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Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was interviewed for a Newhouse News Service article about holiday willpower (11/20/06). "We have to have resolve, the will to resist - where does that hope come from?" said Ravven, who studies the history of free will. The article appeared in the Syracuse Post-Standard and St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Marco Allodi '08, Jovan Livada '08, and Meghan Dunn '06 recently published a paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A with their faculty research advisors. Allodi was first author, Dunn second, and Livada third. The paper, "Do Hydroxyl Radical-Water Clusters, OH(H2O)n, n=1-5, Exist in the Atmosphere?" explores the effects of hydration on the hydroxyl radical.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman presented a lecture titled "Cold War in a Cold Place: The American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963" at Dartmouth College on November 15. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Henry and Amy Nachman Fund in History and the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club.

Armando Bayolo, visiting assistant professor of music, conducted the Great Noise Ensemble in the second concert of their 2006-07 season on November 17 in Washington, D.C. The program consisted entirely of world premieres and included one of Bayolo's own works, Ritornello, based on music by the German Baroque composer Michael Praetorius. The program also included the premieres of works by Heather Figi and Blair Goins (both members of Great Noise) and the world premiere of General Electric, a "rock concerto grosso" for rock band and chamber orchestra by award winning composer D.J. Sparr.

Hamilton will name the Annex, the multipurpose facility adjoining the Beinecke Student Activities Village, the Patricia and Winton Tolles Pavilion in honor of the former long-time dean and his wife. The ceremony officially celebrating the rededication will occur at 4:30 p.m., on June 1 during Reunion Weekend.

Visiting Professor of English Scott MacDonald presented documentary filmmaker William Greaves with the annual Leo Award for lifetime achievement in documentary filmmaking at the Lincoln Center’s Walter Reed Theater on Thursday, Nov. 16. Named after pioneer of independent and non-theatrical film distribution Leo Dratfield, the Leo is awarded by International Film Seminars. The recipient must "show a sustained ability to introduce innovative approaches into the media arts field."

The Corning Museum of Glass recently unveiled Josh Simpson’s Megaplanet, the 1000th paperweight in the museum's collection of paperweights. Simpson’s Planet is the focal point of the Museum’s new exhibit, Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight. The paperweight is 13 inches in diameter, weighs more than 100 pounds, and contains more than 50 different colors of glass. The planet is a clear orb with swirling oceans, continents, spaceships in orbit, and many objects that can be left up to the imagination.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, was honored for her work as as the director of The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College by the Genesis Group on November 15. The Genesis Group is a Mohawk Valley association working to advance regional economic, social, and cultural interests and to foster regional unity and cooperation.

Students in the Semester in Washington Program participated in three policy briefings on November 16. They met with Representative Sherwood Boehlert, who shared his perspectives on the recent election and Congressional politics. At the Government Accountability Office, students were briefed by James White, director of strategic issues, on e-government initiatives in the Internal Revenue Service. Finally, students toured the new building of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., and participated in a briefing by Jonathan Gregorio ’02 of the Commerce Department’s Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement.

On November 14, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of the National Review Online spoke in the Fillius Events Barn. After an introduction by Hamilton Republicans president Ben Noble, Goldberg stated that the recent election is not the death of American conservatism, and we are not in a new era of liberalism, even if Republicans deserved to lose. In fact, he pointed out, liberals have been announcing a new age “about once every 15 minutes for the last century.” He joked that while he can’t remember the last time Republicans advocated for the pedophilic IM-ing of pages, with Republicans like Mark Foley on voter’s minds, corruption ranked highly in exit polls as a reason why Republicans were voted out.