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Jordan Shedlock '06 published a poem titled "Narkomu Pakhomovu," in the journal The Birch: A Journal of Eastern European and Eurasian Culture (Spring 2006, p. 26), a publication of Columbia University. The poem was dedicated to a cruise liner named after a People's Commissar of the 1920s. Shedlock's was one of the only works published in Russian.  The poem was inspired during his 04-05 year in Russia, when he studied on the Bard College/Smolny Academic Year Program in St. Petersburg. Shedlock finished his degree in Russian Studies (with honors) last spring.

Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager presented a paper, "Dharma and Identity in Western / American Buddhism," at the 2006 New York Conference on Asian Studies at Saint Lawrence University, Oct. 6-7. His paper reflects his current research into the different uses of Buddhist images in immigrant and convert practice communities and among avant-garde performance and installation artists in New York and San Francisco.

The results of a study by Edward Deci ’64, a psychologist at the University of Rochester, were summarized in a September 5 USA Today editorial titled “A damaging lesson for college-bound kids: Good deeds require a payoff.” The editorial is about teenagers working on community service projects for the sole purpose of adding it to their college applications. Deci’s study “investigated ‘What happens when you pay people for an activity they enjoy?’  

Images by Lecturer in Art Sylvia de Swaan are included in a contemporary art exhibition, “In Transition,” in Limassol, Cyprus, in October. Sponsored by the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art and the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, the exhibition focuses on immigration and displacement while “…searching for a contemporary perception of the realities and dilemmas which confront displaced people.”

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, is among eight Chinese Americans invited to join the Committee of 100, a national organization of prominent Chinese American leaders.  Among those who are joining the Committee of 100 with Li are Wing T. Chao, vice chairman-Asian development for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts; Leroy Chiao, an astronaut and entrepreneur; Wei Christianson, CEO and managing director of Morgan Stanley China; and Kai-Fu Lee, vice president at Google.

An interest in the graphic anthology genré that began for Stephen Orlando ’08 in high school has led to his writing a story for a graphic anthology collection that benefits Hurricane Katrina victims. Orlando’s piece, titled “All that it takes,” is a short story published in the Ronin Studios graphic anthology Hope: New Orleans, which was previewed and sold out at the Chicago Comic Convention and is to be published nationally this fall. “Graphic anthology,” Orlando explained, is a term that began to be used to “legitimize” the comic book field. However, he doesn't agree that the field needed legitimizing.

Hamilton's Contemporary Voices and Visions Series opens on Saturday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m., with Tim Miller’s new one-man show, "Us." Funny, fast and furious, "Us" takes the audience on a whirlwind journey that re-thinks the American musical as inspiration for radical politics and queer identity. "Us" contains nudity and adult themes. The Performance will be held at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus. Individual tickets are $15-$18 for adults with discounts for seniors and students. For more information about any performance or to receive a free season brochure, call the box office at 859-4331.

About 60 students and half a dozen faculty members are bringing the performing arts to the greater Utica community through Hamilton’s Arts Outreach Program. Through the Outreach program, started by Katie Berlent ’08 about three years ago, Hamilton musical groups perform for schools and various community organizations.

Eric Kuhn '09 will interview Pat Buchanan, Ron Reagan and George Lakoff (author of Don't Think of an Elephant!) on the college’s radio station WHCL 88.7 FM on Monday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. The show, Kuhn and Company, can also be heard at www.whcl.org. Kuhn is soliciting questions from his audience for Buchanan, Reagan and Lakoff. He asks that all questions be sent to him at ekuhn@hamilton.edu.

David Paris, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Government, has been appointed as a senior fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He is working on AAC&U’s campaign, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP). AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.