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Jason Haas '05 was interviewed by local NPR affiliate WRVO about Hamilton's participation in the national Day of Silence on April 10. Haas organized the Hamilton event, in which supporters of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people took a nine-hour vow of visible silence to call attention to the ways LGBT people are silenced on college campuses.

Millie Ramirez, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded the College's Bristol Fellowship. The Bristol Fellowship was begun in 1996 as part of a gift to Hamilton College by William M. Bristol, Jr.(class of 1917). Its purpose is to perpetuate Mr. Bristol's spirit and share it with students of the college that was such an important part of his life. Created by his family, the fellowship is designed to encourage Hamilton students to experience the richness of the world by living outside the United States for one year and studying an area of great personal interest.

Catherine Gunther Kodat, associate professor of English and American studies, has been awarded a Millicent C. McIntosh Flexible Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to especially promising, recently tenured faculty members in the humanities at liberal arts colleges.

The 4TH annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 28, on the Hamilton College campus. Proceeds from the AIDS Hike For Life benefit AIDS Community Resources, Teen AIDS Task Forces and Client Support Services in our local area. Registration on campus is Wednesday, April 10, from 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. in Beinecke.

"My Albertine," a new musical by Ricky Ian Gordon and Richard Nelson '72, will debut at the new Playwrights Horizon during the 2002-03 season. The nonprofit troupe will inaugurate its new building on West 42nd Street in February. The musical is inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past."

Author and educator Sue Rosser will deliver a lecture, "Including Gender and Race in Science Classrooms and Curriculum," on Monday, April 29, at 4:15 p.m., in the Chemistry Auditorium at Hamilton College. Her visit to campus is part of the Curricular Transformation Series funded by Hamilton's Hewlett Grant for Pluralism and Unity and sponsored by the Kirkland Project. It is free and open to the public.

Jessie McComb, a junior at Hamilton College, has been awarded a Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to honor Congressman Morris Udall and his legacy of public service. The foundation furthers Udall's legacy by awarding scholarships of $5,000 to undergraduates who study the environment and related fields. Approximately 75 scholarships are awarded annually.

Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan will be the next speaker in the Humanities Forum series, on Monday, April 15, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit. Her topic is titled "Impromptu, or What's Wrong With This Picture, Thinking about French Women Writers and Humor."

Will global warming have any real effect on me? Jonathan Overpeck from the University of Arizona addressed this question in his keynote speech, which concluded the Antarctic Peninsula Conference on April 5. The response was an overwhelming "yes," regardless of where you live.

How much the Enron's collapse has affected our collective psyche was evident in the turnout for this week's presentation by Fortune Magazine's senior editor Joe Nocera titled "The Enron Collapse and Why It Could Be Good For Us." Speaking to a capacity crowd in the college's chapel, Nocera related the story of how Fortune Magazine's Bethany McLean first saw through the Enron financials, wrote an article in March 2001 exposing the company's grave weaknesses and held firm with Enron executives when they met with her prior to the publication of Fortune's "Is Enron Overpriced?"