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Jeffery Scott Elwell, director of theater in the Communication Department, is seeing his third play in a year performed on New York City's Theater Row. His comedy, "Stepping Out," will be produced in a one-act festival Feb. 2-4 in the Theater District. In addition, two of his other plays were performed regionally recently. "The Art of Dating" was produced by Mill Mountain Regional Theater of Roanoke, Va., and "Fenced In" had a staged reading in St. Louis during an American College Theater Festival regional meeting. In February, Elwell will see publication of "The Best of the Regions," an ACTF compilation he edited. Produced with support from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., it will feature one play from each of eight regions. The book will be available for purchase at the Colvard Union Bookstore or may be perused at Mitchell Memorial Library.

Marita Gootee, associate professor of art, had photographic works accepted for the "Creative Images '96" exhibition hosted by the Indianapolis Art Center of Indianapolis, Ind. The exhibition is set for Feb. 4-March 9. Two of Gootee's digital photographic images, "In Thy Father's Name" and "Afterthought," will be displayed. She also recently had works accepted in the "Nude 96" hosted by the Lexington Art League in Lexington, Ky. Her works, "Even Madge Doesn't Remember When the Feeling Died" and "Voyage II," will be included in an exhibition that runs through Feb. 18 at the Loudoun House in Lexington.

For the second year in a row, meteorology students in the Department of Geosciences won a national weather forecasting contest. The annual contest, sponsored by Pennsylvania State University, challenged budding meteorologists to forecast weather as accurately as possible during a two-week period for different sections of the country.