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Four members of Hamilton’s faculty recently received the Class of 1966 Career Development Award. Recipients are: Assistant Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer; Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Soleded Gelles; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Su Ortabasi; and Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera.

Two Hamilton College faculty members have been awarded Class of 1963 Faculty Fellowships. Associate Professor of Economics Jeff Pliskin and Associate Professor of Psychology Penny Yee received the fellowships, which were established by the Class of 1963 on the occasion of its 30th reunion.

The Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan W. Cafruny was interviewed by renowned author and radio host Adriane Berg for Business Talk Radio New York.  Berg interviewed Cafruny about the argument behind his book A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe (Rowman & Littlefield July 2003). 

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Marianne Janack and Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu have been named co-recipients of the Richardson Award for Faculty Innovation. Janack’s grant will fund an intensive three-hour training session for teaching assistants and the development of a three-year rotation of unit quizzes for her Symbolic Logic class. Xu will create a stand-alone computer program for DVD-based class instructions and exercises, and develop a Sophomore Seminar jointly offered by the Computer Science and East Asian Languages and Literatures departments.

Construction workers worked diligently through central New York’s harsh winter and have Phase I of the new Science Center nearly finished. “I would say the construction is 97% complete, with professors moving into their new offices within the month,” said assistant director of construction Bill Huggins.

Carlos Yordan, visiting assistant professor of government, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the transfer of power in Iraq and the importance of U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. According to Yordan, although Brahimi's claim that U.S. support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has obstructed negotiations in Iraq sounds harsh, "it did resonate in the Arab world and in Iraq. The U.N. has to make it clear to Iraqis that its plan is designed to forward Iraqi interests and not necessarily U.S. ones."

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in a recent Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article concerning the Conservative party's candidate for United States Senator. The Conservative party said they would endorse Long Island ophthalmologist Marilyn O'Grady instead of Orange County Assemblyman Howard Mills. According to experts, Mills was trailing incumbent Charles Schumer by more than 55 points. Klinkner said that the Conservative party believed Mills was a "goner anyway" and that if the race were closer he may have received their backing.

Professor of Economics Derek Jones presented three papers at the third inter-university conference at Dubrovnik, Croatia, in May, 2004. The conference, titled "Economic Developments in S.E. Europe," featured academics from all over the world and was co-sponsored by the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik and Fridriech Ebert Stiftung.

Elizabeth Rabe, a candidate for graduation from Hamilton College later this month, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Rabe will pursue a master’s of philosophy degree in Caribbean history at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago. She will research the lives and culture of East Indian indentured laborers to Trinidad during the second half of the 19th century, then write an article to be submitted to a scholarly journal.

Hamilton College will co-sponsor the 3rd International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching (TCLT3), on May 27-30 at Columbia University. This three day-conference will feature panel discussions and workshop sessions.