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Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp will receive with the Hamilton Alumni Council’s Distinguished Service Award during Volunteer Weekend and the Spring 2004 meetings of the Alumni Council. Melissa Joyce-Rosen '86, as president of the Hamilton College Alumni Association, will make the presentation at a dinner on Friday, April 23. The Nominations Committee of the Alumni Council invites members of the on-campus community, alumni and others to provide recommendations for next year's honor. The deadline for recommendations for the next award is September 8, 2004.  

Author Richard Rhodes will present, "The Need for Nuclear Power," as the next guest in The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center lecture series, "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."  The lecture is Wednesday, March 3, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel, and is free and open to the public.  The lecture is co-sponsored by the Office of the President.

Professor of Government Carlos Yordan has published an paper in the March 2004 issue of The Middle East Review of International Affairs. The article, "Failing to Meet Expectations in Iraq: A Review of the U.S. Postwar Strategy," is an analysis of the Bush administration's postwar strategy.

Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart has announced the appointment of Monica C. Inzer as the college's next dean of admission and financial aid. The appointment is effective July 1. Inzer is currently dean of undergraduate admission and student financial services at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. She is a native of Sherrill, where her parents still reside. In addition to having overall responsibility for Hamilton's student recruitment and financial aid efforts, Inzer will report to the president and serve as one of the college's eight senior officers.

More than 300 students met with Hamilton faculty, administrators and staff to help generate solutions concerning Hamilton’s alcohol culture and the secondary effects of alcohol on the campus at the 2004 Adler Conference on February 27. The conference was designed to allow students to discuss many topics and their relation to alcohol consumption on the campus.

Internationally renowned philosopher Richard Rorty will speak as part of the Truax Lecture Series in Philosophy on Monday, March 1 at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. His lecture is titled "Moral Absolutism and Torture." Rorty is professor of comparative literature and, by courtesy, of philosophy, at Stanford University.

Hamilton College’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present its 2004 Spring Dance Concert on Friday, March 5, and Saturday, March 6, at 8 p.m. at the Schambach Center for the Performing Art’s Wellin Hall.

Burke Library has initiated Hamilton College's membership as a registered deployment partner for The Fedora™ Project, an open-source digital repository management system. In September, 2001, The University of Virginia received a grant of $1,000,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable its library, in collaboration with Cornell University, to build a sophisticated digital object repository system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). Hamilton joins the ranks of the University of Virginia, Cornell, Northwestern, Rutgers, Tufts and Yale in evaluation of the system by applying it to testbeds of their own collections. The experiences of the deployment group will be used to fine-tune the software in later phases of the project.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Steve Humphries-Brooks was interviewed by Agence France Presse for an article titled "Jesus on the Silver Screen," which discussed films made about the life of Jesus. The article was published in the Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia), Mail and Guardian (S. Africa) and Utusan (Malaysia).

Frank Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, has been invited by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to address its annual convention in New York City on March 2. In the past 10 years, Anechiarico has written books and articles about corruption control in government, targeted at the 500 federal ethics officers who will be at the conference.