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Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer has been selected as one of the "10 admissions deans who are shaping their field" by The Chronicle of Higher Education in an article in the April 27 issue. The publication assembled a list of 10 people who they determined are "making a mark on the admissions profession. Each is a thinker, with goals for improving his or her own college as well as the field of admissions in general. Simply put, people like them -- and respect them.

A quartet of Hamilton music students lent their talents to the 4th Annual “Soup For The Soul” Concert on Sunday, April 22, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in New Hartford. Jennifer Orbaker '07, Fritz Yohn '08, Brendan Conway '09 and Anthony Sali '10 performed as a saxophone quartet at the fund raiser that benefits children in South African schools. The saxophonists are students of Monk Rowe. Also performing at the event was vocalist Cassandra Harris Lockwood '74.

Thirty students from the Neighborhood Center in Utica joined 15 Hamilton students for activities and a simulated trip around the world at the 2nd Annual Culture Fair. Hamilton students volunteered to host booths for different countries; some represented their heritage while others shared experiences from studying abroad. Students represented a dozen countries and taught the children about cultures in those different nations. The Neighborhood Center group visited each station with their passports and engaged in a variety of crafts and activities ranging from folding origami in Japan to creating Blarney stones in Ireland. The event was sponosored by HAVOC.

Ken Bart, director of the Microscopy and Imaging Facility in the Biology Department, contributed images to a Discovery Health Channel program, Mystery Diagnosis, airing Monday, April 23, at 10 p.m. Bart produced images of the tick that is responsible for Lyme disease for the episode, which features Lemierre's Syndrome and Lyme Disease.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article (4/20/07) about the Virginia Tech shootings and the increased call for gun control. Gilbert spoke about the Hamilton College Youth poll conducted in 2006, which found that 88 percent of high school students polled supported a five-day waiting period for a hand-gun purchase. "They've seen a lot of gun violence in ways that kind of frighten them," said Gilbert in the article. "Something like 35 percent of high school seniors in 2006 knew someone who'd been shot at or threatened with a gun. That's more than 1 in 3, and it was a national survey, not just of urban areas."

Christopher Whitcomb '81, a former sniper on the F.B.I's hostage rescue unit and now head of a security company, contributed an op-ed to The New York Times (4/20/07), titled "Building a Better Lockdown." In it, he questions how, despite studies, symposiums and the adoption of crisis-response protocols in the days since Columbine, a calamity like Blacksburg can happen. Whitcomb wrote: "The most obvious reason, and one that’s been widely discussed in the days since the shootings, is complacency. Well, we can wring our hands all we want, but to some extent complacency is unavoidable: it’s what sneaks in after all the blame has been handed out, the news media have disappeared, the critics have taken their shots and the political knees have stopped jerking."

The X-Viper Hour radio show at Hamilton College will host the classic radio drama “The War of the Worlds,” reproduced live in the studio on Sunday, April 22, at 5 p.m. on WHCL 88.7 FM, Hamilton’s student-run radio station. Hamilton College President Joan Stewart is in the cast, and a live jazz piano concert by Jason Oberholtzer ’08, will be featured.

One day after the official celebration of Earth Day, Hamilton College will unveil a Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy Conservation) plaque certifying that Skenandoa House has met the conservation qualifications set by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Skenandoa House, an 84-year-old residence hall, is the oldest building in New York State to be so designated. Participants in the unveiling ceremony will include representatives from the USGBC, the architectural firm Ewing-Cole, the Oneida Nation, the Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) and Murnane Construction and Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart.

David C. Paris, Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Government, presented a paper titled "'Market' and 'State' in Higher Education: A New 'Nation at Risk'?" at the Midwest Political Science Association, in Chicago on Friday, April 13. The Spellings Commission report, like “A Nation at Risk,” emphasizes the economic threat of educational failures and offers policy responses to them. Paris’ paper examined the claims of "market" and "state" on higher education, especially in light of the history of K-12 education reform.

Works created using a wide variety of techniques and media will be on display at the Emerson Gallery as part of “Instants: Hamilton Senior Art Show.” Photography, ceramics, sculpture, painting, video, solar etching and animation represent some of the media used in the production of works for this show. Opening on Friday, April 27, at 4 p.m., the show runs through May 19 when another reception will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. The exhibition and all related events are free and open to the public.