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Rich Bernstein '80, Merrill Lynch's chief U.S. strategist, will appear this Friday, May 17, as the featured guest on Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street.

"Menu Costs, Firm Strategy, and Price Rigidity," a paper written by Assistant Professor of Economics Ann Owen with David Trzepacz ’00, has been accepted for publication in Economics Letters. The paper developed out of Trzepacz’s senior honors thesis.

Christine Schuster '00 works as director of marketing for Behr-Thyssen, an importer of fine art by premier contemporary intaglio and lithography artists from around the world. As host of a fascinating brown bag lunch discussion this week, Chris chronicled her beginnings in the New York City art world.

“Hamilton Collects American Art” celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Emerson Gallery.  But it also offers the Hamilton and surrounding communities an extraordinary opportunity to see American art by well-known artists that has rarely, if ever, been viewed publicly. To provide a “behind the scenes” look at some of the preparatory work undertaken for this exhibition, we interviewed Emerson Acting Director Bill Salzillo.  We followed his interview with a cross section of campus responses to the question, “What is your favorite painting in the show?”  For those of you who haven’t been asked but would like to respond, simply go the Emerson page at www.hamilton.edu/gallery and click on “comments” under “Hamilton Collects.”  We would love to hear from you, too.

Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg was both chair and presenter at a plenary session titled "The Future of Asian Studies" at the annual meeting of the ASIANetwork. A consortium of over 150 liberal arts colleges, ASIANetwork is committed to strengthening the study of Asia on its campuses. Goldberg is also a member of the ASIANetwork board of directors.

This week over 40 students took the opportunity to listen to a filmmaker, a sculptor, and a painter describe how they navigated various channels of the art world and built successful careers. "Careers in Visual Arts," organized by the career center, received such a positive response from students as well as from alumni that it may be repeated in the near future.

Associate Professor of Economics Chris Georges published an article titled "An Efficiency Wage Model With Persistent Cycles" in Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-6.

Steve Goldberg, associate professor of art and department chair, directed a National Endowment for the Humanities workshop titled “Representing Excellence: The Authoritative in South and East Asian Art and Literature” at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., April 11-14. He also presented "Art and Articulation: The Embodiment of Excellence and Authority in Asian Cultures" and "Images as Metaphors of Authority in Social Context: India and China" on April 11 and 12 respectively.

How much the Enron's collapse has affected our collective psyche was evident in the turnout for this week's presentation by Fortune Magazine's senior editor Joe Nocera titled "The Enron Collapse and Why It Could Be Good For Us." Speaking to a capacity crowd in the college's chapel, Nocera related the story of how Fortune Magazine's Bethany McLean first saw through the Enron financials, wrote an article in March 2001 exposing the company's grave weaknesses and held firm with Enron executives when they met with her prior to the publication of Fortune's "Is Enron Overpriced?"

Art History Professor Steve Goldberg discussed Chinese political scientists and historians as a member of a panel addressing "Chinese Historians in the United States: Dilemmas of Reform in 21st Century China.” The panel was held in April at the 2002 annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Washington, D.C.