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Levitt Center Associate Director of Community Research Judith Owens-Manley was the keynote speaker at the Civic Engagement Conference at St. Lawrence University on Wednesday, Dec. 10. Owen's remarks, titled "Civic Engagement: Connecting College and Community," were delivered to faculty, administrators, students and community partners at this conference sponsored by the university's Center for Civic Engagement.

Eight members of Hamilton's class of 2009 were elected last week to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Louisa Brown, Keith Gross, Xiaobo Ma, Chelsea Mann, Timothy Minella, Li Qiu, Aaron Richterman and Michael Sennott.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, presented two lectures in Hong Kong this semester.  In October she spoke at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Department of Chinese, on "Effects of Negotiation of Meaning in Conversations of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL): An Empirical Study on CFL Production." In November Jin presented a workshop at Hong Kong International School titled "The Backward Curricular Design and Assessment in CFL." This concerned the concept, design and implementation of modern Chinese curriculum with an end in mind.

An art installation by Allie Pohl '07 at Denver International Airport is featured in a USA Today photo gallery titled "Airport Art Roundup: Best Exhibits at a Terminal Near You" (12/10/08). Pohl's piece, "Tree Covered in Snow," is part of the No Place Like Home exhibit in Denver. The piece, which stands at about 6'5" and is about 4 feet wide, is made of socks. Pohl says she spray painted some, used dye on others, and some are store bought. Pohl majored in communication and art at Hamilton.

Hamilton College women's soccer player Erica Dressler '09 (Farmington, Conn./Miss Porter's School) has been selected to the 2008 all-region team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Professor of French John C. O'Neal has been elected to the board of directors of the American Society for French Academic Palms (ASFAP), a group of scholars who have received recognition from the French government for their teaching and research. An officer in the Order of the French Academic Palms since February 2008, O'Neal will chair the committee for the ASFAP's scholarship fund.

Hamilton College posted a 3-1 record in its own three-day round robin held at the Little Squash Center from Dec. 5 to Dec. 7.

Hamilton College posted a 2-2 record in its own three-day round robin held at the Little Squash Center from Dec. 5 to Dec. 7.

Robert Spiegelman opened his lecture in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium Friday by asking what comes to mind when someone mentions the "wild, wild West." Audience members offered obvious images such as cowboys, Indian tribes, and buffalo. Spiegelman, noted sociologist, multimedia artist and writer, admitted that the old West did have a certain amount of the cowboy and Indian drama, the kind that has been dramatized in the movies. But, before the days of wagon trains and cattle ranges, the wild, wild West was actually the wild, wild East. New York, said Spiegelman, was the first frontier, the conquering of which helped lay the framework for manifest destiny. Spiegelman was a guest at Hamilton through the Speakers in the Humanities series, made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

From an early age, Leeann Brigham has had an astute fascination for and a deep interest in science. As a child, she recalls playing with mini-microscopes and rock collections and having "an obsession with" the Nancy Drew mystery book series. Like the mystery books she so deeply loved as a child, today, Leeann views neuroscience, her major here at Hamilton, as "the ultimate mystery – asking questions like 'why do we behave the way we do' and 'how we have become the individuals that we are.'" To Leeann, neuroscience gives her "the perfect opportunity to explore those answers."