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Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller was quoted in an article in the Utica Observer-Dispatch featuring a bilingual Pentecostal Church located in New York Mills, Calvary Gospel, comprised largely of refugees from the former U.S.S.R. According to Keller, Pentecostal Christians were persecuted during communist Soviet rule. "It's a cultural sense that to be really Russian you would be Russian Orthodox," she said.

The Utica Observer-Dispatch published an opinion piece written by Hamilton College Chaplain Jeff McArn. It was written as part of the newspaper's roundtable discussion "Matters of Faith." In it, McArn discussed the political and religious uses and misuses of the term "evil." "We take the first step toward evil when we believe in our own moral superiority rather than seeing the image of God in each of us," McArn concluded.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by the BBC on China's foreign policy with oil producing countries. The discussion included China's oil-consumption and relations with countries in the Middle East.

Gemma Kirkwood '05 and Heather Schrum '05 were featured in an Oneida Daily Dispatch article about the recent discovery of an undersea volcano in Antarctica. Schrum and Kirkwood were members of the team that discovered the volcano. The expedition was led by Professor of Geology Eugene Domack.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow has been appointed to the position of Associate Dean of the Faculty for a three-year term beginning on July 1. Pillow, who earned his doctoral degree from Northwestern University, has taught at Hamilton since 1996. 

Three Hamilton College faculty members competed in the 13th annual Covered Bridges Half Marathon in South Central Vermont on June 6. Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Celeste Friend and Assistant Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons were among participants in the 13.1 mile race. It began in South Pomfret, Vt. and continued through Woodstock and into Quechee. Runners cross over or pass by four covered bridges along the route.

Carl A. Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was interviewed by Knight Ridder news service about a proposal to remove Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill and replace him with an image of Ronald Reagan. Many members of Congress support the idea, including House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. The article said:  "Carl Rubino, a professor at Hamilton College, a highly regarded institution in upstate New York that's named for the first treasury secretary, said Hamilton was responsible for fostering the U.S. economy with his genius for creative finance. 'It would be an act of ignorance to remove him,' Rubino said."

Anna C. Arnold ’04 has been named the 2004 Summer Fellow for Evaluation at the Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties, Inc. Arnold will assist the Foundation’s staff and volunteers in evaluating the effectiveness of grants made by The Community Foundation to nonprofit organizations and causes throughout the two counties.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven published an invited article, "Did Spinoza Get Ethics Right? Some Insights from Recent Neuroscience" in Studia Spinozana, volume 14 (1998), Wurzburg: 2004, Konigshausen & Neumann. It is a volume on the theme "Spinoza on Mind and Body" edited by J. Thomas Cook and Lee Rice.  Studia Spinozana is the premier journal of Spinoza studies.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was named to a three-year term as trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs. The institute was founded in 1925, "to provide talented and promising individuals with an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of an issue, country or region outside the United States and to share that understanding with a wider public."  This is Li's second appointment as a trustee. He was a fellow of the institute from 1993-95 and served as secretary in 2003-2004.