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Hamilton College and Utica College have been jointly awarded a $46,000 three-year grant through the Center for Intergenerational Learning at Temple University to help older immigrants and refugees in the Mohawk Valley become more actively engaged in their community and pursue U.S. citizenship.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, commented on China's foreign policies and domestic challenges for 2004 on BBC Radio World Service. The interview aired Wed., December 31.

Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, was quoted in a Westchester, N.Y. Journal News article about how Mount Nebo, home of the Rockland Cemetery, was named.  Originally owned by Eleazar Lord, a prominent Rockland resident and the first president of the New York and Erie Railroad, donated the land in 1847 for the cemetery.  Williams said, "With Lord's knowledge of Moses and his decision to designate a beautiful mountaintop site as a cemetery, the name Mount Nebo would have been highly symbolic for him.  Being buried on Mount Nebo would be 'like dying where Moses died.'"

Carlos Yordan, visiting assistant professor of government, was interviewed for an Associated Press article about the Serbian parliamentary elections. Slobodan Milosevic is among the four indicted war criminals running for parliament. Yordan said, "Many Serbs will vote for the radicals for the same reason that kept Milosevic in power for 10 years -- a sense of 'victimization,' the belief that the outside world does not understand Serbia, and a strong sense of national pride."

Peter Cannavo, assistant professor of government, published a letter-to-the-editor in The New York Times in response to the article, "Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs."

Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart has been elected to a three-year term on the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's board of directors.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed for the Christian Science Monitor article "Swearing swearers and FCC's new rulebook. " Klinkner said, "There was a time when the airwaves were seen as a public trust, when stations were given bandwidth in exchange for a public service.  Now is the FCC going to yank Clear Channel's licenses? Absolutely not."

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about presidential candidate Howard Dean's statements regarding the capture of Saddam Hussein.  Klinkner said the capture of Hussein, combined with the recent endorsement of Dean by former Vice President Al Gore, have broadened a "fault line" in the Democratic race.  "The danger for Democrats in painting Dean as a candidate of the left is that they are giving Republicans material to use against him, should he emerge as the party's nominee," Klinkner said.

Dana Luciano, assistant professor of English and visiting faculty fellow at the University of Utah, participated in a roundtable discussion, "Keywords for the Study of Untimely Sexualities," at the 2003 American Literature Association Symposium on Queer Theory in Cancún, Mexico in December. Luciano's paper on the keyword "Brooding" discussed the temporality of the queer illness diary, focusing on the Diary of Alice James and the film Silverlake Life.

Zhiqun Zhu, visiting assistant professor of government, published a letter to the editor about Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to the U.S. in The Christian Science Monitor.  Zhu said, "Competing national interests determine that the two countries will become neither strategic partners nor strategic competitors. The best we can hope for is a pragmatic relationship in which the two countries continue to cooperate on issues of mutual concern and agree to disagree on issues such as human rights and Taiwan."