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Eleven Hamilton students have been named recipients of the Class of 1979 Student Travel Award. The awards are used to fund travel to various destinations where the students intend to do research, attend meetings or professional conferences relevant to their major. The students are: Redell Armstrong ’02, Nicole Caporusso ’02, Owen Charles ’02, Lorena Hernandez ’02, Matthew Liptak ’02, Heather Onderick ’02, Emma Pokon ’04, Chantelle Rein ’03, Jaime Skiba ’02, Brian Tilley ’05 and Jin Zhang ’04. Among the destinations of this year's recipients are New Delhi, the 42nd Annual Sanibel Symposium, Montreal, Ghana, Scotland and New York City.

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams published two book reviews in The Quest. He reviewed Tenzin Gyatso, Kalachakra Tantra: Rite of Initiation (The Quest July/August), and Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (The Quest, Sept/Oct 2001). Williams also published a poem, "Ar Werth" in the October issue of Y Drych.

The Music Department announces an Orchestra Concert on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Heather Buchman conducts Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, with Martin Nedbal '02 soloist. Free and open to the public.

The working poor of Oneida County face a bleak future, according to a survey by Hamilton College Levitt Fellow Karen Pogonowski. During the summer she interviewed Food Bank clients and surveyed welfare recipients at offices in Utica and Rome, using a questionnaire developed by the Children’s Defense Fund. She also analyzed data from the Head Start surveys conducted last spring by Erin Reid ‘01. This week Karen reported to an assembly of students and faculty the results of these surveys which were part of her research as a Levitt Fellow. Sponsored by the Levitt Public Affairs Center, she worked with Associate Director of Community Programs, Judith Owens-Manley.

Untitled at Large, Hamilton's student-run theatre group, will present Little Shop of Horrors in three performances this weekend. Shows will be held Thursday, Nov. 29 at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30 at 8:30 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 1 at 9 p.m., all in the Fillius Events Barn. Funded by Student Assembly, donations encouraged.

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams will give a gallery talk on Friday, Nov. 30 at 4 p.m. in the Chapel. The topic is "Thomas Nast: Image Maker." Williams' talk coincides with the Emerson Gallery's exhibit "Christmas with Thomas Nast," which features woodblock prints of Santa Claus from Williams' private collection.

A Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols will be held on Friday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. A traditional candlelight service to hear familiar carols and readings of the season with the music of the College Choir, Anthony R. Reeves, director. Families welcome.

HAVOC is presenting its annual holiday event, The Giving Tree. Beginning December 3, there will be trees in both Cafe Opus and Beinecke. These trees will have ornaments, and each of these ornaments details a gift request from a needy family in the greater Utica area. (i.e. gloves and hat for a 6-year-old girl, or crayons and coloring books for an 8-year-old boy, etc.) Next to each of these trees will be a box for the gifts. Please wrap the gifts that you supply and also ATTACH THE ORNAMENT, so that we know what is inside and who to bring it to! The deadline for the gifts is December 11, so that we have adequate time to deliver the gifts. If you do take an ornament, please remember: that gift is now your responsibility. You may take as many or as few ornaments as you like, but if you take an ornament, please follow through with the gift. Contact kwilliam@hamilton.edu with questions.

The Nov. 30 Think Tank will feature English Professor Dana Luciano on the topic "Disaster, Public Grief, and Memorial." Think Tank will be held at noon in KJ 222. All are welcome. Luciano says,"My talk will outline some of the ways that we understand public grief. I will focus on trauma brought about by large-scale disaster (war, genocide, fire, bombing, natural disaster, etc) and will consider rituals and measures designed to cope with the emergence of a traumatized public. The discussion will highlight mourning rituals and modes of memorial that developed in the wake of the September 11th bombing of the World Trade Center." Bag lunches will be provided. (Please RSVP with your meal card number).

Amber Hollibaugh, a political activist, essayist and award-winning filmmaker will visit Hamilton College on Nov. 28-30 for three events. All are free and open to the public. The events are sponsored by the Kirkland Project as part of its Body in Question series.