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Volunteers from the Hamilton College community visited 12 sites on Saturday, Jan. 25, for the 5th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Service Project. Individual students, staff, and student organizations participated in the day-long projects at non-profit organizations around Utica. More than 200 people participated. All of the sites this year were in Utica (Children's Museum, Hope House, Emmaus House, Thea Bowman House, Salvation Army, the Cosmo Center, Elder Life, the Loretto Center, Martin Luther Homes, JCTOD, Boys and Girls Club, United Cerebral Palsy, and a tutorial on campus for around 50 students from Donovan Middle and Proctor High School).

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin presented a paper on "Empirical Evidence on Processing and Learning Strategies in Multimedia Chinese Reading Tasks" at the Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy at the University of Chicago, October 11-13. She also gave two lectures to graduate students at the Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, in November: "Chinese Character Processing Strategies in Multimedia Word Recognition Tasks," and "Acquisition Process of Children with Language Disorders.”

The Hamilton College Choir will present Stephen Sondheim’s often overlooked "Merrily We Roll Along," on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 8, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, "Merrily We Roll Along" is a musical comedy in two acts, based on the Kaufman and Hart play of the same name.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman was a guest on Wisconsin Public Radio's Tom Clark show last month. Isserman discussed the historical memory of 60's protest.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin chaired a panel on The Role of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Strategies in Chinese Language Instruction and Acquisition at the ACTL 2002 in November in Salt Lake City. At the same panel, she presented a paper on " The Role of Formulaic Speech in Teaching and Learning Patterned Chinese Structures." She was elected to the Board of Directors of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association (CLTA). She will serve on the board from 2002-2005.

The Hamilton College Writing Program announced "Alexander Hamilton's List," a group of more than 100 students who have been recognized by the faculty for their achievements in writing in the Fall, 2002, semester.

Hamilton College is one of seven Mohawk Valley colleges that will participate in a new Cross-Registration Program, which will enable students at the schools to take courses at each of the other schools in the program. The program is part of a new Mohawk Valley College Consortium sponsored by Oneida County and announced by Oneida County Executive Ralph Eannace on Jan. 23. The program will begin in the Fall 2003 semester.

It's time to sign up for the annual America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, being held this year on Saturday, Feb. 22 at Utica College. Run as a team, walk with your friends, make this a team challenge! There are many ways to participate, from the 30k run to the 3 mile walk. Last year's team raised $6,454 with 89 participants, and this year's organizers, Marylyn Nassimos and Kelly Walton, are confident Team Hamilton can raise even more money this year.

In writing his new book, The Big Band Days: A Memoir and Source Book,, Jack Behrens used materials from the Hamilton College Jazz Archive. In addition, Archive Director Monk Rowe supplied Behrens with the book’s foreword as well as many quotes on the big band period.

Around the Hill reporter Amy James spent time ferreting out New Year's resolutions on the Hamilton campus and found it "requires a certain amount of detective work accompanied by a heavy dose of persuasion."