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Professor of Geology Eugene Domack was quoted in a USA Today article about why an Antarctic ice shelf broke up and what the implications are for global climate change.

Joseph Livingston, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship. Livingston will travel to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camps in Jordan for his study, "The Causes of Social Class Composition and Disparity among Palestinian Refugees in Jordan."

Daniel Boisvert, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for his project, “Beyond the Classroom,” to teach English as a foreign language in Germany.

Timothy Whitehead '85 has been appointed head men's ice hockey coach at the University of Maine. Whitehead led the team to the National Championship game with a record of 26-11-8. A finalist for the 2002 Spenser Penrose Award, presented to the nation's top college hockey coach, Whitehead's career consists of a record of 102-106-16 and six years as a head coach.

Associate Professor of Economics Chris Georges published an article titled "An Efficiency Wage Model With Persistent Cycles" in Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-6.

Dr. Richard Shore gave a one-man performance as John Muir on April 10 to emphasize the need to protect wilderness and the environment. John Muir was an outdoorsman of the truest sense; he lived in the land, not off it. Muir penned the proposal to designate Yosemite as a National Park, and was the strongest proponent for its protection. Shore dressed as Muir, spoke in a Scottish accent like Muir, and in the first person, communicated Muir's ethics of wilderness conservation.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Thomas Diggins led a campus walk on April 10 to teach students about the tree species found on campus and some natural history of New York. More than 25 types of tree were identified, including American elm, swamp white oak, Kentucky coffeetree and ginkgo, which is considered to be a living fossil.

Steve Goldberg, associate professor of art and department chair, directed a National Endowment for the Humanities workshop titled “Representing Excellence: The Authoritative in South and East Asian Art and Literature” at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., April 11-14. He also presented "Art and Articulation: The Embodiment of Excellence and Authority in Asian Cultures" and "Images as Metaphors of Authority in Social Context: India and China" on April 11 and 12 respectively.

Dr. Janet Dorigan, senior biological research advisor for the Central Intelligence Agency, will deliver a lecture, "Forensic Applications of Stable Isotopes" on Friday, April 12, at 3 p.m. in Chemistry room 112. Refreshments will be served at 2:45 p.m. Her visit is sponsored by the Hamilton chapter of the American Chemical Society.

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, named Time Magazine's Man of the Year after his handling of the September 11 crisis, will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Series, Great Names at Hamilton. He will speak at the College less than two weeks after the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, on Monday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.