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Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina–Canal has edited a book, Del rascacielos a la catedral: un regreso a las raices (University of Leon Press, 2001), an interdisciplinary volume dealing with Leonese, Spanish, Latin American, Hispanic and American issues on politics, medicine, biotechnology, art, natural sciences, pedagogy, linguistics, women and cultural studies, economics, history and literature. Besides serving as editor and translator, Tejerina-Canal also contributed to the volume with a welcome note, introduction to the international symposium, the prologue and final article of the book, “Entre Napoleon y Ortega: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.”

Valentine Sheldon, a 1991 graduate of Hamilton, is among entrepreneurs featured in a Wall Street Journal article (3/27/02) about small businesses that are succeeding despite the economy.

Dr. Richard Shore will perform a one-man show about the life, ideas and adventures of Sierra Club founder John Muir on Wednesday, April 10, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel at Hamilton College. The performance, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the environmental studies program.

Sociology Professor Mitchell Stevens' book, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton University Press) is reviewed in the latest edition (April 11) of the New York Review of Books. The book was reviewed by Howard Gardner, who teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Hamilton College Professor of History Peter Hinks gave a talk, "To Give Them Liberty and Stop Here is to Entail Upon Them a Curse: Slavery, Emancipation and Yale, 1775-1817," in March at Yale University.

Professor of Geology Eugene Domack was interviewed for an article in the Syracuse Post-Standard about the recent disintegration of an ice shelf and the Apr. 3-5 Antarctic and global warming conference to be held at Hamilton College.

Alison Lin, a Hamilton junior from Westerville, Ohio, is a finalist for the prestigious Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship is a national, $30,000 merit-based grant awarded to undergraduate students who plan to attend graduate or professional school in preparation for careers in government, the non-profit sector or elsewhere in public service.

After years of overlooking notable black performances, the Academy Awards finally seem to have given black performers the credit they deserve. For the first time since 1972, blacks earned three nominations in the lead acting categories: best actor nominations for Denzel Washington in "Training Day," Will Smith in "Ali," and a best actress nomination for Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball." These nominations represent a welcome change, to be sure, but the Academy Awards still have a long way to go before breaking the color line. This year's nominations, alas, continued Oscar's tradition of ghettoizing black performers in stereotyped roles.

Hamilton College senior All-American Maggie Hanson is one of 58 student-athletes from across the country to receive an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. She becomes the third Hamilton student to receive the prestigious scholarship.

Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, conducted a China culture workshop for 60 families adopting children from China. The workshop took place in March at the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts. Attendees came from throughout New England. For the workshop, she lectured on "4000 Years of Chinese Civilization," "China's Modern History," "The Chinese Language," "Language, Nation, and Ethnic Relations," and "Families, Festivals, and Food." This is the third in a series of workshops she has been conducting with China Adoption with Love (CAWLI), the country's largest adoption agency specializing in China. CAWLI is also helping her to gather the information for a second book project, "The Invisible Red Thread: Concepts of the Family in an Interconnected World."