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The Syracuse Post-Standard published an editorial  by Carlos Yordan, visiting assistant professor of government, in which he described a strategy for a successful transfer of power in Iraq. Yordan agrees with President Bush’s plan to install a democratic government but disagrees with the way he is trying to achieve the goal. He suggests the Bush administration reconsider the June 30 transfer of power and calls for an increased U.N. presence, an increased coalition presence to combat insurgenices and the installation of an internationally and U.N.-backed leader to referee disputes among Iraq’s religious groups, organize elections and develop a new constitution.

Brad Sinrod '92 was recently featured in an article published in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The article profiled Sinrod through the careers he has pursued since graduating from Hamilton, from fund raiser to internet start-up tycoon to real estate developer, and the MBA program that helped him along the way. Sinrod received his master of business administration last May from Penn State Great Valley and was voted outstanding management student of his class.

Heidi Ravven, professor of religious studies, has published an invited essay, "Hegel's Epistemic Turn --or Spinoza's?" in a special issue of the journal Idealistic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy devoted to Spinoza and Idealism.  The essay appears in volume 33:2 - 3 Summer-Fall 2003.

Bryan Alexander and Bret Olsen from the Mellon Foundation Northeast Regional Center for Educational Technology will conduct a train-the-trainer workshop on “The Multimedia Narrative” to members of Hamilton’s HILLgroup on June 2-4. Hamilton will also host instructional technology participants from Colgate and Skidmore College.  This workshop is designed to assist instructional technologists and librarians in their efforts to support the use of multimedia in the academic program.  HILLgroup will be offering workshops in “The Multimedia Narrative” to faculty in Fall 2004. 

Professor of French John O'Neal travelled to Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in May to conduct research in the area which inspired to a large degree Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Reveries of the Solitary Walker. While there he viewed the only extant copy of the original manuscript of Reveries, which is in Neuchâtel's library. He also visited the town of Môtiers, where Rousseau lived for three years and was "stoned." O'Neal then travelled to the Island of Saint Peter in the Bienne Lake, which figures prominently in the Reveries, and where Rousseau engaged in botanizing plants and flowers for his herbaria. O'Neal also participated in the annual meeting of the Swiss Rousseau Society in Geneva in May.    

A research project being conducted this summer by Visiting Professor of Rhetoric and Communications John Adams, Joshua Huling '05 and Instructional Technology Specialist Janet Simons has been funded by the Mellon Foundation Northeast Regional Center for Educational Technology (CET) in Middlebury, Vt. The project, "Video Cellphones, War Metaphors and Micro-Documentaries: Exploring the Rhetorical Constraints of Time and Place," had been accepted for inclusion in Vassar's Summer Institute in Media Studies. Amy McGill and Bryan Alexander, co-directors of CET, funded the purchase of cell phones and Sprint service in hopes to learn from the Hamilton team about this technology and to use this project as the basis for continued experimentation with the multimedia and cell phone technology. 

Young Han '06 was quoted in an Associated Press article regarding student voting rights. The article focuses on Oneida County and its refusal to allow local college students to register with the Board of Elections.

Science Daily published an article about the recent discovery of an active undersea volcano off Antarctica. The NSF funded expedition was led by Professor of Geology Eugene Domack and included three Hamilton students. The team announced the discovery on May 5 in a dispatch from their research vessel.

Heather Schrum '05, a geology major, was quoted in an article in the Observer-Dispatch about an expedition to Antarctica in which she participated. She was a member of a team led by Professor of Geology Eugene Domack and including Jemma Kirkwood '05 and Stephanie Higgins '04, which discovered an undersea volcano. Originally, the team intended to study the stability of the Larsen Ice Shelf, which collapsed several years ago. "It was amazing because we weren't there to find a volcano," Schrum said.

A book written by Visiting Assistant Professor of History Aram Goudsouzian was reviewed in The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C. Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon profiles the trials and triumphs of Sidney Poiter. The article notes the book uses "history to illustrate and to help readers fully conceptualize the boundaries Poitier leapt to claim his place in history."