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Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung gave an invited talk in Japanese at the Association for the Study of Korean Culture and Society at the University of Tokyo, Hongo, on April 2. Her talk was titled "Passing: Korean-Origin Hostesses in Japan."

Bita Moghaddamm, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, will give the 2009 John Rybash Memorial Lecture on Monday, April 27, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center, room G027. Her lecture, "Thinking Differently About Schizophrenia," is free and open to the public.

New York City Program students entered a warped and twisted world in which two dimensions become three and three become two. No, they didn't stumble upon a portal to another universe or try too hard to understand a collateralized debt obligation. On April 7, they visited the Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison.

Hamilton College lost 2-0 against visiting Wesleyan University in a well-played New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division contest at Ferguson Fields on April 24.

Middlebury College scored a run in the bottom of the 13th inning to edge visiting Hamilton College 4-3 in a New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division game played in Middlebury, Vt., on April 24.

"What must we do to end world poverty?" William Easterly asked his audience in the Chapel on April 23. After all, such widespread destitution "is unacceptable in a world with so much affluence." Easterly is professor of economics at New York University and co-director of NYU's Development Research Institute.

The 11th Annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 26 at 11 a.m. The 5k (3.1 mile) fundraising run and walk on Hamilton's campus will benefit AIDS Community Resources, a not-for-profit organization.

On Wednesday, April 22, Derek C. Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented "Firm and Employee Effects of an Enterprise Information System: Micro-econometric Evidence" with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen from the Hanken School of Economics (HSE) in Helsinki, Finland at the Helsinki Center of Economic Research at the University of Helsinki. Jones also presented "The Nature and Effects of Corporate Governance in Co-operatives" on the same day at HSE.

Christopher Hill, visiting assistant professor of history, has been elected to the executive council for the South East World History Association. SEWHA was established 20 years ago as an affiliate of the World History Association, headquartered in London. It promotes the study of history that transcends national, regional and continental boundaries.

Hamilton College will compete in the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference track and field championships at Connecticut College's Silfen Field complex in New London, Conn., on April 25.