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Stephen Krensky, a 1975 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) article about writing as a career choice. Krensky has writtten about 65 children's books and also does independent work for Marc Brown Studios, adapting television shows of "Arthur the Aardvark" character into short books.

Dr. Paul Greengard, a 1948 graduate of Hamilton College who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, was featured in a NY Daily News article (Feb. 3, 2003) about his talented family. Greengard's wife is a sculptor, one son is a mathematician, another heads an IBM research facility, his daughter was a CNN producer and his sister won a Pulitzer Prize.

With this issue of Around the Hill, we're launching a new feature that each month will spotlight a different department on the Hamilton campus. We're kicking it off with a visit to Philip Spencer House and the business office.

Hamilton College will commemorate Black History Month by celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk with lectures by two scholars. Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, “Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s New World Social Geography,” on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Adolph Reed, author and professor of political science at the New School for Social Research, will discuss, “W. E. B. Du Bois and the *Souls of Black Folk* 100 Years Later: Race and Politics in Post-Jim Crow America,” on Monday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Poet Philip Memmer will read from his work on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College, as a guest in The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture “Masculinities” series. The reading is free and open to the public.

Baby Boy, directed by John Singleton will be the next film shown in The Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 (Red Pit). Screenings are free and open to the public.

The Presidential Lecture Series for Endowed Chairs presented a lecture by Professor Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs titled, "Vassals, Tributaries and Barbarians: The American Empire in the 21st Century," on Feb. 6.

The Hamilton College Department of Classics will welcome The Curio Theatre Company for a presentation of The Iliad, on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 4 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. This event is open to the public, free of charge. Refreshments will be served.

Poet Mark Doty will present a lecture and reading at Hamilton College as the Kirkland Project 2003 artist-in-residence. Doty will give a lecture on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Kirner-Johnson 109 (the Red Pit), and he will read from his poetry and prose on Friday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin presented a paper on "Empirical Evidence on Processing and Learning Strategies in Multimedia Chinese Reading Tasks" at the Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy at the University of Chicago, October 11-13. She also gave two lectures to graduate students at the Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, in November: "Chinese Character Processing Strategies in Multimedia Word Recognition Tasks," and "Acquisition Process of Children with Language Disorders.”