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Two professors and six students from Hamilton traveled to Anaheim, Calif. from March 28 – April 1 to attend the American Chemical Society National Meeting and present papers and posters on their research. The students, Christopher Butts, Jessica Callahan, Henry Chicaiza, Brent Matteson, Jakub Sroubek and Andrew Vermilyea, are all members of the Class of 2004, and were accompanied by Chemistry Professors Karen Brewer and Stephen Waratuke. 

A positive review of Visiting Assistant Professor of History Aram Goudsouzian's book Sidney Poitier; Man, Actor, Icon, was published in The Washington Post.  Robert Fleming, author of Havoc After Dark, reviewed the book.  Fleming said, "Goudsouzian frames Poitier as a man of his times, weighing the actor's compromises and triumphs equally."  The review goes on to note: "The book's introduction includes a 1967 quote from the actor that seems appropriate to consider here. 'I am artist, man, American, contemporary, he said. 'I am an awful lot of things, so I wish you would pay me the respect due.'  In straightforward, unadorned prose, Aram Goudsouzian has done just that."

Stephanie Higgins '04, Gemma Kirkwood '05 and Heather Schrum '05 will travel to Antarctica with Eugene Domack, professor of geology, for a research trip April 15 - May 10. To follow their expedition, go to Antarctica 2004. This project is made possible with funding from the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita is the author of an op-ed in the Syracuse Post-Standard (3/26/04) about electronic voting. Rosmaita suggests that New York's delay in installing new electronic voting machines is a wise move. "The very attractiveness of the computer solution is its biggest weaknesss," he wrote. "By combining the chain of voter operations into one internal step, we are forced to rely upon the computer being programmed correctly. The computer's decision is final -- there is no possibility of a meaningful recount," Rosmaita wrote. See full op-ed below.

Hamilton College's new Science Center will be constructed with attention to "green" design, which is the use of environmentally friendly processes and materials in building construction and design.

Hamilton College student Matthew Palascak's research, "Accurate Experimental Values for the Free Energies of Hydration of H+, OH-, and H3O+" was published in the March 18 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry:A. Palascak '07 started working in the lab of George Shields, Winslow Professor of Chemistry, the summer before his first year at Hamilton. Research conducted that summer was also presented at the MERCURY computational chemistry conference held in August 2003.

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center will host a faculty forum on climate change on Friday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in K-J Red Pit. The discussion will be co-sponsored by the environmental studies program.

Adam Bedient '04 and Dave Ewing '04, along with two students from Syracuse University, competed as the Hamilton/Syracuse team in the College Curling National Tournament in St. Paul, Minn., March 12-14. The team won the Bronze medal in Division III.

Nina Schoch, D.V.M., will present a lecture, "The Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program: A New Approach to Understanding Wildlife," on Tuesday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the K-J Red Pit. Her lecture is the next program in the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center speaker series, "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."

Recently I have begun to notice the large degree of segmentation that exists in Manhattan.  It strikes me as odd that crossing a single street in this grid-like layout can completely change the atmosphere surrounding you.