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Emily Lemanczyk '05 contributed an article to Next Step Magazine, a publication geared to high school students making college and career plans. Her article, titled "You won't like everybody - College career tips ...And nine other things I wish I'd learned earlier in my college career," is a list of suggestions on how to make the most of college life. Included in Lemanczyk's tips are "Professors really can be your friends," and "Learn how to prioritize your work." While at Hamilton, Lemanczyk, a government major, interned in the Communications & Development office. She also spent a semester of Hamilton's New York City program working at Rolling Stone magazine.

Hamilton students in the New York City Program and program director Frank Anecharico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, traveled to West Point this month to attend a roundtable discussion on security policy with a group of cadets and faculty. The students in the NYC program conduct research and attend two seminars led by Anecharico, and at the same time are working full time in internship positions.

Professor of French John O'Neal is scheduled to serve a second term as president of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS). At the society's recent annual meeting, he was elected second vice president for 2005-06. He will become first vice president in 2006-07 and president in 2007-08. O'Neal served previously as president of the society in 1992-93 after six years on the executive board. In 1985 he organized the annual meeting of the society in Utica, which was co-sponsored by Hamilton College and Colgate University.

Students participating in the Hamilton Program in Washington recently toured the Pentagon, led by Hamilton alumnus Brian Burns ’03 who works at the Department of Defense. Created in 1969, the Hamilton Program in Washington provides a combination of academic study and experience in national government. The students in the program conduct research and attend two seminars led by a resident member of Hamilton’s government department, and at the same time are working full time in congressional or executive offices. Students also participate in other activities, such as the Pentagon tour, that help them gain insight into a career in Washington.

Diane Fox, Freeman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies, gave a presentation at the Housatonic Museum of Art at the Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Conn., on Nov. 19, on the subject of Agent Orange. Fox presented her talk, titled “One Significant Ghost: Stories from Vietnam,” in conjunction with a photography exhibit, “Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam.” The black and white photographs by Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths chronicle the horrifying consequences of using the chemical Agent Orange during the Vietnam war.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields presented a seminar for Ithaca College's Department of Chemistry on November 15. His lecture, titled "Water Clusters in the Atmosphere: An Overview of Computational Chemistry Research at Hamilton College," featured the atmospheric chemistry work of his students Emma Pokon '04, Tim Evans '05, Frank Pickard '05 and Goldwater Scholars Matt Liptak '03, Meghan Dunn '06 and Mary Beth Day '07. In addition Shields briefly reviewed the biochemical research of Sarah Taylor '03, Damien Ellens '03, Lorena Hernandez '03, Abby Markeson '04, Katrina Lexa '05, Karilyn Larkin '06, Valery Danilack '06, Matroner George '07, Sarah Felder '07, Amanda Salisburg '08 and Amy Barrows '08. Research progress in computational chemistry has been greatly enhanced by the ongoing work and contributions of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner and System Administrator Steve Young.

Bill Harley'77 will be a guest on Talk of the Nation, NPR's midday news-talk show with Neal Conan and Liane Hansen on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Harley will sing songs from his new recording One More Time, read some short pieces from his new book Dear Santa, and talk about entertaining families – children and parents. Harley will be on during the second hour, between 2-4 p.m. EST.Check your local NPR station or go to www.npr.org to find your local station or to listen online. To participate in the conversation, call 800-989-8255 or e-mail TOTN@npr.org

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major presented a paper at Loops '05, the annual international meeting on non-perturbative/background independent quantum gravity. It took place in October at the Albert-Einstein-Institute in Potsdam, Germany, and commemorated the 50th anniversary of Albert Einstein's death. Major's paper was titled "A Discrete Machian Model" which is a phenomenological theory of discrete space.

Philip Pearle, Emeritus Professor of Physics, published two papers during 2005. The first, titled "Quasirelativistic quasilocal finite wave-function collapse model" was published in Physical Review A71, 032101; the second, "Completely quantized collapse and consequences" was in Physical Review A72, 022112 (2005). Pearle also published the article titled "Quantum Theory of Measurement" in the third edition of the two volume Encyclopedia of Physics, eds. R. Lerner and G. Trigg (Wiley-VCH, 2005).

Kyoko Omori, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures, presented a paper and was a discussant for a panel titled "Japanese Modernist Poetics and Inscriptions of the (National) Body" at the Modernist Studies Association conference during November in Chicago.