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The art history faculty has moved into the newly renovated Art Center, formerly the Molly Root House, and will be teaching classes in the facility this semester. Located on the south side of College Hill Road across from the Griffin Road intersection, the large white house with side porches has two first floor classrooms and faculty offices on the second floor for professors Agnes Bertiz, Rand Carter, Steve Goldberg, John McEnroe, Deborah Pokinski and Jay Williams. The building also includes a seminar room, conference room, slide library and student research areas.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller spent January 9-13 in Washington, D.C., where she served on a committee to read and approve research university grant proposals for the Department of Education. The proposals were for Title VI national resource centers in Russian/East European/Eurasian and Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) programs. Title VI funds undergraduate, graduate and professional training in the languages and cultures of major world regions.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven has received a grant from the Ford Foundation of $350,000 for the next two years and eight months to write a book tentatively titled Searching for Ethics in a New America.

The Hamilton College Contemporary Voices and Visions Series opens the spring season with a Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership presentation of the Taylor 2 Dance Company on Saturday, January 21, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton College’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center is continuing its series of lectures this spring focused primarily on the duties and roles of superpowers. The series is titled “The Responsibilities of a Superpower.” The evening lectures are free and open to the public. Princeton Professor Alan Krueger, Columbia University Senior Fellow Jagdish Bhagwati and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Larry Diamond will be among speakers.

Carl T. Hayden '63, Chancellor Emeritus of the New York State Board of Regents, will join the Hamilton faculty for the spring 2006 semester as a lecturer in government.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, published an article in the British journal Sociology (December, 2005). Her article, "U.S. Working-Class/Poverty-Class Divides," was part of a special issue on "Class, Culture and Identity" and was the only piece written by an American. Adair writes as a "'poverty-class scholar’ articulating an identity, experience, marginality, and concomitant consciousness and epistemology distinct from that of working-class academics."

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita has been re-elected treasurer of the Society for Machines and Mentality. The Society for Machines and Mentality is an international scholarly organization whose purpose is to advance philosophical understanding of issues involving artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science. The Society is affiliated with the journal Minds and Machines, published by Springer.

Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, will join the Hamilton College faculty this spring as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs.

At the annual December meeting of alumni leaders in New York City, Hamilton College's board of trustees announced that the institution has received more than $100 million in gifts toward its $175 million capital campaign goal. Publicly announced at last December's alumni meeting, the Excelsior Campaign is focused on raising funds for several major initiatives. Campaign priorities include support for new and expanded campus facilities, scholarships and faculty development.