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At the request of several alumni and parent volunteers, Hamilton Vice President for Communications and Development Dick Tantillo sent a letter clarifying the reasons for the decision not to move forward in establishing the Alexander Hamilton Center. Tantillo acknowledged “the distractions caused by the proposed Alexander Hamilton Center have taken away some of the focus on the exceptional year we are having on College Hill.” He concluded that “Hamilton has enormous momentum.”

Three Hamilton students have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2007-08 academic year. Juniors Marco Allodi, Kristin Alongi and Dan Campbell are among 317 scholars from across the U.S., bringing to 10 the number of Goldwater Scholarships awarded to Hamilton students since 2001. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Pete Zani, visiting assistant professor of biology, led his Tropical Field Ecology (Bio 437) class on a trip to Ecuador over spring break. They spent 12 days and nights in the Amazon (Oriente) and at the Yasuní Research Station operated by the Catholic University of Ecuador in Yasuní National Park. While at the station, students collected data for course projects on topics such as poison-dart frog toxicity, lizard social behavior, and plant physical and chemical defenses. The 11 Hamilton students on the trip were Will Caffry '09, Lizzy Finan '08, Neil Frei '07, Jon Milgrom '08, Kennesaw Richards '07, Kira Rosalsky '07, Kristen Selden '09, Emily Starr '07, Chris Sullivan '09, Meaghan Sutton '07 and Tessa Teichert '07.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, contributed an article to Stone Canoe Journal from Syracuse University. His article, "Long As the Music Plays" deals with jazz and race. Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, is published annually, each spring, by University College of Syracuse University. Robert Colley '66 is the founder and editor of the journal and John von Bergen '63 is also featured in this issue.

Jana Natya Mach, also known as Janam (People's Theatre Group) a street theatre group from India, will visit Hamilton College for several events on Thursday and Friday, March 29 and 30. The events, sponsored by the Edwin Lee Fund at Hamilton College, the Program in Asian Studies at Hamilton, and the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, are free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley has published a chapter, "Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter," in Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music, Ray Allen & Ellie M. Hisama, eds. (University of Rochester Press, 2007).

Randy Albelda, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, will speak about "Gender Inequality in the Labor Market" on March 29. This lecture is part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series titled “Inequality and Equity” and is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans has seen two essays appear in print this month. "A Defense of Anthropomorphism: Comparing Coetzee and Gowdy" appears in "Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature," and "Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture" is published in "Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice" (University of Georgia Press). The first essay compares strategies for the representation of animals in novels by J.M. Coetzee and Barbara Gowdy, while the second examines attitudes towards urban landscape in British Romantic writing.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman has published a book of poetry, Wet Apples, White Blood (McGill-Queen's University Press).

Yale psychology professor Valerie Purdie-Vaughns will give a lecture, "Stereotype Threat: Power Influences on Achievement, Motivation and Social Well-Being" on Wednesday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Hamilton College’s Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. It is free and open to the public.