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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.

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.

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."

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.

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.