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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.

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for a San Diego Union-Tribune article about the era of "digital dependency," where people now rely on technological gadgets to manage their lives. "Most of the people who rely on this technology are working harder than they were 10 years ago," Raybeck said. "I know I am. We've all got more balls in the air."

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.