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Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett attended a meeting of the Genetics Society of America held in San Diego from Jan 5-8. The conference was titled "Genetic Analysis: Model Organisms to Human Biology" and focused on how basic research in the genetics of well-studied organisms (such as the fruitfly or mouse) can be applied to the understanding of human biology and disease. Garrett presented a poster titled "Including 'Genetics and Society' in genetics courses for majors" in which she described exercises she has developed in her courses to promote discussion of the most recent developments in molecular genetics and their potential impact on society.

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund Committee has awarded nine grants totaling $38,425 to local educational, public safety and other community organizations in the Town of Kirkland.

Hamilton College's Levitt Center will continue its year-long series, The Age of Information, with four speakers during the 2008 spring semester. The Levitt Council selects a theme for its speakers series that allows speakers from a broad range of disciplines. The speakers in the "Age of Information" series have and will address the cultural, political, legal and economic consequences of recent innovations in information technology.

Twenty-five years of art by Richard Lennox '61 will be shown in "A Retrospective Exhibition" at the Gratz Gallery in New Hope, Pa. The show opened Jan. 6 and will run through February 17. Lennox earned a bachelor's degree in French literature at Hamilton. He lives with his wife Stana in Erwinna.

Photographs taken by H. Philip West Jr. '63 will be shown in "Rebuilding Tamil Nadu" at the Chapel Gallery of the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in Providence, R.I. The show opened on Jan. 2 and runs until Jan. 31. He lives with his wife, Anne Grant, in Providence.

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Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published an article "Finding Our Own English": Migrancy, Identity, and Language(s) in Ito Hiromi's Recent Prose" in the US-Japan Women's Journal (Number 32, 2007). The article discusses the significance of interlingualism in works by Ito Hiromi. Ito originally came to prominence as a poet during the 1970s in Japan. In the 1990s, however, she migrated to California and began producing prose works that portrayed her multilingual everyday life. She particularly chose to create a literary language that highlights the clashes, fusions, and echoes between (mostly) English and Japanese.

Almost 50 alumni, family and friends gathered for the "Three Kings Day" celebration at Salsa Catering in New York City. Daniel Garcia '84, the owner of Salsa Catering, not only hosted but also provided all the food, helping to make it, according to Larry Arias '84, who organized the event, an "evening to remember!"

Hamilton alumnus David Grubin '65, a producer, writer and cinematographer who received an honorary degree from Hamilton in 2003, has written and directed a three-part documentary, The Jewish Americans, which is airing this month on public television stations nationwide. The first segment will air in Central New York on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 10 p.m. on WCNY.

Samuel W. Lewis, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, will join the Hamilton College faculty this spring as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs. He previously held that position at Hamilton in 1997.