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Naturalist, author and activist Bruce Kershner will deliver a lecture, "A Stunning Tour of the Last Ancient Forests in New York State" on Wednesday, April 24, at 3 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by the biology department and environmental studies program, is free and open to the public.

Tim Whitehead, a 1985 graduate of Hamilton College and head hockey coach at the University of Maine, was named the winner of the 2002 Spencer Penrose Award, which goes to the nation's top Division I hockey coach. The Spencer Penrose award is chosen by members of the American Hockey Coaches Association, and the award will be handed out at the organization's annual banquet. That banquet is set for April 27 in Naples, Fla.

Dr. Janet Dorigan, senior biological research advisor for the Central Intelligence Agency, will deliver a lecture, "Forensic Applications of Stable Isotopes" on Friday, April 12, at 3 p.m. in Chemistry room 112. Refreshments will be served at 2:45 p.m. Her visit is sponsored by the Hamilton chapter of the American Chemical Society.

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, named Time Magazine's Man of the Year after his handling of the September 11 crisis, will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Series, Great Names at Hamilton. He will speak at the College less than two weeks after the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, on Monday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Jason Haas '05 was interviewed by local NPR affiliate WRVO about Hamilton's participation in the national Day of Silence on April 10. Haas organized the Hamilton event, in which supporters of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people took a nine-hour vow of visible silence to call attention to the ways LGBT people are silenced on college campuses.

Catherine Gunther Kodat, associate professor of English and American studies, has been awarded a Millicent C. McIntosh Flexible Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to especially promising, recently tenured faculty members in the humanities at liberal arts colleges.

The 4TH annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 28, on the Hamilton College campus. Proceeds from the AIDS Hike For Life benefit AIDS Community Resources, Teen AIDS Task Forces and Client Support Services in our local area. Registration on campus is Wednesday, April 10, from 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. in Beinecke.

"My Albertine," a new musical by Ricky Ian Gordon and Richard Nelson '72, will debut at the new Playwrights Horizon during the 2002-03 season. The nonprofit troupe will inaugurate its new building on West 42nd Street in February. The musical is inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past."

Author and educator Sue Rosser will deliver a lecture, "Including Gender and Race in Science Classrooms and Curriculum," on Monday, April 29, at 4:15 p.m., in the Chemistry Auditorium at Hamilton College. Her visit to campus is part of the Curricular Transformation Series funded by Hamilton's Hewlett Grant for Pluralism and Unity and sponsored by the Kirkland Project. It is free and open to the public.

Millie Ramirez, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded the College's Bristol Fellowship. The Bristol Fellowship was begun in 1996 as part of a gift to Hamilton College by William M. Bristol, Jr.(class of 1917). Its purpose is to perpetuate Mr. Bristol's spirit and share it with students of the college that was such an important part of his life. Created by his family, the fellowship is designed to encourage Hamilton students to experience the richness of the world by living outside the United States for one year and studying an area of great personal interest.