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Patrick Cook-Deegan, a 2008 graduate of Brown University who raised funds to build schools in Laos by bicycling through Southeast Asia, will give a presentation about his experiences on Thursday, April 23, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is sponsored by STAND, the student coalition against genocide, and is free and open to the public.

Burnt Shadows, the latest novel by Kamila Shamsie '94, has been nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. The Orange Prize is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman in the English language. It was established in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, has been elected to a term on the board of trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation. Located at the Ohio State University, it was created in 1967 at the first international James Joyce Symposium in Dublin.

Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, gave a paper, Pragmatism, Fallibilism, and War," at the University of Rochester on April 18. It was part of a symposium in honor of Professor Robert L. Holmes who is retiring from the University of Rochester Philosophy Department after 47 years. Professor Holmes is Werner's mentor.

Roger S. Gottlieb, professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will give a lecture titled "A Little Good News For a Change" on Wednesday, April 22, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College dropped two non-conference games against host Union College at Alexander Field on April 21.

Rain has postponed the non-conference baseball game between Hamilton College and SUNY Oneonta scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, at DeLutis Field in Rome, N.Y.

Hamilton's crew team participated in the inaugural Houlihan Cup race on April 18, losing to St. Lawrence. The Houlihan Cup is in honor of Matthew Houlihan '03, a member of the crew team who died in 2000. 

Skip Besthoff '92 presented the third talk in the ongoing "Investment & Finance Series" (IFS) promoted by alumni Brian Chiappinelli '92 and John Merrill '92. Besthoff came to Hamilton on April 15 and conducted two sessions with students. He met informally with a group of five students at the Career Center, and discussed his career path and their career interests in this challenging market.

Ethics, because of its objectivity, is an inherently murky subject. It is at times so theoretical and speculative that it can seem to be almost incompatible with economic theory, a very secular and pragmatic field of study. It is this relationship that Norman Bowie examined in his lecture at Hamilton on April 20, titled "Economics, Friend or Foe of Ethics?" Bowie, formerly a member of Hamilton's Philosophy Department in the 1970s, is the Elmer Anderson Chair in Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management/Organization at the University of Minnesota.