BRUCE BENNETT’s new chapbook, COYOTE’S INTERLUDE WITH LITTLE MISS DARLING, was published by FootHills Publishing. Professor Bennett and four other FootHills authors read from New FootHills books at Wells on November 6, 2006, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of FootHills Publishing. Professor Bennett read his poetry at Storylines Books & Café, Watkins Glen, October 23, 2006. His students from last spring’s Creative Non-Fiction Class gave a reading of their work at the Seneca Falls Public Library on November 9.
On October 28 and 29, WILLIAM GANIS chaired two sessions, "Photographs of a Being Before: Now Parts I & II" at the WAPACC Conference, "Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory," in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Dr. Ganis also presented his paper, "The Black and White Death: Andy Warhol’s Terminal Social Disease," as a part of this conference.
SIOUXSIE GRADY recently directed Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit." The production won five awards of "Excellence" from the Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS), including Excellence in Directing. Regarding the production, TANYS Adjudicator Ruth Legg said, "Under the skillful direction of Siouxsie Grady, the students at Wells College brought Noel Coward's classic "Blithe Spirit" alive with sophistication and professionalism. The warm, inviting set and period costumes took the audience back to the era of the witty, British drawing room comedy. Everyone involved is to be congratulated for a production that captivated audiences."
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL's co-edited book, Going Coed: Women's Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004), was reviewed in History of Education Quarterly, Fall, 2006.
MILENE MORFEI attended the "Best Practices in Teaching Diversity and International Perspectives Across the Psychology Curriculum" conference in Atlanta, Georgia, October 13-14, 2006. She represented Wells College Chapter Xi of the New York chapter as a delegate to the 41st Triennial Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in October, 2006
NIAMH O' LEARY presented "Variation in stream pH during and between storm events in a base-rich watershed in western New York" at the annual meeting of the American Water Resources Association in Baltimore, Maryland, in November.
ERNIE OLSON presented the paper, "Tongan Kava Circles," for the session "Consuming Emblems: Psychoactive Plants" organized by Mathew Tomlinson, Monash University, for the Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference held September 26-29 at the Cairns Campus of James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
LAURA PURDY’s review of Stephen Coleman, The Ethics of Artificial Uteruses, was published in Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 24, no. 1-2 (March/September 2005). She was a panel member on the session on Religion and Reproductive Freedom, at the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, October 29, 2006, Denver Colorado.
MELISSA ROBERTS is in a group exhibition called "Waterfall" at Mahan Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, opening December 2.
WILLIAM ROBERTS photographed The Jockey Gold Cup, The Vosburgh, The Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, The Beldame and The Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont Park, New York, on October 7 for Horsephotos.Com. His photograph of Bernardini winning The Jockey Gold Cup appeared on the cover of The Daily Racing Form (Vol.CXII No.283 NY) on October 10. Professor Roberts photographed the Genesee Valley Hunt Cup races in Geneseo, New York, on October 14 for Steeplechase Times and photographed the Breeders' Cup Steeplechase Championships in Far Hills, New Jersey, for the Steeplechase Times on October 27. He photographed The Breeders' Cup World Championships for Horsephotos.Com at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, on November 4. Three of his watercolor sketches were auctioned at Laurel Park, Maryland, to benefit the Maryland Racing Association.
ANDRE SIAMUNDELE chaired a session on Philosophy and Globalization and presented a paper on Senghor and Postcolony at the Conference organized by the University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (Barbados) to commemorate the centennial of Leopold Sedar Senghor's birth.
This month (Oct. 23-24) SUSAN WANSOR and SUSAN TALBOT took eight students to Rochester to attend an Expeditionary Learning Site Seminar and Conference at the Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester New York.
SUSAN TALBOT returned from Zaragoza, Spain, where she presented on Expeditionary Learning at the Forum for Innovation and Learning on November 10.
The Wells Choral Ensembles--Concert Choir and Sine Nomine, conducted by CRAWFORD THOBURN, presented a Friends and Parents Weekend concert on November 4 for a large and enthusiastic audience in Barler Recital Hall. The program included works by J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Aaron Copland, as well as arrangements of American Folk Songs and Afro-American Spirituals. Featured student soloists were Molly Cichy and Mary Gooding, and NANCY GILBERTSON accompanied the Concert Choir.
