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Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera published an article in the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies NewsNet. The article, titled "Out of the Ivory Tower :Integrating Service-Learning into Russian Studies," is about Rivera's experience with integrating a service-learning component into her "Politics of Russia" Class.

The lecture by Mark Zupan, captain of the U.S. Quadriplegic Rugby Team and star of the documentary Murderball, scheduled for Monday, April 10, at Hamilton College has been cancelled. Zupan has trials for the U.S. Paralympic rugby team. The Campus Activities Board hopes to reschedule the lecture for the fall.

Assistant Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was featured in Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education article on  March 27 titled “Where did you get your Ph.D.?”  The article discussed the results of Wu’s study of the relationship between where faculty members get their Ph.D. and where they get a tenure-track job. The results were based on data gathered on approximately 5,000 faculty from the Web sites of six departments at 50 leading colleges and universities.

Twenty students from Martin Luther King Elementary School in Utica visited campus for a culture fair on April 1. About 20 Hamilton volunteers simulated a "trip around the world" for the students. The children made origami frogs, listened to ethnic music, learned Chinese words, modeled Nigerian clothing and enjoyed many other cultural activities. The Step Team, Tropical Sol, Heat, a magician and a juggler performed. HAVOC hosts on-campus events for children from Utica throughout the year. The next event, an Easter Egg Hunt, is on April 15.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo attended the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association on March 16-18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He presented a paper on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans titled, “In the Wake of Poseidon: Katrina, Climate Change, and the Coming Crisis of Displacement.” He argued, “The massive displacement of New Orleans residents may be a harbinger of a more general crisis of displacement and homelessness that will be generated by global warming over the course of this century.”  He was a discussant for a roundtable discussion titled, “New and Recent Books in Environmental Political Thought,” for which he reviewed three books.  He also chaired a panel titled "Political Theory in the Greenhouse II: Changing Understandings of Politics."

Following are entries from a journal kept by Hamilton students who spent part of their Spring Break in Utica, N.Y. as an Urban Service Experience.

Peter Bernstein, author of Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, spoke at Hamilton on March 29. In addition to Hamilton students, faculty and staff, many outside guests, including local high school students and teachers, attended the lecture. Bernstein is president of Peter L. Bernstein Inc., an economic consulting firm to institutional investors and corporations worldwide. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, then after working in research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bernstein served as a captain in the Air Force during World War II. He has authored nine books on economics and finance, and has contributed countless articles to professional journals.

Ten Hamilton students were inducted into Lambda Pi Eta, the national communication honor society on March 28. The new members are seniors Erik Goulding, John MacDuffie Lynch, Michael Coffey and Emily Rowland, and juniors Alicia Colabella, John LiPuma, Samantha Pitter, Michael Blasie, Allison Pohl and Alana MacKenzie. Continuing members are seniors Katharine Riposta, president, and Alan Clark, vice president. President Joan Stewart gave the keynote address at the event, which was organized and hosted by Riposta and Clark. Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams initiated the establishment of the Sigma Omicron chapter, which began operation in 2004. Lambda Pi Eta represents the first letters of what Aristotle described in The Rhetoric as the three modes of persuasion -- Logos, Pathos and Ethos.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in the U.S. News and World Report article "Can America Keep Up?" The article focuses on foreign competition for technology, jobs, and money. Li estimated that in recent years China has persuaded more than 200,000 foreign-educated students living abroad --many in the United States -- to return to China. "They constitute a potentially enormous source of talent and human capital for China," said Li.

Daniel Griffith '07 has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for the 2006-07 academic year. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. Hamilton College students have won seven Goldwater Scholarships since 2000.