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Ann Owen, associate professor of economics and director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, attended the Southern Economic Association Annual Conference in November in New Orleans.  Owen presented two papers, "Is trade good for your health?" (with Stephen Wu, assistant professor of economics) and "Learning about learning:  students' course choice" (with Elizabeth Jensen, professor of economics).  She also was a discussant in a panel on undergraduate research in economics.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by the BBC World Service on November 28.  Li discussed Chinese mine safety, labor rights, implication of China's growing energy needs.

Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article that focused on holidays, stress, and childhood memories. According to the article "one big source of trouble is that the holidays evoke powerful memories of childhood." Raybeck said that these situations make us "operate off old scripts that we learned as teenagers or as young parents and assume a different, oftentimes child-like role during family gatherings."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh completed a series of works in paper for the Kittredge Gallery at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. The exhibition, “Color Coded” will run through November until lateDecember 2005. Murtaugh gave a public lecture and gallery talk on November3, and visited with studio art majors for critiques of their works in progress. Also, Chelsea Gallery, Thatcher Projects, featured her recent paper works and photographs at the AAF-Contemporary Art Fair at Pier 92 in Manhattan in October.  AAF Contemporary Art Fair launched in New York City in 2002 under the name The Affordable Art Fair.  This year more than 130 galleries from the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe exhibited established and emerging national and international artists working in a variety of media. 

Frank Anechiarico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, was quoted in an Agence France Press article about corruption in the European Union (EU) and its devastating effects. The article detailed how the structure of the EU allows corruption to flourish and is costing the European economy "tens of billions of euros every year." Anechiarico said "in the United States 'performances measurements' in the public service had proved effective in fighting corruption at all levels."  He is the author of Remembering Corruption: The Elusive Lessons of Scandal in New York City and co-author of The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective.

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund Committee recently awarded eight grants totaling $30,015 to educational, cultural and public safety organizations in the Town of Kirkland.

Andrew Conway '04 was among presenters at the Undergraduate Honors Conference, held at the Annenberg School of Communication at USC in November. His paper, “Information Technology and its Effect on Nations and Their Peoples,” examined the global influence of information technology from an uncommon perspective.  Using Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities and Anthony Smith’s Nationalism, the paper explored the contemporary notions surrounding the nation and nationalism.  Then, based on these concepts, the paper claimed that because of how information technologies are developed and disseminated they actually change and evolve the idea of a nation and nationalism.

A chapter of the National Communications Honor Society, Lambda Pi Eta, has been founded at Hamilton College. Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams initiated the establishment of the Sigma Omicron chapter, which will begin operation in the spring. Lambda Pi Eta represents the first letters of what Aristotle described in The Rhetoric as the three modes of persuasion -- Logos, Pathos and Ethos. Adams will serve as advisor of the chapter.

Information regarding the 2005 benefit plans was recently shared electronically. The material included details regarding 2005 Health Insurance Program, 2005 Reimbursement Accounts Enrollment, Dental and Vision Plan Enrollment. This information is available at http://www.hamilton.edu/college/personnel/2005OpenEnrollment.html . If you would prefer to receive this information through campus mail, please contact Donna Grygiel, ext. 4689. The deadline for making changes to your medical, dental and/or vision coverage or to enroll in a 2005 Reimbursement Account is December 1, 2004.

Peter Cannavó, visiting assistant professor of government, presented a lecture at Think Tank on Friday, Nov. 19. Cannavó's discussion, titled "Founding and Preservation: The Practice of Place," touched on both the theoretical ideas of place and how this idea of place manifests itself in everyday life. The lecture was also a summary of an upcoming book by Cannavó.