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Two notable authors who graduated from Hamilton College will be among participants in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held in association with UCLA, April 26-27. Terry Brooks '66 will be a panelist on "The Writing Life," and Peter Cameron '82 will participate in a panel titled "The Art of Fiction: Haunted by the Past."

Four Hamilton College students, selected as 2003 Kirkland Project Research Associates, will present their work to the college community on Tuesday, April 22, beginning at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ. The students and their topics are: Jessica Callahan '04, "Fostering Scientific Interest through Hands-on Activities and Mentoring;" Ashlyn (Chuckie) Field '05, "Independent Study: Yoga;" Emily Kerr '05, "Intercultural Creativity: Hip-hop as a Movement for Social Change;" Claire Ramsay '03,"Reflecting Nationalities in the Myth of America: Haitian and Cuban Newspaper Coverage of the September 11 Attacks."

The Hamilton College Jazz Combo will present a concert on Tuesday, April 22 at 9 p.m. in Cafe Opus. The combo features Louis Bosso on trumpet, Khori Newlander on saxophones, Keith Foster on trombone, Dan Hilton on drums, Professor Richard Stahnke on keys, and Professor Doc Woods on bass. Free and open to the public.

Professor of Government Cheng Li was a guest on NPR's Diane Rehm Show on April 22. The discussion was on China's severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis. Other guests were Bates Gill, chair in China studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, (who spoke at Hamilton last week) and Robert Kapp, president of the U.S.-China Business Council. The audio of the discussion is available on NPR

Peter Cameron '82 and William Williams '73, have been awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships. This year's fellowships, worth a total of $6.75-million, were awarded to 184 distinguished scientists, scholars, and artists chosen from among more than 3,200 applicants. The winners of this year's competition, the foundation's 79th, represent 89 colleges and universities.

Jim Lehrer, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) news anchor, will deliver the commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m. Hamilton’s commencement ceremony will take place on the Main Quadrangle, or in the event of inclement weather, in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi M. Ravven was interviewed for a New York Times article (April 19, 2003)about a new book that finds the philosopher Spinoza was correct in arguing that the body and mind are unified. The book "Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain" (Harcourt, 2003), by Dr. Antonio Damasio, argues that "the philosopher anticipated one of brain science's most important recent discoveries: the critical role of the emotions in ensuring our survival and allowing us to think. Feeling, it turns out, is not the enemy of reason, but, as Spinoza saw it, an indispensable accomplice."

An excerpt from Feminism Without Borders, a new book by Professor of Women's Studies Chandra Talpade Mohanty, was featured in the April 11 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

As part of the Hamilton College Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center speakers program, Ian Lustick, political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss "Rights of Return for Palestinians and Jews: Lessons for the Negotiation of Usable Truth." The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Wednesday, April 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Building in the Red Pit. Lustick is the author of several books including Unsettled States, Disputed Lands and For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.

The Hamilton College Acoustic Coffeehouse Series celebrated its 10th anniversary with a concert on Thursday, April 17. Founded in 1993 by Gabriel Unger ’97, the series is nationally recognized as one of the top college coffeehouses on the circuit today.