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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.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley was invited by Harvard Divinity School to present a paper at its Race and Ethnicity in New Testament and Early Christian Studies Symposium on March 23-25. She also participated in the opening panel, "Race, Gender, Ethnicity: Modern Categories of Analysis and Ancient Texts." Haley's paper was titled "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies." The papers and responses will be published in a forthcoming volume.

Visiting Instructor of East Asian Lauguages and Literatures Minae Yamamoto Savas wrote an article for Asian Theatre Journal (vol. 24, Spring 2007). The article, "Oko Sako (Oko and Sako): Wawashii Woman in the Kyôgen Oko and Sako” was edited by Jonah Salz and Julie Lezzi, University of Hawai’i Press.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields presented a seminar to the chemistry department at Brown University on March 22. The title of his talk was "Working with Undergraduates on Research: Cancer Drug Design and Modeling Atmospheric Chemistry Processes with Computational Methods." His lecture highlighted the work that he and Karl Kirschner, co-director of the Center for Molecular Design, have carried out with Hamilton students over the past few years.

It wasn’t all play and no work for Hamilton College students during their spring break, March 9-23. From a science class in Ecuador and a service trip to Honduras, to choir performances in the Carolinas and the curling team competing in Chicago, Hamilton students were pursuing their academic, charitable and athletic interests all over the globe.

The Hamilton College Alumni Association today announced the results of its Alumni Trustee election. Nancy Roob ’87, Torrence D. Moore ’92 and George D. Baker Jr. ’74 received the greatest number of votes, as certified by Elections USA, an independent firm contracted to manage the election, and will join the College's Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2007. Each year three Alumni Trustees are elected to serve four-year terms on the Board. A total of 3,638 ballots (20% of alumni) were cast by the March 20, 2007, deadline, with the results as follows:   Nancy Roob ’87 - 2312   Torrence D. Moore ’92 - 2182   George D. Baker. Jr. ’74 - 2167   Ben S. Wu ’73 - 1837   Peter D. Brown ’73 - 1497   The Alumni Association congratulates the new Trustees and thanks all of the candidates for their interest in serving Hamilton.

The Hamilton College Alumni Association today announced the results of its Alumni Trustee election. Nancy Roob ’87, Torrence D. Moore ’92 and George D. Baker Jr. ’74 received the greatest number of votes, as certified by Elections USA, an independent firm contracted to manage the election, and will join the College's Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2007. Each year three Alumni Trustees are elected to serve four-year terms on the Board. A total of 3,638 ballots (20% of alumni) were cast by the March 20, 2007 deadline.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz gave a paper titled "'You May Be Surprised to Receive My Letter': Toward a Narratology of Scambaiting" on March 16 at the International Conference on Narrative in Washington D.C. Scambaiting is a sport that turns the tables on e-mail scammers: on receiving a scam letter, the baiter assumes a fake identity, writes back, and strings the scammers along for as long as possible with the double intention of wasting their time and of generating an interesting narrative. Rabinowitz's paper explored the complex rhetorical structure of these narratives and showed how they challenge some of the common assumptions of narrative theory--in particular, how they trouble the distinction between fiction and nonfiction.

The F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series welcomes photographer and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart on Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Lockhart will screen her newest film Pine Flat, which has been described as a highly formalized meditation on adolescence in a rural California community. All F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

Despite a Nor'easter over the weekend of March 16-17, two Hamilton College debate team members made it to Boston to compete in the Brandeis University Debate Tournament. Laura Wright '10 and Jessica Yau '08 competed against 37 teams, including 27 novices. Wright and Yau won 5th best novice team and Yau received 8th best novice speaker. On April 6-7 four students will travel to Chicago for the University of Chicago's debate tournament. The debate team members scheduled to compete are Philip Fraccola '08, John Molfetas '09, Yau and Wright.