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During the 2006 spring break, four Hamilton women made the journey to Cofradia, Honduras, for a service-learning project at San Jeronimo Bilingual School (SJBS). With the suggestion and much help from current volunteer teacher at San Jeronimo, Lauren Fisher '05, students Sarah Griffith '06, Emily Gunther '06, Johanna Sanchez '08, and Julia Daly '08 created the pilot trip for the international service-learning trip, Hamiltonians in Honduras. In Cofradia, the girls not only worked on art, reading, and athletic activities with some of SJBS's 150 students, but they painted the concrete library, organized and coded hundreds of books, and made picture dictionaries for Lauren's first-grade class.

The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has published its 21st book, Lisa Zunshine’s Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. By looking at literature in terms of recent research in cognitive psychology, Zunshine offers both a compelling revision of narrative theory and provocative new interpretations of a variety of novels from Richardson’s Clarissa to Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.

The Hamilton College Choir will conclude its spring tour in Wellin Hall on Friday, March 31 at 8 p.m. Over spring break, the choir performed throughout the northeast as far south as Washington, D.C., and north to Burlington, VT. Under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb,  the choir and College Hill singers will present a selection of both sacred and secular works ranging from the Renaissance to the present day, including works by Barber, Victoria, Haydn, Lauridsen, and a selection of spirituals.

Derek C. Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics at Hamilton and currently a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics, presented "Human Resource Management and Performance in Retail Trade: Evidence from an Econometric Case Study" in February 2006 at the annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Economic Research in Helsinki.  The paper was written with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen.

Visiting Instructor of Comparative Literature Janelle Schwartz organized a panel and gave a paper at the American Comparative Literature Association's 2006 meeting, "The Human and Its Others," held March 24-26 at Princeton. Schwartz's panel, "A Cabinet of Curiosities: Objectifying the Human from the Renaissance to the 21st Century," was co-organized with Nhora Serrano from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was a three-day panel with four papers given each day. Schwartz's paper was titled "Putting Polyps Into Powder Jars: Applications and Implications of the Spontaneous Generation Debate."

Ernest Williams, the Leonard C. Ferguson Profesor of Biology, published an article in the British Journal of Animal Ecology (75:466-475) with collaborators from Stanford and Duke Universities and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. The article is titled "Delayed population explosion of an introduced butterfly."

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.

In anticipation of another large crowd for its Great Names speakers’ series, Hamilton College has announced special parking and shuttle bus plans for the lecture by longtime former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw on Thursday, April 27. Brokaw will lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Doors will open at 6 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Those needing reserved handicapped seating and parking are asked to call 859-4529. Group seating is full and no additional reservations are being accepted at this time.

Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented her paper, "Banjo and Bicycles: 'The New Woman' as Viewed through the Stereograph," at the Society for American Music's National Conference in Chicago on March 19. She will also present the paper at the American Musicological Society New York State/St.Lawrence Chapter Meeting at Syracuse University on April 8.

Bron Taylor, the Samuel S. Hill Ethics Professor at the University of Florida, will present a lecture titled "Globalization and Earth-Based Spiritualities" on Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit. Taylor has written widely about the religious and ethical dimensions of environmental movements around the world. His books include Ecological Resistance Movements: the Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism and the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (Continuum 2005).