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Professor of Biology Sue Ann Miller has been elected to a second term as director of the Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group of Sigma Xi, the international scientific research society. This allows her to continue on the board of directors as well as her service as chair of the committee on Grants-in-Aid of Research. Grants in-Aid of Research is a highly competitive 75-year-old program that awards small grants to graduate and undergraduate students.

Professor of Government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow Cheng Li was quoted in a Forbes article about China's new Communist Party chief Hu Jintao.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Jennifer Day presented a paper, "Home on the Outside: Self and Space in 1960s Petersburg," at the November 2002 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Pittsburgh.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer had a paper, "Low temperature metalorganic chemical vapor deposition growth of InP using the new precursors pentamethylcyclopentadienylindium(I) and white phosphorus" published in the Journal of Crystal Growth. This paper is a result of collaboration several years ago with O.T. Beachley, Jr. (Chemistry, SUNY-Buffalo) and H. J. Haugan of the research group of B.D. McComb (Chemical Engineering, SUNY-Buffalo).

Professor of Government Cheng Li was quoted in a Newsweek (Nov. 25) article about China's "princelings" or relatives of top leaders.

Twenty-five Hamilton College students have been chosen to serve as Nesbitt-Johnson Writing Center tutors at Hamilton this year. Established in 1987, the Writing Center provides a place where students confer with other students who are trained to discuss writing.

The Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols, a tradition born at Kings College in Cambridge, England, at the end of World War I, has become a Christmas tradition at Hamilton College. That tradition of holding a service of Christmas Lessons and Carols will continue on Sunday, December 8 at 4 p.m. in the Hamilton Chapel. The College Hill Singers will sing under the direction of Prof. G. Roberts Kolb, and College Chaplain Jeffrey McArn will preside over the service of the procession of lights, bidding prayer, familiar carols, biblical readings of the Incarnation, and a candlelit chapel ushering in the wonders and holiness of the season. A reception will follow the service in the recently renovated third floor of the chapel. This event is free and open to the public, and everyone is cordially invited to join us.

What makes the Hamilton College approach to the Liberal Arts unique? Freedom in Distribution Requirements Emphasis on Advising Writing-Intensive Experience Limited Enrollment Pro-Seminars Sophomore Seminars Senior Program

Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley has published an article titled "Blindness, Discipline, and Reward: Louis IX and the Foundation of the Hospice des Quinze-Vingts" in the Fall 2002 issue of Disability Studies Quarterly. The article is available on line at  www.cds.hawaii.edu/dsq.

Visiting Professor of Rhetoric and Communication John C. Adams gave a talk, "Epideictic rhetoric and its cultured reception: In memory of the firefighters," at the Symposia on the Rhetoric of Display, department of communication, University of New Hampshire.