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Professor of Biology Sue Ann Miller coordinated and co-authored the publication, "From college to clinic: Reasoning over memorization is key for understanding anatomy." This special invited article appeared in the April 2002 issue of The Anatomical Record - The New Anatomist. Miller co-organized a symposium, "How do we cultivate, locate and admit ideal medical students?" that was part of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) 2002 meetings in New Orleans in April. An abstract of her presentation, "Connecting liberal arts students with what is important for a career in medicine" was published in the FASEB Journal. She was invited to make a separate presentation about her teaching of Vertebrate Development (Biol. 333), and that abstract, "Constructive inclusion of developmental anatomy in an undergraduate course teaches mental imaging skills," is also published in the FASEB Journal. Miller has also been busy this spring reviewing manuscripts for the journals Clinical Anatomy and The Anatomical Record and a variety of grant proposals for the Sigma Xi, Grants-in-Aid of Research program.

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major published an article, "Modelling Space with a Atom of Quantum Geometry, in Classical and Quantum Gravity 19 (2002) 2211-2227. Major published the article with Michael Seifert, Swarthmore '01, now at University of Chicago.

Terence A. Burke '78 was named vice president of Allegheny Energy Service Corporation. Allegheny is a Fortune 500 energy company.

On May 14, Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was an External Examiner for Panu Kalmi who was a candidate for the Ph.D. at the Copenhagen Business School. The Ph.D. defense topic was "On the (In)stability of Employee Ownership: Estonian Evidence and Lessons for Transition Economies." (In many Scandinavian countries the Ph.D. defense is a public procedure lasting for a couple of hours.)

Assistant Professor of History Peter Hinks participated in "Freedom, Race, and Bondage: A Conference in Honor of David Brion Davis" held at Yale University, May 7-9. Hinks was on a panel, "Antislavery: Images and Ideology," and presented a paper titled "Timothy Dwight, Slavery, and Race."

Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith and Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer had two articles published in the Journal of Luminescence. Both articles were based on research done with Hamilton students. The titles of the articles are "Fluorescence line-narrowing and decay dynamics in sol-gel glasses containing Eu3+" by A.J. Silversmith, D.M. Boye, R.E. Anderman* and K.S. Brewer; and "Red-to-green upconversion in Er-doped SiO2 and SiO2/TiO2 sol-gel silicate glasses" by D.M. Boye, A.J. Silversmith, J. Nolen*, L. Rumney*, D. Shaye*, B.C. Smith*, and K.S. Brewer.

Derek Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented "The Nature and the Determinants of the Adoption of New Information Technologies: Evidence from Medium Sized Establishments in Upstate New York," (with Colgate University Professor of Economics Takao Kato and Hamilton College Associate Professor of Economics Jeffrey Pliskin,) at the WIDER Conference on the New Economy in Development. Jones was also a discussant for three papers on diffusion of new technologies presented at the conference May 10-11 in Helsinki.

Associate Director of Community Research in the Levitt Center Judy Owens-Manley presented her research at a May Colloquium for Service-Learning Practitioners held at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pa. The colloquium was an opportunity for practitioners to share syllabi, compare notes, engage in philosophical discussions and develop a repertoire of best practices for various aspects of service-learning programs. Owens-Manley presented "Evaluation of Community Programs and Services" as a part of a session on research in service of community.

Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner published a book review, "The Great Societizer" in The Nation. Klinkner reviewed Robert Caro's Master of the Senate.

Derek Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented "Changing Employment Practices and the Quality of Jobs: Evidence from Case Studies of Medium-Sized Manufacturing Establishments in Central New York" at a joint conference of the Rockefeller and Russell Sage Foundations. The conference, "Evidence from the Future of Work Case Studies, Industrial Restructuring and Its Impact on Low Skilled Workers," was held May 2-3 in New York City. Jones presented the paper with Colgate University Professor of Economics Takao Kato and Colgate University Professor of Sociology Adam Weinberg.