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Robert Baker, lead author of the report to the American Medical Association on African Americans and organized medicine, which led the association to apologize for past segregationist policies, joined with co-authors Eddie Hoover and Todd Savitt this week to present a panel discussion on the report to the AMA House of Delegates in Orlando,  Fla. Baker is the William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy, chair of the Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative and director of the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program.

Hans-Friedrich Mueller, professor and chair of the Classics Department, offered a workshop on Roman law for state high school teachers in Saratoga Springs at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Empire State. In light of the financial crisis on Wall Street, he focused on debt-bondage and ancient alternatives to repayment, which included hard labor, slavery and sex work. The latter, according to Cicero, eventually led to a complete overthrow of archaic Rome’s personal finance industry.

An article by George Gmelch, “An Anthropologist on the Team: Studying One’s Former Profession,” was published in the October issue of Anthropology Today. Gmelch’s “The Marketing of the Aluminum Baseball Bat” is included in the fall issue of Nine: The Journal of Baseball History and Culture. Gmelch is the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology.    

Mary Olushoga '06 was selected to serve as a 2009 Women and Public Policy Fellow at the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society. The premier women’s leadership development program is designed to promote equity and excellence in public service and encourage government to be more responsive to the needs of women, children, families and communities in New York state.