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Robert Palusky, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Art, is one of several artists whose work is featured in a show titled "Exploring the Human Spirit in Glass" at the Habatat Galleries in Boca Raton, Fla. The show opens on Thursday, April 4, and closes on Tuesday, May 14.

For some parents, packing up the kids to go to college means loading up the mini-van and driving a mile up College Hill Road. Instead of unpacking and moving into a residence hall in unfamiliar surroundings, arriving on campus with a new student brings back memories of years spent rooting on the Continentals, attending concerts in Wellin Hall or hearing Great Names speakers in the Field House.

Lisa Ervin, a 1999 graduate of Hamilton, is featured in the latest edition of Blades on Ice. Ervin, who competed in ladies singles skating in the early 1990s, now teaches skating for SABAH, the Skating Association for the Blind and Handicapped. The former U.S. novice and junior champion came across the organization four years ago, when she was teaching skating at Buffalo State.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz is series co-editor of the Theory and Interpretation Series at Ohio State University Press. The latest book published is, "Invisible Author: Last Essays" by the novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose.

Assistant Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented, "Is Trade Good for Your Health?" at SUNY Binghamton. This paper was co-written by Assistant Professor of Economics Steve Wu.

Matthew Liptak, a junior at Hamilton College, has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for the 2002-03 academic year. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. He has also been selected as a Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow. That will enable Liptak to devote full-time effort to his research project for an eight to 10 week period this summer, and will culminate with a poster presentation at Pfizer's Global Research & Development Laboratories in Groton, Conn., in October.

Richard Nelson, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton, wrote and directed a new play, "Franny's Way," that is receiving accolades in New York's theatre world. In a New York Times review (3/28/02), the play is described as "Richard Nelson's sensitively drawn portrait of love in the age of J. D. Salinger... 'Franny's Way,' which opened Tuesday night at the Atlantic Theater in a Playwrights Horizons production, reaffirms Mr. Nelson's distinctive gifts as a creator of memory plays that sting."

Members of the environmental studies class, "Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondacks," went snowshoeing around Old Forge in the Adirondack mountains. The class is a new sophomore seminar that offers an interdisciplinary approach to learning. It is taught by Professor of Biology Ernest Williams and Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans.

Edward Walker '62, former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Egypt and currently president of the Middle East Institute, wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times (3/21/02) about the need for other countries to reform before getting aid from the U.S.

Professor of Classics Shelley Haley was featured in a Chicago Tribune article about interracial marriages (3/27/02). In "The new mix: more black women and white men are settling what some consider the final frontier of interracial marriage," Haley talks about her own marriage of 27 years to a white man.