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Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman published the poem "After Hours" in the third edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, published by Syracuse University. This spring Guttman is a humanities scholar in the New York Council for the Humanities' program, "Together -- Book Talk for Kids and Parents," which offers a unique forum for parents and children aged 9-11 to talk about books and ideas.

The Biology Department is sponsoring a screening of the PBS video, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, in honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center. It will be followed by discussion with faculty, including Al Kelly, Ashleigh Smythe and Ernest Williams -- specialists in intellectual history, invertebrate biology, and systematic and evolutionary ecology.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, was referenced in a Feb. 10 Baltimore Sun article, "Steele's rise shows how Obama has altered landscape." The article discussed Michael Steele's recent election as Republican National Committee chairman and how President Obama has fundamentally changed U.S. electoral politics in 2008 by building two new multiracial coalitions.

Mary Beth Day '07 was one of 37 U.S. students recently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The scholarship allows candidates from any country outside the United Kingdom to pursue masters or Ph.D. degrees at the University of Cambridge. Day is the first Hamilton student to receive a scholarship since the program began in 2001.

Stephanie Miguel '11 notched a power-play goal for Hamilton College with nine seconds left in overtime and lifted the visiting Continentals to a 4-3 non-conference win against Utica College at the Utica Memorial Auditorium on Feb. 10.

Allie Pohl '07 recently exhibited her work in a show titled "New Media Salon" at Plus Gallery in Denver. Pohl showed two piece of video art, "Totter" and "Heel at the Gym." Both pieces explore the artificial things women wear and do to their bodies.

William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li, who has recently been promoted to Director of Research at the Brookings Institution's China Center, spoke at Yale University Law School's China Law Center on Tuesday, Feb. 10.

In honor of Black History Month, the BLSU presents a lecture by Associate Professor of Africana Studies Angel David Nieves on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. Nieves' topic is "Coalition 'Building' in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Latinas/os & African Americans in the Diaspora." The lecture is free and open to the public.

Hamilton juniors Stephanie Anglin and Michael Amaral presented a poster with Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology John Edlund at the annual conference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Feb. 5-7, in Tampa, Fla. Their research examined abortion decisions.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Mark A. Oakes has published an article, "Implicit and Explicit Self-esteem: Measure for Measure," in the latest volume of Social Cognition (Vol. 26, 2008). In the article, Oakes and his two co-authors (Jonathon Brown from the University of Washington and Huajian Cai from Sun Yat-Sen University in China) presented findings from their analysis of implicit and explicit measurements of self esteem.