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Professor of Classics Barbara Gold published an article, "Accipe Divitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial," in Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text, edited by A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik (Brill 2003).

Professor of History Thomas Wilson published, "Ming Confucianism," in Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Antonio S. Cua (Routledge, 2003.)

Assistant Professor of History Lisa Trivedi published the article, "Visually Mapping the 'Nation': Swadeshi Politics in Nationalist India," in the February 2003 issue of The Journal of Asian Studies.

Assistant Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen presented, "Learning About Learning: Students' Course Selections," at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Owen was also a discussant in a session on economics education.

Professor of French John O'Neal published an the entry on Jean-Jacques Rousseau in volume 3 of the Oxford 4-volume Encylopedia of Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors (OUP 2003), pp. 477-81.

Professor of English Patricia O'Neill edited and introduced a new teaching edition of Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm (1883) with Broadview Press.

Professor Emeritus Phil Pearle spent the month of February at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, doing research in the Foundations of Quantum Theory. Pearle gave the lecture, "Wavefunction Collapse Models: Putting Reality Into Quantum Theory," as part of the High Energy Physics Seminar.

More than 100 Hamilton students, employees and friends participated in the Great American Heart Run and Walk on Saturday, Feb. 22, at Utica College, despite steady rain and cold temperatures. Team Hamilton raised $5,641.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson attended a meeting of Columbia University's Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) initiative and gave a presentation on teaching kingship and sacrifice in ancient China and India.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields attended the 43rd Sanibel Symposium on Atomic, Molecular, Biophysical and Condensed Matter Theory, in St. Augustine, Fla. Feb. 26-March 1. Shields chaired the plenary session on membrane proteins and brought three students with him, all of whom gave brief oral presentations and poster presentations of their senior thesis research. Matthew Liptak '03 presented "Modeling the Inhibition of Cdc25B with QM/MM;" Chantelle Rein '03 presented "An Investigation of the Usefulness of the ONIOM QM/MM Method for Studying the Energetic Pathways of Esperamicin A1;" and Sarah Taylor '03 presented "Computational Approaches to Breast Cancer Drug Design." In addition, Sarah Tschampel '00, now a graduate student at the University of Georgia, won first prize for the Best Graduate Student poster.