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William J. Hoyer,  professor and director of graduate training in experimental psychology at Syracuse University, will give a lecture titled "Aging, Skill Learning and Cognitive Expertise" on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 4:10 p.m., in the Hamilton College Science Auditorium.

Zhiqun Zhu, visiting professor of government, was interviewed by the Associated Press about President Bush's Asian tour.  Zhu said, "The hard feelings have their roots in debates over long-standing matters such as human rights and Asian versus Western values."  He continued, "They feel if the United States can take out Saddam, why can't they do it to other leaders, other nations? So they are suspicious, concerned, worried to some extent.  In the dispute between China and the United States, most of the nations seem to side with China."

Carlos Yordan, visiting professor of government, was quoted in an Associated Press article, "Symbolic victory seen for U.S. with resolution's approval at U.N.," about the U.N. resolution authorizing a multinational military force under U.S. command. Yordan said, "the resolution was a symbolic victory for Europeans as well because it "forces the United States to explain itself not only to its allies, but to China and Russia, too."

John A. Campbell, an expert in rhetorical theory and criticism, will give a lecture, "Debating Darwinism: Science as Argument and Civic Education," at Hamilton College on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 4:15 p.m. in the Red Pit of the Kirner-Johnson building.  This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Hamilton College department of rhetoric and communication.

Professor of Music Sam Pellman released a new CD recording, "Selected Planets," on the innova label (innova 597). The music on this CD, for digital and other electroacoustic instruments, was created over the past 14 years in Pellman's Hamilton College studio and was composed as a celebration of the accomplishments of the early exploration of the solar system by our robotic space probes. Further information about this recording can be found on his Web site. The CD is now available online from Amazon.com, Tower Records and Barnes and Noble.

Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery, host to "Hamilton Collects Photography: The First 100 Years," is sponsoring an exhibition tour on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. Co-curators William E. Williams '73, professor of fine arts and curator of photography at Haverford College, and William Salzillo, Hamilton professor of art and curator of the "Hamilton Collects" series, will lead the tour.

Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, will present "Integrated assessment of science and economics applied to air pollution and the Adirondacks," Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium.  The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center lecture series "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."

Hamilton’s recent poll conducted by Paul Hagstrom, associate professor of economics and director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, concerning immigration was featured in a Post-Standard editorial.

Author and storyteller Bobby Gonzalez will present, "The Tainos: The Native Americans Who Discovered Columbus," on Wednesday,  Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.  Gonzalez is Native American/Latino lecturer, storyteller, and poet from New York City, and the author of Song of the American Holocaust.

Jeannine Murtaugh, associate director of the Career Center, was one of the adult leaders or "the den mother" as she put it, for the nine first-year students who selected the Urban Service Experience (USE) program for their orientation.