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Hamilton College Professor of History Peter Hinks gave a talk, "To Give Them Liberty and Stop Here is to Entail Upon Them a Curse: Slavery, Emancipation and Yale, 1775-1817," in March at Yale University.

Professor of Geology Eugene Domack was interviewed for an article in the Syracuse Post-Standard about the recent disintegration of an ice shelf and the Apr. 3-5 Antarctic and global warming conference to be held at Hamilton College.

Professor of Government Cheng Li was interviewed for a Reuters article about Chinese President Jiang Zemin's efforts to retain power once he retires. "Jiang Zemin has a dilemma -- if he promotes too many people from Shanghai, he should prepare for a backlash," said Li.

Professor of Government Cheng Li was interviewed by the Agence France-Presse about which new Chinese leaders may emerge in this upcoming National People's Congress (NPC) annual meeting. Li said, "officials earmarked for top spots in the coming decade could suddenly see their careers take off during this year's National People's Congress (NPC)."

Professor of Government Cheng Li was quoted by Reuters in an article about leadership change to take place in China late this year. "I think Wen Jiabao, Zeng Qinghong and Hu Jintao - these three people are secure for the next Standing Committee membership seats," said Li. "All other people are just question marks."

In Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English John O'Neill's seminar on Jane Austen, students are reading the author's six books and watching film versions of the texts. That's nothing new.

Hamilton College will host a conference, "Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: A Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspective," on April 3-5. Keynote speaker Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona, will address "A Paleoperspective on Global Warming - the Polar View Could be the Most Important View."

Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat's essay, "Writing a Fable for America" has been published in the collection "Faulkner in America: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1998," published by University Press of Mississippi.

A book review by Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat about a recently published study of the fiction of Toni Morrison was published in the Winter 2001 issue of the quarterly journal Modern Fiction Studies.

Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Robert Redfield spoke on "Lattice-Ordered Algebraic Extensions of Totally Ordered Fields" at Tulane University and at Louisiana State University. During the same month Redfield also spoke on "Ordering Subsets of the Real Numbers" at the University of Houston - Clear Lake (NASA campus).