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Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin participated in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention in November. She chaired a panel on psycholinguistic approaches to course design, presentation and engagement. Her paper was titled "Evidence of Interlanguage Studies and Target Structure Selection."

Original compositions by 13 students in MUS 277, Music for Contemporary Media, at Hamilton College can be heard on-line at http://academics.hamilton.edu/music/spellman/studio/archives The students are members of a class taught by Professor of Music Samuel Pellman, who also serves as director of the Studio for Contemporary Music. The class provides experience with the aesthetics and techniques of the modern recording studio, including the use of sound synthesizers, digital samplers and MIDI. These compositions are encoded as Standard MIDI Files and can be played on any PC that has a sound card or any Mac that has the Quicktime Musical Instruments installed (in the System Folder).

The Campus Activities Board will welcome comedian Keith Robinson on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.

Visiting Instructor of Religious Studies Scott Seay presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nov. 16-20. His paper was titled "Rapists and Arsonists: Racial Stereotypes and Capital Crime in Colonial New England." It explored how eighteenth-century New England ministers reflected and reinforced popular stereotypes of race and crime in sermons that were delivered immediately prior to public executions.

Professor of Art Rand Carter, participated in a conference sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo. He gave both the opening and concluding lectures at this conference.

The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, Derek Jones, has accepted an invitation to become a research fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, a non-profit, research and educational institute dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on transition and emerging market economies.

On Nov. 15, Government Professor Cheng Li gave a speech at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies titled, "China's Road Ahead: Will the Upcoming Leaders Make a Difference?"

Jay Williams, Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, published an article in the Nov. 2001 edition of The Theosophist (India). The article titled, "The Sheng Ren and the Nabi" was originally given as a paper at the New York State Asian Studies Association.

Professor of French Roberta Krueger wrote, "'Nouvelles choses': Social Instability and the Problem of Fashion in the *Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry,* the *Menagier de Paris,* and Christine de Pizan's *Livre des Trois Vertus* in *Medieval Conduct,* edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L.A. Clark, (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 8, Dr. Donald K. Grayson gave a talk in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit on "Ice Age Extinctions." Grayson is an archaeologist who has written extensively about the extinction of large mammals like mammoths, giant ground sloths and sabertooth cats in North America during the Pleistocene. Grayson has been at the University of Washington since the mid-1970s, but he began his teaching career on the Hill, when the Anthropology Department was part of Kirkland College.