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Glass work by Josh Simpson '72 has been selected by the United States Art in Embassies Program. Simpson's Blue New Mexico Super Bowl will soon be on display at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. His work is already on permanent display at U.S. Embassies in Ottawa, Canada; Wellington, New Zealand; and in Moscow at the ambassador’s residence.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin was invited as a consultant to evaluate the United Nations' Chinese Program, which offers one of the U.N.'s official languages. She helped evaluate the existing program and revised the curriculum. In addition, she designed the teacher evaluation system for the program and wrote the written examination and teaching demo. guidelines for recruiting new instructors in the Chinese Program at the United Nations. At the beginning of this year, she also traveled to the United Nations to give an invited lecture on "Evaluation and Assessment of Instructor's Performance," and helped recruit a new director for the Chinese language program at the U.N.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave a paper at the San Diego annual meeting of the African Literature Association, titled "Ghanaian Poetry at Century's End: The Question of National and Transnational Identities."

Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley has published an entry on "The Nun's Priest's Tale" in Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1. He has also been a member of the project's editorial advisory board, on which he will continue to serve for the second volume.

Associate Professor of Spanish Susan Sanchez-Casal co-authored a pedagogy, 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference which was published by Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, June 2002. With co-editor Amie A. Macdonald (formerly of Hamilton's Philosophy department and now at CUNY John Jay College in Manhattan) she wrote the introductory theoretical essay to the volume, titled "Feminist Reflections on the Pedagogical Relevance of Identity." She also authored the second chapter, titled, "Unleashing the Demons of History: White Resistance in the U.S. Latino Studies Classroom."

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven wrote "Further Thoughts on Hegel and Feminism" for Owl of Minerva: The Journal of the Hegel Society of America, 33:2, Spring/Summer 2002.

Sidney Wertimer Professor of Sociology Dan Chambliss' book, Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1996), has just been translated and published in Japanese by the Japanese Nursing Association Publishing Company.

Tomasz Konopka of Aleppo, Syria, was valedictorian of Hamilton's class of 2002. Luciana Maxim of Vrancea, Romania, was class salutatorian. Konopka was a physics/computer science double major, and Maxim majored in mathematics and sociology.

Video coverage of Hamilton's Commencement 2002 is available for viewing on the Web. To access the video you'll need Quick Time or Window's Media player. Both are free downloads from Macintosh or Windows operating systems.

At a conference titled "Talking Towards Techno-Pedagogy Reunion" at Mount Holyoke College in April, a team from Hamilton College consisting of Kristin Strohmeyer (Burke Library); Janet Simons (Information Technology Services); Colleen Fenity, '02; and Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English John H. O'Neill reported on the seminar "Jane Austen: Text and Film," which the team developed under a program sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. At the "Collaborating with Technology" conference held at Union College in May, O'Neill was an invited participant in a panel discussion of the use of technology in interdisciplinary courses.