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Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven contributed two essays to the Routledge Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers: Spinoza, volumes in their series. Ravven's essays are: "Spinoza's individualism reconsidered: some lessons from the Short Treatis on God, Man, and His Well-Being," in Volume I, Context, Sources, and Early Writings; and "Spinoza's materialist ethics: the education of desire," in Volume II, The Ethics.

Hamilton basketball forward C. J. Cantil '04 was featured in a Utica Observer-Dispatch article (March 13, 2003) about the Continentals' quest for the NCAA Division III title. Hamilton will face the Williams College Ephs on Friday, March 14, in a third-round game at Williams.

Former Political Councilor to Greece John Brady Kiesling spoke about U.S. diplomacy Thursday evening to a crowded Chapel at Hamilton College, as a guest in the Alpha Delta Phi Lecture Series. Kiesling submitted his resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell, effective March 7, in protest of U.S. action in Iraq.

Cheng Li, professor of government and Woodrow Wilson fellow, was quoted in an Associated Press article about the new Chinese Premier. The article appeared in Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacramento Bee and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Peter Cameron, a 1982 Hamilton graduate, has been named a 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award nominee. Cameron's book, The City of Your Final Destination (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was among five books selected as finalists for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction. The winner will be announced in April.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz gave an invited lecture on March 4 at Yale University at the Women's Faculty Forum in a classics series. The title was "Tragedy and Terror."

Tim Hicks, director of Audiovisual Classroom Services, was recently honored as the Oriskany Falls Fire Department 2002 Firefighter of the Year. Tim has been a firefighter for nearly three years.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented her paper on "Convex Geometric Graphs with no Short Self-intersecting Paths" at the 34th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing held in Boca Raton, Fla., in March.

Dr. Hugh Sampson, a 1971 Hamilton graduate and professor of pediatrics at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, is among researchers who have found an experimental drug that has proven to be highly effective against potentially deadly peanut allergies. The results were announced this week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. They will be published in Thursday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Enjoy the sonic stylings of the Hamilton College Jazz Combo, featuring Doc Woods, Professor Richard Stahnke, Keith Foster, Khori Newlander, Louis Bosso, and Dan Hilton performing on Tuesday, March 11, at 10:30 p.m. at the Village Tavern. The combo will perform tonight with Great American's Neil Thompson as a special guest on guitar. No cover charge.