Registration opens Dec. 8 for Saturday Morning Math
 Tegistration begins on Wednesday, Dec. 8, for Saturday Morning Math, UD's popular enrichment program designed to help youngsters realize that math can be fun. Classes include hands-on, problem-solving math activities and work on a computer.
Available for children in grades one through eight, the program will begin on Saturday, Jan. 8, and continue for six consecutive Saturdays. Tuition is $50 for the six-week session.
Participants have a choice of time slots and can enroll in classes offered from 8:30-10 a.m., from 10:15-11:45 a.m. or from noon-1:30 p.m. Parents can enroll children from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in Room 105 Pearson Hall.
Enrollment is limited.
For more information, call 831-4447.
Testing online is focus of today's satellite conference
 The Center for Teaching Effectiveness in continuing collaboration with Information Technology/User Services, Information Technology/Media Services and the Division of Continuing Education will offer a PBS satellite conference on "Online Testing: Assessment and Evaluation of Distance Learners" from 2:15 to 4 p.m., today, Dec. 2, in 305 Pearson Hall.
Testing and testing services continue to be issues on the front burner for distance learning faculty and program administrators. As colleges and universities consider institutional policies, software applications, hardware availability and future directions, this program will lay out some of the available options, addressing such issues as new approaches to evaluating student performance, security concerns and obtaining institutional support when introducing new policies and procedures
To register, call 831-2027 or send e-mail to <cte-reg@udel. edu>.
Further details also are available on the faculty development calendar at <http://www.udel.edu/cte/spring99.htm#December>.
Wellness Center sponsors 'Laughter Is Good Medicine'
 The Employee Wellness Center is sponsoring "Laughter Is Good Medicine" from noon-1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 3, in Room 130 Smith Hall. The presentation will provide information on how humor therapy can help manage stress during this hectic holiday time of year.
Enjoy a few laughs and experience how humor can improve your mood by listening to Cindy Eaton, nationally acclaimed comedian.
Cost is $10 Wellness Dollars. The program is cosponsored by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program. Pre-registration is required and can be made by calling 831-8388 or by visiting <www.udel.edu/ wellness>.
State of the state's press topic of Delaware Day event
Delaware and the Press in the 20th Century" is the topic of the fifth annual Delaware Day Symposium, a forum for discussing subjects pertaining to Delaware history and heritage, scheduled from 9:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m, Tuesday, Dec. 7, at Wells Theatre in Slaybaugh Hall, at Wesley College in Dover. Doors open at 9 a.m., and the event is free and open to the public.
Opening remarks will be presented by Frank Fantini, vice president of Independent Newspapers Inc.; Scott Miller, president of Wesley College; and Edward J. Freel, Delaware secretary of state. A morning session on "Politics, Government and the Press" will be moderated by Gary Hindes, former investigative reporter for the Delaware State News and former state chairperson of Delaware's Democratic party. Panelists will include former Delaware governors Elbert N. Carvel, Russell W. Peterson and Sherman W. Tribbitt, and journalists Jim Flood, president of the Dover Post Co., and Dave Bonar, chief political and statehouse reporter for the Delaware State News.
The afternoon session will be on "The Media in Delaware- Today and Tomorrow." The moderator will be Sam Waltz, a former political and government affairs reporter for the News Journal and CEO of Sam Waltz Associates, a strategic planning public relations firm. Panelists will include Alan Loudell of WILM; John Taylor, former news reporter and now editorial page editor of the News Journal; and Tammy Brittingham, president of Independent Newspapers Inc.
The event is cosponsored by the state of Delaware/Delaware Public Archives, Wesley College and Independent Newspapers Inc.
For further information, call Delaware Public Archives at 739-5318 or send e-mail to <crmccabe@state.de.us>.
Grads return to present 'Henry V' in Hartshorn
Five UD alumni will return as members of the Independent Shakespeare Company to present sold out performances of Henry V from Dec. 2-5 in Hartshorn Hall. An in-person waiting list begins one hour prior to each performance.
Cancellations and unused evening tickets will be released at 7:15 p.m. and sold to those who can be accommodated from the list.
An international group of performers, the Independent Shakespeare Company includes Professional Theatre Training Program graduates Melissa Chalsma and Ron Bashford, both AS '92, Kelli Kerslake and Danny Camiel, both AS '95 and Carine Montbertrand, AS '99. All play numerous roles in the production.
Working in an updated Elizabethan style, this highly skilled group of professionals presents Shakespeare as Shakespeare himself might recognize it. Sets, light and costumes are pared down to their emblematic essentials and flights of directorial fancy are kept strictly under wraps.
The company's intent is to explore the conditions for which Shakespeare wrote and how these conditions would affect the playing of the text. In a practical sense this meant looking at the conditions that Shakespeare's theatre company would have faced.
Since an outdoor theatre would have no artificial lighting, the company uses no lighting effects and restricts the production to a general wash light with no changes during the performance. Actors on an Elizabethan stage generally wore their own clothes unless they needed a special costume piece-a crown for a king or a miter for a bishop, and the company does the same, with sound effects generated by the performers themselves.
For more information on the performances or waiting list tickets, call 831-2204.
Harlem Gospel Choir in Mitchell Hall Dec. 5
 The world-renowned Harlem Gospel Choir will perform at 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 5, in Mitchell Hall as part of UD's Performing Arts Series.
The Harlem Gospel Choir has performed for Nelson Mandela and Pope John Paul II during the leaders' trips to New York City in 1990 and 1995. The group also has been involved in numerous musical events, including The Ultimate Irish Music and Culture Festival, where they performed with The Chieftains.
The group was founded in 1988 with a core choir of 20 of Harlem's best gospel singers and musicians. The ensemble is known around the world for its fresh interpretation of gospel music and unique sound. Attracting nearly 4 million people annually, they hope to create a better understanding of the African-American culture and the inspirational music as it relates to the church.
Tickets are $6 for UD students and children, $10 for UD faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens and $15 for the general public.
The Performing Arts Series is sponsored by the Office of Alumni and University Relations. For more information, call 831-8741.
Finding joy at work is topic of talk
 Fnding Joy in the Workplace" is the theme of an interactive workshop with special guest Susan Race, from noon-1 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 9, in Room 208 Gore Hall.
The cost is $10 Wellness Dollars.
Race is the author of Succeeding in the Workplace: Critical Skills for a Rewarding Career and the Life You Love! and is president of Personal Growth Systems Inc.
The workshop will examine such topics as discovering what brings joy to your life, determining how to find joy in the workplace, recognizing what happiness means to others and how to make the workplace a source of contentment for everyone.
Race's books will be on sale after the presentation at a 12 percent discount off the retail price of $15.
To register, call 831-8388 or register on the web at <www.udel.edu/wellness>.
Exhibition features works by art department faculty
 Torks by sculpture Michael Johnson, assistant professor of art, highlight the 1999 Annual Faculty Exhibition, sponsored by the University Gallery and Department of Art. Free and open to the public, the exhibit runs through Friday, Dec. 17. Johnson will discuss his work from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 7, in a talk in the Main Gallery of Old College.
Also displaying their works are Professor and Department Chairperson Martha Carothers, book artistry; plus faculty members René Marquez, painting; Ray Nichols, visual communications; Priscilla Smith, photography; Victor Spinski, ceramics; Randy Bolton, printmaking; Hilton Brown, Harriet Baily Professor or Art Conservation, painting; Bill Deering, visual communications; Hendrick-Jan Francke, visual communications; Larry Holmes, painting; Vera Kaminski, fibers and 3-D design; Rosemary Lane, printmaking; Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, illustration; Robert Straight, painting; Stephen Tanis, painting; and John Weiss, photography.
Johnson received his bachelor's degree in fine arts in sculpture from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and his master's of fine arts from the University of Cincinnati. As a Fulbright Scholar in Bratislava, Slovakia, he taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art and Design, as well as producing a body of work, that was exhibited in a one-person show at Gallery Gerulata in Bratislava. In addition to participating in a number of group shows, Johnson has had solo exhibitions in Louisiana and Texas. He came to UD after spending three years as the sculpture area coordinator at Baylor University in Texas.
University Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. The gallery is closed on Monday and University holidays.
Student ceramics sale set in Hollingsworth Building
 The ceramics studio of the Department of Art is holding its annual Winter Ceramics sale from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Dec. 10, 1l and 12, at the ceramics studio in the Hollingsworth Building at the corner of North College and Cleveland avenues.
Available will be handmade functional and decorative pottery, made by graduate students Patsy Cox, Matthew Gehring and Allen Burslem and several fine arts undergraduate students.
Proceeds from the sale will fund a student trip to the National Council on Education in Ceramic Art international conference next spring in Denver.
For futher information about the Department of Art's Winter sale, call 831-4394.
Carols in Color to present two performances Dec. 10
The Christina Cultural Arts Center is presenting two performances of "Carols in Color," at 2 and 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 10, in Mitchell Hall. Over the last few years, the popular holiday program has been featured annually on the UD campus.
Tickets-at$15 and $10-are available at UD box office at the Bob Carpenter Sports/ Convocation Center and the Trabant University Center, and at the Christina Cultural Arts Center.
A 10 percent discount is available for groups of 10 or more.
For more information, call the Christina Cultural Arts Center at 652-0101.
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