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While many of her peers stayed on campus over the summer to pursue research in the sciences, Matroner George ’07 (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) traveled to South Africa to work in a research lab with Professor Kelly Chibale at the University of Capetown.

Eric Kuhn ‘09 will interview NBC News correspondent and Hamilton alumna Lisa Daniels ’94 and national pollster and Utica resident John Zogby on the college’s radio station WHCL 88.7 FM on Monday, Sept. 18, at 4 p.m. The show, Kuhn and Company can also be heard at www.whcl.org.  Kuhn is soliciting questions from his audience for Daniels and Zogby. He asks that all questions be sent to him at ekuhn@hamilton.edu.

Theo Gakwaya, former minister of interior in post-genocide Rwanda, will give a lecture titled “The Rwanda Genocide: Before, During, and After,” on Monday, September 18, at 4:15 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor (9/14/06)  for an article about Buddhism in the U.S., related to the Dalai Lama's visit this week to North America. Seager, author of Buddhism in America, estimates there are 1.5 million Buddhists in the U.S, and says it is the fourth-largest religion here. The Dalai Lama will visit Vancouver, B.C., then several U.S. cities during his North American tour.

Associate Professor of Biology Herm Lehman has published a manuscript titled, “Division of labor in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): the role of tyramine beta-hydroxlyase” in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Lehman’s laboratory explores the neurochemical basis of behavior and in this paper he describes a link between the foraging behavior of honey bees, the level of a common neurotransmitter, and the amount of messenger RNA that encodes the enzyme necessary for the synthesis of the neurotransmitter. These findings are new and interesting because they support the notion that subtle changes in the expression of a gene involved in neurotransmitter synthesis can have a profound impact on animal behavior.

A panel of historians will examine the opposing lives and political philosophies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson on Saturday, Sept. 16, at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The panel will be moderated by the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History Doug Ambrose and will include Hamilton Associate Professor of Government Rob Martin, West Point Professor of History Robert McDonald and James Read, an associate professor of political science at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University of Minnesota. The panel was organized by the Sigma Phi Society Educational Foundation, which also funded travel expenses for the West Point and College of St. Benedict and St. John's University professors to come to the Hill.

Author and internationally recognized human rights attorney Geoffrey Robertson will lecture at Hamilton College on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center auditorium. He will speak on the necessity and difficulty of bringing tyrants before the bar. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg will present a digital-slide lecture titled “Uses of the Past in Chinese Landscape Painting” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16, in the auditorium at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute (MWPAI). Goldberg’s presentation will mark the opening of an exhibition titled “Chinese Paintings from the Henricksen Collection” at the institute. A lecture titled “From Collection to Exhibition” by Sewall Oertling, professor emeritus at SUNY Oswego, will follow.  Both presentations are free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the Edward Wales Root Sculpture Court open to institute members and their guests.

Professor of French John O'Neal wrote an article, "Two Uticas with one spririt of warmth" for the Utica Observer-Dispatch (Sept. 3, 2006). The piece resulted from O'Neal's trip to Utica, Tunisia, in July, when he traveled there to present a paper at the Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. In the OD article he wrote that his experience in Tunisia "is a tale of international exchange and understanding." O'Neal recounted how he and his wife, Nancy, took a taxi one day to the Utica musueum, only to find it closed for renovations. "When we explained that we had traveled all the way from Utica, N.Y., to visit the museum, we were shown around personally by a guide who happened to be on the premises that day. After the visit to the museum, he escorted us to the actual archaeological site, where he showed us a number of historical treasures among the ruins," O'Neal wrote. He said the trip was a chance "to see international exchange at its best, especially in the land that gave our Utica its name."

John Werner '92, executive director of Citizen Schools in Boston, been selected as one of the 2006 Ten Outstanding Young Leaders (TOYL) awardees by the Boston Jaycees. Citizen Schools is a leading national education initiative that uniquely mobilizes thousands of adult volunteers to help improve student achievement by teaching skill-building apprenticeships after-school. The TOYL Awards will be presented at a black-tie gala on Thursday, September 21, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston. All are welcome to join in honoring these individuals. Tickets for the awards ceremony dinner are now available. For more information regarding TOYL contact: Alyssa Vanderpool, 2006 President, Boston Jaycees 888-274-8682 x205 or president@bostonjaycees.org; www.bostonjaycees.org/toyl.