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Kate McMullen ’03 recently attended the American Geophysical Union meeting where she presented a poster, "Three Stage Ice Sheet Recession as Recorded by Swath Bathymetry in the Mertz Trough: East Antarctica," with Professor of Geology Eugene Domack. The poster was a summary of research glacial ice recession conducted off the George V Coast, East Antarctica in January-February 2001.

Shortly after the 25th annual weekend gathering of a group of Hamilton alumni for the Falmouth Road Race in Falmouth, MA, the idea of "Team Trish" was born. "The goals of Team Trish are twofold," said Barb Smalley '83 who helped coordinate the team. "We want to support the Rosts as well as support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's mission of finding cures and providing much needed patient services."

Dr. Daniel Pipes gave his much-anticipated lecture to a crowded Chapel on Monday evening. His talk, titled, “The Palestinian-Israeli War: Where Did it come from, where is it going?” addressed several issues of the well known conflict and suggested the terms needed for any form of resolution. Pipes stated, “the way to deal with this threat is to defeat it.” Pipes is the director of the Middle East forum and a prize-winning columnist for the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College.

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The Hamilton College Alumni Council has established an award that will honor a College employee. The Distinguished Service Award will "recognize an employee who has substantially contributed to Hamilton through distinguished performance in his or her position and through involvement in student, alumni or other activities in the College community." Active employees in all departments will be eligible for the award. Employees can be nominated for the award by The Alumni Council's Nominations Committee.

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.”

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.

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 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.