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Laura Purdy, the McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, published a paper titled "Could There be a Right Not to be Born an Ocutuplet" in Taking Responsibility for Children, edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007).

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a talk titled "Determining Sets, Resolving Sets, and the Exchange Property" at a section meeting for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) held at the University of Central Florida March 14-15. In her talk Boutin described two types of subsets of a network that capture its symmetries. Further she discussed when such subsets are analogous to a basis, a set that is fundamental to other areas of mathematics.

Ashleigh Smythe, visiting assistant professor of biology, co-taught a workshop on the taxonomy and identification of free-living marine nematodes at Kyoto University's Seto Marine Biological Laboratory in Shirahama, Japan, March 21-24. The workshop was sponsored by the NaGISA Project, an international Census of Marine Life field project.

Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, presented at two recent conferences. On March 27 Williams delivered a paper titled "A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War, Military Service, and Black Soldiers as New Negroes" at The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters, a three-day international conference held at the University of Connecticut.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "The Imperial Turn and U.S. Power: Decline or Retrenchment" at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco on, Wednesday, March 23.

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman recently attended a performance of his digital composition Dancing in the Dark, choreographed by Missy Pfohl Smith of Hobart College, at a concert at the Hochstein School in Rochester, N.Y.  The concert, titled Vision of Sound, includes choreography and compositions by several New York artists and will be repeated on Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall.

Fallon Chipidza '10 has been awarded a Davis Project for Peace program grant of $10,000, which she will use to establish a self-sustainable chicken project at a preschool in Zimbabwe. The Davis Project for Peace program, in its second year, honors philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, who launched the initiative on the occasion of the 100th birthday in 2007.

Tony DeRose, a senior scientist and lead of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios, will lecture at Hamilton College as part of the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture series. His talk, "Math in the Movies," will take place on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. 

Jonathan Shay, a MacArthur Fellow and clinical psychiatrist, will present a lecture titled "Homer on Military Leadership" as part of the Winslow Lecture Series at Hamilton College. Shay's talk will take place on Thursday, April 3, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

Hamilton sent two curling teams to the 2008 National College Curling Tournament at the North Shore and Chicago Curling Clubs in Glenview, Ill., from March 14-16. Returning curlers Katherine Alser '09, Yuqi Mao '09, Tom Irvin '09 and Dave Hamilton '09 comprised Team Hamilton Blue, and competed in Division 3. New curlers Jack Li '08, Andrew Harris '11 and Will Welles '08 teamed up with Mike Lindsay of Yale University, to form Team Hamilton Buff, and competed in Division 4. For the second straight year Hamilton returned successful with both teams bringing home the gold medals from their respective divisions.