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Asma Barlas, politics, did research last summer in Pakistan, whose legal system equates the testimony of two women with that of one man. The law is said to reflect the teachings of Islam, but Barlas says she hopes her work will show that Islam does not advocate discrimination or sexual inequality. Her research was made possible by a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.

Jules R. Benjamin, history, will publish the eighth edition of his work A Student's Guide to History in August with Bedford/St. Martin's Press. Covering everything from note taking to library research, Benjamin's book has been called a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the study of history. More than a quarter million copies have been sold.

Kim Dunnick, music, was a featured performer last November with Sweden's Göteborg Brass Band. He played Richard Holz's Heralds of Victory at a concert in Wil, Switzerland, and at the Euro-ITG Conference in Bad Säckingen, Germany. Dunnick also recently completed a two-year term as president of the International Trumpet Guild. During his tenure Dunnick played a key role in expanding the guild's influence by organizing trumpet competitions and conferences in Ukraine and Russia. He also helped establish the Australian Trumpet Guild.

Zillah Eisenstein, politics, gave the keynote address at Women and Earth, an international conference held in Accra, Ghana, in December.

Janet Galván, music, conducted the Ithaca College Women's Chorale at the University of Toronto in October. The performance was part of the International Women in Song concert.

Susan Hangen, anthropology, read a paper, "Remembering and Forgetting in the Boycott of the Dasain Holiday in Nepal," at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago last November.

Jack Hrkach, theater arts, spent Thanksgiving break in Great Britain. Highlights of the trip included a visit to the theater program at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh and a stopover at the Ithaca College London Center, where he sat in on a class, accompanied students on a walking tour of Westminster Abbey, and attended a demonstration of Elizabethan acting techniques at the Globe Education Centre.

Keith Lee, campus safety, was one of 40 police officers who recently attended the Great Lakes Leadership Seminar in Buffalo, a one-week course sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Lee is the third person from campus safety to attend this leadership course in the last three years.

Sabatino G. Maglione, modern languages and literatures, presented a paper, "Amity and Enmity in Cervantes's La Numancia," at the 25th Congreso Anual de Literaturas Hispánicas, held at Indiana University of Pennsylvania last fall. A longer version of this paper will be published in Hispania, a journal devoted to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures.

Jerry Mirskin, writing, won first prize in a national contest, the Mammoth Books Prize for Poetry, with his manuscript "Picture a Gate Hanging Open and Let That Gate Be the Sun." Mammoth Books will publish the book at the end of this year or early in 2001. Camellia Press has also published a chapbook by Mirskin with the same title.

Lauren M. O'Connell, art history, was invited to give a Robert and Avis Burke Lecture in the History of Art at the University of Indiana at Bloomington in November. Her talk was entitled "Architecture as Cultural Encounter: France Pictures Russia in the 19th Century."

Brooke Olson, anthropology, presented a paper, "The Relativity of Time: Negotiating Divergent Epistemologies in Biomedical and Complementary Therapeutics," at the American Anthropological Association's 98th annual meeting in Chicago last November. Olson's contribution is an outgrowth of her continued research on the increased interest in and use of "alternative" medicines and healing techniques.

Elaine Poulin, counseling center, has completed her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Buffalo. She defended her dissertation, "Living with Endometriosis: Women's Experiences with Disease Stressors, Coping, and Medical Support," in December.

Bill Russell, associate dean, School of Humanities and Sciences, and director, teacher education center, became president-elect of the New York State Association of Teacher Educators in November. As part of his new responsibilities, Russell will serve on the Teacher Education Advisory Council to the Commissioner of Education. This group of nine people represents the New York State Association of Teacher Educators, the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the deans of the State University of New York and the City University of New York, and the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities. The group meets every six weeks with commissioner of education Richard Mills to advise him on teacher education policy in New York.

Joel Savishinsky, anthropology, gave presentations at two conferences this fall. At the New York State Society on Aging Conference in Albany in October he spoke on "The Sense of Passion and Purpose in Retirement." In November, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago, he presented a paper on "The Moral Lives of Older Americans." Both talks drew on research that Savishinsky and his students have been conducting on how older Americans construct a sense of meaning and morality in their later years. Also, two of Savishinsky's poems, "Fossil" and "Click Language," appeared in the journal Anthropology and Humanism. He also published a haiku in the first issue of the poetry journal Starfish.

Charles Spencer, physics, reports that a manual for Physics Plot, a data display software program he has been working on since the early 1980s, has been published by Physics Academic Software, which reviews, selects, and publishes high-quality software for use in high school, undergraduate, and graduate education in physics. Physics Academic Software works in cooperation with the American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Daniel Tillapaugh '01, music, one of 15 student delegates to the North East Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls regional conference at Syracuse University in November, received the best program of the conference award for his program "Straight but Not Narrow." Also, the delegation from Ithaca College won top honors for its display supporting Habitat for Humanity. In addition, the Ithaca College and Cornell University delegations were awarded program of the year honors for "Not in Our City, Not on Our Campuses, Not in Our Community," a program designed to inform community members about bias-related incidents on the two campuses and give people a way to express their feelings. The winning program will represent the northeast region at a national competition in Boulder, Colorado, in May. NEACURH, the regional division of the National Association of College and University Residence Halls, provides residence hall leaders with educational and leadership development opportunities.

Susan Weisend, art, had her work featured in "PAGES: Arts of the Book," a show that ran at the Long Library Gallery at Wells College in October.