CHRISTOPHER BAILEY recently completed a five-year term as Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Hazard Library Association (Poplar Ridge). On April 28, he represented the faculty at the groundbreaking ceremony for Wells College's new Science Center; he gave a short talk on the role of the science faculty in the design process. On April 20, Professor Bailey performed (acoustic guitar) with two students, Stephanie Jones (flute) and Cathy Walker (vocal), at the annual Wells College Talent Show.
Emeritus Professor ARTHUR BELLINZONI will lecture at the Rothko Chapel in Houston on Thursday, May 11, on "The Future of Christianity: Can It Survive?" His Houston lecture coincides with the publication of his book of the same title.
BRUCE BENNETT gave a reading at the Red Door Coffee House in Groton, New York, on May 6. He had poems published in two literary journals, REFLECTIONS and Iambs & Trochees.
NANCY GILBERTSON volunteered with a delegation that went to El Salvador in March 2006 as part of a Sister Community Project in San Pedro, which is facilitated by the Poplar Ridge Friends Meeting. The group takes yearly trips to the rural mountain village of San Pedro in the spirit of cultural exchange. This year the delegation took instruments to the village in response to the community's request. They took an electric piano donated by Erica Letis '06 and various other donated instruments. Ms. Gilbertson, along with musicians Kyle Gilbertson and Cody Gilbertson, spent the time allotted for "music lessons" instructing all who were interested in exploring the instruments. Enthusiasm was high. Perhaps they will have a band together by the next visit.
JEANNE GODDARD and five members of the Wells College Dance Ensemble will perform a revised version of her dance, "Forces" in the Ithaca Choreographers' Showcase, at the Community School of Music and Arts on May 13.
SIOUXSIE GRADY will be directing a new theatre piece entitled "Water Haiku" on May 13 at the Vanishing Point Studio in Lockwood, New York. She created this site-specific piece for inclusion in the "Art on the Water" Festival.
ETHEL KING-MCKENZIE presented a paper entitled "Exile and Estrangement in the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies" at the American Conference for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies on April 6-9, 2006, at the University of California, Berkeley. She will be attending the SUNY Geneseo Spring 2006 Teaching & Learning Conference to be held on May 16- 19, 2006, at the SUNY Training Center, Geneseo, New York.
Professor King-McKenzie, SUSAN TALBOT, and three final year students Keela Dates, Kirsten Weeks and Christine Bankert-Wray attended the Inclusion Imperatives Conference on April 21 and 22, 2006, at Syracuse University.
ERNIE OLSON has been invited to present a paper on Tongan kava use for the session "Consuming Emblems: The Semiotic and Political Use of Psychoactive Plants in a Globalized Pacific" for the Australian Anthropological Society 2006 meeting to be held in Cairns, Australia, September 27-29. The session is organized by Matthew Tomlinson, Professor of Anthropology at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University.
VICTOR PENNIMAN and the Ruby Gamba (electric viola da gamba) were featured in the cover-story article on Syracuse singer/songwriter Ashley Cox in the Syracuse New Times on May 2. Professor Penniman and Ashley performed on April 21 at the very popular Lower East Side Manhattan Club, Fat Baby, to a packed house on April 21. Ashley Cox's new CD, "Honey By The Pound," which features Professor Penniman, will officially be released on May 19. The CD release party will be at Jazz Central (441 E. Washington St.) in Syracuse on May 19 at 9:00 PM.
LAURA PURDY gave a talk entitled "Exporting the Culture of Life," on a panel entitled "Women's Reproductive and Sexual Rights," at a conference, "Is There a Global Bioethics? Moral, Legal, and International Norms in Bioscience," IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics, New York City, April 22, 2006. Her paper, "Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral?" will be reprinted in Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice, by Nancy Jecker, Albert Jonsen, and Robert Pearlman, 2nd edition (Jones and Bartlett, 2007).
JACLYN SCHNURR's paper "Evaluating the impact of TIEE activities on student understanding of science as a process and ecological concepts" has been accepted for presentation at the Ecological Society of America's 91st annual meeting, to be held August 6-11 in Memphis, Tennessee. Also, she has been invited by the Graduate Student section of ESA to participate in a discussion of "How to succeed in Ecology: Advice from Professionals in the field."
CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the Wells Choral Ensembles in their annual Spring Concert on May 7 in Barler Recital Hall. The Concert Choir was accompanied by pianist Nancy Gilbertson in works by J.S.Bach, Ron Nelson and Halsey Stevens. Sharing the program was the new mixed voice choral ensemble, Sine Nomine, which performed Tudor and Elizabethan motets and madrigals, as well as an Afro-American spiritual and a piece by American composer Morten J. Luvaas. Professor Thoburn's arrangement of the 15th century German carol "O Sing to the Babe" for unaccompanied women’s voices will be published by Mark Foster Music Press during the coming summer.
MUIN UDDIN was an outside examiner for an Honors Project and Thesis in Economics, entitled, "The Development of the Hospitality Industry and its Effects on the Jamaican Economy: An Econometric Study," at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, on April 26, 2006. He was also one of three oral examiners for this thesis and the associated comprehensive examinations.
On April 27, THOMAS VAWTER participated in a panel presentation to the Onondaga Lake Partnership. Professor Vawter and his colleagues from EcoLogic LLC, presented preliminary results of their project "2020 Vision: Engaging the Public in the Future of a Restored Onondaga Lake."
