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Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religion, gave a talk titled "Thomas Nast's Vision of America" to the Friends of the Dolgeville Library on April 26. Nast was America's foremost political cartoonist of the 19th century, active from 1857 until his death in 1902. Williams has an extensive collection of Nast's pictures.

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled "The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin: How Deep and What Impact?" at the 63rd Annual Conference of the New York State Political Science Association, held in New York City, April 24-25.

What do Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Luther Vandross, James Brown and Michael Jackson have in common? Well, yes, they are all African-American musical artists. But more important to NYC Program students, all of these artists have competed in the famous Apollo Theater's Amateur Night, which the students attended on April 22.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin recently presented lectures and workshops in Hong Kong and Beijing. She was invited to the College of Education at Hong Kong University to give a guest lecture on "The Role of Negotiation of Meaning and L2 Acquisition in a Classroom Setting" on April 18. The lecture was attended by 50 K-16 educators in the Hong Kong area specializing in foreign language education.

The Burke Library Browsing area will host "Nine canvases, One installation," an exhibition of an independent project in painting by Xin Wang, a senior art history and math double major. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 1, at 3 p.m. It is funded by the Casstevens Family Scholarship, supervised by Professor of Art William Salzillo, and co-curated with Couper Librarian Randy Ericson. Refreshments will be served.

Max Foster '10 pitched five shutout innings to lead visiting Hamilton College to a 7-4 win against SUNY Institute of Technology in a non-conference game played at Wildcat Field on April 28.

University of Pittsburgh Professor of Neuroscience Bita Moghaddam, presented the John Rybash Memorial Lecture on schizophrenia to the Hamilton community on April 27. The Lecture Series was established in honor of John Rybash, Hamilton College professor of psychology from 1991-1999, by his family, friends, colleagues and former students. Rybash died of cancer in June, 1999, at the age of 51.

Alex Shoulson '10 presented a talk on "Reason Machines: The Potential of Automated Theorem Proving" at the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference on April 18 at Union College. Shoulson raised the question, "why regress to pencil and paper to create mathematical proofs when we have super computers on our desktops, and illustrated the strengths and weaknesses of computer generated proofs?"

Charlotte Olcay '10 and Brandon Leibsohn '10, who are interning in the House of Representatives, participated in a luncheon sponsored by the Century Council to discuss the issue of underage drinking on April 23. The featured speakers at the luncheon were Washington Wizards NBA star Antawn Jamison and Olympic Gold volleyball player Misty May Treanor.

Ernest Williams, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Biology, gave an illustrated talk on April 26 at the Holland Patent library for the Trenton Greenbelt Committee. The title was "Sand Plains, Lupines, and Butterflies." This event was sponsored by the town of Holland Patent.