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Associate Director of Community Research in the Levitt Center Judy Owens-Manley published an article with Professor Jan Hagen, School of Social Welfare, SUNY/Albany, titled "Issues in Implementing TANF in New York: The Perspective of Frontline Workers" in the April issue of Social Work. The authors conducted focus groups with frontline workers in two counties in upstate New York to study their functions, the interaction of welfare and domestic violence, and the process of decision making at the front line using case vignettes.

Hamilton College seniors are facing the harsh reality that their dream job may not fall right into their lap. Hamilton seniors were the focus of an article in the Utica Observer Dispatch detailing the scarcity of jobs for soon to be college graduates.

Hamilton College is one of four institutions that will receive money from a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund a five-year project, titled “On the Cutting Edge,” which is designed to improve the quality of undergraduate geoscience education. Barbara J. Tewksbury, the Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Geology, has been awarded more than $70,000 from the grant for 2002, and will receive additional funding each year for the next five years.

A workshop on sophomore seminar design will be held on May 22 and 23 from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the Burke Library and Classrooms. This is sponsored by the offices of the vice presidents for academic affairs and information technology, oral communication, Burke Library, and the HILLgroup. Registration is required.

Assistant Professor of Government Yael Aronoff was elected to the Governing Council of the International Society for Political Psychology, 2002-2004.

Hamilton College hosted the Ninth Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference on April 27. This one-day conference brought more than 400 students and faculty from universities and colleges in New York and New England to Hamilton's campus. Co-organizers were Associate Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz and Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, will deliver the Winton Tolles Lecture on Thursday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in the College Chapel. The title of her talk is "A Dialogue on Love."

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck was quoted in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in an article titled "Desire to dish slowly returning" about gossip post-Sept. 11.

In April, Visiting Instructor of Government Kristin Campbell presented a paper titled "Struggling to Set the Campaign Agenda: Candidate Strategy and Campaign Dialogue in Senate Elections" at the annual Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.

Robert Pollin, professor of economics and a founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at UMass Amherst, will present “The Living Wage and Global Anti-Sweatshop Movements: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?” on Monday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium. This program is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and the Hamilton College Economics Department.