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Sarah Gloo, a May graduate of Hamilton College, was named ECAC Lacrosse Player of the Year. She averaged 4.23 goals per game, placing her 10th in the nation. Gloo's teammates, Caty Wakefield and Lauren Bruce joined Gloo on the ECAC Division III Upstate Women's Lacrosse All-Star first team.

Associate Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith presented two posters, co-authored with Hamilton students, at the international Dynamic Processes Conference 2001 in Lyon, France. Rachel Anderman '01 was a student co-author on the poster titled "Fluorescence line-narrowing and decay dynamics in sol-gel glasses containing Eu3+." Linwood Rumney '04, David Shaye '03, and Bryan Smith '03 were Hamilton student co-authors on the poster, "Red-to-green upconversion in Er-doped SiO2 and SiO2/TiO2 sol-gel silicate glasses." Both will appear as papers in the Journal of Luminescence.

"Lingua Franca," The Review of Academic Life, asked five experts to pick the best recent books about American political parties. Phil Klinkner's The Losing Parties" was chosen for the list by Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Hill and Wang, 2001).

J. Brian Atwood, former administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), joins the Hamilton College faculty as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs. The Linowitz Visiting Professorship, established in 1986, is named in honor of Sol Linowitz, a 1935 Hamilton graduate who served as ambassador to the Organization of American States, chairman of the board of Xerox and co-negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties. The holder of the Linowitz chair teaches an upper-level seminar course while at Hamilton.

Rit Fuller, Hamilton College Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, will be a guest on WCNY TV's program, "Central Issues," on Friday, Aug. 17 at 9 p.m. Fuller is a member of a panel that will discuss the use of standardized testing in college admissions.

The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College has announced the theme and programs for 2001-2002, "The Body in Question."

Dr. Paul Greengard, a 1948 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hamilton College and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver the keynote address, titled, "A Life in Science: Selected Memories," at Hamilton College's convocation on Sunday, Aug. 26, at 4 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Greengard will also be awarded an honorary degree from Hamilton at the convocation.

Some 160 members of Hamilton's class of 2005 are arriving on campus a week earlier than their classmates to participate in Adirondack Adventure, an eight-day outdoor program that takes them on one of 18 trips into the Adirondacks.

Mitchell Stevens, assistant professor of sociology, and author of a new book about homeschooling, will be a guest today (Aug. 9) at 5:20 p.m. on Washington, D.C. news radio WTOP. Stevens will talk about a recent federal government study that shows an increase in the number of homeschooled children. The interview can be heard live via the Internet on RealPlayer.

A.G. Lafley, a 1969 graduate of Hamilton College, was elected to the board of directors of General Motors. He was named president and chief executive officer of Procter & Gamble in June 2000. Lafley is also a member of Hamilton's Board of Trustees.