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In his keynote address at the NSF-funded "Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability" conference, Jonathan Overpeck, a Hamilton graduate and a climate researcher at the University of Arizona, says new computer simulations suggest that global warming this century will be about four times greater than what the planet experienced in the 1900s.

Art History Professor Steve Goldberg discussed Chinese political scientists and historians as a member of a panel addressing "Chinese Historians in the United States: Dilemmas of Reform in 21st Century China.” The panel was held in April at the 2002 annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Washington, D.C.

Steve Emslie, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, gave a lecture, “Penguin Colonies and Environmental Change in the Antarctic Peninsula Region” during the NSF Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability Conference being held at Hamilton College. He focused on the changing location of penguin populations in relation to the migration of ice sheets, specifically in the Ross Sea. Emslie’s data, combined with other data from ice cores and snow pack studies may prove important to understanding the complex climate change occurring in the Southern Continent.

Hamilton College Professor of Government Cheng Li, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Chinese leadership, has been named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow for the 2002-03 academic year. Li will spend his fellowship year in Washington studying Chinese leadership changes and the implications for U.S.-China relations.

The Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College announces the D. Roger Howlett '66 Award for Writing on Art, "A Response to Art." This special award celebrates the Emerson Gallery's 20th Anniversary and is being held in conjunction with the gallery's Hamilton Collects American Art exhibition, April 19 through June 9.

Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, presented a paper, "Poverty Reduction or Population Transfer: Competing Interpretations of a China-Tibet Resettlement Project," at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The presentation was part of a panel on "Amdo-Gansu in China's Political Imaginaries."

A collection of 62 paintings by well-known American artists, most of which have rarely, if ever, been seen in public, opened on April 19 at the Emerson Gallery. As part of the anniversary celebration, former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Hoving delivered a keynote address at Hamilton College on Saturday, April 27, at 3 p.m.

Sixty-five Hamilton students have each been awarded $3,500 stipends to conduct research in the sciences and mathematics at Hamilton College during the summer of 2002. The students receiving awards were chosen in a highly competitive process from the largest group of candidates in the College's history. Summer research applicants write research proposals and seek faculty sponsors to guide their projects for 10 weeks over the summer.

The Hamilton Department of Government announced its reading list of texts to help enhance an understanding of politics. The list, comprised of selections by each faculty member, includes many classic works as well as contemporary scholarly publications.

The Hamilton College Department of Theatre will present John O'Keefe's satiric comedy, All Night Long, Wednesday through Saturday, April 24-27, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theater.