CHRISTOPHER BAILEY escorted Wells students to the 20th annual National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), held this year at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, April 6 - 8. This is the 18th year that Professor Bailey and Wells students have participated in this meeting. The student presenters for 2006, their research topics, and their faculty advisor(s) were:

Jennifer Cole '06, Environmental Studies, "The Impact of Runoff and a Wastewater Treatment Facility on Fecal Contamination in Paines Creek, Aurora, N.Y." Faculty: Niamh O'Leary

Lisa Gibson '06, Sociology, "Changes in Agriculture: An Analysis of Small- and Large-Scale Farms." Faculty: Leslie Miller-Bernal

Melanie Jones '06, Physics, "Imaging Buried Monolayers at Atomic Resolution Using Electron Channeling." Faculty: Dr. David Muller from the Department of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University.

Stephanie Jones '06, Chemistry, "New Building Blocks for Colloid-Based Materials by Imprinting Peanut Shape." Faculty: Dr. Chekesha Liddell from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. Melanie and Stephanie performed their research at Cornell through the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program; their Wells NCUR sponsors were Professors Heinekamp and Bailey, respectively.

On March 2, BRUCE BENNETT gave a reading at the Yesteryears Café in Auburn, New York. In late March, Clandestine Press published WILL NOBODY STOP THE POET?, a chapbook of humorous poems by Professor Bennett to celebrate April Fools’ Day. He had a third poem published in the on-line journal, Enskyment.

CANDACE COLLMER attended the annual meeting of the Gene Ontology Consortium, held in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, from March 30 through April 2, 2006. One agenda item at this meeting was the consideration of changes to the Gene Ontology proposed by PAMGO, the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology group, of which Professor Collmer is a member. The changes proposed, and now accepted, allow for more complete annotation of the genes of both plant and animal pathogens that are involved in pathogenesis.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH chaired the Russian History panel at the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies at Fordham University Law School, April 1, 2006

In April JEANNE GODDARD produced and directed the Wells College Spring Dance Concert, "Dances Then and Now," and created two new pieces for the program. She hosted guest artist Barbara Dickinson, who performed three solo works and taught two master classes. Professor Goddard is currently serving as an examiner on the field of dance for the International Baccalaureate program at Binghamton High School in Binghamton, New York.

SCOTT HEINEKAMP gave a talk for the Ithaca College Physics Colloquium on March 15 on Einstein's work during 1905 ( his annus mirabilis) on Brownian motion, with some more contemporary ways of looking at the problem. He also attended, with two Wells students, the Spring 2006 meeting of the New York Section of the American Physical Society, at Finger Lakes Community College and Infotonics, both in Canandaigua, New York.

JILL HILL and VICTORIA MUÑOZ presented their paper titled, "Assimilative Pressure, Resistance, and Transformation in Developing Culturally Competent Psychology Curriculum," as part of the paper session, Feminist Perspectives within Academia, at the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference focused on the theme, Intersecting Identities: Multicultural Feminist Perspectives on Women's Lives, March 2006.

R. JOSEPH HOFFMANN’s book proposal and sample chapters of The Christ Myth: From God Incarante to the Historical Jesus in Radical Theology has been accepted for publication by E.J. Brill for its Interpretations of the New Testament series.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL's co-edited book, Going Coed: Women's Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, was reviewed, along with three other books, in a four-page review in Feminist Collections, Volume 26, number 4, Summer 2005.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ presented a paper titled, "GID as a Master Narrative: Intersectionalities of Gender, Class, Race, Sexuality, and Diagnostic Hegemony," as part of the paper session Sexual Orientation and its Impact on Identity, at the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2006.

NIAMH O'LEARY attended a Symposium on "Culture, Climate and Change in East Asia" at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, in March.

LAURA PURDY has been invited to give a talk tentatively entitled, "What Basis is There in Religion for Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Rights?," as part of a panel tentatively entitled, "Religion and Reproductive Freedom," accepted by the American Academy of Religion for it's November 2006 meeting.

On March 25, 2006, ANDRÉ SIAMUNDELE was the guest of the Yale Resource Center for the Teaching of French and the Council of African Studies to deliver the keynote presentation during the one-day workshop on "Bringing Africa to the Classroom: Practical Approaches to the Study of and Teaching about Francophone Africa"

CRAWFORD THOBURN’s arrangement of the English Folksong, "Scarborough Fair," published by Mark Foster Music Inc. was performed by the Women's Ensemble of Allegheny College, conducted by Ward Jamison, in their Spring Concert on April 8, 2006, on the campus in Meadville, PA.