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An article in the Syracuse Post-Standard /Stars hails Hamilton Collects American Art, the Emerson Gallery's most recent show, as an illustration of the importance of sharing. The show presented 62 works of art on loan from 31 friends and alumni of Hamilton college in celebration of Emerson Gallery's 20th anniversary.

At Hamilton's Class and Charter Day Awards Ceremony, Susan Sanchez-Casal was awarded the Samuel and Helen Lang Excellence in Teaching Prize. Sanchez-Casal is a Hewlett Grant recipient for 2002, and participated in the residential summer Institute on diversity moderated by Esther Kingston-Mann, June 2-6, at Eagle Rock Conference Center in Hamilton, NY. Her proposal for the grant was based on developing an integrated pedagogical approach for teaching the freshman seminar course at Hamilton, College 130: Coming of Age in America: Narratives of Difference.

Carl Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics at Hamilton, was interviewed by The Record for an article about the origins of Star Wars heroes and villains. "You see Star Wars and you read Virgil, and you see the similarities right away," says Rubino, who uses Star Wars in his classes.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano's article "Invalid Relations: Queer Kinship in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady was published in Henry James Review 23.2 (Spring 2002). Luciano also gave a paper, "Benito Cereno as Counter-Monumental Narrative," at the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature's conference in April.

Terence A. Burke '78 was named vice president of Allegheny Energy Service Corporation. Allegheny is a Fortune 500 energy company.

Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina-Canal delivered a paper, "La super/ficción the G.T.B. (y La saga/fuga de J.B.)" at the 55th annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, at the University of Kentucky in April. He also chaired a session on "Memory, Nostalgia and Dialogism."

More than 130 Hamilton students received awards at Class and Charter Day on May 10, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year. Click on the link to see the complete list.

Rich Bernstein '80, Merrill Lynch's chief U.S. strategist, will appear this Friday, May 17, as the featured guest on Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street.

On May 14, Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was an External Examiner for Panu Kalmi who was a candidate for the Ph.D. at the Copenhagen Business School. The Ph.D. defense topic was "On the (In)stability of Employee Ownership: Estonian Evidence and Lessons for Transition Economies." (In many Scandinavian countries the Ph.D. defense is a public procedure lasting for a couple of hours.)

An editorial written by Hamilton College President Eugene Tobin was recently published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, in which Tobin challenges and attempts to redefine common perceptions regarding diversity. Tobin claims that, "...purely representational diversity can never be the only means for achieving the plurality of ideas necessary for a meaningful college education and for a fulfilling life."