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Hamilton will be providing shuttle service for students to and from the Syracuse airport, the Albany airport and the Utica bus/train station over spring break.  All shuttles will depart at the designated time from ELS.  We may adjust times depending on demand.  You will need to pay and sign up in advance. More ...

Joseph R. Urgo, professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Mississippi, has been named the College's dean of the faculty.

Nell Irvin Painter, a leading historian of the United States and until her recent retirement, the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University, will lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, March 2, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. Painter will speak about her new book, Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meaning, 1619 to the Present (Oxford University Press, Oct. 2005). The Dean of the Faculty's Office and the Africana Studies Program are co-sponsors of the event, which is free and open to the public.

The annual Alternative Spring Break auction will be held on Thursday, March 2, in the Annex. The silent auction will run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and items include gift certificates to area businesses, a variety of baked goods, homemade crafts, gift baskets and more. The live auction will begin at 6:30 p.m. Items in the live auction include front row tickets to this spring's commencement ceremony, a weekend's stay in a master suite at Hotel Utica, an overnight stay in Bristol, a sea kayaking trip led by Adventure program director Andrew Jillings, a full dinner for six prepared by College Chaplain Jeff McArn, a gift certificate for a 10 person meal at Tex Mex and others. There will also be a raffle for one round trip ticket on USAir anywhere in the continental United States. Raffle tickets will be on sale at the auction and in Beinecke Student Activities Center. All proceeds from the auction help to fund Alternative Spring Break trips.

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck published a Letter-to-the-Editor in The New York Times in response to the article "Celebrity Appeal Keeps Magazine Circulation Mostly Higher." Raybeck said, "Not surprisingly, many of us embrace a shallow worldview where things are understandable, predictable and controllable. Most of us can name the characters of our favorite television shows, but we flounder when asked for the names of cabinet officers, Supreme Court justices or leaders of other nations. We display an increasing ability to take the trivial very seriously, in no small part because the trivial is understandable and nonthreatening."

The Hamilton College "Hot Button Issues" Poll was featured in The New York Times article, "Abortion has returned to center stage, but should the dialogue be changed? And if so, just how?" According to the article, "A third of a century after Roe v. Wade, the public remains astonishingly ambivalent. A recent national poll of high school seniors, for example, found equal percentages calling themselves "pro-life" and "pro-choice." Over 60 percent believed that the Supreme Court should let Roe stand, and over half wanted abortion legal in all (12 percent) or most (41 percent) cases."

Edward S. Walker, Jr., former United States Ambassador and current president of the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank on Middle East Policy, has been appointed to the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professorship in Global Political Theory. Ambassador Walker, a 1962 Hamilton graduate, served as the Linowitz Professor of Middle East Studies in 2003 and 2005.

Saturday, Feb. 25, 12 – 2 p.m., Afro-Latin Cultural Center Art Exhibit Saturday, Feb. 25, 5 p.m., Events Barn "To Africa and Back: A Timeline of Black History through Music, Poetry and Dance" Tuesday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m., Burke Library March from Burke Library to Fillius Events Barn Speaker Fredrika Newton: "Feminism and Black Empowerment." Thursday, March 2, 4:10 p.m., Science Auditorium Historian Nell Irvin Painter will speak about her new book, Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meaning, 1619 to the Present (Oxford University Press, Oct. 2005).

Sophomore chemistry major Kristin Alongi has published a paper on the hydroperoxy radical in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. The article, "Exploration of Potential Energy Surfaces, Prediction of Atmospheric Concentrations, and Prediction of Vibrational Spectra for the HO2---(H2O)n (n=1-2) Hydrogen Bonded Complexes," reports on results of quantum chemical calculations on this important atmospheric molecule.

Hamilton College's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center presents, "In Defense of Globalization," on Wednesday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m. as part of its year-long lecture series, "The Responsibilities of a Superpower." Jagdish Bhagwati, Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Professor of International Economics at Columbia University, is the evening's speaker. The event will be held in the Hamilton Chapel and is free and open to the public.