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The Rochester Patriots Drum and Bugle Corps spent a week of its six-week training period at Hamilton College, from June 23-28. The Rochester Patriots consist of a four-part team, the color guard, horns, percussion and the pit. They are a diverse group, gathering people from all over the nation and the world to march and perform with the team.

Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods was featured in Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers by William C. Banfield (Scarecrow Press 2003). Chapter four is devoted to Woods and focuses on his jazz training, philosophy and composition style.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren published a paper on "Catecholase Activity Associated with Copper-S100B" in Biochemistry. This is a project funded originally by the Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health, a Cotrell Award from the Research Corporation and the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed by The Modesto Bee (6/24/03) for an article about the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action. "She's been loathe to rip apart what had become established social practice over the past two decades," said Klinkner, referring to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was thought to be the swing vote on the decision.

Associate Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren was elected to serve as the president of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) for a one-year term beginning in June 2004. With this election, Elgren will serve on the CUR executive committee for a three-year term as president-elect, president and recent past-president. CUR is a national society dedicated to the advancement of research, scholarship and creative activity by undergraduates in collaboration with faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions.

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris announced the appointment of Professor of Biology Ernest Williams to the Leonard C. Ferguson Chair. The Ferguson Chair, previously held by Professors Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones, is designated to rotate among "distinguished members of the faculty... in all fields of study."

Kirkland College alumna Ana Sierra Leonard '75 was featured in a Cincinnati Enquirer article about the Ph.D. Project, a new University of Cincinnati program of which she is the first graduate.

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck contributed an op-ed to the Syracuse Post-Standard, "You Can't Get There from Here: Building democracy in Iraq requires patience, sensitivity"(6/21/03). Raybeck says Iraq "cannot shift from tyrannical dictatorship to a democracy, not now and perhaps not ever. Attempts to make the transition will be arduous, possibly endless, and certainly dangerous to the people we intend to help...In defining what 'getting there' might be, we need to better understand the country and culture we presume to help."

Joseph Karam, director of network and telecommunications services, presented a power-point enhanced lecture, "Networking the Old Fashion Way: Learning in the Classroom and On-the-Job Training." Working with Karam was Dr. Patrick Fitzgibbons, department chair for SUNYIT’s telecommunications program. Karam and Fitzgibbons explained a program Hamilton College has in conjunction with SUNYIT.

Rong Ling You and Andrew Connor (both ’04) were both studying abroad during the spring semester of 2003. You, an economics major, was studying at Pembroke College at Oxford University through Hamilton College’s selective program. Connor, a Chinese major, was also studying in London during the spring semester. The two clearly have interest in England; however, England is not where their true passion lies. The two were awarded a joint Freeman Grant for student-faculty short-term travel research during the summer in China.