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Join the Mohawk Valley and Central New York Alumni Associations, parents and friends in cheering on the College’s athletic teams on Saturday, February 8, 2003. 2:00 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Union 3:00 p.m. Men’s Ice Hockey vs. Williams 4:00 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Union 7:00 p.m. Women’s Ice Hockey vs. Connecticut College Take a break between games and join alumni for a reception in The Little Pub. The reception will be from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Cash bar and complimentary appetizers will be available.

Jess Klein has performed at the Newport Folk Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and has been featured on CBS Saturday Show and NPR's Morning Edition. For more information about her music, check out her web site at http://www.jessklein.com. Limited tickets are available. Pre-payment required. Reserve your ticket(s) today by calling the Office of Alumni Programs toll-free at 866.729.0314 or emailing Jackie Thompson at jdthomps@hamitlon.edu. RSVP Deadline: Friday, February 7th. Location: Stamford, CT; The Rich Forum

Neal Pilson, a 1960 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Newark Star-Ledger article (2/6/03) about his role in negotiating the broadcasting rights for the Olympic Games of 2010, 2012 and beyond, on behalf of the International Olympic Committee. Pilson was president of CBS Sports from 1981 to 1994.

World at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook, edited by Valerie Tomaselli K '77, has been selected as "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2002 by Choice Magazine. Choice's editorial staff reviewed more than 6800 titles to make their selections for the year.

Stephen Krensky, a 1975 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) article about writing as a career choice. Krensky has writtten about 65 children's books and also does independent work for Marc Brown Studios, adapting television shows of "Arthur the Aardvark" character into short books.

Dr. Paul Greengard, a 1948 graduate of Hamilton College who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, was featured in a NY Daily News article (Feb. 3, 2003) about his talented family. Greengard's wife is a sculptor, one son is a mathematician, another heads an IBM research facility, his daughter was a CNN producer and his sister won a Pulitzer Prize.

With this issue of Around the Hill, we're launching a new feature that each month will spotlight a different department on the Hamilton campus. We're kicking it off with a visit to Philip Spencer House and the business office.

Hamilton College will commemorate Black History Month by celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk with lectures by two scholars. Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, “Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s New World Social Geography,” on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Adolph Reed, author and professor of political science at the New School for Social Research, will discuss, “W. E. B. Du Bois and the *Souls of Black Folk* 100 Years Later: Race and Politics in Post-Jim Crow America,” on Monday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was elected the president of the Association of Comparative Economic Studies for 2003-2004. The purpose of the association is to promote scholarly exchange among persons interested in comparative studies of economic systems, planning and development, and to further the growth of research, publication and instruction on these topics.

Alejandro Portes, director of the Princeton Center of Immigration and Development and former president of the American Sociological Society, spoke of his ongoing study of second-generation immigrants in the Chapel on Wednesday. Portes’ study showed that “the settlement process of second generation immigrants sets the course of adaptation, setting the character of immigrant’s ethnic communities.” Portes was the latest speaker in the Levitt Center’s year long lecture series on immigration and global citizenship.