Kudos

Vicki Cameron, biology, and two former students, Quentin Machingo ’98 and Michael Mazourek ’99, have published an article, "Second-site, Intragenic Alterations in the Gene Encoding Subunit II of Cytochrome C Oxidase from Yeast Can Supress Two Different Missense Mutations," in Current Genetics (2001), volume 39. Machingo is enrolled in a doctoral program at Emory University; Mazourek is beginning a doctoral program in plant biology at Cornell University this fall.

The Office of Career Services sponsored the 10th annual ESCAPE (Empire State Career and Placement Exchange) conference in July. Over 80 career development professionals from across New York State gathered to discuss current professional issues, including collaborating with faculty, marketing to and effectively working with students, maximizing the uses of technology, working with parents and alumni, and managing career resources. Each year a different college or university hosts the conference.

Fred Madden, English, attended the 14th annual Hay-on-the-Wye Festival on Literature and Arts in Wales this June. The festival included panel discussions by scholars and writers on a host of subjects from the Middle Ages to the present. Authors Margaret Atwood, Antonia Fraser, David Lodge, and Bill Clinton were among the featured speakers.

David Spano, counseling center, chaired a panel discussion, "Counseling Centers in Academe: Multiple Missions and Stakeholder Interests," at the annual meeting of the Counseling Centers of New York, held at Canisius College in June. The discussion focused on ways counseling centers can broaden their roles on campus to more fully support the academic missions of their institutions and the interests of faculty, staff, student clients, and administrators.

Michael Twomey, English, published an essay, "Morgan le Fay at Hautdesert," in On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries. The book, which appeared this year, commemorates Fries, a distinguished medieval scholar, with essays on female characters in Arthurian legend as well as biographical sketches of other prominent medievalists.

Gladys M. Varona-Lacey, modern languages and literatures, recently presented "La narrativa de José María Arguedas: espejo de vivencias" at the 26th annual Hispanic Literatures Conference at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She also published a book, José María Arguedas: más allá del indigenismo, which examines the work of the Peruvian author from a literary and social perspective.