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Associate Professor of Psychology Gregory Pierce published an article, "The social context of coping with prostate cancer," in the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology.

Associate Professor of Psychology Gregory Pierce wrote an article, "Issues in the study of stress and coping in rehabilitation settings," which appeared in the Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology.

Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina-Canal spent his sabbatical organizing and directing the “International Encounter 2001: Una odiesa del espacio…entre raices, catedrales y rascacielos,” which took place at the University of Leon in July. It was the second ALDEEU (Spanish Professional in America) symposium Tejerina-Canal organized, with 18 sessions and more than 60 panelists. He also delivered a paper, “Antruido y las vacas locas,” at the symposium.

Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina-Canal published an article "A una parte del cristal: Profesionales españoles en Estados Unidos" in Carmen Flys Junquera and Juan E. Cruz Cabrera ed. "El nuevo horizonte: España/Estados Unidos (El legado de 1848 y 1898 frente al nuevo milenio)," (Madrid: Universidad de Alcalá, Biblioteca de Estidios Norteamericanos, 2001). This is part of the 1848 and 1898 commemoration of the Guadalupe-Hidalgo and Paris treaties among USA, Mexico and Spain. His article is part of the selected proceedings of the international conference that took place in five different sites: San Juan, Puerto Rico, Quezon City, Phillipines, Berkeley, Miami, and Madrid. He was guest speaker in Madrid as former president of ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in America).

Professor of Chemistry George Shields published an article, "Absolute pKa Determinations for Substituted Phenols," in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Shields co-authored the paper with Hamilton undergraduate Matthew Liptak '03.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave a lecture in connection with the 45th anniversary celebration of Ghana's Independence titled "The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah: Neocolonialism and Morality in an Age of Terror" at Syracuse University.

Nearly 75 percent of Muslim Americans either know someone who has been discriminated against or have themselves experienced an act of anti-Muslim discrimination, harassment, verbal abuse or physical attack since September 11, according to a national survey released May 30 at the National Press Club by Hamilton College and Zogby International.

Tomasz Konopka of Aleppo, Syria, was valedictorian of Hamilton's class of 2002. Luciana Maxim of Vrancea, Romania, was class salutatorian. Konopka was a physics/computer science double major, and Maxim majored in mathematics and sociology.

Video coverage of Hamilton's Commencement 2002 is available for viewing on the Web. To access the video you'll need Quick Time or Window's Media player. Both are free downloads from Macintosh or Windows operating systems.

Mary V. Rojas, visiting professor in religious studies and a Grinnell Consortium Fellow, has been granted a second year at Hamilton. In April, she gave a lecture to the Regional Academy of American Religion titled, "She Bathes in a Sacred Place: Didactics of Scratching Sticks in Native American Women's Rites of Seclusion." (Session: "Construction of Women's Religious Identity")