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Janet Halley, formerly of the English department of Hamilton College, and now a professor at Harvard Law School, will give a lecture titled "Define and Punish: new feminist reforms in the 'law in war'" at Hamilton on Thursday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit. She will be looking closely at memoirs by a German woman of her multiple rapes, and examining how that discourse is related to the legal struggles around rape in the international arena. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Three Hamilton College alumni will share their expertise in the area of finance when they visit Hamilton international finance economics classes during the first week of March. The three were invited by James L. Ferguson Professor of Economics Erol Balkan. Charter Trustee Richard Bernstein '80, Merrill Lynch's Chief U.S. Strategist and Chief Quantitative Strategist, will discuss Global Financial Markets on Thursday, March 1. Charter Trustee Jaime Yordan '71, Advisory Director at CDK Group, LLC, will talk about Mexican finance on Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6; and Bob Fryklund '80, Vice President for Industry Relations for IHS, a leading provider of information services to industries in the area of engineering and energy, will discuss energy security and sustainability on Tuesday, March 6.  

Each fall the Nominations Committee of the Hamilton Alumni Association presents the Alumni Council with nominees to fill three positions on the Board of Trustees. After considering a lengthy list of potential nominees and assessing indicators of effective trusteeship including volunteer experience, professional expertise and representation of varied alumni demographic groups, George Baker ’74, Nancy Roob ’87 and Torrence Moore ’92 were nominated. Prior to the meeting Benjamin Wu ’73 and Peter Brown ’73 fulfilled the necessary petition threshold of 25 alumni signatures and became candidates as well necessitating an alumni-wide election. It is now time for alumni to exercise their franchise by voting.

The annual Alternative Spring Break auction will be held on Thursday March 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Annex A and B. Everyone in the community is encouraged to attend to bid on some great prizes and support Hamilton's ASB trips. Bidding on items for the Silent Auction will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and a Tex-mex dinner will be served at 6 p.m. Items to be auctioned include a kayaking trip with Andrew Jillings, VIP seats for Al Gore, VIP seats for graduation, a night at the Bristol Campus Center, student art, vintage clothing and gift certificates to local restaurants.

Hamilton College is pleased to name Jovan Livada, a junior from Belgrade, Serbia, as its third GOLD Scholar.  To find Livada, you might search the chemistry laboratories, sports fields, ballroom dancing class, the stage, or the Writing and Oral Communications centers … unless, of course, you were looking for him this past fall, in which case he was on the water enrolled in Boston University's Semester at Sea program. Livada, a junior from Belgrade, Serbia, is the paradigmatic multi-talented Hamilton student.

A. G. Lafley ’69, CEO of Procter & Gamble, was featured in a USA Today article (2/19/07) on what makes a good leader. In October, Lafley was named one of “America’s Best Leaders” in 2006 by U.S. News and World Report. After just six years of Lafley’s leadership, the value of P&G stock has risen by 66%. In the February 19 article, he told USA TODAY how a good leader operates.

Participants in Boston's Citizen Schools program 8th Grade Academy spent three days and two nights exploring the Hamilton campus earlier this month. This visit marks the third straight year that students have had the opportunity to visit Hamilton.  Citizen Schools is a national education initiative utilizing adult volunteers to help improve student achievement through skill-building apprenticeships, rigorous academic and leadership development activities and real world learning projects.

A transcript of sophomore Eric Kuhn's interview with Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield on WHCL Radio 88.7 FM was published on MSNBC.com on Friday, Feb. 22. The interview was featured on "Give and Take," a section of MSNBC.com devoted to charity news. Kuhn spoke with Greenfield about the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the charitable arm of the company, and the importance of responsible business practices.

Wei-Jen Chang, assistant professor of biology, gave a talk in the Asa Gray Seminar series held by the Biology department of Utica College on February 26. His talk, titled "Genome Organization in Spirotrichous Ciliates (Protozoa)," summarized progresses made toward understanding the complicated genome architectures found in unicellular organisms - ciliates. He also discussed ongoing research projects in his lab with faculty and students in Utica College.

The Hamilton chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Epsilon of New York) proudly announces the election of the following members of the class of 2007: Michael Andrew Blasie, Mary Beth Day, Cecilia Lynch Disney, Mark Hayden Hodges, Suleman Khoja, Kellen Shawn Leon-Atkins, Jessica Lynn Lewis, Lindsay Michelle Marks, Silas Alexander McKee, Laura Jean Oman, Catherine Elizabeth Pallin, Leanne Marie Pasquini, Rachel Ann Schwartzman, Drew Jacob Thomases, Yin Tian and Robin W. Wong. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honorary society in America, founded at William and Mary in 1776 to foster love of learning. The chapter at Hamilton elects members from the student body during their senior year in recognition of their outstanding academic performance across the curriculum.