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Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette published a review of Stevan Harrell's Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China in the Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 62, no. 2, 2003.

Members of the Hamilton Community will be taking an active role in the fight against cancer this weekend by participating in The Relay For Life, June 7-8. Walkers include Colene and Craig Burnop. Colene works in the Business Office and Craig works for Campus Safety as an Alternate Campus Safety Officer. Other members of 'Breanna’s Buddies' from the Hamilton Community will be Ceil Gilbert from the Business Office, Lynn Morton (Mort) from the Mail Center, and his wife Abby Morton from Burke Library. The team will be at the Sauquoit relay site.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran reviewed a manuscript on the ethics of college admissions for Rowman Littlefield Press.

Professor of Art John McEnroe published a review, "Louise A. Hitchcock, Minoan Architecture. A Contextual Analysis (Jonsered, Sweden: Paul Åströms Förlag, 2000)," in American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002) 123-124. McEnroe also published an abstract, "Sir Arthur Evans and the Popular Press," in the same issue. He also served as a manuscript reviewer for the American Journal of Archaeology.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History Maurice Isserman published newly revised editions of World War Two, The Korean War, and The Vietnam War in the series America at War (Facts on File, Inc.).

Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance Craig Latrell chaired a panel, "Performing the State: Images of State Power and National Identity in Southeast Asia, Japan and the Pacific," at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. For that panel, he presented a paper on Singapore's new performing arts center as an image of the state. Latrell continues to serve as AAP Focus Group Representative for the Assocation for Theatre in Higher Education.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert has published a new edition of The American Class Structure. Gilbert also published "Emiliano Zapata: Textbook Hero" in Mexican Studies Vol 19 (2003), and co-authored the article "High School Students' Attitudes About Firearms Policies" with Katherine Vittes and Susan Sorenson in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg was a consultant for Lost Treasures of Tibet on NOVA- science programming on air and online. The program explores the village of Lo Monthang, where the way of life has remained the same for the past 500 years and discusses Mustang's importance as a last stronghold of Tibetan culture, which was mostly destroyed when China invaded Tibet in the 1950s. NOVA travels to the Mustang region in Nepal where a small group of Westerners are working with local townspeople to preserve murals on monastery walls. One of the focuses of the show is the preservation of paintings on the walls of a monastery in Lo Monthang and explores the dynamics between Western preservationists and the citizens of Lo Monthang. The importance of Buddhism in Tibetan culture and the key role the monasteries play in town politics and education are also examined. A comparison is made of the Renaissance periods that took place simultaneously, yet independently of one another, in Europe and Tibet. The original broadcast of the show was February 18, 2003.

Jennifer Sturm, system administrator and research support specialist, and Dana Luciano, assistant professor of English, both spoke on behalf of the Kirkland Project at the National Council for Research on Women conference, "Borders, Babies, and Bombs: A Gendered Reframing of Security," on May 31, at Mills College in Oakland, Ca. Sturm's talk, "Technology and Innovations in Feminist Studies," outlined the Kirkland Project's series for 2003-04, "Technology and Democracy." She also proposed new models for the integration of technology in feminist studies, adapting the framework of MERCURY, the chemistry supercomputing consortium based at Hamilton. Luciano's talk, "From 'Tolerance' to Transformation" was on the history of the Kirkland Project and its accomplishments.

Susan Mason, director of oral communication and director of education studies, was interviewed by Black Enterprise magazine on how to effectively manage and lead virtual and remote teams and workers. She drew from an instructional program, "Leading Virtual and Remote Teams," which she recently designed and developed for the American Management Association.