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Embarking on its 29th season as a Varsity sport at the College, the women's basketball team has high expectations for the 2007-08 season thanks to the team's celebrated accomplishments this past season. First year Head Coach Sean Mackin has a team which consists of five returning starters, five first-year talents, and a deep bench that should combine for continued success.  

Michael Ratliff '07 was recently awarded first prize for fiction in the Alpha Delta Phi National Literary Competition. The competition features non-fiction, fiction, poetry and photography submissions from undergraduate members of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and the Alpha Delta Phi Society active in their chapters. Ratliff received first prize in the fiction competition for his piece titled Bad Lands. Alpha Delta Phi was founded at Hamilton in 1832.

Martin Winkler, professor of classics at George Mason University, will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium. The lecture, accompanied by film clips, will examine the influence of Gibbons' classic book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on the 1964 Hollywood epic it inspired. This event is free and open to the public.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold is part of a group that has received a grant from the Teagle Foundation. The grant is titled "A Longitudinal Study of Critical Thinking and Postformal Reasoning: Assessing Undergraduate Outcomes within Disciplinary Contexts." The $215,899 grant will fund a three-year longitudinal study designed to measure the development of undergraduate student outcomes in two fields: classics and political science.

Generation Investment Management, a London investment company started by David Blood '81 with former Vice President Al Gore, was featured in a Fortune magazine article "Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC " (11/13/07). The article profiles Generation and its new alliance with Kleiner Perkins, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. It notes that Generation, a $1 billion investment company, was started three years ago "to analyze and invest in publicly traded 'sustainable' companies. Blood, who is former head of Goldman Sachs Asset mangement, is featured in a sidebar article titled "Talking 'bout their generation." 

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten presented a paper "Questions from Africa and Its Diaspora: Recovering Identities in an Age of Amnesia" to members of the Departments of English, Languages and History at the University of Ghana, Legon, on Nov. 21. His presentation was part of the Department of English Graduate and Faculty Seminar Series. Odamtten is currently on sabbatical doing research at the University of Ghana.

The Cleveland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has recognized the renovation of Skenandoa House with a merit award. EwingCole, the architectural firm responsible for the work, received the award for excellence in architectural design on Nov. 16.

A Hamilton alumna who helped bring the Debate Society back to Hamilton in the late '90s has found a unique way to acknowledge its influence in her life. Sara Weinstein '02 and The Weinstein Company are underwriting an exclusive advance showing of The Great Debaters, a new film starring Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker, for friends of Hamilton. The screening will take place on Monday, Dec. 10, at 6 p.m. at Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., New York, and will be followed by an after-party. All proceeds will benefit the oral communication program at Hamilton.

Deborah Forte '75, Hamilton trustee and president of Scholastic Media, Inc. is the producer of The Golden Compass which will be released by New Line Cinema on December 7, 2007. Hamilton alumni and parents will have the opportunity for a sneak preview of clips from the movie and participate in a discussion with the producer as part of a Hamilton event "Storytelling: Infusing Words with Life," taking place at 11:15 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Princeton Club in New York City.  

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman attended the premiere presentation of his new work "m45" at the recent region 2 conference of the Society of Composers at Queens College. This composition was recorded by the composer with virtual instruments tuned according to an alternative arithmetic scheme. Another feature of the work is that most of the sounds are sonifications of one-dimensional cellular automata.  Listen to a recording of the piece.