor Hoffmann will present a lecture entitled, "Religious Pluralism in the Middle East? Prospects as Problems," at the 15th Annual Interfaith Center Memorial Lecture at SUNY Cortland. On November 21, he will present a public lecture entitled, "Defining Jerusalem: Culture Wars in the Third and Twenty-First Century" at SUNY Amherst’s Center for Inquiry Institute. 

KENT KLITGAARD delivered a paper entitled, "Substitution and Sustainability: Towards a Microfoundations of Ecological Economics," at the Annual Meetings of the New York State Economics Association in New York City on October 10.

CYNTHIA J. KOEPP traveled to Salzburg, Austria, to present an invited paper on her recent research entitled "Advocating for Artisans: the Abbé Pluche and his Spectacle de la nature" at a conference on "Perceptions of Labour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," organized by the University of Salzburg and the Free University of Brussels, on May 23-25, 2003. Her review essay of four new books on French economic history, entitled "Learning to Calculate," has just been published in the journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1, Fall 2003. The books reviewed included Carol Blum, Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, Power in Eighteenth-Century France; Yves Citton, Portrait de l'économiste en physiocrate: critique littéraire de l'économie politique; Gerard Klotz, ed., Politique et économie au temps des Lumières; Gilbert Faccarello, ed., Studies in the History of French Political Economy: from Bodin to Walras. 

LAURA MCCLUSKY's book, Here, Our Culture Is Hard, was reviewed in the August issue of "American Ethnologist." She was invited to participate in the first national Engineers Without Frontiers Conference at Cornell University where she conducted a workshop entitled, "Belize Basics: Culture and Development in the Central American Nation with A Caribbean Beat." In addition, Professor McClusky was invited to participate in the SUNY Buffalo's Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender's second annual Gender Matters Conference. Her paper was entitled, "Jaguars, Rum Punch and Maya Angelou: I Got Everything I Needed Off The Internet." She also presented a paper entitled, "Critical Mass: The Meanings of ‘Bicycle Culture's’ Anarchist Uprising," at the New York State Sociological Association meetings at Siena College on October 18-19.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL, with her co-editor Dr. Susan Poulson of the University of Scranton, has been awarded a second book contract by Vanderbilt University Press for their History of Education series. The book is provisionally entitled, The Coeducation Challenge: Women's Colleges Since the 1960s. She attended the New York State Sociological Association meetings at Siena College, October 24-25. Professor Miller-Bernal was given a plaque, honoring her with the Distinguished Service Award, at the Association's Awards Luncheon. She also gave a talk entitled, "Reflections of an Insider/Outsider on British Culture." Her book, Separate by Degree, was reviewed in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Vol. 38, #2-3, 2002).

WILLIAM ROBERTS’ drawings entitled "Saratoga Sketchbook" appeared in the Syracuse Post Standard every Sunday from July 27 through September 7. He exhibited paintings, drawings, photographs and prints at the Saratoga Arms Hotel for his 23rd annual exhibition in Saratoga Springs, New York. In addition, Professor Roberts’ sketches were featured in the Saratoga Special during August 2003. He participated as an awards judge for the "2003 Made In New York Juried Exhibition" at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. His new paintings are included in the current Faculty Art Exhibition in the String Room Gallery. Professor Roberts will be covering the Breeder’s Cup Championship Races at Santa Anita, Arcadia, California, on October 25 for the Syracuse Post Standard.

JERI VARGO and ELSIE TORRES attended the conference, "Assessment: Measuring Services and Resources in Academic Libraries," on October 3 in Syracuse.
 
 

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