Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Jennifer Bates Lockley, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No. 4  October 4, 1999

Kudos Robert Heasley, sociology, conducted a daylong professional conference in Alaska in August, "From Boys to Men: Making a Difference in Our Work with Males around Issues of Sexuality and Relationships." Forty school- teachers, therapists, counselors, youth workers, and parents attended — twice the anticipated number. The seminar was featured in the August 3, 1999, issue of the Anchorage Daily News. In addition, Heasley was featured on two radio call-in talk shows. Sandra Herndon, organizational communication, learning, and design, was one of 18 participants from around the United States to take part in a study-tour of South Africa in August. Sponsored by the National Communication Association, the trip offered opportunities to establish liaisons for collaborative work with South African communications faculty. The group met with representatives from a total of seven universities in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, and Capetown, and visited several cultural and historical sites. Herndon will be participating in a number of conference presentations as an outgrowth of the study-tour and will be presenting campus colloquia during the year. Heinz Koch, chemistry, presented a paper, "Comparison of Methanolic Sodium Methoxide-Promoted Dehydrohalogenation and Exchange Reactions That Are Initiated at the Benzylic vs. 9-Fluorenyl Positions," at the seventh European Symposium on Organic Reactivity in Ulm, Germany, in August. Erik L. Ruggles ’94 and Jason M. Nichols ’00 were among those who contributed to the research. Harry McCue, art, exhibited 35 works at Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars in Lodi and sold a painting to the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Erhard Rom, theater arts, designed the set for the Syracuse Stage’s September production of Inherit the Wind. In December he will be the set designer for It’s about Time, an exhibit at the Mariners Museum in Norfolk that includes 18th-century navigation instruments, a Stonehenge set, and a futuristic spaceship design. He is also scheduled to design the set for a production of Aida, which will be staged by the Boston Lyric Opera in November as part of a citywide arts festival with an Egyptian theme. Cyndy Scheibe, psychology, was elected to the board of Partnership for Media Education, an organization formed in 1997 to stimulate collaboration and professional development in the field of media literacy. Scheibe, one of six new members chosen after an extensive national screening process, will begin her three-year term on January 1, 2000. "The new members reflect the continued expansion of the media literacy field in the United States and the widening commitment to empower young people to think critically about today’s media culture," said Frank Baker, vice president of PME. Kal M. Telage, speech-language pathology and audiology, and Kinsuk Maitra, occupational therapy, have had a paper accepted for the 29th annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience. "An Interdisciplinary Experimental Model of Neuroscience Teaching for Applied Health Science Professionals" is supported, in part, by an Ithaca College Instructional Development Award. Kim Dunnick, music, presented a trumpet master class at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia on September 20. The Sam Krause Endowment, through the Curtis alumni association, provides funding for two master classes each year by artists not on the Curtis faculty.

Created by Andrejs Ozolins. Updated 2 Nov 1999