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Thomas Wilson has presented three papers in March and April. He presented "Gods of the Analects" at the ASIANetwork conference in San Antonio on March 16. He gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan titled "Confucian Rites and the Reorienting of Modern Ritual Theory" on March 25 and a paper titled "A Confucian Theory of Gods" at the "Comparing Gods" panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Atlanta on April 4.

Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley has contributed an entry, "Bosnian Americans," in a new reference book, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society edited by Richard Schaefer and published by Sage Publications. Owens-Manley is co-author of Bosnian Refugees in America: New Communities, New Cultures.

David W. Rivera, lecturer in government, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago on April 3. Titled "The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin: How Wide and How Deep?" and co-authored with Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera, the paper examined the dominant paradigm for understanding contemporary Russia, which views Russia as a "militocracy" or "neo-KGB state."

Leide Cabral '10 attended a briefing co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 9. The session focused on the positive results of expanded learning time programs in secondary schools.

A group of refugees from Russia, Bosnia, Somalia and Belarus traveled to Hamilton's greenhouse on Saturday, April 5, to plant seedlings for their gardens located at the F.X. Matt Apartments. "Each individual had the choice of planting whatever vegetables they knew their family would enjoy," said Jenney Stringer '08, the program's organizer.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will be a guest on the nationally syndicated Diane Rehm Show on Thursday, April 10, at 10 a.m. The topic of the program will be the Beijing Olympics. Li is the editor of the recently published book, China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy.

Ethan Anthony, president of HBD/ Cram and Ferguson Inc., will present a lecture on the architecture of Ralph Adams Cram on Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium in the Science Building. Cram is most famous for his "collegiate gothic" style, and his work is represented on a number of campuses, including Cornell University, Rice University and The University of Notre Dame.

Joyce M. Barry, environmental studies lecturer, presented a paper titled "Gender, Class and Environment: Women's Grassroots Activism Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia" at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association conference.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg and Michael Thomas Viveiros '08 presented the results of their collaborative work, supported by an 2008 Emerson Summer Research Grant, at the 2008 Annual Conference of ASIANetwork hosted by Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, on March 16.

Alumnus John Hewko '79, vice president at The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), will present "U.S. Foreign Aid: New Approaches to Old Questions" at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, in the Red Pit in Kirner-Johnson. MCC is a U.S. Government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world.