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Mary Beth Day '07 and Meghan Dunn '06 have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2005-06 academic year. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.  

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo attended the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) in Oakland, Calif., from March 16-19.  He chaired the environmental political theory section, which entailed selecting paper and panel proposals and organizing the section's seven panels.  At the conference, he participated in an annual workshop on Environmental Political Theory.  He also presented a paper titled, "Virtu-Based Politics and Environmental Values: Contemporary Political Thought Confronts Stability, Place, and ... Ruddy Ducks." 

Robert S. J. Garland, the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics at Colgate University, will give the Winslow Classics Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, March 31, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. His lecture, titled “From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens: Attention-Seeking in Antiquity,” is free and open to the public.

Barbara Tewksbury, the William R. Kenan Professor of Geosciences at Hamilton College, will give a free public lecture, “Field Work on an Alien Planet: the Stunning Success of the Mars Exploration Rover Program,” on Friday, April 1, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson building at Hamilton.

Tricia Starks, assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas, will give a lecture, "Building the Body Soviet: Hygiene, Propaganda and the Revolutionary State," on Thursday, March 31, at 4 p.m. in K.J. Auditorium. She will discuss the popularization of public health in the Soviet 1920s and challenges prevailing assumptions of the nature of the Soviet state and its peculiarity. 

Hamilton’s Jewish student group, Hillel, has been selected to participate in a national Hillel initiative aimed at strengthening programming on campuses with less than 250 Jewish students. It is one of six colleges chosen to participate in the Seref Advancement Initiative. Hillel will receive a $5000 grant to expand its programs on campus.

The 7th Annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place at Hamilton College on Sunday, April 24. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and walks begin at 11 a.m. AIDS Hike for Life is a 5K walk committed to raising funds that provide direct care to families and individuals living with AIDS, and help support ACR's Teen AIDS Task Force prevention program in area high schools.  

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Matt Romaniello gave an invited lecture, "The Muscovite Empire: From Composite Monarchy to Unitary State," at the Davis Center for Eurasian Studies at Harvard University on March 11.

"Cultured Wrinkles," a composition by Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods, will be premiered by the Albany Symphony Orchestra's (ASO) ensemble, the Dogs of Desire, on Thursday, March 31, at 8 p.m.  The concert will take place in Revolution Hall in Troy, N.Y. This is the second of three pieces that Woods will debut for the ASO in two years. In 2004 he premiered a musical update of the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" for the orchestra. His third piece will debut in December.

Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz will present "Globalization and Public Policy," on Friday, April 8, at 8 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. Sponsored by Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, this event is free and open to the public. It is part of the College's "Hamilton Today," a weekend-long series of programs designed to give alumni and supporters an in-depth view of the College.