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Professor of Economics Christophre Georges published "Adjustment costs, learning, and indeterminacy" in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control vol 28 no. 1, October 2003, pages 101-116.

ITS will hold an open house on Monday, Aug. 4, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the new ITS office, Burke Library, North side. Members of the Hamilton community are also invited to tour the new Multimedia Presentation Center that opened last year on the first floor of Burke. There will be food, demonstrations of technologies currently used at Hamilton, and more. As part of the effort to expand the on-site capacity of the Burke Library for books and periodicals, make room for the integration of the materials from the Science library, and increase the number of faculty study carrels, ITS has moved from the basement to the new office on the third floor of Burke.

Ezra Pound, a 1905 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a New York Times article "Ezra Pound, Musical Crackpot." According to the article reviewing "Ego Scriptor Cantilenae: The Music of Ezra Pound," a comprehensive sampling of the poet's little-known musical output, "...one listens quite fascinated. Much of it is strangely compelling, if eccentric, stuff."

The second national conference devoted solely to undergraduate computational chemistry, MERCURY, was at Hamilton July 30 to Aug. 1. MERCURY is a consortium of seven liberal arts institutions with access to high performance computing resources.

Interview clips from the Jazz Archive collection were shown at the CNY Jazz Festival held July 25-27 in Syracuse. Three of their featured artists, Bucky Pizzarelli H '03, James Moody and Byron Stripling have been interviewed and segments from their sessions were shown on a large screen next to the main stage. This was a cooperative effort involving Doug Johnston '78 and Monk Rowe, archive director. Doug is very involved in the CNY Jazz organization.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren published a paper, "Mechanistic Implications for the Formation of the Diiron Cluster in Ribonucleotide Reductase Provided by Quantitative EPR Spectroscopy," in the Journal of the American Chemical Association (JACS, 125, 8748-8759) with co-authors from Carnegie Mellon University. This paper reports a novel physical probe of dinuclear metal cluster formation in metalloproteins. Ribonucleotide reductase remains the focus of intense investigation because it is the only biosynthetic pathway to the formation of deoxyribonucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. These metal clusters must fully form before the enzyme becomes active. This paper conveys new insight into how they form.

Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed for a NPR series exploring the Korean War's impact on race relations. Korea: The Armed Forces Integrate aired on NPR Weekend Edition and can be heard using RealPlayer.

Hannah McCouch, a 1988 Hamilton graduate, is the author of a new book, Girl Cook (Villard). The book humorously fictionalizes McCouch's experiences of trying to be a chef in New York. McCouch studied at Cordon Bleu in Paris then returned to Manhattan where she worked at several restaurants.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Todd Franklin was a guest on "Living Room," a KPFA radio (Berkeley, Calif.) program about politics, society and ideas. Franklin discussed the philosophical tradition of existentialism, in relation to the film Matrix Reloaded.

"Over the next month President Bush will be traveling across the country selling the American people a tax plan that is very short-sighted. It favors a small, wealthy portion of the American people while contributing to record deficits that will be harmful in the long-run. And it will do so without bringing substantial short term benefits," forecasts former Fed economist and Hamilton College professor Ann Owen.