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Professor of English Patricia O'Neill edited and introduced a new teaching edition of Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm (1883) with Broadview Press.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology Matthew Evans presented the paper "Hydrothermal alkalinity in central Nepal rivers" at the annual American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in San Francisco in December. Evans was also invited to lecture at Boston University in January.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ram Subramaniam published "Methylglyoxal-BSA stimulates TNF-a secretion in RAW264.7 cells through activation of MAPK and NF-KB and intracellular oxidation," with Xing-Jun Fan, Miriam Weiss and Vincent Monnier in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 409, 274-86 (2003).

Associate Professor of Art and Art History Ella Gant was a panelist at New York University's 16th Annual Liberal Arts and Arts Education Conference. Gant's paper, "Remembering Who We Are," was presented as part of the panel on Memoir and Self as Subject.

Associate Professor of Art and Art History Ella Gant had her artist's book, Dead Bees Buzzing, accepted into the Franklin Furnace/Museum of Modern Art permanent book collection.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David Rivera presented a paper, "Democracy and Dictatorship in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Evaluating the Political Dimensions of the 'Who Lost Russia?' Debate," at a conference organized by the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts Colleges.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields attended the 43rd Sanibel Symposium on Atomic, Molecular, Biophysical and Condensed Matter Theory, in St. Augustine, Fla. Feb. 26-March 1. Shields chaired the plenary session on membrane proteins and brought three students with him, all of whom gave brief oral presentations and poster presentations of their senior thesis research. Matthew Liptak '03 presented "Modeling the Inhibition of Cdc25B with QM/MM;" Chantelle Rein '03 presented "An Investigation of the Usefulness of the ONIOM QM/MM Method for Studying the Energetic Pathways of Esperamicin A1;" and Sarah Taylor '03 presented "Computational Approaches to Breast Cancer Drug Design." In addition, Sarah Tschampel '00, now a graduate student at the University of Georgia, won first prize for the Best Graduate Student poster.

Cheng Li, professor of government and Woodrow Wilson fellow, was invited by the Aspen Institute to give a talk on China for 14 members of the U.S. Congress at a meeting held in Hawaii in January. Invited as a guest speaker by Lee Hamilton, Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Li spoke to the Wilson Council. In February, Li was also invited to give lectures at Tufts University, the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin, and the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

Charlotte Beck and George Jones, both Leonard C. Ferguson Professors of Archaeology, co-authored, "Lithic Source Use and Paleoarchaic Foraging Territories in the Great Basin," with Eric E. Jones, Pennsylvania State University and Richard E. Hughes, Geolchemical Research Laboratory in American Antiquity (2003, vol. 68.) A map from their article is used for cover art. The study relies on stone tools as "calling cards," or maybe "tourist stickers," to describe the geographic patterns of movement of the human groups in the western deserts at the close of the ice age and shortly thereafter.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Alistair Campbell presented a paper, "Language-Independent Interactive Data Visualization" at the 34th annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education held Feb. 19-22 in Reno, Nev.