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Professor of English Patricia O'Neill presented a paper, "Globalization and its Discontents: Representations of Terrorism in Indian and American Cinema," at the Modern Language Association meeting in December.

Assistant Professor of Spanish Cecilia Hwangpo published, "José Antonio Ramos y la identidad nacional cubana: sentido, lenguaje y espacio," in Crítica Hispánica 24 (2002): 239-258.

Assistant Professor of Economics Ann Owen published "Gender and Interest in Studying Economics," with Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen, in Critical Junctures in Women’s Economic Lives in December 2002.

Assocate Professor of English Edward Wheatley organized and chaired a panel, "Disability in Medieval European Culture," at the Modern Language Association Convention in New York in December.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Jennifer Day presented a paper, "Memory and Space in the Petersburg City-Text," at the December 2002 MLA Convention in New York City.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper, "Is There a Coming Crisis of the Euro," at the British International Studies Association Annual Convention, London, Dec. 2002.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields published an advisory article on obtaining NSF grant funding, "The Benefits of Forming a Consortium for an NSF-MRI Proposal," in the December issue of Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao published a review of the book Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation and Intertexutal Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Yunte Huang in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews. Vol. 24, December 2002, pp. 213-218.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao presented a paper, "The Trauma of Ethnicity: Poems of Angel Island and Narratives of Chinese and Anglo-American Modernism," for the "Traumatic Modernism: Writing and Photography in Detention Panel" given by the Division on Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century English Literature at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in New York.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been elected to the board of directors of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association. Jin will serve on the board until November 2005. CLTA is a professional organization devoted exclusively to the study of Chinese language, culture and pedagogy.