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Janet Dorigan, the senior biological research advisor from the Central Intelligence Agency give a seminar titled "Forensic Applications of Stable Isotopes." The Hamilton Chapter of the American Chemical Society sponsored the lecture.

Hamilton College is one of four institutions that will receive money from a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund a five-year project, titled “On the Cutting Edge,” which is designed to improve the quality of undergraduate geoscience education. Barbara J. Tewksbury, the Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Geology, has been awarded more than $70,000 from the grant for 2002, and will receive additional funding each year for the next five years.

Assistant Professor of Government Yael Aronoff was elected to the Governing Council of the International Society for Political Psychology, 2002-2004.

Assistant Professor of English Naomi Guttman has been awarded an Individual Artist's grant from The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Last April, she gave a poetry reading with alumna Karlen Chase ('99) at the Catskill Mountain Foundation's Performing Arts Center in Hunter, NY. Guttman also participated in a multicultural Canadian poetry reading at the New England Modern Language Association convention in Toronto and chaired a poetry panel there.

Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, served on the committee for the MacArthur Foundation-Social Science Research Council's Global Security and Cooperation fellowships in April.

Recycling on Hamilton's campus is being revived by Matt Stringer '03. Students, faculty and administrators are getting in the "habit again" with new bins and assurances that their efforts will pay off in less waste for the landfill and a more environmentally friendly campus.

The next lecture in the Faculty Lecture Series will feature Julie Dunsmore, assistant professor of psychology, talking about "Parents' discussions with their children about the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001" on Friday, May 3 at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ. Reception will follow in Cafe Opus.

“Hamilton Collects American Art” celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Emerson Gallery.  But it also offers the Hamilton and surrounding communities an extraordinary opportunity to see American art by well-known artists that has rarely, if ever, been viewed publicly. To provide a “behind the scenes” look at some of the preparatory work undertaken for this exhibition, we interviewed Emerson Acting Director Bill Salzillo.  We followed his interview with a cross section of campus responses to the question, “What is your favorite painting in the show?”  For those of you who haven’t been asked but would like to respond, simply go the Emerson page at www.hamilton.edu/gallery and click on “comments” under “Hamilton Collects.”  We would love to hear from you, too.

Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Robert Redfield spoke on "Lattice-ordered fields of quotients" at Technische Universität Darmstadt and Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Redfield presented a similar talk to an audience of mathematicians from Angers, Le Mans, and Paris at the equipe de Logique Mathématique de l'Université Paris 7.

Professors of Biology David Gapp and Ernest Williams made presentations at the Northeast Natural History Conference VII, held at the New York State Museum in Albany, on April 25-26. Professor Williams made a presentation coauthored with Theodore W. Valenti ('01) and Daniel H. Catlin ('01) titled, "Behavior of Frosted Elfins in Lupine Patches." Professor Gapp made a presentation coauthored with Katie Lee ('03), Sarah McNeil ('04), Angela Pagano ('02), and Hannah Stahle ('03) titled, "Snapping Turtle Nest Destruction by Another Snapper." David and Pearl Gapp also made a presentation titled "Diabetes in the Common Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina: an Update."