CHRISTOPHER BAILEY gave a talk entitled, "GenChemCo Industries: Getting Students to Care About Their Lab Reports," on September 12 at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers, held at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. An abridged version of this talk was also presented on campus during the Alumnae Council weekend. Professor Bailey gave a presentation on "Active Learning" at the Audubon Country Club in Naples, Florida, on January 19. Participants in this audience-participation laboratory session included Wells alumnae, trustees, and members of the Capital Campaign Committee. Professor Bailey coordinated Wells College's participation in the 13th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, held April 8-10, at the University of Rochester. There were nine Wells student presentations at the conference this year--the largest number in our ten year association with NCUR. He has asked that faculty begin to think about potential student participants for next year's conference, which will be held at the University of Montana in Missoula.

ARTHUR BELLINZONI was invited to New York City in April, 1998, to address the meeting of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of People for the American Way to advise them on developing an endowment, a program in planned giving, and a capital campaign. He went to Washington, DC, the following week to address the full Board of Directors on the same topics. People for the American Way was founded in 1981 by Hollywood producer Norman Lear, who still serves as its board chair, to promote and defend the values of the American Way: fairness, equality, tolerance, opportunity, and individual liberty. People for the American Way challenges the radical right's vision of America and its efforts to impose that vision on all of us.

Professor Bellinzoni's article, "The Gospel of Luke in the Second Century CE," has been published in Literary Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson (Mercer University Press, 1998). He attended the International Conference of the Society of Biblical Literature in Orlando on November 20-24, at which time he met with the publisher of Trinity Press International who wants him to work on a new publication project. 

On December 2 in New York City, Professor Bellinzoni was elected to the Board of Directors of People for the American Way and attended his first board meeting. People For the American Way is a first amendment advocacy group that works to preserve our liberty and to counter the message and efforts of the religious right and has a distinguished Board of Directors from across the United States.

An article about BRUCE BENNETT's chapbook of villanelles, It's Hard to Get the Angle Right, appeared in the Elmira Star-Gazette on April 18, 1998. His poem "Lessons" was published in the April 19 Sunday Magazine of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Professor Bennett served as a panelist for the Meadowbrook Press light verse anthology, Lighten Up, scheduled to be published fall 1998. Over the summer Professor Bennett had poems published in Light, Harvard Review, and 5 AM, and in the electronic anthology The World's Best Poetry/Poem Finder. He read at Pastabilities restaurant in Syracuse on June 18 and participated as a Featured Poet in the three-day "Speaking the Words Tour and Festival: 98" sponsored by Bright Hill Press in and around Oneonta from August 6-8, during which he gave four readings. From August 16-21, Professor Bennett had a residency at the Writers Center at the Chautauqua Institution, where he conducted daily workshops, did a public reading, and gave a talk entitled, "What Makes a Song: Observations about Writing in Form."

During the fall, Professor Bennett had poems published in SATURDAY, a weekend magazine co-produced by THE POST-JOURNAL (Jamestown, New York) and THE DUNKIRK OBSERVER (Dunkirk, New York); in Light; and in two anthologies, Beyond Lament: Poets of the Work Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press, 1998), and Lighten Up! 100 Funny Little Poems (Meadowbrook Press, 1998). His chapbook, Maneuvers, was published by Clandestine Press. All proceeds from the sale of Maneuvers will go to support the Victor Hammer Fellowship in the Book Arts. Professor Bennett organized and participated in the annual Renate Rewald Memorial Literary Event at the Morgan Opera House on September 18. This year's event was a program featuring Katherine McAlpine and Gail White, the editors of the anthology, The Muse Strikes Back. He read his poetry for the Watkins Glen Writers Group at the Professor's Place restaurant on October 21 in Watkins Glen. His chapbook of villanelles, It's Hard to Get the Angle Right, received a favorable review from Andrea Hollander Budy in the Fall 1998 issue of Georgia Review.

Professor Bennett had three poems published in the Winter 1998 issue of Light; three poems in Piedmont Literary Review; a poem in The Red Candle Treasury: An Anthology of Poems from the Period 1948-1998; a poem in The Formalist; a poem in the 20th Anniversary issue of Tar River Poetry. He gave a reading of his poetry, sponsored by the Ithaca Community Poets, at the Dewitt Historical Society in Ithaca on February 20. In March, Professor Bennett's chapbook, Garretman, was published by FootHills Publishing. A poem by Professor Bennett was published in the anthology of children's poetry, what have you lost?, Greenwill Books, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye. He also had a poem published in Piedmont Literary Review and three published in the Spring 1999 issue of Light. Also in the Spring issue of Light, Professor Bennett's chapbook, Maneuvers, was favorably reviewed by Light's editor, John Mella.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS was invited to give a talk at the William Andrews Clark Library in Los Angeles for the Women in Theatre Conference (1700-1850) sponsored by UCLA's Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. The paper, a version of which she delivered at the Faculty Club at Wells in April, 1998, was titled "Frances Anne Kemble and the Staging of Female Sexual Initiation." Her article, "Private Theatricals and Baillie's The Tryal," was reprinted in the latest edition of Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism published by Gale Research, Inc. The anthology, NCLC, is "a convenient source of commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899. Professor Burroughs has been offered a contract by Cambridge University Press for her edited volume, Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840. The finished book will contain twelve original essays by scholars working in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.

Professor Burroughs attended the Board of Visitors meeting at Wake Forest University in October to discuss the topic, "Developing the Faculty: A Crucial Resource in Wake Forest's Future." Her article titled, "Hymen's Monkey Love: Female Sexual Initiation and The Concealed Fancies (1645)," is forthcoming in Theatre Journal's special issue on "Women, Nations, Households, and History." Her review of three anthologies of plays by women dramatists appeared in the last issue of Nineteenth-Century Theatre. She has also been named to the Editorial Board of Romanticism on the Net, a journal on the internet that specializes in publishing archival materials and critical commentary on teaching and scholarship related to the British Romantic period. In December, Professor Burroughs published an article called, "Teaching the Theory and Practice of Women's Dramaturgy," in Volume 12 of Romanticism on the Net. Professor Burrough's book, Closet Stages, has been favorably reviewed in the following journals: Theatre Journal, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Albion, South Central Review, Romanticism on the Net, and European Romantic Review. At the end of April, she will attend the biannual meeting of the Board of Visitors at Wake Forest University to discuss the topic, "The Faculty and Our Students: Special Aspects of Good Teaching."

CANDACE COLLMER returned in the fall from a one-year sabbatical leave, which was supported by a Research Career Enhancement Award for $47,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture. During the fall, she worked at Cornell University in the laboratory of Dr. Molly Kyle-Jahn, her research collaborator, and then she worked for six months in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Maule in the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England. While there she presented invited seminars at both the John Innes Centre and at Cambridge University on her long-standing project on resistance of plant potyviruses. In the lab, she was applying new techniques for looking at the interaction between plant resistance genes and plant viruses. Recently, she and her Wells student collaborators (14 since 1992) completed the DNA sequencing of proteins of two additional plant viruses, and these have now been submitted to the National Institutes of Health GenBank data base. The sequence data from the first virus was published in 1996 in the internationally respected journal Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Professor Collmer attended two virology conferences during her leave - the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Bozeman, Montana (July 1997), and the Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society in Rochester, New York (August 1997).

In June 1997, Professor Collmer attended a Faculty for the 21st Century Leadership Institute in the Colorado Rockies sponsored by Project Kaleidoscope, and in November she attended the National Assembly of that organization in Houston, Texas. One goal of Project Kaleidoscope is the continuing development of innovative curricula and approaches for teaching science, math, and engineering. Finally, Professor Collmer was selected to present a module on behavioral genetics in the fruit fly in November of 1997 at the Research Link 2000 Conference, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and aimed at developing research-based modules for use in introductory and intermediate biology. She also was invited to give a plenary talk at that same meeting, entitled "Developing a Research-Based Curriculum: What's Working at Wells College." Both of the talks presented at that meeting will be published on the CUR Research Link 2000 Web site, designed to share information from the meeting and the continuing development of the research systems.

Professor Collmer attended the National Assembly of Project Kaleidoscope, held from September 18-20, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois. One of the goals of this national organization is the continuing development of innovative curricula and approaches for teaching science, math, and engineering. A particularly exciting part of the meeting was a small group visit to the construction site of the new interactive science museum currently being built by the Chicago Academy of Sciences in downtown Chicago. The museum is a hands-on, investigative learning wonder! Not only will data collected by visiting school classes at the museum site be available via the web to students off site, but students working off-site will be able to send their data to become part of the data set used at the museum. What results is increased accessibility of the museum's resources to all school children of the larger Chicago area, particularly those whose parents may not take them to visit the actual museum site.

"The Deserted Campus," a broadside printed by ROBERT DOHERTY in Joseph Blumenthal's Spiral type, was included in the hardcover edition of American Proprietary Typefaces, edited by David Pankow (American Printing History Association, 1998).

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH was awarded a travel-research grant from the International Research and Exchange Board in Washington, DC, in April 1998 for archival research in Moscow at the State Archive of the Russian Federation. In July, she served on a five member panel at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC, evaluating European history fellowship proposals for college teachers. Professor Farnsworth presented a paper, "Unionizing the Batrachka (the hired, rural working women): An Episode in Rural Resistance," at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held at New York University on March 20. In February, she served as a referee for an article on Soviet history for the Journal of Modern History. She also served as reader of fellowship applications for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Washington, D.C.

MARGARET FLOWERS participated in the interim conference for the New Pathways project in Washington, DC, in June 1997, leading a session on the biology-chemistry interface in teaching. In July, she worked as part of the local team which developed three multipart modular experiments in forensic and environmental chemistry, contributing units on dyes and fibers, soil analysis and qualitative analysis of heavy metals. In October, Professor Flowers visited Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, to exchange information on microbial models of mammalian metabolism. In January and March, 1998, she worked with the chief environmental officer, staff scientists of the Bonaire Marine Park and government representatives to set up a tutorial for Wells students in the natural and cultural history of Bonaire, NA.

Professor Flowers offered two sessions at the conference "New Pathways to Chemistry: The Challenges of Bringing Inquiry-Based-Chemistry Instruction to High Schools" in Washington, DC, June 14-16, 1998. The session topics were, "An Informal Review of Techniques and Concepts in `The Case of the Imperial Kimono'" on June 15 and "Comparing Strategies for Interdisciplinary Education" on June 16.

SUSAN FORBES participated in the faculty training in Adobe Premiere and Photoshop held on campus this past June. In addition, she attended a content creation conference in New York City in July. This conference focused on Macintosh based digital multi-media creation for all media applications such as Web, Television, Video Production, Film, Animation, and Music Composition and Sound Engineering. Professor Forbes worked as a stage hand and sound engineer for Celebrate `98 held in Seneca Falls this past July. She got to see Hillary run down the street and shake hands! Professor Forbes was featured in an article published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer highlighting the Seneca Falls events.

On April 9-11, Professor Forbes produced and performed in the Wells College production of "Godspell," which was seen by 670 people. In February, she arranged a "Day on Broadway" trip to New York City to see "Cats" and "Art" for the Wells Community.

NANCY GILBERTSON performed a flute recital at Cornell University on June 13 with LAURA CAMPBELL. The program included a premiere of Summer Solstice, a large work for flute, violin, cello, clarinet, piano, and percussion, written by Ithaca composer Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy. Ms. Gilbertson and Ms. Campbell also performed on the Lodi Historical Society concert series on August 15 as part of the Celebrate `98 activities. Music by Fairlie-Kennedy, Thea Musgrave, and Rebecca Clark were featured. On September 2, they gave a performance of mostly women's music for flute and piano at Wells College. The recital featured pieces by Thea Musgrave and Katherine Hoover, and included a work by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, who attended the event and spoke about her work. Also on the program was a piece by Bohuslav Martinu for flute, cello, Susan Kenderdine `99, and piano.

Ms. Gilbertson presented a workshop for the Moravia Elementary School Gateway program on October 26 as part of a ten-week module on music. A main objective of the workshop was to uncover effective ways of listening to music and to begin to understand why music affects us in certain particular ways. On November 8, Ms. Gilbertson gave a recital with cellist Heidi Hoffmann for Horizon Performances in Moravia. The program included music by Schumann, Bach, Debussy, Bruch, Bartok, and Joplin. She was also accompanist for a recital at Ithaca College on November 15 with a violist, presenting music by Haydn, Glinka, and Vaughn Williams.

During the spring semester 1998, JEANNE GODDARD arranged performances of the Wells College Dance Ensemble in Moravia, NY, and in Boston, MA, at the American College Dance Festival, where she also taught a master class. She created a new work for the Wells College spring dance concert in collaboration with Pianist NANCY GILBERTSON, and she performed with Firehouse Dance Company and with Jill Becker and dancers at various Ithaca locations. Professor Goddard also helped bring four guest artists to campus this semester, including internationally known dancer/choreographer Murray Louis.

During the summer 1998, PILAR GREENWOOD coordinated and completed a new international student exchange program between Wells College and the Universidad Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic. The agreement was co-signed by President Lisa Ryerson and Vicerrector Ejecutivo Licenciado Radhamés Majía. On July 25, she accompanied Vicerrector Majía and PUCMM Registrar Lic. Amparo Fernández to Dean Hall's office for the final delivery of the agreement. As part of this agreement, several Wells students will participate in January internships in the Dominican Republic with Madre y Maestra faculty on the campuses of Santo Domingo and Santiago. A January educational and orientation trip will also be established as part of this new agreement, which expands our international offerings in the Caribbean region.

Professor Greenwood attended the American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages conference, "Winds of Change," in Chicago on November 19-22. The ACTFL is the largest and most important professional association dedicated to the pedagogy of foreign languages in the United States, with significant membership and participation from European, Asian, and Latin American countries as well. She participated in a pre-conference workshop on the 19th by invitation. On Thursday and Friday, she attended sessions and meetings discussing pedagogy and policy issues related to foreign language instruction. One possible outcome of her association with these colleagues in the field may be the placement of Wells graduates in the annual Spanish Immersion Summer Institutes administered by Pitzer College.

MICHAEL GROTH delivered a lecture/discussion entitled, "Slavery and Abolition in New York," on January 26 at the Union Springs Lion Club.

In July, DEAN ELLEN HALL, participated in a five-person National Endowment for the Humanities Panel for Challenge Grants in Washington, DC. Panelists from around the nation considered proposals from nonprofit institutions interested in developing new sources of long-term support for educational, scholarly, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. Grantees are required to raise three or four dollars in new or increased donations for every federal dollar offered.

SCOTT HEINEKAMP taught a junior-level course (Intermediate Electromagnetism) in the Department of Applied Engineering Physics at Cornell University for the past two summers as Visiting Professor. He has also acted as Wells's liaison to Cornell's General Electric Faculty for the Future, a summer undergraduate research program. Last year Wells had two students participate in this ten-week program. This year, four of the ten student participants were Wells students.

SPENCER HILDAHL's review of Communicating Prejudice, ed. by Michael L. Hecht, Sage Publications, appeared in the October 1998 issue of CHOICE.

KENNETH LARSON was reelected to the Board of Trustees of the South Central Regional Library Council, on which he has served since May 1997. The Council coordinates print and electronic resource sharing and distributes funding grants among academic and special libraries and school and public library systems in fourteen counties of central New York. As part of its mission to make electronic resources more available, it provides training in information technology and operates LakeNet (www.lakenet.org), which is creating a "virtual regional catalog" that will enable simultaneous searching of all the on-line catalogs of member libraries. LakeNet also provides toll-free dial-up Internet access to small school, public, and hospital libraries that would otherwise not be on the Internet.

LINDA LOHN was invited by the Department of English at the University of California at Los Angeles to participate in a colloquium in April, 1998. The paper she presented was based on some of her sabbatical research and was titled, "Camera Eyes and Sebaceous Glands: Diffusing/Defusing Agency in George Steven's A Place in the Sun."

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, to present a public lecture on April 30, 1998. The title of his lecture was "Search for New Paradigms Towards the Reconstruction of the State and Society in Post-Cold War Africa: Perspective on the Democratic Republic of Congo. He chaired and was a discussant of two panels for the 52nd Annual Conference of the New York State Political Science Association held at the Sage Graduate School of the Sage Colleges in Albany, New York, on May 8 and 9. The two panels were "Populism, Legalism, and Justice in Latin America and Africa," and "The Political Economy of Development." He was also invited by the United Nations to attend a conference in Bata, Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa last May.

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo's book, The Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998, has been published. He participated in a debate on "Aid Dependence and the Future of Aid to Africa," organized by the Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Management Economics and the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, on September 14. Professor Tukumbi-Lumumba also participated on a panel on "Clinton and Impeachment Procedures," in September, which was organized by the students at Wells College. On September 23, he accepted the invitation by the Collegiate Press in San Diego, California, to serve on its Editorial Advisory Board for the New World Politics texts. His article, "The Search for New Human Rights Paradigms Within the Southern African Community, with Specific Reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo," was published in the book by B.F. Bankie, C. Marias, and J.T. Namiseb (editors), The Southern African Reader: Towards Creating a Sustainable Culture of Human Rights:, Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers, 1998. His book, The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relation, has just been published by Praeger, 1999. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo's review of Opoku Agyeman's book entitled, Pan-Africanism and Detractors: A Response to Harvard's Race Effacing Universalists, Lewis, New York: Edwin Mellon Press 1998, was published in African Journal of Political Science/Revue Africaine de Science Politique, Volume 3.Number 2, 1998: 98-101. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Cornell African Students Association (CASA) to moderate a panel on "The Crisis in the Great Lakes Region of Africa" on February 5 at Cornell University. He co-organized a conference in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on "Innovations and Reforms of Higher Education in Africa." The conference was held on February 26-28 and was co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, La Coopération Française, la Francophonie in Paris, and the Government of Côte d'Ivoire. He as also a discussant on two panels.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL has received a book contract with Peter Lang Publishers for her book, Separate by Degree - Women Students' Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges. It is expected to be published in 1999. She spoke at a conference, "Coeducation for the 21st Century - Educating Women and Men for the Future," at Wheaton College on October 30-31. She made a presentation based on her research in the closing plenary session of the conference.

MILENE MORFEI presented an informal talk entitled, "Utilizing the Concept of Possible Selves to Access Parental Hopes and Fears for their Children's Futures" at the Empire State Social Psychology Conference at Blue Mountain Lake on April 25, 1998. She presented a poster entitled, "Generative Behavior in the Lives of Midlife Parents," at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco in August. She was joined by two co-authors on the paper, Jamie Carpenter `98 and Carolyn Mix `98. It should be noted that Jamie and Carolyn represented us well; they were outstanding examples of our very best students.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ attended the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting in San Diego, CA. In addition to attending a variety of panels and symposia, she took two professional development training seminars: "Using National Databases in Research" and "Computing Qualitative Data Using QSR N4 Software. Professor Muñoz received a favorable review of her book, Where "Something Catches:" Work, Love, and Identity in Youth, in the summer edition of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. She was a guest speaker (via teleconferencing) for the course, "Multicultural Education and Social Justice," at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Graduate students participated in a dialogue about the psychological development of Latina and Latino youth and the role of education. Her book, Where `Something Catches:' Work, Love, and Identity in Youth," is a required text for the course.

Professor Muñoz presented her paper, "Crossing the Atlantic As if it Were a Puddle: Exploring a Central Metaphor of Puerto Rican Identity," at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association in December. The panel she participated on, "Co-Constructing Contested Identities in Schools: Hegemonic Discourses and Strategies of Persistence/ Resistance/ Renewal," was part of the Division of Anthropology and Education and was moderated by Dr. Signithia Fordham. Professor Muñoz has had her essay review, "Unlearning This World," accepted for publication in The Education Review. Her review is of Deborah Britzman's new book, Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning. The Education Review is an electronic, freely accessible scholarly journal of book reviews on the World Wide Web, based at Arizona State University. The www address is: http:\\coe.asu.edu\edrev\.

NIAMH O'LEARY participated in a Biomolecular Visualization Workshop at University of Massachusetts at Amherst in June, 1998. The NSF-funded hands-on program was designed to enable faculty to incorporate the use of three-dimensional molecular visualization software in their teaching. As part of the program, participating faculty selected two mentees at their home institution with which to share their skills. Professor O'Leary participated in a round table discussion on Sustainability Issues at the 1998 Conference on the Environment in Ithaca. The conference was sponsored by the New York State Association of Conservation Commissions. While at the conference, she also attended a hands-on workshop on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She has had a paper accepted for publication by the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. The paper concerns genetic aspects of adapting corn to growth in association with other crops.

ANNE RUSS's review of Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the 20th Century appeared in the April 1998 issue of CHOICE magazine.

SUSAN SANDMAN participated in a concert called, "Winter Fare," by the voices and instrumental ensemble of the Schola Cantorum of Syracuse on December 20, 1998, in the Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church. She played the lute in an ensemble of lutes, viols, and recorder (called a "Broken Consort") performing music composed by Thomas Campian, Thomas Morely, and other renaissance composers. She played viol in works by Heinrich Schutz and Anthony Holborne on the same program. With Elizabethan Conversation and Friends, Professor Sandman performed on lute, recorder and viol in a concert for high school music students at Cortland High School on November 20. With the Syracuse Viol Consort, she performed a concert at the First English Lutheran Church in Syracuse on Christmas eve. Professor Sandman also performed with her Wells students in the Wells Consort in a program of medieval, renaissance, and traditional Christmas and Chanukah songs at the Auburn Festival of Lights on December 3.

LINDA SCHWAB has continued to direct and coordinate development of inquiry-based high school chemistry laboratories for the New Pathways project during the 1997-98 academic year. In June 1997, she led the interim conference for participants at all four New Pathways sites in Washington, DC. In July, she worked as part of the local team, comprising of Margaret Flowers and Katherine Abold from Wells College, James Overhiser (teacher) and Nicholas Yaichuk (student) form Groton Central School, and Kim Gilbertson (teacher) and Thomas Pennell (student) from Moravia Central School, which developed three multipart modular experiments in forensic and environmental chemistry. She contributed units on qualitative organic analysis using redox reactions of manganese and quantitative analysis of heavy metals. On March 30, Professor Schwab joined Mr. Gilbertson to present parts of the environmental unit, "Incident at Pleasant Valley" to the Chemistry Mentors Group of Central New York at the BOCES campus in Syracuse. In October, she visited Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, to coordinate the formal exchange of materials and information on chemical compounds with demonstrated or potential antimalarial activity.

Professor Schwab coordinated the workshop/conference, "New Pathways to Chemistry: The Challenges of Bringing Inquiry-Based-Chemistry Instruction to High Schools," held in Washington, DC, June 14-16, 1998, and with Nancy Habenicht of St Catherine's School, Richmond, Virginia, led the final plenary session, "Open Discussion of the Challenges: Time, Diverse Environments and Using Inquiry-Based Laboratories in High School Partnerships." On October 29, Professor Schwab addressed the Kiwanis Club of Auburn on the topic, "Observation Meets Inspiration: Developing New Medicines."

BIRD STASZ gave a series of workshops to Romanian and Roma educators as part of a national initiative to improve Roma education in Romania. The project, "Dezvoltare Scolar_ In Communit_ti Cu Romi," is jointly funded by the Foundation for an Open Society, which is part of the Soros Foundation and Educaplan which is sponsored by the Government of the Netherlands. Besides doing training and working in local Roma villages, Professor Stasz, with the assistance of Bruce Bennett, wrote a guide entitled, "Telling Stories, Writing Lives: A Guide to Using Folklore, Oral History and Ethnography in the Classroom." The guide will serve as a basic text for Roma work in the region. She was featured in Împreun_, a newsletter for the School Development in Roma Communities: Equal Chances for Roma Children, for her recent work in oral history and folklore. She has been a trainer and consultant for the project for the last year. The project is sponsored by Educaplan and the Open Society Foundation of Romania.

Professor Stasz gave a paper entitled, "Women of Service: Center Seat for the Century," at the Oral History Association Meeting on October 16 in Buffalo, New York. Professor Stasz and Marlene Young `00 presented a session at the conference, "Celebration of Inquiry: A Conference on Conflict and Creativity in the Search for Knowledge, on February 18 at Coastal Carolina University. Their session, "Looking Within: Personal Ethnography in the Classroom," was based on Professor Stasz's experience in the pilot program of The Courage to Teach and the use of the work in her undergraduate curriculum. There were 3000 attendees at the conference.

THOMAS STIADLE attended the 36th Annual Cornell Topology Festival, May 1-3, 1998. In addition to attending several research presentations, he saw a demonstration of the (free) SNAPPEA (pronounced "snap pea") software for use in studying the topology and geometry of three-dimensional spaces. Professor Stiadle also participated in the 1998 International Conference on Nonpositive Curvature in Group Theory, Topology and Geometry, at Vanderbilt University on May 28-31. He gave a talk entitled, "How to Use Haefliger's Complexes of Groups to Prove Novikov Conjectures," and attended other research talks. On June 5, he spoke on "History, Choices and Individuals" as the invited speaker at the 94th Annual Commencement Exercises for his alma mater, Montgomery Area High School, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Professor Stiadle participated in the Tenth Annual Albany Group Theory Conference from October 9-11 in Rensselaerville, New York. In addition to attending numerous research presentations, he gave a talk on "Finiteness Obstructions for Spaces over Complexes of Groups."

On March 14 and 15, 1998, the Wells Concert Choir, under the direction of CRAWFORD THOBURN, joined with the Boston University Chorale and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Men's Glee Club and Brass Ensemble for two performances in New York City at St. Patrick's Cathedral and at the Church of the Good Shepherd. Combined works included two motets by Anton Bruckner, excerpts from "Marienmesse" by Alfred Bamer and "Magnificat" and "Te Deum" by Flor Peeters. On May 7, the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented their annual Spring Concert in Barler Recital Hall, accompanied by pianist NANCY GILBERTSON. Featured on the program were compositions for women's voices by Aichinger, Pergolesi, Purcell, Mendelssohn, Elgar, and Copland.

Professor Thoburn's choral setting of the Basque Carol, "Good Shepherd on the Hill," for accompanied mixed voices has been accepted for publication by Carl Fischer Inc. Lawson-Gould Music Publishers has accepted his arrangement for unaccompanied women's voices of Thomas Morley's madrigal, "O Grief, Even on the Bud." His coral setting of the American folk hymn, "As Pants the Hart For Cooling Streams," published by Carl Fischer and dedicated to the late Wells emeritus professor Ted Markees, was sung by a choir of over 100 voices for an audience of 6000 people in the amphitheater of the Chautauqua Institution at Chautauqua, New York. This work has also been recorded commercially by the professional chamber choir, Madrigalia, and has been featured on the National Public Radio network series, "With Heart and Voice."

On October 18, Professor Thoburn conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers combined with the Worcester Tech Men's Glee Club and a Brass Ensemble in a concert of choral music at the Sommer Center. Featured on the program were the Magnificat and Te Deum of Flor Peeters, excerpts from the Marienmesse of Alfred Bamer and Two Motets of Anton Bruckner. Professor Thoburn was invited by the Central New York Chapter of the American Guild of Organists to conduct a reading session of some of his published choral works at the First Baptist Church in Syracuse on November 21. Following the reading session, he participated in a panel discussion which dealt with questions involving the processes of composition, arranging and editing, as well as issues related to commercial publishing. On December 5, he conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in two off campus concerts of music for the holiday season. At 3:00 p.m., they performed at the Emerson Park Pavilion in Auburn as part of the annual Festival of Trees and at 5:15, they sang at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora as part of the Christmas in Aurora festivities. 

Professor Thoburn conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in their annual Holiday Concert in Barler Hall, assisted by Nancy Gilbertson, on December 10. On December 13, he conducted the college choral ensembles in a Christmas Vespers concert with the Men's Glee Club of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. On January 17 and 24, Professor Thoburn served as a guest conductor of the choir of St. David's Episcopal Church in DeWitt, New York. During January, three more of his choral works were accepted for publication. Carl Fischer, Inc. has agreed to publish his arrangements for unaccompanied mixed voices of the Elizabethan anthems, "Call to Remembrance" by Richard Farrant, and "Verily I Say Unto You" by Thomas Tallis. Mark Foster Music Publishers will issue his arrangement of the English Folk song, "Scarborough Fair," for unaccompanied women's voices.

Professor Thoburn has been informed by the Alumni Association of Allegheny College that he will be awarded the Association's Gold Citation at the annual meeting in June. This citation is awarded "in recognition and appreciation of the honor reflected upon the college by virtue of his professional achievements."

ROSEMARY WELSH's article entitled, "Theorizing Medievalism: The Case of Gone with the Wind," was published in the book, Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Leslie Workman, edited by Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, published fall 1998 by Brepols Publishers, Belgium. She was co-organizer of the 13th Annual Conference on Medievalism in Rochester, New York, in October and will be editing the Years Work in Medievalism for 1998-99. She also presented her paper, "Medievalism as Post Modernism," at the conference. In May 1998, Professor Welsh presented a paper entitled, "The Dangers of Leaving the Gun Behind: A Semiotic Reading of Pulp Fiction," and chaired a panel, "This is my rifle, this is my gun," at the International Film Conference, "Shoot, Shoot, Bang, Bang," at the Ryerson Institute in Toronto. She has exhibited water colors and drawings at the Summer Exhibition of the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts and at the exhibit, "Feast," sponsored by Nichols State University in Thibodeau, Louisiana, in March. Professor Welsh curated an exhibit, "Quotidian Questions and Post Modern Possibilities," at the Bertha Lederer Gallery at SUNY Geneseo. She also exhibited paintings and quilts in the exhibit. 

JENNY YATES finished her contracted book for Princeton University Press this summer. Encountering Jung on Death and Immortality will be published March 1999. In addition, the family of Carl Jung has requested permission from Princeton to translate Professor Yates' book into German. Routledge Press negotiates with Princeton for publication in the United Kingdom. Professor Yates did inservice training for Hospice workers at the Hospice of the Finger Lakes in Auburn on February 10. They asked her to discuss her book on The Near Death Experience. Professor Yates has been notified that Routledge Press has received requests from Japan, Italy, and Budapest to translate and publish her book on The Near-Death Experience.
 

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