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Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for a Philadelphia Inquirer article,"Puncturing pols online," that appeared in the Sunday, April 13, issue of the paper. The piece addressed how members of the "proletariat," via Internet submissions, are helping define how a wide range of voters see the presidential candidates, in contrast to past campaigns during which opinions were formed via the quips and jokes of professional television pundits.

At a Washington, D.C. alumni event, Edward S. Walker, Jr., '62, former U.S. Ambassador and Hamilton's Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, lectured on U. S. relations with Iran on Thursday, April 10. In attendance in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill were current students attending the Washington, D.C. program as well as alumni.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented "Is Free Trade Good for Your Health?" at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Thursday, April 10. Discussants included Paul Wolfowitz, a visiting scholar at AEI, and Jeremiah Norris, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The moderator was Roger Bate, a resident fellow at AEI. Owen and Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu co-authored "Is Trade Good for Your Health?" which was published in the Review of International Economics.

Thomas Wilson has presented three papers in March and April. He presented "Gods of the Analects" at the ASIANetwork conference in San Antonio on March 16. He gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan titled "Confucian Rites and the Reorienting of Modern Ritual Theory" on March 25 and a paper titled "A Confucian Theory of Gods" at the "Comparing Gods" panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Atlanta on April 4.

Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley has contributed an entry, "Bosnian Americans," in a new reference book, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society edited by Richard Schaefer and published by Sage Publications. Owens-Manley is co-author of Bosnian Refugees in America: New Communities, New Cultures.

David W. Rivera, lecturer in government, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago on April 3. Titled "The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin: How Wide and How Deep?" and co-authored with Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera, the paper examined the dominant paradigm for understanding contemporary Russia, which views Russia as a "militocracy" or "neo-KGB state."

Leide Cabral '10 attended a briefing co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 9. The session focused on the positive results of expanded learning time programs in secondary schools.

A group of refugees from Russia, Bosnia, Somalia and Belarus traveled to Hamilton's greenhouse on Saturday, April 5, to plant seedlings for their gardens located at the F.X. Matt Apartments. "Each individual had the choice of planting whatever vegetables they knew their family would enjoy," said Jenney Stringer '08, the program's organizer.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will be a guest on the nationally syndicated Diane Rehm Show on Thursday, April 10, at 10 a.m. The topic of the program will be the Beijing Olympics. Li is the editor of the recently published book, China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy.

Ethan Anthony, president of HBD/ Cram and Ferguson Inc., will present a lecture on the architecture of Ralph Adams Cram on Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium in the Science Building. Cram is most famous for his "collegiate gothic" style, and his work is represented on a number of campuses, including Cornell University, Rice University and The University of Notre Dame.