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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.

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."