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  • John Hewko, a 1979 graduate of Hamilton, is the author of an op-ed in The Washington Post (4/3/02). Hewko writes about Ukrainian Catholic priests, who are allowed to marry.

  • The Performing Arts at Hamilton will present internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller in his latest production, Glory Box on Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. There will be a post-performance discussion immediately after the production in Café Opus.

  • Carl Rubino, Edward North Professor of Classics, discussed: The classroom use of VROMA   and  Perseus, two web sites dedicated to the teaching and study of Latin, Greek, and Greco-Roman history and culture. Dr. Rubino also reported on his long-distance collaborations with Skidmore.

  • Professor of Geology Eugene Domack was interviewed for a New York Times article (4/2/02) about changing Antarctic climate patterns. Domack, who spent six weeks doing research in Antarctica during December and January, discussed the Larsen A Ice Shelf. Domack and researchers found tiny fossils of marine algae on the sea floor that was once covered by the Larsen Shelf. The finding indicated that this part of the ice shelf had been open water at least once before. Domack said the shelf probably melted about 6,000 years ago in a previous warm spell, and remained open water until refreezing during the Little Ice age about 700 years ago, then remained frozen until it fell apart in 1995.

  • The Hamilton College Choir and College Hill Singers will perform on Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall of the Schambach Center in an a cappella concert, featuring the repertoire performed on a recent tour of the Northeast. The concert is free and open to the public.

  • 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.

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