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Jon Milgrom '08 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Peter Zani presented a poster at the annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings in Phoenix, Arizona (January 3-7). The poster was titled "Behavioral Responses of Lizards to a Snake Predator: What to do When Far from Safety." It was a result of research that Milgrom and Zani did this past summer in collaboration with two undergraduates from Central College in Pella, Iowa, where Zani taught previously.

Hamilton employees commemorated Martin Luther King Jr., Day on January 15 by volunteering at three non-profit agencies in the Utica area. Twenty employees spent their morning working at a Habitat for Humanity House, Jesus Christ Tabernacle of David (JCTOD) and Loretto Center. The employees, who were given work release time from Hamilton, painted, spackled and helped set up educational software at their work sites. The ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day will take place on Saturday, Jan. 20, with students and members of the Hamilton community volunteering at additional sites.

Scientist and broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki will give the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, Jan. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His lecture, titled “The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Real Bottom Line,” is free and open to the public.

Scientist and broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki will give the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, Jan. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His lecture, titled “The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Real Bottom Line,” is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a number of campus and community events in January. On Monday, Jan. 15, from 8 a.m. to noon, 20 Hamilton employees will participate in Employee Community Service Day at various sites around greater Utica. Hamilton’s 9th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Day will take place on Saturday, Jan. 20, from 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Hamilton students and employees will perform volunteer work at various sites throughout Greater Utica.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego in January. In her capacity as vice president for outreach of the APA, she oversaw several committees and their activities (Outreach Committee, Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance, and the Committee on the Classical Tradition). Each committee sponsored a panel and in addition CAMP sponsored a full performance of Aristophanes' Birds (in English) complete with music and costumes.

Hamilton lost an outstanding teacher and friend when Professor Russell Blackwood died Friday morning (Jan. 12). He was a member of the faculty for nearly 50 years. Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart sent news of Professor Blackwood’s passing to the College community.

Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu delivered the ninth annual Waino Pihl Lecture at Wayne State University in November 2006.  The lecture was titled "Incorporating Behavioral Factors in Economic Research" and cited work that he had published in this area. In October 2006 Wu was invited to participate in a panel titled "Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future.”  This panel was part of the annual policy research conference sponsored by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya and Seiki Ayano (Mie University in Japan) presented a paper titled "Multi-level nominalization: evidence from Verbal Noun in Japanese" at the 81st annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Anaheim on January 4 -7.

Carl Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, published a paper titled "It Was their Destiny: Roman Power and Imperial Self-Esteem" in Amphora 5.2 (Fall 2006) 10-11 and 19. Amphora is a publication of the American Philological Association. Rubino, along with Caroline Winterer of Stanford University, presided over a panel that he organized on "Alexander Hamilton and the Classics" at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego on January 6. The panel was sponsored by the APA Committee on the Classical Tradition. Frank Anechiarico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton, was among presenters.