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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.

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.

Professor of Geology Eugene Domack received a grant from the Central New York Regional Planning Board to study the depositional history and environmental consequences of the Oneida Creek delta in Oneida Lake. With Scott Ingmire of the Madison County Planning Office, Domack will begin a year-long investigation of the depositional processes and accretion rates of the delta in order to understand the relative role of wave action versus flood activity across the eastern shoreline of the lake. This is part of a larger effort supported by the CNYRPB in development of the Oneida Lake watershed plan, one of the largest watershed districts in New York State. Domack gave an invited paper at the 9th Annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet symposium held in Sterling, Va., and a talk at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in November. In addition, he has recently published three papers in Marine Geophysical Researches, Geology and Paleoceanography.

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.

Assistant Professor of Government Robert Martin presented a paper titled "Stigmatizing Dissent: The Democratic Societies of the 1790s and the Failure of the Deliberative Model" at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference in September. The paper was part of a panel Martin organized, "Political Problems and Social Agony: The Failures of Deliberative Democracy."

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao authored a book, Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language (Palgrave/ St. Martins, 2002), which demonstrates the central importance of translation as a mode of literary production in the development of Anglo-American Modernism. In addition, Yao organized and presided over the seminar "World Modernisms" at the fourth annual Modernist Studies Association Conference. The seminar sought the broaden the scope of the investigation into Modernism beyond the limits of Anglo-Euro-American culture.

The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs published Visiting Instructor of Government Carlos L. Yordan's essay "Resolving the Bosnian Conflict: The Past Failures of American and European Solutions" in its Winter 2003 issue. In addition, his review of John Mearsheimer's oft-cited book, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, is in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Yordan published an op-ed in the Syracuse, N.Y. Post-Standard on Oct. 10, titled "Winning the Public Relations War Before Defeating Saddam." The Utica, N.Y. Observer-Dispatch published another op-ed, titled "NATO Needs Realignment to Maintain Clout," on Nov. 17. He also published an article on the future of the trans-Atlantic alliance on the Canadian Institute of International Affairs publication Institute Affairs (November 2002). The article was titled "Recasting NATO for the Post 11 September World."

Associate Professor of English Doran Larson has published a paper titled "Taylor-Made Girls: Eroticizing Scientific Management in SISTER CARRIE," in the Columbia Journal of American Studies.