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Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer performed his one-man show, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, at Keystone College in Scranton on Feb. 4 as part of its Black History Month celebration.  Cryer created the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions.

While balancing academic work with the demands of participating in varsity athletics, members of Hamilton's women's basketball team have found time to start a reading program for the students at Clinton Elementary School. 

The most recent issue of the literary journal Salmagundi has published Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat's review of Martin Duberman's The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (Knopf, 2007). "If it is read with the careful attention it deserves," Kodat writes, "Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein should have several bracing effects on U.S. cultural scholarship, not least of which would involve serious re-examinations of the purposes of arts patronage, the cultivation of aesthetic distinction, and the intersections of class, politics, and sexuality in mid-century U.S. life."

Nikki Reynolds, director of instructional technology support services, Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, and Susan Mason, director of the Education Studies Program, presented a paper in January at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting in San Antonio. The paper was titled "Building the Scaffolding: Supporting Student Use of Technology in the Learning Process." 

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was interviewed for an Albany Times Union article titled "Pavlovian patter" about our automatic verbal personal exchanges and what they say about us (2/3/08).  The article quotes Adams, "There is cultural meaning attached to utterances even when we know the words to be literally meaningless." 

Antarctic research work by Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, is cited in a new book, Earth under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, by Gary Braasch (University of California Press). Published in late 2007, it is a comprehensive look at the worldwide effects of climate change. The book includes Domack's research work at Antarctica's Larsen Ice shelf in 2002. Braasch also accompanied Domack to Larsen in 1999.

Fourteen years after roaming Steuben Field for the Hamilton College Continentals, Sean M. Ryan '94 was patrolling the sidelines for the New York Giants during Super Bowl 2008, in which the Giants defeated the New England Patriots 17-14. Ryan, a former Continental defensive back and outside linebacker, is now an assistant coach for the champions of the National Football League.

A group of Hamilton College faculty and administrators presented a case study exercise at the Collaborative Pedagogy and Instructional Design Session of the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) held in Southbridge, Mass., on Jan. 25. James Helmer, director of the Oral Communication Center; Lynn Mayo, reference librarian; Sharon Werning Rivera, assistant professor of government; and Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, discussed the election campaign simulation used in Rivera's comparative politics course and helped participants design personalized course projects.

The Green Democracy Roundtable, hosted by the Hamilton Environmental Action Group and the Hamilton College chapter of Democracy Matters on Jan. 31, brought together a distinguished panel of students, staff, alumni and politicians to discuss potential solutions to the problems of climate change. The event, concluding Hamilton's participation in the Focus the Nation global warming teach-in that took place at more than 1,000 schools that day, was notable for the depth of the speakers' knowledge and for their universal commitment to address climate change.

Peter Cameron '82 was a featured reader at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and book fair held Jan. 30-Feb. 2 in New York. He is the author of several short story collections and novels, most recently Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2007).