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In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark off to find a water route to the west. Their mission was to map the unchartered territory from St. Louis to Oregon. In 2002, Hamilton College Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris sent History Professor Maurice Isserman and Associate Professor of Geology Todd Rayne off to retrace Lewis and Clark's journey. Isserman and Rayne will be teaching a interdisciplinary sophomore seminar on Lewis and Clark in spring 2004.

On Wednesday, Sept. 18, David Horowitz, a conservative activist, writer and publisher of the online magazine, “Frontpagemagazine.com,” will appear with Hamilton History Professor Maurice Isserman in a forum titled, “Can the Left and the Right Find Anything to Agree About the Sixties?” Horowitz’s books include Destructive Generation, Second Thoughts About the Sixties and Radical Son. Isserman is co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s and The Other American: the Life of Michael Harrington. The forum will be presented in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Red Pit at 7:30 p.m.

Martin Charron, Ph.D., a research associate in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, will speak at Hamilton on September 16. His seminar, “A testicular dilemma: how gene expression in Sertoli cells is regulated by male germ cells,” is part of the Hamilton College Biology Department Seminar series. The event is in the Science Auditorium at 4:10 pm.

Director of the Library Information Systems Ken Herold will participate as a correspondent with the Information Ethics Group (IEG), a research association and joint collaboration between Oxford University and the Università degli Studi di Bari. The area of research of the IEG is the philosophy of information, the theoretical field concerned with the critical investigation the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilization and sciences, and the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems.

Hamilton College marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 with a number of events throughout the day. The Chapel bell rang at 10:29 a.m. and members of the Hamilton community bowed their heads, remembering those who died on September 11. At 7:30 p.m. the community is invited to gather for a candlelight procession that will make its way to the steps of the Burke Library for an address by President Tobin at 7:50 p.m.

At a candlelight vigil in the evening of September 11, more than 300 members of the Hamilton community mourned those who died in the terrorist attacks. Hamilton President Eugene Tobin addressed the gathering with words of remembrance but also of hope and promise for the future. Particularly honored were the three Hamilton alumni -- Art Jones '86, Adam Lewis '87, and Sylvia San Pio Resta '95 -- who perished a year ago.

A article shows that Muslim Americans still feel singled out since 9/11, a year later. The article quotes the recent Hamilton College and Zogby International “Muslim America” poll. The poll indicates that about 60 percent of Muslim Americans know people who have been victims of anti-Muslim discrimination, harassment or physical attack since September 11.

Julie Dunsmore, assistant professor of psychology, was quoted in a Morning Herald article about September 11. Dunsmore studied how children reacted to the event. She advises parents to turn off the television. “What we found is that kids who had more frequent exposure to the media had fewer ideas of how they could deal with the attacks,” Dunsmore said. She added, “kids were most helped by parents who had open attitudes, who talked about feeling anger, fear and other emotions, who explained how to work through those feelings.” Dunsmore’s study revealed that children benefited the most when they made a contribution to their community.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson has been selected as a consultant for Columbia University's Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) program. This initiative explores new curricular approaches to integrating East Asia in American undergraduate education.

Professor of Geology Eugene Domack is quoted in a Science magazine article (August 20, 2002) on the demise of the Antarctic Peninsula’s ice shelves, in particular the Larsen B ice shelf. In 1999, Domack’s team, working on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nathaniel B. Palmer collected ice cores in waters where a section of the Larsen B broke off. Based on the age of the glacial till under Larsen A, said Domack, “the erstwhile Larsen B was at least 11,000 years old, implying that the breakup [of the ice shelf] is now extending farther south than ever before in the Holocene.” These findings suggest that ice shelves break up faster than anyone thought before, and global warming may be an important factor in this region.