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With the announcement that Al Gore would share this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton has now hosted five winners of the prestigious award. They include Jimmy Carter (Hamilton's Great Names speaker in 2001), Desmond Tutu (the speaker in 2000), F.W. de Klerk (1998) and Elie Wiesel (1997). Gore spoke at Hamilton in April 2007.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley attended the centennial meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States on Oct. 4-7 in Washington, D.C., where she participated on two panels. The first was "Representing Our Ancestors: A Round Table Discussion" in which she represented educator, writer and civil rights activist Anna Julia Cooper. The second panel was titled "A Century of Developments in Classical Scholarship and Pedagogy: A Round Table Discussion." Haley made a presentation on the development of and changes to the AP Latin exam.

Ian Howat '99 has been named the Young Investigator for 2007 in Cryosphere Science by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union to be held in San Francisco in December. Howatt's work is leading the way in understanding the changing role of ice discharge by outlet glaciers of the mighty Greenland Ice Sheet. These changes were reported in a spring issue of the journal Science. Howat did his Hamilton College senior thesis on the stratigraphy of deglaciation in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, under the supervision of Eugene Domack, The Joel Johnson Professor of Environmental Sciences.

A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, outlined Hamilton's Diversity and Unity Summer Institute Program at a two-day conference, Oct. 2-3, in New York City. The conference, "Closing the Minority Achievement Gap in Higher Education," was attended by presidents and other top-level administrators from across the country.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell is spending several months as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where she is pursuing research for her book project, "Scripting the Medieval Scottish Nation: Poets, Chroniclers, and the Authority of History." The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was established in 1969 to promote interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Michael Harwick '11 has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellow Scholarship for his achievement in writing. He was one of 17 winners from across the country selected for the scholarship program sponsored by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development in Nevada. Harwick was honored for his writing portfolio titled "Highways: The Road as Existence." The portfolio included excerpts from Harwick's novel The Sideshow Vision as well as some of his poetry.

Responding to a Christian Science Monitor article titled "Climate warming skeptics: Is the research too political?" Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo penned a letter to the editor that appears on the publication's news site today. The original article addressed those who still doubted the findings of the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The panel reported that most of the increase in temperatures seen in the last 50 years is due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. In response Cannavo wrote, "Rather than acknowledge the torrent of evidence establishing global warming and humanity's role in it, they [skeptics] have resorted to conspiracy theories, questionable science, and reliance on marginal uncertainties in climate science.

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Jenn Holderied-Webb '98 has been appointed to the board of advisors of EcoRooms & EcoSuites, an online directory of environmentally responsible hotels, motels, inns and B&Bs. An article in Hotel & Motel Management (10/05/07) noted Holderied-Webb's appointment, referenced her "outstanding qualifications" and praised her role in managing the Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, located in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, is one of four national experts who have been selected to present a key address at the first National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports, to take place in January in Nashville. Simon's topic is "Does Athletics Undermine Academics?" The colloquium hopes to address what officials say is a dearth of quality study related to sport in the context of higher education.