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An international team of scientists working in the Antarctic Peninsula have mapped, sampled, and collected bottom video data that indicates a major volcano exists on the seafloor of the Antarctic continental shelf.

Jeff Rubino '05 has received one of four awards issued to undergraduates this year by the New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS). Rubino used EPR and Vis spectroscopy to study enzyme reactions. Associate Professor of Chemistry and president elect of the Council on Undergraduate Research Tim Elgren was his advisor. According to its website, SAS is a nonprofit organization "formed to advance and disseminate knowledge and information concerning the art and science of spectroscopy."

Claire Ramsay, a 2003 cum laude graduate of Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Morocco. She will study the influence that francophone newspapers have on choice of language in Moroccan universities. Ramsay plans to study at the University Mohammed V and l'Institute Superieur de l'Information et de Communication in Rabat.

Peter Singer, the Ira. W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and a well-known public ethicist, gave a lecture titled “Ethics for One World” to a large crowd in the Hamilton College Chapel on May 4. Singer outlined the ethical implications and imperatives of climate change, global trade, international law and foreign aid, as discussed in his book, One World: The Ethics of Globaliztion. The lecture was part of the Globalization Sophomore Seminar lecture series.

Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights, presents, "Sweatshops and Child Labor in the Global Economy," on May 5, at 7 p.m. in Benedict 105. Kernaghan is best known for exposing the use of child labor in the production of Wal-Mart's "Kathie Lee" clothing line. His talk is part of the series sponsored by the sophomore seminars on globalization.

Hamilton College alumnus Richard W. Couper ’44, a sixth-generation graduate of the college, will deliver the address at Hamilton’s traditional Class & Charter Day awards celebration on Friday, May 7, at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel. Class & Charter Day is an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year.   

Peter Singer, author of One World: the Ethics of Globaliztion (Yale University Press, 2002), presents, "Ethics for One World," on May 4, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.

Donal Carbaugh, professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will lecture on "The Pragmatics of Personhood: Languages for Speaking and Silence" on Wednesday, May 5, at 4:15 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Oral Communication Center and the anthropology department.

HamTrek, the Hamilton College Community’s first spring sprint triathlon, will be held on Class and Charter Day, Friday, May 7, at 2:30 p.m. The event is a way for the college community to get together for some fun competition between students, faculty, staff, alumni, family and administration. HamTrek is sponsored by the President’s Office, Pepsi Co., the Athletic Department, Intramural Sports and Student Activities. 

Professor of Government Cheng Li was quoted in a New York Times article about recent steel production surges in China. According to Li, Beijing has faced great difficulty in restraining investment in steel mills because of the manner in which power is decentralizing in China and because President Hu Jintao maintains policies that encourage inland development.