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Batu Erman '91, a molecular biologist from Turkey, has won the Marie Curie Excellence award from the European Commission for his work on cancer and AIDS. Erman, an assistant professor at Sabanci University, won the award for "his contribution to the fight against cancer and AIDS." His research is on "Molecular Biological Targeting of T Lymphocyte Signal Transduction and Development."

On April 9, John Hewko '79, vice president of the Department of Compact Development at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, discussed the fundamental concepts behind the newly-formed Millennium Challenge Corporation as well as related themes currently being discussed in the realm of the foreign aid debate.

Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley has contributed an entry, "Bosnian Americans," in a new reference book, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society edited by Richard Schaefer and published by Sage Publications. Owens-Manley is co-author of Bosnian Refugees in America: New Communities, New Cultures.

Leide Cabral '10 attended a briefing co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 9. The session focused on the positive results of expanded learning time programs in secondary schools.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur wrote an article for Sociology Compass titled "Social Movements in Organizations." The article reviews the literature on social movements that exist within organizations like colleges, religious orders, corporations and governmental agencies from disparate academic fields and outlines the main questions within this area of research, with the aim of introducing students and scholars to this area of research and its possibilities.

Priya Ananth, visiting assistant professor of Japanese, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta, April 3-6. She gave a poster presentation titled "Form-Meaning Association in toki 'when' clauses in Japanese -- A corpus analysis of native speakers' data."

David W. Rivera, lecturer in government, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago on April 3. Titled "The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin: How Wide and How Deep?" and co-authored with Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera, the paper examined the dominant paradigm for understanding contemporary Russia, which views Russia as a "militocracy" or "neo-KGB state."

Ethan Anthony, president of HBD/ Cram and Ferguson Inc., will present a lecture on the architecture of Ralph Adams Cram on Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium in the Science Building. Cram is most famous for his "collegiate gothic" style, and his work is represented on a number of campuses, including Cornell University, Rice University and The University of Notre Dame.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung presented two papers at the Annual AsiaNetwork Conference in March at Trinity University in Texas. In "How to Introduce Controversial Issues in the Classroom: Case Study of a 'Sex Work and Emotional Labor' Course," Chung argued that dialectic Socratic Method would be effective for covering controversial issues in a classroom. Based upon her teaching experience at Hamilton and Colorado College, Chung confirmed that the dialectic teaching method encourages students to engage in critical thinking and reflexivity.

Danielle Sclafani '08 a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to South Korea, where she will teach English.