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George Shields, professor of chemistry, received a $50,000 grant from the American Chemical Society to support "Accurate Calculation of pKa Values." He published five papers, all of which are co-authored by Hamilton undergraduates(*). "Accurate relative pKa calculations for carboxylic acids using complete basis set and Gaussian-n models combined with continuum solvation methods" Ann Marie Toth*, Matthew D. Liptak*, Danielle L. Phillips*, and George C. Shields, J. Chem. Phys. 114 (2001) 4595-4606. "Accurate pKa Calculations for Carboxylic Acids Using Complete Basis Set and Gaussian-n Models Combined with CPCM Continuum Solvation Methods" Matthew D. Liptak* and George C. Shields, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123 (2001) 7314-7319.

On Nov. 25, Cheng Li, professor of government, appeared as a featured guest on China Forum, a program on channel 46 in the Washington DC area. The half-hour interview focused on U.S.-China relations and China's entry into the WTO.

Susan McCouch, associate professor of plant breeding, Cornell University, delivered the Hansmann Lecture on Nov. 28, in Hamilton College's Science Auditorium. The lecture was titled "Genomes, Genomics and GMO's."

Shoshana Keller, associate professor of history, chaired a panel at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in San Francisco. She presented a paper, "Secularization, Militant Atheism, and State-Building," and organized the panel, "Comparative Shock Modernization: Turks Under Ataturk and Stalin."

Daniel Chambliss, Sidney Wertimer Professor of Sociology has been elected to be the teaching chair for medical sociology for the ASA. Chambliss has also been elected to the ASA's Committee on Nominations, which selects the nominees for the major ASA offices, including president, vice-president and governing council.

Thomas Wilson, associate professor of history presented, "Liturgies of Confucian Sacrifice," at the American Academy of Religions Conference on Nov. 17.

Lauralyn Kolb, lecturer in voice, is currently serving a second two-year term as NY state governor of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She recently judged both the undergraduate and graduate divisions of the Civic Morning Musicales Vocal Competition, which drew contestants from New York and New Jersey.

The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, Derek Jones, has accepted an invitation to become a research fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, a non-profit, research and educational institute dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on transition and emerging market economies.

Associate Professor of Art John McEnroe has published 35 reports in "Pseira IV. Minoan Buildings in Areas B, C, D, and F." (The University Mueseum Press) to culminate his 10-year project as architect for the Pseira, Crete excavations. McEnroe also published his third book this fall. Artists, Writers, and Musicians, An Encyclopedia of People who Changed the World (Oryx Press, 2001)was co-edited with Michel-Andre Bossy of Brown University and Thomas Brothers of Duke University.

Professor of French Roberta Krueger wrote, "'Nouvelles choses': Social Instability and the Problem of Fashion in the *Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry,* the *Menagier de Paris,* and Christine de Pizan's *Livre des Trois Vertus* in *Medieval Conduct,* edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L.A. Clark, (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).