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CBC News of Canada featured the discovery of an undersea volcano in Antarctica. The expedition that discovered the volcano was led by Professor of Geology Eugene Domack and included three Hamilton undergraduates. The volcano, suspected to have been recently active, stands roughly 700 meters above the ocean floor. According to CBC, barren patches and lack of glacial scours on the volcano suggest it is relatively young.

CBS News featured the discovery of an active undersea volcano by a National Science Foundation expedition led by Professor of Geology Eugene Domack.  The finding helps explain mariners' historical reports of discoloration in the water in the vicinity of the submerged volcano, CBS noted. The expedition included three Hamilton undergraduates. The volcano is located in an area known as Antarctic Sound, at the Northernmost tip of Antarctica.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields recently served as a panel reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Shields attended the NSF Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program panel review meeting on April 26 and 27. He reviewed the proposals for the STEP Division of Undergraduate Education at the NSF.

Scientists working in the stormy and inhospitable waters off the Antarctic Peninsula have found what they believe is an active and previously unknown volcano on the sea bottom. Geology Professor Eugene Domack was the chief scientist of the expedition. 

"99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask," a play by Assistant Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer, will be staged at the annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., May 30-June 12. The one-person multi-media play is a look at what we think and what we know about African-Americans.

Ken Herold, director of library information sSystems, is guest editor of the latest issue of the journal Library Trends on the topic of the confluence of librarianship and computing. The issue is titled "The Philosophy of Information."

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was recently interviewed by George Kasparian for two radio stations, WBNW and WPLM. The interview was part of the program "Financially Speaking, Financial News and Business Intelligence for and About Women." Owen spoke about Federal Reserve policies and the current state of the economy.

A recent news item appearing in The Item (Sumter, S.C.) featured a photograph of Hamilton and Colby crew teams practicing on Lake Marion in South Carolina.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz recently published two articles. "Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction--in General" appeared in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism.  A second article, "Music, Genre, and Narrative Theory" was published in Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Also, The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has published a new book, I Know That You Know That I Know by George Butte.

Professor of French John O'Neal was named an associate member of the Sorbonne's Center for 17th- and 18th-Century French Language and Literature Studies at the University of Paris IV in January 2004.  He has been active with the center's study group on the 17th- and 18th-century moralists.  This year O'Neal became involved with the Rousseau study group, preparing for the conference which he will chair in June 2005 at Hamilton on Rousseaus's Reveries for the North American Rousseau Association. He also recently edited with Ourida Mostefai Approaches to Teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker for the Modern Language Association (New York, 2003).