David V. Cossey, executive director of Computer Services, gave a talk, “Glimpsing the Future,” at the 2000 New York Library
Association conference in November in Saratoga Springs. His talk focused on current trends in technology and their implications
for libraries. He included estimates of the amount of information produced, discussion and demonstration of new devices which
will impact both libraries and users, and comments about significant issues related to digitized documents.
He emphasized the importance of converging technologies where, for example, content, communications, and computing converge
into what we now call interactive multimedia.
Hilary Tann, professor of music, recently premiered four works: The Walls of Morlais Castle (rev. for oboe, viola, cello) by
the Ovid Ensemble in the Presteigne Festival, Wales, on Aug. 29. A heavily revised version of Arachne, a dramatic song cycle
for soprano solo, was premiered by Anne Turner at Skidmore College in November. Ovidiu Marinescu was the soloist with the Newark
(Del.) Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Roman Pawlowski) in a newly commissioned work, Anecdote (A Soliloquy for Cello and Orchestra),
in December. On Jan. 18, Tann's Fanfare for a River will be performed by the Knoxville (Tenn.) Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirk
Trevor. The work was a millennial commission supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Grant E. Brown, assistant professor of biology, was co-author with Valerie LeBlanc '00 and Lindsay E. Porter '98 (MAT '99) of
“Ontogenetic changes in largemouth bass response to heterospecific alarm pheromones” in a recent issue of Ethology. He also
co-authored “Responses to nitrogen-oxides by Characiforme fishes suggest evolutionary conservation in Ostariophysan alarm
pheromones” in an upcoming issue of Chemical Signals IX with James C. Adrian Jr. of chemistry, Jody Erickson (MAT '00),
Ilyssa H. Kaufman '00 and Devon Gershaneck '01. Finally, Brown is co-author with Adrian and Matthew Shih '00 of “Behavioural
responses of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) to hypoxanthine-3-N-oxide at varying concentrations” in Journal of Fish Biology.