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Dr. James Cobey, a 1965 graduate of Hamilton College and an orthopaedic surgeon at Washington Hospital Center, has received a $50,000 Frank Annunzio Award in the Arts/Humanities/ Humanitarian field from the Christopher Columbus Foundation for his efforts to help victims with devastating injuries due to landmines and his work to ban landmines.

Bob Simon (Philosophy) was one of three speakers at a conference held at Trinity College, titled "The Game of Life and the Liberal Arts College." The conference examined the claims of the widely discussed book The Game of Life, about the effects of intercollegiate athletics on academics at selective liberal arts colleges.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Opportunity Programs, and the Chaplaincy are sponsoring a Gospel Workshop on November 14-16. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please reserve a space by forwarding an Email to mdavid@hamilton.edu.

Last summer Craig Latrell (Theatre and Dance) chaired two panels and presented three papers on intercultural theatre and teaching Asian theatre at the annual conferences of the Association for Asian Performance and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. At the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, he chaired a panel called "Performing the State: Images of State Power and National Identity in Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Pacific." For that panel, he presented a paper on Singapore's new performing arts center as an image of the state. A portion of Latrell's article "After Appropriation" appears in Richard Schechner's new book Performance Studies: An Introduction, published by Routledge. Latrell was also elected by the Association for Asian Performance, the national association for Asian performance scholars, to serve a second term as president. In addition, Latrell's review of Robert Yeo's Singapore Trilogy appears in the current issue ofAsian Theatre Journal.

The Jazz Archive, located in the lower level of McEwen will be open during the following hours for the rest of the fall semester. Monday & Wednesday 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Appointments may also be made with Monk Rowe at ext. 4071.

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair will deliver a lecture at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 4:30 p.m. at Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick. Her talk is titled "Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America." The lecture is open to the public. For more information call the IRW at Phone: 732-932-9072, or e-mail irw@rci.rutgers.edu·

Psychological anthropologist Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for a USA Today article (10/16/02) about 20th century Fox's decision to postpone release of "Phone Booth," a movie about a man trapped in a phone booth by a sniper. The movie studio decided to delay the release of the film, which was to open Nov. 15, because of the ongoing sniper attacks in the Washington D.C. area. The decision "is socially responsible," says Raybeck. "Some studios try to cash in on misfortune."

Professor of Africana Studies and French Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting is the author of Negritude Women, published by University of Minnesota Press. According to the publisher's Web site, "The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood almost exclusively in terms of the contributions of its male founders: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon G. Damas. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women in its creation and evolution. In Negritude Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by the women who were not merely integral to the success of the movement, but often in its vanguard."

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin and Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu have been awarded a grant from the National Science Council (NSC) in Taiwan to work with colleagues in the Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at National Taiwan Normal University during 2002 and 2003. The grant provides about $32,000, which will support Jin's and Xu's research and living expenses for 10 months in Taiwan to work on two projects: a book on teaching Chinese as a second language and experimental studies of multimedia effects on language acquisition.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts continues its Contemporary Voices and Visions series with a performance and residency by the Steve Wilson Jazz Quartet. The performance will be Saturday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall on the Hamilton College campus, and residency activities will take place on Friday, Oct. 25. The Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble will perform one selection with the Steve Wilson Quartet.