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In the run up to this fall's elections, Congressman Boehlert has been criticized by some for his purported underperformance in securing congressional funds for his district. Both Democratic and Republican critics of Congressman Boehlert have claimed that federal spending in his district is well below average. They reference a study done for the Associated Press that looks at data through 2001. The study claims Boehlert's district ranked only 326th out of 435 congressional districts.

Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek C. Jones has received another grant for a project titled "Economic Performance and Human Resource Management Policies:  Econometric Evidence from the Baltics."  The grant was awarded by the National Council for Eurasian and East European research and will run from October 2004 thru the end of 2006.

Judith Owens-Manley, Associate Director for Community Research for the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, was interviewed by the Utica Observer Dispatch for an August 22 front-page article on poverty in the city.  Owens-Manley commented in “In city of need, poor feel abandoned – Utica & Poverty: Tough Lives, Bright Hopes” on poverty’s effects on children and the shrinking safety net of available federal funds to help those whose incomes are too small to provide for basic living necessities.

Terrorism expert and author of "Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks" Loretta Napoleoni will present the third lecture in the Hamilton College globalization speakers series, on Friday, April 30, at 7 p.m., in the Hamilton Chapel. This event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Senior Art Show, a final presentation of the work of 21 graduating fine arts majors, is open in the Emerson Gallery through Sunday, May 23. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and mixed media works.

Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny gave the Michael Dukakis Lecture at the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT) in Greece on Monday, April 19. His presentation was titled "U.S. Foreign Policy: From Kosovo to Iraq and Beyond."

A photograph by Visiting Photography Instructor Sylvia de Swaan is featured on the title page of the eighth edition of Photography, a college photography textbook. Another image created by de Swaan is included in the recently published Occasional Sights - London Guidebook of Missed Opportunities and Things That Aren't Really There.

Hamilton College was ranked 15th in total citations in a survey of economic scholarship among top liberal arts colleges published in the fall 2003 issue of the Journal of Economic Education. 

Hamilton College's Department of Religious Studies and the Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs are sponsoring a lecture titled  "Ramadan and Its Meaning for American Muslims" on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 4 p.m. on the first floor of the ESL Building.  The lecture will be presented by Yusuf Harfer, M.D., a local Muslim leader from Norwich.  His presentation will include an explanation of the spiritual meaning of Ramadan as well as the health effects of following Ramadan's restrictions on eating and drinking.  The program is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery presents the art of Käthe Kollwitz, a German woman and mother who offered the world a unique perspective on war. While her male contemporaries, two of whom are included in this exhibition, were illustrating the horrors of the World War I battlefields, Kollwitz illuminated the agony of the home front and the anxiety of a soldier’s mother. Open through February 15, the exhibition includes more than 30 Kollwitz lithographs and woodcuts along side the works of two male artists, Felix Vallotton and George Bellows.