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Hamilton College played host to a gala concert celebrating Clinton Central High School’s new auditorium on January 3 in Wellin Hall. AMong performers were Clinton High School alumni, as well as members of the Hamilton College community and alumni.The concert featured songs by Ben Moore ’82, a composer whose songs have been performed nationally in concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and Chicago’s Orchestra Hall; and performances by Helen Moore ’80, Anne Mason ’82, Amedee Daryl Williams, (son of Jay ’54), Hermine Williams, (wife of Jay '54) and Jermaine Hill who came to Clinton through the A Better Chance (ABC) program.

HILLgroup reference librarians and instructional technologists will be offering informal, one hour presentations on topics ranging from RefWorks and database use for different fields, to lecterns and using GIS in your classroom. The presentations are informal - bring your questions and we'll provide the answers.

Hamilton College and Utica College have been jointly awarded a $46,000 three-year grant through the Center for Intergenerational Learning at Temple University to help older immigrants and refugees in the Mohawk Valley become more actively engaged in their community and pursue U.S. citizenship.

Richard Bernstein '80, chief U.S. strategist at Merrill Lynch, was featured in USA Today's "Managing Your Money" feature on January 2. Bernstein, billed in the column as "Grizzly Bear," predicts that 2004 will be a bad year for stocks. According to the article: "It's not that Bernstein thinks earnings will stop growing altogether. He just doesn't expect the peppy growth that companies enjoyed early in the economic recovery." Bernstein likes stocks that sell "everday staples to consumers like Coca-Cola and Altria," as well as health care stocks.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz gave a talk titled "Matrices and their square roots" at math department colloquia at The College of Wooster, SUNY Geneseo, and Bucknell University during the fall semester.  

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented two papers at the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) session of the Allied Social Sciences Association's annual meeting in San Diego from Jan. 2-5. The panel Jones participated in was "Executive Compensation: International Evidence." One paper, "The Incidence of Selective and Broad-Based Stock Options Schemes: Evidence from Finland," was presented with Finnish economists Panu Kalmi, from the Helsinki School of Economics, and Mikko Mäkinen of the Research Institute of Finnish Economy. Another paper, "Majority Ownership and Chief Executive Compensation," was presented with Neils Mygind of the Copenhagen Business School. This meeting also marks the end of Jones's term as president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies.

The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College presents "Limits of Dissent?" on Thursday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.  This panel features Ward Churchill, University of Colorado at Boulder, speaking on "Some People Push Back;" Natsu Taylor Saito, Georgia State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, discussing "Criminalizing Dissent:  The USA Patriot Act - Extending COINTELPRO;" and Richard Werner, The John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College, speaking on "Pragmatic Pacifism and Civil Disobedience." The event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Kirkland Endowment.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, commented on China's foreign policies and domestic challenges for 2004 on BBC Radio World Service. The interview aired Wed., December 31.

Some Hamilton College faculty members were asked to predict what the top news stories of 2004 -- other than the Presidential election -- will be. Following are responses from faculty from a variety of disciplines:

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven published a paper, "Spinoza and the Education of Desire" in the journal, Neuro-Psychoanalysis, vol. 5, issue 2, 2003, pp. 218 - 229.  Ravven's paper contributes to an extended exchange among the neuroscientists, Jaak Panksepp, Douglas Watt, and Antonio Damasio and herself on Damasio's recent book, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.  Following Ravven's paper is Damasio's response to it.