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The third graders of Myles Elementary School in New Hartford were already excited to get half the day off from school, but they had no idea how much entertainment was in store for them during their science day at Hamilton College. "I hope to spark their enthusiasm, and it would be great if I could help them maintain it," said Professor of Physics Gordon Jones.

Seventeen Hamilton College seniors were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. They are: Katharine E. Adelstein, Brian D. Cohen,James P. DuVernay, Elisa Golfinopoulos, Samuel J. Klempner, Kimberly S. Lantz, Cory W. Lown, Karsten Lund, Yina Luo, Jessie F. McComb, Nichola C. Meserve, Julie A. Parent, Theresa L. St. John, Cheng Quan Wang, Teresa L. Willmore and Bing Yi Yu.

Associate Professor of Art Steven Goldberg gave multiple lectures in March and April 2003 on Asia and Asian art. In March, in Scottsdale, Ariz., he delivered a lecture at the Asian Studies Development Program 9th National Conference titled, "Oh Father Where Art Thou?" Goldberg delivered a similar lecture on globalization, identity and Chinese visual culture at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. Goldberg spoke at East-West: The Carolina Connection Conference in Seabrook Island in Charleston, S.C. on March 24; his lecture was titled "Chinese Calligraphy in an Age of Globalization." In conjunction with the exhibition Zen no Sho: The of Fukushima Keido Roshi, Abbot of the Zen Monastery Tofukuji, in Kyoto, Goldberg presented "Ink Traces of the True Person of No Status" Mui Shinnin no Bokuseki at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta, on March 27. He also participated in a round-table discussion on Asian Studies and Globalization at Annual Meeting of ASIANetwork at Ferman College, Greenville, S.C., on April 12.

Cheng Li, professor of government and Woodrow Wilson fellow, spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C. at The Center for Strategic and International Studies. The conference was titled "China under new Leadership." Li, along with Joseph Fewsmith of Boston University and David Shambaugh of George Washington University, participated in a debate on China's new leadership priorities. The conference also included a panel discussion on China's policy challenges, with Chien-min Chao of National Chengchi University, Jeffrey Bader of Stonebridge International, Anthony Saich of Harvard University, and Arthur Ding of National Chengchi University.

Associate Professor of Art Steven Goldberg recently published an article, "Recognition of the True Self: Zen Buddhism and Bokuseki Calligraphy," in Zen No Sho: the Calligraphy of Fukushima Keido Roshi. The Ogelthrope Museum site for book compiled and edited by Jason M. Wirth,(Clear Light Publishers, 2003) describes the content as "insightful background information on Zen calligraphy by some of the leading scholars in the field."

At the Jack B. Riffle dinner to honor this year's senior varsity athletes, Lindsey Schantz and Joe Finley were named the 2003 Riffle Award recipients and Olympic Gold medalist Dave Wottle spoke.

Butterflies are predictors of global warming. A project funded by the NWF will restablish Frosted Elfin and Karner Blue Butterflies

Hamilton College will mark the end of its 191st academic year with a commencement ceremony honoring 465 graduates on Sunday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m. The ceremony will be held in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer will deliver the commencement address and he and five others will receive honorary degrees.

Peter MacDonald assistant systems manager at Burke Library, delivered a presentation at Syracuse University on May 16 highlighting Hamilton's Digital Civil War Collection. Funding for this project came from the Central New York Library Resources Council, who also sponsored the presentation. The Digital Civil War Collection presents images of more than 1000 documents and objects from the special collections. The complete journal of a Civil War soldier from Marcy, N.Y., and more than 50 letters from a soldier from Clinton were converted to text. These will be indexed and fully searchable in the future when the Web site is made available to the public.

Professor of Art Rand Carter will deliver the opening lecture at The Friends of Schinkel's second triennial event that will be held in cooperation with the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, June 19–21, 2003, at the Schinkel-Klause, Berlin-Mitte. His lecture addresses "Schinkel and the Pompeian Style" in a session titled "Schinkel und Italien." Conference proceedings will be published as a volume in the FOS triennial series by Edition Axel Menges.