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In August, Professor of Biology Ernest Williams gave a lecture titled "Exploring Butterflies" at the Draper Museum of Natural History, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY, and afterward led a field trip for the museum to look at the behavior of butterflies in the field. Also this summer he published a non-technical article, "Gillett's Checkerspot: Life in a Mountain Meadow," in the summer issue of American Butterflies 9(2), pp. 6-13.

In August, Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Reynolds presented the poster, “Latitudinal species diversity and range-size gradients in the Scaphopoda,” co-authored with Nathan Gray '01 and Luke Hilpert '00, at the World Congress of Malacology in Vienna. He was also invited as co-chair of "Plasticity and Diversity in the Evolution of Marine Invertebrate Larvae.” at the 9th International Congress on Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, in July. Also in July, Reynolds also presented the poster, “Characterization of polychaete-dominated assemblages off the western Antarctic Peninsula: Palmer Deep and Andvord Bay” at the Seventh International Polychaete Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland. This work was co-authored with Daniel Catlin '01, Sara Paley '01, Courtney Zimmer '00 and Laura Steinmann '00.

Professor of Government Cheng Li has written three articles: "China's Political Succession: Four Myths in the U.S.,” published in Foreign Policy in Focus (May 2001); "China's Political Succession" published in Asia Program Report (June 2001); and "From Red to Green? The Chinese Communist Party at 80" (also translated into Russian, French, Spanish and other foreign languages) published in Project Syndicate (July, 2001). He also was invited to deliver a speech to an audience of 2,500 at the Chautauqua Institute in July. During the summer, Li gave a number of briefings to U.S. government agencies and non-governmental research institutions such as The Rand Corp. and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. He was frequently interviewed on national and international media, including BBC, Voice of America and Free Asia Radio. His work has been quoted or reviewed in The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, The Taipei Times, The Australian Financial Review, China Business Review, Los Angeles Times and Reuters News Service.

Joycelyn Moody, an English professor from the University of Washington, Seattle, has been named to hold the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies Chair for the 2001-2002 academic year at Hamilton College.

A Gay Issues Poll of 1,000 high school seniors was developed by Hamilton College and administered by Zogby International. The release of the survey coincides with the Sept. 3 premiere at 10:30 p.m. of the first "Fight for Your Rights: Take a Stand Against Discrimination" episode of Flipped, a reality-based TV series on MTV.

Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard '48 addresses the Hamilton community at the 190th Convocation ceremony on August 26th, at 4 p.m. EDT. Professor Greengard's remarks, titled "A Life in Science: Selected Memories," will be available as live and recorded streaming audio via the Hamilton Web site.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields received a $782,220 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation grant program. The grant allows a consortium of six northeastern liberal arts institutions to acquire a supercomputer for various computational chemistry research projects.

Under the leadership of Associate Professor of History Thomas Wilson and drawing on the expertise of other members of the Asian Studies Program, the College received a $1,171,500 four-year grant from the Freeman Foundation, which will provide funding for two new tenure-track faculty positions — one in Japanese languages and literature and another in Japanese social science. The grant will also enable the College to establish a new post-doctoral teaching fellows program to augment the breadth of its course offerings on Asia, and will provide funding for intensive short- and long-term student-faculty research collaborations both abroad and on campus.

The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College has received a $500,000 grant from New York State through the office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to launch its model pilot program.

Utica native and Congressman Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, will deliver the Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College tonight, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture, titled "Creating a Scientifically Literate Political Culture," is free and open to the public.