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The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a concert by the College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman on Thursday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the campus of Hamilton College. This concert features The Hebrides, also known as Fingal’s Cave, by Felix Mendelssohn, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and Resighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances Suite III. Colleen Roberts Pellman will be the guest harpsichordist for the Respighi selection.

"Peeling Presents Peel This" will be staged on Saturday, December 7 at 9 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activity Village as the next performance in the Kirkland Project "Masculinities" series. Peeling uses the performing arts and theater as vehicles for Asian Americans to explore individual stories, community building, leadership, and social activism through creative workshops, staged productions, readings, and related activities. Autobiography becomes a departure point for exploring race, gender, class, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and similar politics facing Asian Americans today. This performance, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Asian Cultural Society, and funded by the Student Assembly. For more information contact the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano published an article, "Passing Shadows: Melancholy Nationality and Black Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins' Of One Blood, in a collection edited by David Eng and David Kazanjian titled Loss: The Psychic and Social Contexts of Melancholia (University of California Press, 2002).

Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods will conduct the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble in a performance on Wednesday, December 4, at 9 p.m., in Wellin Hall. Free and open to the public. Bringing funk, swing, latin, and our favorite things to the hill.

Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Catherine Kaha published six poems in the journal Qualitative Inquiry (Dec. 2002). These poems were drawn from an unpublished manuscript titled Threshold: Collected Poems, 1996 - 2001.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Astrid H. Helfant successfully defended her dissertation titled "The Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle pole body (SPB) and its importance in maintaining genomic stability via SPB duplication and nuclear positioning," at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

In a recent article published in the Dallas Morning News, Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck discusses the importance of showing appreciation simply by saying “thank you.” “Saying ‘thank you’ reinforces a membership in a community and ‘a shared regard for one another’” the article explained. It not only acknowledges debt, but it is also a connector for something that was done for you.

In a recent article published in the Dallas Morning News, Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck discusses the importance of showing appreciation simply by saying “thank you.” “Saying ‘thank you’ reinforces a membership in a community and ‘a shared regard for one another’” the article explained. It not only acknowledges debt, but it is also a connector for something that was done for you.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ram Subramaniam published a paper, "Cellular oxidant stress and advanced glycation endproducts of albumin: caveats of the dichlorofluorescein assay" in Archives Biochemistry and Biophysics. His co-authors are Xing-Jun Fan, Vincenzo Scivittaro, Jianqi Yang, Chung-Eun Ha, Charles Petersen, Witold Surewicz, V. Bhagavan, Miriam Weiss, Vincent M. Monnier, at al.

Hamilton College is closed for the Thanksgiving Recess. Classes resume and offices will re-open on Monday, Dec. 2.