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Hamilton College placed second out of nine teams at its own spring invitational held at nearby Skenandoa Club on April 21.

Nationally ranked No. 6 Amherst College defeated visiting Hamilton College 9-0 in a New England Small College Athletic Conference match played in Amherst, Mass., on April 21.

Burnt Shadows, the latest novel by Kamila Shamsie '94, has been nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. The Orange Prize is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman in the English language. It was established in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible.

Patrick Cook-Deegan, a 2008 graduate of Brown University who raised funds to build schools in Laos by bicycling through Southeast Asia, will give a presentation about his experiences on Thursday, April 23, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is sponsored by STAND, the student coalition against genocide, and is free and open to the public.

Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, gave a paper, Pragmatism, Fallibilism, and War," at the University of Rochester on April 18. It was part of a symposium in honor of Professor Robert L. Holmes who is retiring from the University of Rochester Philosophy Department after 47 years. Professor Holmes is Werner's mentor.

Roger S. Gottlieb, professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will give a lecture titled "A Little Good News For a Change" on Wednesday, April 22, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center. It is free and open to the public.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, has been elected to a term on the board of trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation. Located at the Ohio State University, it was created in 1967 at the first international James Joyce Symposium in Dublin.

Hamilton College dropped two non-conference games against host Union College at Alexander Field on April 21.

Rain has postponed the non-conference baseball game between Hamilton College and SUNY Oneonta scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, at DeLutis Field in Rome, N.Y.

Hamilton's crew team participated in the inaugural Houlihan Cup race on April 18, losing to St. Lawrence. The Houlihan Cup is in honor of Matthew Houlihan '03, a member of the crew team who died in 2000.