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Regina Johnson, guest writer for Around the Hill shares her insider's perspective on the Hamilton Golf League. She says, "Some play to improve their game, some for competition, but the resounding response as to why we play…because it's fun!"

Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg was a consultant for Lost Treasures of Tibet on NOVA- science programming on air and online. The program explores the village of Lo Monthang, where the way of life has remained the same for the past 500 years and discusses Mustang's importance as a last stronghold of Tibetan culture, which was mostly destroyed when China invaded Tibet in the 1950s. NOVA travels to the Mustang region in Nepal where a small group of Westerners are working with local townspeople to preserve murals on monastery walls. One of the focuses of the show is the preservation of paintings on the walls of a monastery in Lo Monthang and explores the dynamics between Western preservationists and the citizens of Lo Monthang. The importance of Buddhism in Tibetan culture and the key role the monasteries play in town politics and education are also examined. A comparison is made of the Renaissance periods that took place simultaneously, yet independently of one another, in Europe and Tibet. The original broadcast of the show was February 18, 2003.

Emerson Grant recipient Katie Sarris, ’04, like many, is not happy with the current economy and the impending global recession; however, instead of simply going out and spending money in order to stimulate the economy, Sarris has a slightly different strategy. She hopes to devise policies and programs to increase the success rate of new businesses, thus stimulating the sluggish economy through her Emerson project titled “Entrepreneurs.”

The Saunders' Tree Peonies are in bloom in the Grant Garden. Professor of Chemistry A.P. Saunders hybridized the peonies in the early- to mid-1900s. His work with tree peonies -- which resulted in 73 named varieties -- was a notable achievement. His fame was established especially with hybridizing the yellow tree peony.

Robin Kinnel, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a $238,357 National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Grant, "Acquisition of a High Field NMR for Chemistry Research," for 2004-2007.

Robin Kinnel, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry, received a $9,000 grant from the 2003 Pittsburgh Conference, Memorial National College Grants Program, for "A Spectrofluorimeter for Research and Teaching." He also co-authored three posters which were presented by Hamilton students at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver in February, and at the 225th meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans in March.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Mark Masterson presented two papers at professional conferences. His paper, “Homosociality, Homosexual Behavior, St. Antony and Paul the Simple,” was presented at the 2002 American Philological Association Meeting, and “Morti Contermina Virtus: Masculinity and Statius’ Thebaid” was given at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States Meeting in New Jersey in October 2002. Masterson is also a member of American Philological Association Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups, and organizer of Lambda Classical Caucus Panel for 2003 American Philological Association Meeting.

Professor of Theatre Carol Bellini-Sharp participated in the 9th annual Performance Studies International Conference in New Zealand in April. She created a research project/performance piece inspired by the Moeraki Boulders which she first visited 18 years ago while on a Fulbright in New Zealand. Bellini-Sharp performed with the group, The Land: Whakapapa and Mapping, which consisted of New Zealand Maori, Australian, English and American performance artists, dancers and theater artists. They created and performed a multi-media piece about discovering and expressing their "whakapapa" (the whole of a person's being). Using visual, literary and kinetic images, the performance represented a mapping of the self in relation to ancestors, the land, the Boulders and each other.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin gave two invited lectures this spring. She presented "Input Analysis Studies in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language" at National Taiwan University in May and "Interactive Approach to Task Design" at Providence University in April.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller received a grant from the ACTR/ACCELS Russian and Eurasian Program NIS Regional Language study program for June-July 2003. She spent two months in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, working on advanced language study and conducting new research on elementary education from 1945 to the present.