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Scientists from around the globe are meeting at Hamilton College April 3-5 to discuss climate changes on the Antarctic Peninsula. Topics for discussion include: the effects that a long-documented warming trend has had on plants, animals and ice conditions; and whether similar conditions have existed previously over recent geological time. The keynote address and panel discussion will be available via a live Web video stream on April 5 from 4-6 p.m.

Leah Byrne, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for study at the Karolinska Universitet in Stockholm, Sweden. Byrne's project is titled, "Locating Endogenous Nitrated Neurotransmitters: A Study in Immunocytochemistry."

Independent scholar and freelance writer Rick Perlstein will deliver a lecture, "The Kids Are(n't) All Right: Youth and American Politics, 1960-2002," on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit. The free lecture is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Former U.S. Ambassador to China James Lilley presented a lecture on U.S.-China relations on April 2. The lecture, sponsored by the Levitt Center and the government department, was titled "The United States and China: The Anatomy of a Relationship." Lilley is a former U.S. ambassador to China, a former assistant secretary of defense, and currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane wrote the lead essay in the March 2002 issue of Modern Fiction Studies, a special issue on Postmodernism and the Globalization of English guest-edited by Michael Bérubé. Her essay is titled "Migrancy, the Cosmopolitan Intellectual, and the Global City in The Satanic Verses" and is accessible on Project MUSE.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton published an article, "The Suppression of Negative Self-Referent Thoughts," in Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: An International Journal Vol. 15, No. 1, 31-44. (The article appeared in the March 2002 issue.)

Patrick Reynolds, associate professor of biology, published a chapter, "The Scaphopoda" in Advances in Marine Biology 42: 137-236.

Now that Spring Break has come and gone, many parents are faced with the impending dilemma — “What will (fill in your kid’s name) do all summer?”

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz was elected second vice-president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. He will serve as first vice president in his second year and president in his third year.

Professor of Art Rand Carter will be honored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) at a special reception this month at the society’s annual meeting in Richmond, Va. Preceding this meeting, Carter will attend the International Friends of Schinkel (FOS) meeting, also in Richmond. He is one of two founding members of FOS, an organization dedicated to the study of the 19th century neo-classicist designer, architect, and urbanist. Carter represented the FOS and gave the opening and closing addresses at an international congress at the faculty of architecture of the Universidad Pedro Enriquez de Urena in the Dominican Republic in November. He will speak at a FOS conference co-sponsored by the faculty of architecture of the University of Catania in Siracusa, Sicily, in June.