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Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and associate professor of economics, was quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article "Fed sees economic 'traction'; Interest rates raised quarter-point."  Owen said, "The rate boosts are a calculated gamble. By raising rates, the Fed can hope to reduce inflationary pressures throughout the economy, but it cannot have a significant impact on oil prices, and the increased interest rates will undoubtedly cost jobs."

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by Voice of America radio about the future of China's Communist Party.  Li said Hu and Wen appear to be positioning the party to deal with the increasing likelihood of challenges to the Communist Party's monopoly on power.

Environmentalist and author Dai Qing's gave a talk, "The Three Gorges Dam: China's Environmental and Political Crisis," as part of the Levitt Center spring series on "The Environment:  Public Policy and Social Responsibility." She outlined the goals set forward for the dam when it was started in the 1970s: to create hydroelectric power, provide flood control and improve navigable shipping routes on the Yangtze River. 

Adam Bedient '04 and Dave Ewing '04, along with two students from Syracuse University, competed as the Hamilton/Syracuse team in the College Curling National Tournament in St. Paul, Minn., March 12-14. The team won the Bronze medal in Division III.

Richard Bernstein, a 1980 graduate of Hamilton and chief U.S. strategist at Merrill Lynch, was interviewed for a New York Times article about the Bull market in stocks.  Bernstein was quoted as saying: "1People are plowing money into emerging-market debt and equity funds, and ignoring the fact that they could get 4 percent dividends on a U.S. food company,' Mr. Bernstein said. Investors often place too much emphasis on capital appreciation, he said, and too little on income."  

A Hamilton tradition will be renewed when the College Choir hits the road during spring break, performing in Rochester, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and Buffalo.  Under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981, the 68-member choir will present a number of sacred and secular favorites.

Dayton Duncan gave a lecture titled "How Lewis and Clark Wrote Their Way Across America, and Into Immortality" on March 4 to students in Sophomore Seminar 295: "On The Trail of Lewis and Clark" and other members of the Hamilton community. Duncan is the author of several books on the journey of Lewis and Clark, including Out West: A Journey Through Lewis & Clark's America, a book which students read in the Sophomore Seminar. In Out West, Duncan describes his travel along the trail of Lewis and Clark, a trip the students of the Sophomore Seminar class will make later this year. Duncan’s lecture focused on how the Lewis and Clark expedition’s dedication to writing has helped to create their legacy.

On March 2, Sandra Harding, professor of Women’s Studies and Education at UCLA, gave a lecture titled “Science and Technology Studies in a Postcolonial World: Recent Issues” as part of the Kirkland Project series on “Technology, Science and Democracy.” Harding is a distinguished figure in the philosophy of science, and the author of several books including The Science Question in Feminism, Whose Science, Whose Knowledge? , Is Science Multicultural?, and her forthcoming Must Science Advance Inequality? In her lecture, she discussed the growing field of multicultural and postcolonial science studies, which use critical rationality to examine science itself.

On March 2, Sandra Harding, professor of Women’s Studies and Education at UCLA, gave a lecture titled “Science and Technology Studies in a Postcolonial World: Recent Issues” as part of the Kirkland Project series on “Technology, Science and Democracy.” Harding is a distinguished figure in the philosophy of science, and the author of several books including The Science Question in Feminism, Whose Science, Whose Knowledge? , Is Science Multicultural?, and her forthcoming Must Science Advance Inequality? In her lecture, she discussed the growing field of multicultural and postcolonial science studies, which use critical rationality to examine science itself.

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