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G. Roberts Kolb directs members of the Hamilton College Choir in Kiss Me, Kate. With book by Samuel and Bella Spewack and music and lyrics by Cole Porter, Kiss Me, Kate is a "show within a show" based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.  Performances are Friday and Saturday, Feb. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 4, at 2 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. Admission is $7 general/$5 seniors/$3 Hamilton students.

Professor of Religious Studies Richard Hughes Seager was interviewed by Religion News Service for an article about Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., one of the first Buddhists elected to Congress. Johnson is a member of Soka Gakkai International-USA, the lay Buddhist sect that has some 100,000 members in the U.S. According to the article:  "Everyone knows that Soka Gakkai is the only form of convert Buddhism that has any kind of diversity," said Richard Hughes Seager, professor of religion at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and author of a book on Soka Gakkai. "Now everyone wants to know: What are they doing right?"  Religion News Service provides articles to  subscribers including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, U.S. News & World Report, Time and Newsweek magazines, National Public Radio, and ABC World News.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori has been awarded a "Twentieth-Century Japan Research Award" for 2006-07 from the University of Maryland.  The grant supports research in the University's McKeldin Library's Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Omori is currently a visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Hamilton College has announced the single largest gift in its history, $10 million from Wendy and Keith Wellin for a three-building arts complex.

Artist and Kirkland College alumna Mei-ling Hom '73 will return to the Hamilton College campus to give a lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 31.  She will speak at 4:15 p.m. in the Red Pit of the Kirner-Johnson Building. Her lecture is free and open to the public.

Laurent Dubois, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, will give a lecture titled “Revolutionary Abolitionists,” on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 4:15 pm. in the Kennedy Science Auditorium (G027) at Hamilton College.

Hamilton College is pleased to name Kara Novak, a junior from Carthage, N.Y., as its second GOLD Scholar.  Novak is a double major in math and music - a path that she feels Hamilton offers with particular skill. As a prospective student, Kara had considered other colleges with similar courses of study but discovered that the more arts-oriented schools would not offer her a full complement of math courses and technically oriented schools would not allow her to pursue music as fully as she wished. Enjoying music, math and the qualities that they share, Novak hopes to incorporate mathematics principles into her senior-year music thesis.

George Saunders will read from his work on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. This award-winning short story writer, novelist, essayist and satirist writes for Esquire, GQ, Harpers, and The New Yorker, which named him one of the best writers under 40 in 2000. In 2006, Saunders was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and he currently has two scripts in development with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films.

Anne E. Lacsamana, assistant professor of women’s studies, was invited by several founding members of the Philippine women’s movement to participate in a roundtable discussion titled “Philippine Women’s Liberation: Nationalism, Feminism and Strategies for the Future” on Jan. 4 in Quezon City.