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Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, served on the committee for the MacArthur Foundation-Social Science Research Council's Global Security and Cooperation fellowships in April.

Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Robert Redfield spoke on "Lattice-ordered fields of quotients" at Technische Universität Darmstadt and Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Redfield presented a similar talk to an audience of mathematicians from Angers, Le Mans, and Paris at the equipe de Logique Mathématique de l'Université Paris 7.

Hamilton College has announced the names of five people who will receive honorary degrees at the College's 190th commencement on Sunday, May 26.The recipients are Stephen Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School; jazz pianist Dick Hyman; Paul Kellogg, general and artistic director of the New York City Opera; Broadway's The Producers librettist Thomas Meehan, a 1951 graduate of Hamilton; and Christie Whitman, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President George W. Bush.

Christie Whitman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 26, at 10:30 a.m. Whitman was sworn in as President George Bush's EPA administrator in January 2001. She served previously as the 50th governor of New Jersey.

Joseph Livingston, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship. Livingston will travel to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camps in Jordan for his study, "The Causes of Social Class Composition and Disparity among Palestinian Refugees in Jordan."

Timothy Whitehead '85 has been appointed head men's ice hockey coach at the University of Maine. Whitehead led the team to the National Championship game with a record of 26-11-8. A finalist for the 2002 Spenser Penrose Award, presented to the nation's top college hockey coach, Whitehead's career consists of a record of 102-106-16 and six years as a head coach.

Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, presented a paper, "Poverty Reduction or Population Transfer: Competing Interpretations of a China-Tibet Resettlement Project," at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The presentation was part of a panel on "Amdo-Gansu in China's Political Imaginaries."

Patrick Reynolds, associate professor of biology, published a chapter, "The Scaphopoda" in Advances in Marine Biology 42: 137-236.

Assistant Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented, "Is Trade Good for Your Health?" at SUNY Binghamton. This paper was co-written by Assistant Professor of Economics Steve Wu.

Students from Thomas R. Proctor High School in Utica visited with Hamilton College science faculty on March 22. Ram Subramaniam and SueAnn Senior of the chemistry department explained how chemicals are used to separate the components of an egg. The yolk was separated into protein and lipid (fat)components and students determined that the yellow color originated from the lipid. Senior suggested that a practical way to learn more about chemistry is to learn how to cook and observe how a change in temperature can affect the ingredients.