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Associate Professor of French Martine Guyot-Bender and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Tiffany Patterson have been awarded Class of 1963 Faculty Fellowships.

Seventeen Hamilton students will compete in the final round of the 2006 Hamilton Public Speaking Competition on Saturday, March 4, from 1-5 p.m, in the Chapel. There will be three speaking prizes awarded, including the McKinney, the Clark, and the Warren Wright Prize.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, spoke at Yale Law School on March 1 about the legal development in China under President Hu Jintao and recent Chinese intellectual and political discourse on constitutionalism.

Jagdish Bhagwati, Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and professor of international economics at Columbia University, gave a lecture titled "In Defense of Globalization" in the College Chapel on March 1.  Bhagwati, an expert on international trade and immigration who has advised the WTO and the United Nations on globalization issues, discussed why he believes the negative effects of globalization have been exaggerated by its critics.  The lecture was part of the Levitt Public Affairs Center's series, "The Responsibilities of a Superpower."

Dr. Ken Miller, professor of biology at Brown University, presented a lecture titled "Finding Darwin's God" to the Hamilton community on February 28. Dr. Miller's research focuses on cell biology and he is the co-author of three high school biology textbooks. Outside the lab, Dr. Miller lectures and debates about evolution on the pro-evolution side. He is the author of Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, and most recently was the lead witness for the parents in the 2005 Dover, Pa., "intelligent design" case.

Sixty-six members of the Hamilton College Choir will spend a portion of their spring break in March touring the northeast as part of the annual choir tour. This year's tour will take the choir as far south as Washington, D.C., and north to Burlington, Vt.

Eric Kuhn '09 interviewed "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan on his radio show "Kuhn and Company" on Saturday, February 25, on Hamilton's radio station WHCL 88.7 FM. Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in the war in Iraq, led an anti-war protest outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch in August and has gone on to speak out against the war and the President.

"SHOW TITLE HERE," the Hamilton College art faculty exhibition, will open Thursday, January 26, in the Emerson Gallery with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. There will also be three artist talks during February, each from noon to 1 p.m. in the gallery, beginning with Ella Gant and Rebecca Murtaugh on Wednesday, Feb. 1, followed by Sylvia de Swaan and Barry Gerson on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Bruce Muirhead and Joy Powell on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The show includes work by these artists as well as by Bill Salzillo, chair of the art department and curator of the Hamilton Collects Program. The show is open through April 15. The lectures and exhibition are free and open to the public.

More than 50 prints, drawings and illustrated books by the British artist and humorist Thomas Rowlandson (1756 – 1827) will be on display in Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery in an exhibition opening on Friday, Feb. 10. These works are on loan to the Emerson from the extensive collection of Rowlandson's work in the Print Department of the Boston Public Library. The show, titled "Humor & Humanity: Through the Eyes of Thomas Rowlandson," will be open through April 15 and is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Jennifer Irons gave a presentation titled "Memory, Race, and Place: A Sociological Analysis of the Re-visitation of Civil Rights Era Violence" at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Boston during the last week of February. Irons shared early analysis of a new research project that examines how the collective memory of civil rights-era murders has been used by black and white members of one Mississippi community to construct meaning about their community, their racial identities and current race relations in the town, state and nation. Data for this project was collected in interviews with members of the Philadelphia Coalition, a multi-racial group established in 2004 to plan the 40th anniversary commemoration of the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. Additional coalition goals are to establish a permanent memorial to the civil rights workers of Neshoba Country and to improve race relations there. Analysis was also based on observation of the 40th anniversary commemoration.