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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.

The Great Noise Ensemble, a group focusing on the performance of contemporary classical music founded and directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo, has been named Best Chamber Ensemble of 2007 by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA).

A national study that examined faculty influence on the political views of college students and that found no evidence of faculty indoctrination was the subject of an Associated Press article and another in InsideHigherEd.com. Hamilton Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Mack Mariani, a government professor at Xavier University, were the study's authors.

Having sold out one hardback and two paperback editions, Comparative Literature Professor Peter J. Rabinowitz's Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation has been reissued in the "Open Access Initiative" of Ohio State University Press.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper, "Viewing Courtship Again" in a panel titled "Sex and the City" at the annual meeting of the British Classical Association in Liverpool on March 29.

Roberta Krueger, professor of French and Burgess Chair of the French Department, spoke at a Medieval Colloquium on Interpreting the Middle Ages: Manuscript, Text, Exegesis at Colgate University on March 28. Her paper was titled "A medieval love debate in a Renaissance court: Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche."  Krueger examined the interplay of text and image in a manuscript of the poem that was illustrated in 1541 according to the author's explicit instructions. 

Kevin Rowe '10 was featured in an article in his local newspaper, Cadence (Grand Rapids, Mich.), about his recent Alternative Spring Break trip to Biloxi, Miss. Rowe was part of a group of 150 students from a number of colleges who worked with hands on Gulf Coast, a program of the Points of Light Foundation and Hands On Network – a network of nonprofit organizations around the world that inspire volunteers, create leaders and change lives and communities through effective volunteer action. 

Bruce Simon '91, an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia, contributed a column to Inside Higher Ed titled "A Challenge to Billion Dollar Endowments" (3/31/08). In the column Simon calls on the wealthiest universities to donate one percent of their return on endowment to less well-off institutions. He discusses his blog, Citizen of Somewhere Else, where he has "contrasted the fortunes of the 76 colleges and universities in what I've come to call the Billion Dollar Endowment Club (BDEC) with my own university's roughly $80M operating budget and $20M endowment, commented on the calls to hold the BDEC and other 4000+ colleges and universities in the United States accountable for spending 5 percent of their endowments annually, and made a few modest proposals to the BDEC itself."

Bruce Simon '91, an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia, contributed a column to Inside Higher Ed titled "A Challenge to Billion Dollar Endowments" (3/31/08). In the column Simon calls on the wealthiest universities to donate one percent of their return on endowment to less well-off institutions.