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Associate Director of Community Research in the Levitt Center Judy Owens-Manley presented a paper at the June 8-11 conference "Making America Home: Rebuilding Lives, Families, and Communities." This National Alliance for Multicultural Mental Health (NAMMH) 2002 Conference on Immigration and Refugee Services of America, was held in Atlanta, Ga. Owens-Manley's paper is on "Mental Health Needs in a 'Well' Population: Increasing Capacity for Attending to Refugee Family Well-Being." It was in a section on Innovative Approaches for Mental Health Treatment.

Assistant Professor of Government Robert Martin was awarded a visiting research fellowship at the New York Historical Society to research the emergence of the early American public sphere. Also, he gave a paper titled "Bridging the Gap: Habermas, Post-Modernism, and the Early American Public Sphere" at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in April. Martin also served as a featured panelist at Utica College's All-College Conference on Citizenship and Patriotism.

Derek Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, published "Ownership and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from Estonian panel data," in the June issue of Review of Development Economics. Jones co-authored the paper with Niels Mygind of the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

During the summer (and the first part of his year of leave from Hamilton) Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has accepted an invitation to be visiting professor from July 1 - Sept. 30 at the Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields published an article, "Absolute pKa Determinations for Substituted Phenols," in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Shields co-authored the paper with Hamilton undergraduate Matthew Liptak '03.

Professor of Government Cheng Li wrote two academic articles, one titled "China's Road Ahead: Will the New Generation of Leaders Make a Difference?" which was published in The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Spring 2002) and the other, "Hu's Followers: Provincial Leaders with Backgrounds in the Youth League," appeared in the China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly journal published by Stanford University.

Professor of Government Cheng Li was invited to lecture at Columbia University, Wellesley College, Bard College, the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Asian Society of Texas, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. For the third time, he has been invited as a lecturer to participate in the mid-career training program for U.S. government officials involved in the China field.

Nearly 75 percent of Muslim Americans either know someone who has been discriminated against or have themselves experienced an act of anti-Muslim discrimination, harassment, verbal abuse or physical attack since September 11, according to a national survey released May 30 at the National Press Club by Hamilton College and Zogby International.

Professor of Government Cheng Li received a research grant from the United States Institute of Peace, an independent institution established by the U.S. Congress to promote peaceful resolution of international conflicts.

Assitant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin published an article "The Isometry Dimension and Orbit Number of a Finite Group", with Michael Albertson,in Congressus Numerantium 150 (2001), pp.79-85.