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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.

Poet Philip Memmer will read from his work on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College, as a guest in The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture “Masculinities” series. The reading is free and open to the public.

Baby Boy, directed by John Singleton will be the next film shown in The Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 (Red Pit). Screenings are free and open to the public.

The Presidential Lecture Series for Endowed Chairs presented a lecture by Professor Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs titled, "Vassals, Tributaries and Barbarians: The American Empire in the 21st Century," on Feb. 6.

Cheng Li, professor of government and Woodrow Wilson fellow, published three articles. "A Landslide Victory for Provincial Leaders" and "The Emergence of the Fifth Generation in the Provincial Leadership" appeared in the China Leadership Monitor (published by Stanford University), Winter, 2003 and Spring 2003. "Dialogue with the West: The Political Message of Avant-Garde Artists in Shanghai" (co-authored with Lynn White) appeared in Critical Asian Studies, March 2003 (Vol. 35, No.1.)

Neurobiologist Paul Greengard ’48 and his family were recently featured in the New York Daily News for their outstanding accomplishments. Greengard shared the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine. Ursula von Rydingsvard, his wife, is a renowned modern artist. His children all excel in their chosen occupations, maybe even considered geniuses in their respective fields: Leslie, a mathematician, Ursula, a former producer for CNN, and Claude, the head of IBM”s Silicon Valley research committee. He attended Hamilton College with government money awarded from the G.I. Bill, and graduated the college in only two years.