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Former U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling, political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, will speak about U.S. diplomacy on Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in the 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. aggression in Iraq. Kiesling's lecture will be followed by a question and answer period. Kiesling spent 20 years with the State Department, most recently as political counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Athens.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, spoke at Harvard University as part of a panel on "The Intellectual as Radical." Isserman spoke about Michael Harrington, whose life he documented in a biography, "The Other American." The day-long symposium, "The Intellectual in American Culture," addressed other topics like intellectual conservatives and artists.

Samuel Klempner ’03 has been awarded research funding from Sigma-Xi, The Scientific Research Society through the Grants-in-Aid of Research Program in January 2003. The grant will support Klempner’s research project, "Investigation of the Morphogenesis of Ephemeral Aortic Arches in Chick Embryos with Special Attention to a Role for Apoptosis in Their Removal." Professor of Biology Sue Ann Miller will supervise this student's research.

Please join the Greater Boston Alumni Association for a reception with President Eugene M. Tobin. Thursday, April 3, 2003 Harvard Club of Boston Downtown Club One Federal Street, 38th Floor Boston, Massachusetts Reception: 6 pm; Presentation: 6:45 pm

Join members of the Hamilton College Alumni Association of Northern California for a luncheon with Vice President for Investments and Treasurer Daniel J. O'Leary. Monday, April 7, 2003 Marines' Memorial Club 609 Sutter Street San Francisco, California Luncheon: 12 noon

Antarctica 2003 expedition left Syracuse N.Y. in a snowstorm on March 9 to begin the long flight to the tip of South America where the researchers would board the RSV (Research Supply Vessel) Laurence M. Gould for transport to Antarctica.

If you were to pass her in the village of Clinton, one would assume that this petite woman, with her radiant disposition, is someone’s wife or grandmother. What you might not expect is that Nadine Lowenstein is also the fastest woman in her age group (55-60 years old) in the world in the 400-meter, and equal to the fastest in the 200-meter distance recorded. This unassuming "lightning rod" has been in Hamilton College’s midst for the past nine years. She has been coaching, training and most importantly supporting Hamilton student athletes.

Sharon Britton, Library Director of Public Services and Digital Millenium Copyright Officer for the College, and Jim Helmer, Oral Communications Lab Coordinator and Lecturer in Oral Communication, using your questions and our own, will facilitate an open discussion of copyright issues, in both teaching and professional activities.

Michael S. Kimmel, a SUNY Stony Brook sociologist and author who has received international recognition for his work on men and masculinity, gave a lecture on "Globalization and its Mal(e)contents: The Political Economy of Terrorism," on Thursday, March 6, in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium.

Seventeen Hamilton College seniors were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are: Evan Adair, Jessica Atcheson, Adam Berkwitt, Jordan Burns, Damien Ellens, Rebecca Fabricant, Elana Feuer, Robert Gordon, Andrew Horner, Michael Kogut, Erin Kress, Matthew Liptak, Pamela McBurney, Ryan McKone, Brendan Rogers, Andrea Stroud and Yuliya Zorkina.