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Assistant professor of Theatre Mark Cryer will be performing his one man show, "99 Questions you've always wanted to ask an African American," at Bentley College, Clarke University and SUNY Geneseo as part of their Black History Month celebrations in February.

Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, and lecturer in Englsh, delivered "The Joys of Joyce: Reading Ulysses" at the Belles Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on January 30. The lecture, which was attended by more than 200 people, was sponsored by the San Miguel chapter of PEN International, an organization of 141 chapters in 101 countries that is dedicated to fighting for freedom of expression and to defending writers suffering from oppressive regimes around the world.

A service in memory of Russell Thorn Blackwood will be held in the College Chapel on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. A reception will follow in the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Campus Center.

Dr. Robert Bullard, Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, spoke at Hamilton on February 7. Bullard discussed the relationship between race and environment in a speech titled “In the Wake of the Storm: Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Populations before and after Disaster Strikes.”

"Highest Adventure," an article in the March issue of American Heritage magazine, tells the stories of the first Americans to summit Mount Everest.  History professor Maurice Isserman, who wrote the article, is also the co-author of a forthcoming book on Himalayan mountaineering.

Haley Reimbold ’06 and Courtney Johnson ’06 will facilitate the February 9 Think Tank titled “Utica, NY: Post Industrial Wasteland?” The discussion will center on Hamilton student experiences in Utica and student’s perceptions of the city. The facilitators will analyze interactions with the local community and explore possible venues for involvement and fun in Utica. The discussion will take place at noon in KJ 221. Lunch will be provided.

Following up on work carried out by Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel at the University of Hawaii during the spring of 2005, two students, Andrew Glossner '06 and Danielle Massee '07 completed the synthesis of a natural product isolated from the sponge Amphimedon compressa; this was reported at the meeting in a poster. In addition, Kinnel served as one of six judges for the poster prizes at this meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand, which took place from February 4 to February 10.

Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology, published an article in the journal Behavioural Brain Research (vol. 177, 2007). The co-authors are Jennifer DiNieri '03, Aliscia Thomas '04, Matthew Silver '04, and Rebecca Wright '08. DiNieri contributed data as part of her senior project in neuroscience, and Thomas and Wright participated in summer research supported by the General Electric Fund and a STEP-NSF grant, respectively. The paper, titled "Reward-Related Neuronal Activity in the Rat Superior Colliculus," documents neural correlates of attention to significant environmental stimuli.

Associate Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell served as editor for modern Southeast Asian theatre for the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, recently published by Greenwood Press, as well as a contributor to the project. The two volume work totals 400,000 words, covering all aspects of Asian theatre. The general editor was Samuel L. Leiter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, noted specialist in Japanese theatre. Other Editorial Advisory Board members with Latrell were Colin MacKerras, Sreenath K. Nair, Richard Nichols and Richard Frasca, presenting specialties in other regions of Asia.

American high school students do not understand climate change issues well, according to a poll of 900 teenagers conducted by Hamilton College and Zogby International. The average high school student fails a quiz on the causes and consequences of climate change and believes climate change has no consequences for them in their lifetime. The poll demonstrates that those students who know the most about climate change have used TV and other media outlets as effectively to gain an understanding of the phenomenon as those who have taken classes on the subject.