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Nine different players scored at least one goal for St. Lawrence University as the nationally ranked No. 16 Saints defeated visiting Hamilton College 13-9 in a Liberty League game played at North Country Field on April 25.

Hamilton College dropped two New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division games against visiting Wesleyan University at Ferguson Fields on April 25.

New York City Program students entered a warped and twisted world in which two dimensions become three and three become two. No, they didn't stumble upon a portal to another universe or try too hard to understand a collateralized debt obligation. On April 7, they visited the Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison.

Larry Knop, professor of mathematics, recently presented two talks on "Google's PageRank, the Simple Version." The talks described the mathematics underlying the ranking method Google uses to determine the order in which web pages are displayed when you request a web search, which is by finding the dominant eigenvector of an 8 billion by 8 billion matrix.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin recently published a research article "Small label classes in 2-distinguishing labelings" in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea. In her paper Boutin describes a set of vertices that can be used to to disrupt all symmetries in a network and presents her results on how surprisingly small such a set of vertices can be in some well-known network families.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung gave an invited talk in Japanese at the Association for the Study of Korean Culture and Society at the University of Tokyo, Hongo, on April 2. Her talk was titled "Passing: Korean-Origin Hostesses in Japan."

Bita Moghaddamm, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, will give the 2009 John Rybash Memorial Lecture on Monday, April 27, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center, room G027. Her lecture, "Thinking Differently About Schizophrenia," is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College lost 2-0 against visiting Wesleyan University in a well-played New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division contest at Ferguson Fields on April 24.

Middlebury College scored a run in the bottom of the 13th inning to edge visiting Hamilton College 4-3 in a New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division game played in Middlebury, Vt., on April 24.

"What must we do to end world poverty?" William Easterly asked his audience in the Chapel on April 23. After all, such widespread destitution "is unacceptable in a world with so much affluence." Easterly is professor of economics at New York University and co-director of NYU's Development Research Institute.