BRUCE BENNETT read his poetry at Grove Art Gallery in Aurora on September 14. He had poems published in THE HEALING MUSE and read at the publication party for THE HEALING MUSE at SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse on October 11.
CANDACE COLLMER continued work on a collaborative NSF-funded project to develop new Gene Ontology (GO) terms describing biological processes involved in plant-microbe pathogenesis. She and four other members of the PAMGO (Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology) interest group met with two GO Consortium members for a three-day term development jamboree at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, from July 17-19, 2006. Over 150 newly proposed terms, such as those describing more detailed microbe responses to host defenses, were submitted to the GO Consortium for approval and integration into GO following that meeting. She also attended a reunion at Dartmouth College from August 11-13, 2006, for participants in their summer workshops over the past seven years on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project (HGP). She presented a talk (co-authored with Laura Purdy) entitled "A Multidisciplinary Perspective for Addressing an ELSI-HGP Paradox: 'Race-Based' Medicine," which grew out of their collaborative Wells course, Ethics and the Human Genome Project. This course was created after Professor Collmer's participation in the two-week Dartmouth workshop in the summer of 2001. Professor Collmer is one of the authors on a paper by the Gene Ontology Consortium entitled, "The Gene Ontology (GO) Project in 2006." It was published in the 2006 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research, volume 34, pages D322-D326. Also, the work of PAMGO, the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology interest group of which she is a member, was highlighted in the second issue (August 2006) of the newly created Gene Ontology Newsletter.
On September 17, WILLIAM GANIS presented a lecture, "The State of Stone Sculpture in the Digital Age," at the Grounds for Sculpture in Mercerville, New Jersey. Dr. Ganis then moderated a panel with artists Jon Isherwood, Lauren Ewing, Michael Rees, Robert Michael Smith and Barry X Ball on this same theme.
On October 6, LAURA J. MCCLUSKY presented a paper at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the New York State Sociological Association (NYSSA). The title of the paper was "The Limits of Agency: Mopan Mayan Women's Efforts to Escape, Endure and Avoid Domestic Violence." She was also a panel speaker on two other panel sessions of this conference, one on the future of the organization and one which launched the association's new on-line journal, The New York Sociologist. Professor McClusky co-edits this journal with Paul Fuller, Department of Sociology at St. John Fisher's College and Tim McCorry, Department of Sociology at Buffalo State College.
NIAMH O' LEARY co-authored an article that appears in the most recent issue of the peer-reviewed journal, "Hydrological Processes." The article entitled, "The Impact of Storm Events on Solute Exports from a Glaciated Forested Watershed in Western New York, USA," was co-authored by Inamdar, O' Leary, Mitchell and Riley. In addition, Professor O’Leary was invited to attend a Regional Planning Summit for the Montezuma Wetlands Complex. The summit was entitled, "The Economic, Educational and Environmental Benefits of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex."
LAURA PURDY’s article, "Xenotransplantation: The Case Against" was published in Philosophy Now, May/June 06 Issue 55, 9-12. She has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board, CSER Review.
In August JACLYN SCHNURR attended the Ecological Society of America meetings in Memphis and presented a poster titled "Evaluating the impact of TIEE activities on student understanding of science as a process and ecological concepts." Also, she was invited by the ESA student section to participate in a workshop called "How to succeed in Ecology." Professor Schnurr submitted a manuscript to Southeastern Naturalist titled, "Influences on oak and pine establishment with time-since-fire in sandhills longleaf pine forests."
On October 4, the Wells Choral Ensembles -- Concert Choir and Sine Nomine chamber choir -- presented a luncheon concert in Barler Recital Hall to a large and enthusiastic audience. The program included works by Bach, Brahms, and Mendelssohn as well as American folksongs and Spirituals. This was a new venture, being the earliest performance ever by the groups in a fall semester. CRAWFORD THOBURN’s choral works have been receiving numerous foreign performances in recent months, such as the following: the Choir of the Anglican Cathedral of St. Michael and All Angels in Kelowna, B.C. Canada has just released a commercial CD including a performance of his arrangement of the Finnish folksong, "In Heavenly Love Abiding" published by Carl Fischer, Inc. for accompanied mixed choir. Overseas, the Reinhold Friedl Chor of Linz, Austria has performed his setting of the African-American spiritual, "Were You There?," published by the Augsburg Fortress Press, while Himmelstoechter, a professional women's a capella trio from Cologne, Germany, has been performing his arrangement of the English folksong, "Scarborough Fair," which is published by Mark Foster Music. During the past summer, an American junior college choir from Overland Park, Kansas, sang his original setting of the old English text "There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue," published by H.W. Gray, at a concert at the Basilica St. Pancrazio in Rome, while on tour in Europe.
