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Dr. Richard Saunders, director of the Museum of Art at the Center for the Arts at Middlebury College, gave a lecture on Oct. 19 in the Science Center Auditorium. Titled “The College Museum: Collections and Directions,” the talk focused on Dr. Saunders’ experience with Middlebury’s collection and how the collection’s evolution relates to current museum developments at Hamilton.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya presented at the 35th Michigan Linguistics Society on Oct. 15 at Michigan State University. The title of this talk was "Frozen Phenomena and Nominalization in Japanese." In the talk he explained that impossible syntactic processes are related to word formation. That is, if word formation takes place in syntax, impossible syntactic processes are due to the illegitimate syntactic constituents. Furthermore, the current analysis accounts for so-called Japanese Q particle binding and its interpretations.

Andrew Bacevich visited Hamilton on Oct. 20 as a speaker in the Levitt Center’s lecture series on the “Responsibilities of a Superpower.” His lecture, titled “Reflections on American Militarism” was based on his most recent book, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, which details the rise of the U.S. military and the consequences of this change. The new American militarism is built on the belief that we have “managed to unlock the secrets of warfare and had created military instruments of unprecedented political effectiveness as well as operational efficiency,” said Bacevich, who is the director of the Center on International Relations and a professor of international relations at Boston University.

Michelle Walvoord '94, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist, was honored as the 2005 Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science at the annual Geological Society of America meeting in Salt Lake City on Oct. 15. Walvoord is a research hydrologist at the USGS National Research Program in Lakewood. The Woman in Science Award is presented to a woman who has had a major impact on the field of the geosciences, based on her Ph.D research.

Think Tank will feature Associate Professor of Philosophy Marianne Janack on Friday, Oct. 21 at 12 p.m. in KJ 221. Think Tank is a student-directed organization that works to stimulate dialogue between students, faculty, and staff outside of the classroom. Janack's speech is titled "On Collecting," and will be followed by a discussion. Funding for Think Tank is provided by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed during a recent trip to China by BBC World Service about issues related to Hu Jintao’s leadership. He was also quoted in the South China Morning Post on the government’s perspective on village democracy in China.

Hamilton College’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center is sponsoring a series of lectures this fall focused primarily on the duties and roles of superpowers. The next speaker in the series is Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations and the former director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University.

David Kaiser, associate professor, program in science, technology, & society, and lecturer, department of physics at M.I.T., will give a lecture, "Einstein's Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace," on Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., in Science Center G027. Free and open to the public.

Dr. Robert Almeder is the inaugural appointment to the Alan McCullough, Jr., Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Political Philosophy at Hamilton College, recently endowed by the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation. The professorship is located in the Philosophy Department and brings specialists in ethics and political philosophy to campus for one-semester (or sometimes full-year) appointments. The McCullough professorship honors Hamilton alumnus Alan (Mac) McCullough, class of 1964.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner visited the University of Colorado (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, during the recent fall break.