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Katheryn Doran, associate professor of philosophy, gave a paper titled "Building Better People? Three Secular Arguments Against Germline Genetic Engineering," and Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett presented the paper "Preventing the Emergence of Evil in the 'New Eugenics'" at the 10th Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil. in Salzburg, Austria. 

Hamilton College blanked host Hobart College, 9-0, in a non-conference match played indoors at Bristol Field House on April 8.

Mary Daphne Kostakopoulos, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Turkey. She is a communication and French major at Hamilton.

Kevin Rowe '10 presented a paper at the Western Political Science Association Conference in Vancouver in March. Rowe is a government major at Hamilton. His paper was titled "Civic Environmentalism's Search for Identity: Reconciling Democracy and Environmental Protection." Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo also attended, and presented a paper on Thoreau and Civic Republicanism.

Michael Garcia, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Arts and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of English, presented a paper titled "The Existential Ethnic Self of Richard Wright's Black Boy" at the 100 Years of Richard Wright Conference held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, April 2-5.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series has canceled a classical Indian music concert by Shafaatullah Khan on Friday, April 10. Instead, the Asian Studies Program "Asia and the Arts" Series will present a concert by the Japanese Taiko drum group Taikoza. This concert will be held at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall and is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College outscored Union College in the second half, but it was not enough to overcome an early 3-0 deficit, and the visiting Continentals lost 8-6 in a Liberty League contest at Frank Bailey Field on April 8.

Fans of Hamilton College men's lacrosse will have the opportunity to follow the Liberty League game at Union College on the Web.

In the midst of the current financial turmoil, David Backus '75, the Heinz Riehl Professor of International Economics and Finance at New York University, sat down with NYC Program students to answer their economic questions. Backus explored a wide range of topics, including Tim Geithner's plan to remove troubled assets from banks' balance sheets, the role of the dollar in international trade, the possible consequences of the stimulus plan, and whether gold makes sense as an investment.

The Spring 2009 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction includes an article by Professor of French John C. O'Neal on the controversial writer of the Spätaufklärung the marquis de Sade. The article, titled "Sade's Justin: A Response to the Enlightenment's Poetics of Confusion, is part of a book project on the period's progressive poetics of confusion, in which O'Neal attempts to show the myriad ways the philosophes rejected dogmatic thinking and embraced complexity.