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Adrien Brody, best known for his Oscar-winning role as Wladyslaw Szpilman in Roman Polanski's 2002 film The Pianist, has made a major donation to For the Good, Inc., announced president and CEO Cassandra Harris-Lockwood K'74 on June 19. For the Good, Inc., is an independent nonprofit agency that promotes community development in the city of Utica, N.Y.  

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented a talk titled "Distinguishing Classes" at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Discrete Mathematics held at the University of Vermont, June 16-19. In her talk, Boutin described a set of vertices that can be used to remove all symmetries from a network and presented her results on how surprisingly small these sets of vertices can be in some well-known network families.

Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, will present "The Polar Regions: Climate of Extremes on a Changing Planet," Monday, June 23, at 6 p.m. at the Uptown Theater in Utica. Domack's presentation is the first of three free events scheduled to raise environmental awareness in the Mohawk Valley.

Europe at Bay: In the Shadow of U.S. Hegemony, co-authored by Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny (with Magnus Ryner of Oxford University), has been shortlisted for the annual book prize of the International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association. The winner of the Award will be announced in December 2008. The IPEG Book Prize seeks to identify the best book published in political economy on an annual basis.

The corn may not be knee-high yet, but the Hamilton Community Garden is growing enthusiastically. The garden, a half-acre plot behind the Ferguson House parking lot, is being cared for by three students over the summer. Andrew Pape '10 and Chris Sullivan '09 are planting and tending the main garden, while Melissa Balding '09 will oversee the 1812 Heritage Garden.

Six Hamilton College faculty members will be promoted to the rank of professor, effective July 1. Associate professors Douglas Ambrose, history; Paul Hagstrom, economics; Lydia Hamessley, music, Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, religious studies; Catherine Kodat, English; and Onno Oerlemans, English, will receive the title of professor.

Tom Morrell '10 (Randolph, N.J.), a chemistry major, is working with Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Professor of Chemistry Thomas Castonguay to study how water clusters into small aerosol cores. Because increasing temperatures from greenhouse gases cause more water to enter the air via evaporation and this water, in turn, forms clouds that cool temperatures by reflecting sunlight, understanding how these water clusters form is an important component to studying global climate change. Building upon research he started last summer, Morrell's current project will focus on analyzing sulfuric acid and ammonium aerosol cores, which are both abundant in clouds.

"Weekend America," a nationally syndicated radio show produced and distributed by American Public Media via NPR, will feature an interview with Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, on the weekend of June 21. Part of an ongoing series titled "This Weekend in 1968," the interview includes Isserman's account of how on the night of his high school graduation in June 1968, he boarded a train for Washington, D.C. and joined a rally in support of the Poor People's Campaign. America Public Media is the nation's second-largest producer and distributor of public radio programs.

As part of a one-hour show highlighting NCAA spring sports, Hamilton's Peter Kosgei '10 will be featured on CBS Sports TV this Sunday, June 22, beginning at 2 p.m. Kosgei, a runner, won four national titles in 2007-08, including two at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships. Learn more about Peter's remarkable year here.

For Kate Fillion '10 (Clinton, Conn.), working with children this summer isn't just fun and games. The rising junior is working as an intern at the Children's Psychiatric Partial Hospital Program (PHP), run in conjunction with the Yale Children's Hospital Child Psychiatric Inpatient Service (CPIS). The program serves children aged 4 to 14 and offers schooling, therapeutic recreation and music therapy, as well as individual and group therapy. It employs doctors, nurses, counselors and social workers as well as student interns.