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Sociology Professor Mitchell Stevens, author of the new book, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement,will be a guest on KUER radio (Salt Lake City) on Wednesday, Sept. 5, at noon. KUER is a public radio station operated by the University of Utah.The interview can be heard via KUER's Web site, www.kuer.org/listenlive.

The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College has received a $40,000 FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education) grant from the federal Department of Education, Office of Post-Secondary Education. The grant will be used for assessment and evaluation. Hamilton will participate with a network of 11 other colleges to design curriculum and develop strategies to teach the low-income parents who comprise the ACCESS Project.

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Cynthia Domack, an associate professor of geology at Hamilton College, has been promoted to full professor. Promotion to full professor is based on recommendations of the dean of faculty, the committee of appointments and senior departmental colleagues.The college president makes the final decision on promotion to full professor and in the case of tenure, presents the final recommendation to the board of trustees.

David Paris, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Hamilton College, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2001-2002 academic year, including five tenure track appointments, 23 visiting professors, and six lecturers, teaching fellows and instructors.

A performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream will be presented by Untitled at Large, a student-run theatre group, on Saturday, Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. in Root Glen. Enter through the Anderson Connell Alumni Center parking lot. Free.

The Kirkland Project the Study of Gender, Society and Culture has announced two upcoming events. Paula Rothenberg, director of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, will give a lecture titled "Learning to See the Squirrels: Multicultural Curricular Perspectives and Critical Thinking," on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 4:15 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. On Thursday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel, Lorene Carey will give a lecture titled, "Living to Tell the Tale," a discussion of her experiences as an African-American woman teaching in elite educational institutions.

Joycelyn Moody, an English professor from the University of Washington, Seattle, has been named to hold the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies Chair for the 2001-2002 academic year at Hamilton College.

The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College has received a $500,000 grant from New York State through the office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to launch its model pilot program.

Utica native and Congressman Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, will deliver the Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College tonight, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture, titled "Creating a Scientifically Literate Political Culture," is free and open to the public.