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Thomas Tull '92, founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures (the company jointly responsible for producing the films Batman Begins, Superman Returns, and 300), spoke to Hamilton students on April 17 in Wellin Hall about his journey from Hamilton to film production. Tull expressed appreciation for Hamilton's impact on establishing his success, and reciprocated by screening never-before-seen footage of Legendary Pictures' upcoming Batman sequel, The Dark Knight. 

Mark Reichenbach '09 is the recipient of a Freeman-ASIA Award. Freeman-ASIA Awards are designed to support American undergraduates who are planning to study in East or Southeast Asia. Reichenbach is currently studying at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and during the fall 2007 semester he studied in Beijing through the Associated Colleges in China program. He is a Chinese major and Japanese minor.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper on April 12 at the Northeast Modern Language Association convention in Buffalo. Titled "'In duabus quasi divisam insulis': Imagining Scotland's Borders in the Middle Ages," the paper discussed the symbolic resonance of the Anglo-Scottish border in a range of sources including medieval historical writing, popular poetry and government documents.

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Anne E. Lacsamana has been awarded a $30,000 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship based on her book project Revolutionizing Feminism: The Philippine Women's Movement in the Age of Terror. According to the AAUW, the selected fellows are a group of "exceptional women whose work promises to enhance such diverse disciplines as biology, philosophy, and anthropology."

Survivors of the genocide in Western Sudan's Darfur region will come to Hamilton as part of a national speaking tour called "Voices from Darfur" on Wednesday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the College Chapel. It is free and open to the public.

Helen Epstein, an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries, will give a lecture titled "The Invisible Cure, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Monday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton. 

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi traveled to San Antonio, Texas, in March to attend the annual meeting of ASIANetwork, an organization of 170 liberal arts colleges with Asian Studies Programs. Trivedi is currently serving as a member of the executive board of the organization for a period of three years. She has just begun a term as the chair of the Membership Committee which is responsible both for retaining members and identifying new members. This summer Trivedi will also contribute to the organization as a writer of grants, including one ASIANetwork plans to make to the Mellon Foundation.

John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts, was recently appointed senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This summer in Athens he will launch a new research project investigating architecture and social identity in Crete from the Classical period through Early Byzantine. Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the major research center for American scholars in Greece, and a forum for international collaboration.

A group of five students and four faculty members from the Chemistry Department traveled to New Orleans for the 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 6-10. They delivered 11 talks and posters that focused on research in chemistry, pedagogical innovation and faculty development. Student presenters were Amy Barrows '08, Brandon Clair '08, Katie Donahue '08, Elizabeth Faroh and Kaitlin Johnson '08. Chemistry faculty making the trip were Karen Brewer, Nicole Snyder, Valentin Sukharev and Tim Elgren.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen Goldberg was a speaker at Asian Art Study Day in Colgate University's Picker Art Gallery with Colgate professors Padma Kaimal and Robert Hung-Ngai Ho on Saturday, April 12.