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Professor of Classics Barbara Gold published a review of "The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity and Empire in Ancient Rome,"by T. Habinek, in the American Journal of Philology 123 (Dec. 2002.)

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper, "Is There a Coming Crisis of the Euro," at the British International Studies Association Annual Convention, London, Dec. 2002.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields published an advisory article on obtaining NSF grant funding, "The Benefits of Forming a Consortium for an NSF-MRI Proposal," in the December issue of Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Jennifer Day presented a paper, "Memory and Space in the Petersburg City-Text," at the December 2002 MLA Convention in New York City.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao published a review of the book Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation and Intertexutal Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Yunte Huang in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews. Vol. 24, December 2002, pp. 213-218.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao presented a paper, "The Trauma of Ethnicity: Poems of Angel Island and Narratives of Chinese and Anglo-American Modernism," for the "Traumatic Modernism: Writing and Photography in Detention Panel" given by the Division on Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century English Literature at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in New York.

Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in this article which focused on the voting records of Trent Lott's most likely successors. USA Today

Professor of Government Cheng Li, Woodrow Wilson fellow, participated in a panel discussion, "The Sixteenth Party Congress: A Springboard for Change or the Seeds of Conflict?" with Gwendolyn Stewart, Harvard University, and Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University, in December.

Nine grants totaling $20,000 were recently awarded from the Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund to educational, cultural and public safety organizations in the Town of Kirkland. Awards ranged from $7,875 to the Kirkland Police Department to purchase a Traffic Speed Display Trailer to $500 to the Clinton Central School District for supplies and materials to support volunteer activity at the elementary school.

New York State Senator Raymond A. Meier, R-C, Western, visited the ACCESS Project at Hamilton on Dec. 9 to announce that he was able to secure $500,000 through the 2002-2003 New York State budget to continue the Project. Meier met with Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin and Director of the ACCESS Project Vivyan Adair, as well as some ACCESS Project students. ACCESS is a comprehensive program designed to provide low-income parents in Central New York with all of the support necessary to thrive in an academic community. The ACCESS program provides an intensive and fully supported introduction to liberal arts education, coupled with extensive long-term educational, social service, employment, and family services support.