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"More encouragement should be given to patients, particularly those in poor health, to get cancer screenings when visiting the doctor," says Hamilton College economics professor Stephen Wu. Why? "There is a significant amount of anxiety associated with cancer screens, especially among the sick, something which is not present for more routine procedures such as flu shots and cholesterol checks."

Women's Basketball Coach Julie Diehl '93 was featured in the article "Competition, challenges fuel Diehl's winning desire." Diehl was a 2003 Rome Sports Hall of Fame inductee.

Catherine Klein, '04, decided to explore the topic of war memorials and how various memorials embody a cultural understanding of a given war, battle, or event through a project titled "Vietnam War Memorials and Their Cultural Meaning" as an Emerson scholar for 2003. According to Klein, the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial is unlike other American war memorials in that it has an elusive and dissonant message.

Individuals who are generally in poor health are more likely to get flu shots and cholesterol checks, but less likely to have mammograms, pap smears, breast exams and prostate checks. Psychological factors such as fear and anxiety may be important reasons why sicker people are less likely to get cancer screens. These are the findings of Assistant Professor of Economics professor Stephen Wu whose paper, “Sickness and Preventative Medical Behavior,” was published in the July issue of the Journal of Health Economics.

Professor of Economics Christophre Georges presented a paper titled "Learning Dynamics and Nonlinear Misspecification in an Artificial Financial Market" coauthored with John Wallace ’03 at the Society of Computational Economics 9th annual conference, "Computing in Economics and Finance." Another paper by Georges titled "Adjustment Costs, Learning, and Indeterminacy" has been published in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control in the October 2003 issue (Vol. 28, No. 1, pages 101 – 116).

Kim Black, a gold medal winning swimmer in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, spoke at Hamilton’s Campus as a part of the Hamilton College Competitive Swim Camp. Kim was a member of the winning 4x200 freestyle relay team for the United States.

Mike Mahanna, horticultural grounds worker and certified master gardener and arborist, led a plant and tree tour across campus July 18. Along the way, he shared the history and unique aspects of some of the College's trees and plants and the people behind them, with a final stop at the entrance of Root Glen and the Grant Garden.

Professor of Africana Studies and French Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting is one of two scholars conducting the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and United Negro College Fund Mellon Faculty Seminars at the Goree Institute in Dakar, Senegal. The topic of this year’s seminar is Pan Africanist Aesthetics: The Literature, Film and Culture of the Francophone World. The Goree Institute is an independent, non-profit African organization, founded in 1992 by a group of concerned Africans sharing a commitment and experience of struggling for justice, prosperity and tolerance. The goals of the Mellon Faculty Seminars are faculty enrichment and development. Sharpley-Whiting is the author of Negritude Women: Race Women, Race Consciousness, Race Literature.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry John LaGraff was awarded a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant for "Integrating Nanoscience into the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum" is from the NSF Division of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience for 2003- 2004.

When many people see visual art, they see the literal: a painting, a photograph, or a sculpture. However, what many people may not see is the intrinsic ties that art has with people and culture. Lara Clemenzi, ’04, is hoping to better understand the figurative, artistic connection between pottery and people by focusing on ancient citizens of the Southwest and the art form of pottery as an Emerson Scholar for 2003. Clemenzi’s project, titled “The People in Pots: The Translation of Southwestern Pottery by a Young Woman of the 21st Century,” will examine Southwestern pottery and the messages conveyed through southwestern art.