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Professor of Classics Shelley Haley was featured in a Chicago Tribune article about interracial marriages (3/27/02). In "The new mix: more black women and white men are settling what some consider the final frontier of interracial marriage," Haley talks about her own marriage of 27 years to a white man.

Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina–Canal has edited a book, Del rascacielos a la catedral: un regreso a las raices (University of Leon Press, 2001), an interdisciplinary volume dealing with Leonese, Spanish, Latin American, Hispanic and American issues on politics, medicine, biotechnology, art, natural sciences, pedagogy, linguistics, women and cultural studies, economics, history and literature. Besides serving as editor and translator, Tejerina-Canal also contributed to the volume with a welcome note, introduction to the international symposium, the prologue and final article of the book, “Entre Napoleon y Ortega: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.”

Valentine Sheldon, a 1991 graduate of Hamilton, is among entrepreneurs featured in a Wall Street Journal article (3/27/02) about small businesses that are succeeding despite the economy.

Dr. Richard Shore will perform a one-man show about the life, ideas and adventures of Sierra Club founder John Muir on Wednesday, April 10, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel at Hamilton College. The performance, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the environmental studies program.

Sociology Professor Mitchell Stevens' book, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton University Press) is reviewed in the latest edition (April 11) of the New York Review of Books. The book was reviewed by Howard Gardner, who teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Alison Lin, a Hamilton junior from Westerville, Ohio, is a finalist for the prestigious Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship is a national, $30,000 merit-based grant awarded to undergraduate students who plan to attend graduate or professional school in preparation for careers in government, the non-profit sector or elsewhere in public service.

Sixth graders from Wettel Elementary School in Vernon got a taste of college on March 21 when they visited Hamilton science faculty. Biology Professor David Gapp, Physics Professor Gordon Jones, Geology Professor David Bailey, Chemistry Professor Karen Brewer and Psychology Professor Doug Weldon wowed the students with optical illusions, microscopic views of local minerals, the physics of pressure with a bed of nails, the always-popular boa-constrictor Lily, and the making of slime.

Ava Bromberg, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2002-2003. Bromberg, a Phi Beta Kappa student who has a double major of studio art and Asian studies, was selected from among 1,000 students who applied for the awards.

Hamilton College Professor of Classics Shelley Haley tells of a strange occurrence each year on the Ides of March at Caesar's tomb in Rome. Haley is an expert on Cleopatra and Ancient Rome.

Four faculty members from the English, theatre & dance, Africana studies and sociology departments were approved for tenure by the college's board of trustees during their recent meeting. The granting of tenure is based on recommendations of the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and the committee on appointments, with the president of the college presenting final recommendations to the board of trustees.