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Assistant Professor of Government Yael Aronoff wrote an opinion piece examining how presidents Bush and Carter used their religious beliefs to determine foreign policy. "Same God, Different Outcomes" was published in the Syracuse Post-Standard. (April 23, 2003.)

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited lecture titled "Isometrically Embedded Graphs" at the Discrete Mathematics Seminar, University of Colorado at Denver in April. Boutin's work shows that a graph (think wiring diagram) can be "drawn" in Euclidean space of some dimension so that its symmetries are precisely displayed. Her work brings together aspects of graph theory, geometry and abstract algebra.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David W. Rivera had an article printed in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 118, No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 81-106. It is titled "Engagement, Containment, and the International Politics of Eurasia."

Professor of Government Cheng Li was a guest on NPR's Diane Rehm Show on April 22. The discussion was on China's severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis. Other guests were Bates Gill, chair in China studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, (who spoke at Hamilton last week) and Robert Kapp, president of the U.S.-China Business Council. The audio of the discussion is available on NPR

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Rit Fuller was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about college admission. Companies are providing bus tours for prospective students and Fuller comments on the importance of campus visits.

The Hamilton College Community will host Tim O'Neill on Wednesday, April 16. O'Neill is a world famous climber and will speak about speed climbs in Yosemite, first ascents in Patagonia and his making of the film Urban Ape, which has won two international film festival awards and was shown last month at Hamilton College's presentation of the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Thaddeus Mantaro '87 returned to campus to produce a segment for the show "Point and Click" that airs on Time Warner Cable. Mantaro interviewed Professor of Anthroplogy Douglas Raybeck and students in the SolSys class about their technology uses in their cultural simulation class. The students are designing a virtual community, 75 years in the future and set on the moon.

The Hamilton College community is sponsoring a change drive in Beinecke to benefit the Thea Bowman House in Utica. The Thea Bowman house is a non-profit organization that provides daycare and nutrition to children whose parents cannot afford private daycare.

Author and former FBI agent Christopher Whitcomb '81 will give a lecture, "The War on Terrorism," on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, inside the Bristol Campus Center. Whitcomb was an English major at Hamilton College and went off to pursue a career with the FBI. Whitcomb now is a former FBI Special Agent and former member of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team and the recipient of the FBI's Medal of Bravery for exceptional courage in the line of duty.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields gave an invited lecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, on April 16. His talk, "An Overview of Chemical Physics Research at Hamilton College: Accurate pKa calculations in aqueous solution, progress and challenges," was part of a series on interdisciplinary problems in chemistry and physics.