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Leah Byrne, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for study at the Karolinska Universitet in Stockholm, Sweden. Byrne's project is titled, "Locating Endogenous Nitrated Neurotransmitters: A Study in Immunocytochemistry."

Independent scholar and freelance writer Rick Perlstein will deliver a lecture, "The Kids Are(n't) All Right: Youth and American Politics, 1960-2002," on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit. The free lecture is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz was elected second vice-president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. He will serve as first vice president in his second year and president in his third year.

For some parents, packing up the kids to go to college means loading up the mini-van and driving a mile up College Hill Road. Instead of unpacking and moving into a residence hall in unfamiliar surroundings, arriving on campus with a new student brings back memories of years spent rooting on the Continentals, attending concerts in Wellin Hall or hearing Great Names speakers in the Field House.

Lisa Ervin, a 1999 graduate of Hamilton, is featured in the latest edition of Blades on Ice. Ervin, who competed in ladies singles skating in the early 1990s, now teaches skating for SABAH, the Skating Association for the Blind and Handicapped. The former U.S. novice and junior champion came across the organization four years ago, when she was teaching skating at Buffalo State.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz is series co-editor of the Theory and Interpretation Series at Ohio State University Press. The latest book published is, "Invisible Author: Last Essays" by the novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose.

Matthew Liptak, a junior at Hamilton College, has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for the 2002-03 academic year. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. He has also been selected as a Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow. That will enable Liptak to devote full-time effort to his research project for an eight to 10 week period this summer, and will culminate with a poster presentation at Pfizer's Global Research & Development Laboratories in Groton, Conn., in October.

Edward Walker '62, former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Egypt and currently president of the Middle East Institute, wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times (3/21/02) about the need for other countries to reform before getting aid from the U.S.

Members of the environmental studies class, "Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondacks," went snowshoeing around Old Forge in the Adirondack mountains. The class is a new sophomore seminar that offers an interdisciplinary approach to learning. It is taught by Professor of Biology Ernest Williams and Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans.

Richard Nelson, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton, wrote and directed a new play, "Franny's Way," that is receiving accolades in New York's theatre world. In a New York Times review (3/28/02), the play is described as "Richard Nelson's sensitively drawn portrait of love in the age of J. D. Salinger... 'Franny's Way,' which opened Tuesday night at the Atlantic Theater in a Playwrights Horizons production, reaffirms Mr. Nelson's distinctive gifts as a creator of memory plays that sting."