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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.

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.