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Jessie McComb, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to India. The title of her project is “Sustainable Energy and Traditional Arts: Changing Functionality of Traditional Culture.” McComb proposes to examine the role of sustainable energy in rural electrification through an affiliation with the American non-government organization, Greenstar, Inc. She will also research the effect of modern technology, made available through electricity, on traditional arts and crafts. In both parts of the study she will focus on the change in functionality of new technology and of old traditions.

Plantation, Fla. native Cady Kashner '03, who last month won the NCAA Division III Diving Championship for the 1-meter, was featured in a Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel article (4/6/03) about her accomplishments. According to the article, "Kashner called her win 'the biggest comeback ever,' especially since she took off for eight months to travel to China during her junior year. 'Winning the national championship is one of the things I will be most proud of next to graduating and learning Chinese. It feels great,' said Kashner."

Nathan Rauscher ’03 presented a paper at the Geology Society of America meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 27-29. Rauscher’s presentation, "Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Kimberlite Dikes from Central News York," summarized his chemical analysis of sedimentary rocks in central New York. His current research will help clarify the origin and evolution of these unusual rocks. Associate Professor of Geology David Baily is Rauscher’s advisor.

Nathan Rauscher ’03 presented a paper at the Geology Society of America meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 27-29. Rauscher’s presentation, "Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Kimberlite Dikes from Central News York," summarized his chemical analysis of sedimentary rocks in central New York. His current research will help clarify the origin and evolution of these unusual rocks. Associate Professor of Geology David Bailey is Rauscher’s advisor.

Construction of Hamilton’s new, $56-million science center is on schedule despite record-breaking winter weather, said Douglas A. Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology and science curriculum and facilities coordinator. Students who enroll at Hamilton this fall as members of the class of 2007 will have full use of the new facility when they begin their concentrations at the start of their junior year in 2005. The newest portion of the center will be open one year earlier, in the fall of 2004.

Andrew Bernstein, an expert in Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism, will give a lecture, “Global Capitalism: The Solution to World Oppression and Poverty,” on Wednesday, April 9, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel at Hamilton College. The lecture is free and open to the public.

“Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privilege in America,” will open at the Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College on Friday, April 11. The show is curated by author and historian Rickie Solinger and photographer Kay Obering. The show incorporates some 50 images that picture the complexities of being a mother in contemporary America and challenges the prevailing ideas that motherhood in America should be a class privilege. Solinger will give a lecture on the exhibition on Friday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the Emerson Gallery.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane presented a paper, "Libraries, Black Writers and Fire," at the meeting of the African Literature Association held in the Bibliotheka Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, in March. She also published an article, "Mixed-Up, Jumble-Aya, and English: 'How Newness Enters the World' in Salman's Rushdie's 'The Courter'," in a long-delayed issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 32, no. 4 (cover date October 2001): 47-68. "Achebe, Soyinka, and Other-Languagedness" appeared in The Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, and Translator in African Literature, edited by Angelina E. Overvold, Richard K. Priebe, and Louis Tremaine (Africa World Press, 2003): 131-49.

Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan gave a talk, "Moving about obstacles: Pass the salt, but don't spill the milk," at the International Workshop on Posture-Based Motion Planning at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn.

Abigail Zeidler, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship. She will teach English as a foreign language in South Korea. The purpose of the Fulbright Program is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. The program is designed to give recent college graduates opportunities for personal development and international experience.