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Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey recently received a grant award from Microsoft Corporation's research division for the development of a new computer security course titled Secrets, Lies, and Digital Threats. The course will provide background information on computer security issues for future leaders, including those who will shape public technology policy, to understand the nature of security threats and how they can be expected to evolve in the future.

Recording artist and multiple Grammy Award winner Aretha Franklin will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series at Hamilton College. She will perform on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The event will be free and no tickets are needed but seats for the general public will be limited to approximately 1,000, on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the concert.  Those guests who will need reserved handicapped seating and/or parking are asked to make arrangements in advance. Please call 315-859-4529.

Students in Frank Sciacca and David Gapp's "Food for Thought" class put aside their cell phones, iPods and even forks, and enjoyed a historically accurate, early 19th-century meal on Jan. 31 in the Great Room at Spencer House.

The Emerson Gallery hosted a gallery conversation with artist and Haverford College professor William E. Williams '73 and the curatorial team of Uncovering the Past to Freedom, one of the gallery's three current exhibitions on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The exhibition's curatorial team included Katerina Adair '10, Ilana Carlin '09, Sophia Franck '08, Associate Professor of Art History Deborah Pokinski and Associate Director and Curator Susanna White.

The comma has been the subject of a best-selling book and can cause consternation to even the most experienced writer. On Thursday, Feb. 7, that small -- but necessary -- punctuation mark will be the focus of "CommaFest," an event hosted by the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center to teach proper punctuation in an entertaining way. CommaFest will begin at 9 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium and will feature workshops, contests, prizes and punctuation cupcakes.

Citi, the leading global financial services company, announced that Jaime E. Yordan '71 has joined Citi Markets & Banking as vice chairman, Global Banking, Latin America. Yordan is a charter trustee of Hamilton and was one of three alumni who spoke to Hamilton international finance economics classes in 2007. According to a press release from the company, "Yordan will join Citi's efforts to build on its successful global banking business in Latin America through senior coverage of key clients in the region, as well as capitalizing on significant opportunities in banking, fixed income, and equity markets."

On the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) published an opinion piece titled "Iraq of '08 eerily like Vietnam of '68" written by Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Albany Professor of English Thomas Bass. As the title suggests, Isserman and Bass compare the official reports on the status of the war in Vietnam in 1968 to the war in Iraq in 2008 and suggest that the situation in Iraq is far less stable than the administration would have the nation believe.

Hamilton has exceeded its $175 million capital campaign goal six months before the fundraising effort is scheduled to conclude. "Excelsior: The Campaign for Hamilton" reached this goal in the last week of December 2007. The campaign will continue through its planned close on June 30.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones will present "The Hydrogen Economy" as part of the Faculty Lecture Series on Friday, Feb. 1, at 4:10 p.m. in Dwight Lounge in the Bristol Center. Jones' presentation will include a discussion on the recent major research efforts to develop hydrogen as an alternative source of energy for the transportation industry.

Kateri Whitebean '08 is featured in a Utica Observer-Dispatch article (1/30/08) about her serving as coach for the Clinton Central School seventh grade girls' basketball team. The article, "Hamilton's Whitebean still doing what she loves," was written by Hamilton alumnus and Observer-Dispatch reporter John Pitarresi '70.