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The Monk Rowe Trio will perform at the annual Syracuse Jazz Festival. Rowe's trio features Genevieve Rose on acoustic bass and Gregory Caputo on drums. The trio will perform on Friday, June 20, at 6:45 p.m. The festival is held at the Onondaga County Community College campus. Monk Rowe is director of Hamilton's Jazz Archive and lecturer in saxophone.

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Government Cheng Li was named to the William R. Kenan Chair and Professor of Chemistry George Shields was appointed to the Winslow Chair in Modern Science.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey is researching a computer security technique called “Code Striping” at the Griffiss Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., this summer.

Stone Professor of Psychology Douglas A. Weldon's laboratory is working on studying the mid-brain this summer, an extension of last year's research done by Jennifer DiNieri '03. Through the use of laboratory rats the researchers, Aliscia Thomas '04 and Matthew Silver '05 will study the superior colliculus by surgically grafting electrodes into the rat's brain and monitoring data during a laboratory experiment.

Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery has named Susanna White its new registrar and curator. White brings more than 10 years experience in the museum field, working at both the administrative and program level. Most recently she held positions as the marketing and development director and registrar/exhibitions assistant at The Exhibition Alliance, a nationally recognized exhibition service organization. White holds a master's degree in art history from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She also studied art history at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

With the end of the Cold War in 1989, foreign relations between Russia and the United States appeared to be improving throughout the 1990s. However, the two countries are again divided, holding different views regarding the current global conflict regarding the “axis of evil.” While the United States has clearly taken action against North Korea, Iran, and Iraq in efforts to stifle their power and their negative political, social, and economic influence, Russia has done quite the opposite. Why do the Russian’s policy plans differ so much from the plans proposed by President George W. Bush? What is the Russian government’s true interest in these foreign nations, and what are they trying to accomplish? Greg Zalasky, '04, will address these questions, among others as an Emerson scholar for 2003.

Phil Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, is among reviewers whose comments are included in Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (Vintage Books, 2003). Writing for The Nation, Klinkner said, "Caro is a gifted and passionate writer, and his all-encompassing approach to understanding LBJ provides readers with a panoramic history of twentieth-century American politics as well as a compelling discourse on the nature and uses of politcal power... One of the best analyses of the legislative process ever written."

Hamilton College clearly offers a communal environment; however, the communal environment that Brian Tilley ’05 will encounter this summer will be vastly different from that of College Hill. Tilley, the recipient of a Freeman scholarship, a student-faculty short-term travel research grant offered by Hamilton College, will be traveling to India for three weeks this summer. He plans to examine the relationship between Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists in India, and the coexistence between the various religious sects.

After the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany in 1991, it was believed that Germany would reassume its role as a powerful leader on the European continent. However, the roles Germany has played in terms of international relations, its position in the new E.U., and Europe’s substantial increase in economic power, are different from the roles of Germany’s past. As an Emerson scholar, Svetoslav Derderyan will explore these ideas in his project “The German Question.”

What exactly is a “haiguipai?” Many people have no idea what the term really means let alone where it comes from. Hamilton sophomore Qi Ge not only knows what a “haiguipai” is, but may become one some day himself. According to Qi, the word refers to "those Chinese citizens who received college or advanced degrees abroad and came back to work in China."