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Professor of Government Cheng Li was interviewed for the BBC show "The World Today" discussing the SARS crisis and the challenges this raises for the Chinese government. Listen with Real Player on BBC.

Please join members of the Hamilton family for what we know will be a wonderful Alumni College on August 4-8 on Monhegan Island, Maine. As you may know, the Emerson Gallery will host a summer exhibition featuring the work of 100 artists titled Monhegan Island Artists: A 150-Year Tradition. The Monhegan Alumni College will include ample opportunities for intellectual stimulation, engaging discussion, intimate access to artists and their work, discoveries while on private tours at the Farnsworth and Monhegan Museums, relaxation, and gourmet and casual summer dining - all in a superb locale. As important, there will be time for enhancing existing friendships and forming new ones.

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Witness the accomplishments of Project Icarus,a long-term station on the moon from 2075 ... A Sophomore Seminar Presentation by the students of 250-01, on Tuesday, May 6 at 4:30 p.m., Red Pit. Images, presentations, outfits and photos.

Dan Brown is a great example of the many employees who have given their working lives in service to Hamilton. In addition, he caught our attention as the ultimate collector -- he saves everything from Saratoga bottles to valuable sports memorabilia -- and for his lifetime of visiting sports venues.

Professor of Government Cheng Li spoke at the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute on China's new leadership capabilities and challenges.

Associate Professor of Government Steve Orvis was quoted in an Reuters article concerning the reconstruction efforts of the United States in Iraq. "Child mortality is probably the single best yardstick of the physical well-being of a people," said Orvis. This article appear on the MSNBC web siteYahoo! News.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, is the senior editor of the Handbook of Economics in the Electronic Age published by Academic Press, May 2003.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Joshua Lesperance gave a talk, "Gorenstein Liaison of Codimension Three Curves," at the Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.

Hamilton Professors Shelley Haley, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting and Todd Franklin and the members of Sophomore Seminar “Race Matters” 215 welcomed Robert Bernasconi, professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, Dwight McBride, associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, and Tiffany Patterson, associate professor of history at Binghamton University to the hill to debate the three major texts they have been studying this semester. Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God were debated, with each speaker supporting a text and engaging in a debate with the other speakers and answering questions from the audience. After the final ballot, The Wretched of the Earth was voted the most influential book on race of the twentieth century. This event was sponsored by the Office of the Vice President, the Dean of Faculty, and the Department of Africana Studies.