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Hamilton seniors will present student recitals this weekend. Friday's performance will feature Martin Nedbal, clarinet, with Sar-Shalom Stong, piano, and Florent Renard-Payen, cello at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. On Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Jeannette Gould, soprano with Valerie Ludlum Wright, piano will perform. Both concerts are free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Anna Tan Wilson and Paul Venet of Binghamton University visited Hamilton in February to show how multimedia technology can be integrated into undergraduate course work in sciences. They described a course titled "Multimedia in Biology," which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Susan Bordo, professor of English and women's studies and the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, will deliver a lecture, "Beauty on the Brain," on Friday, March 8, at 4:10 pm in the Hamilton College Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Joel Johnson, a 1965 graduate of Hamilton and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods Corp., was featured in a Feb. 20 Wall Street Journal article about meatpackers' rush to market meats under national brand names.

In "Recalling Timbuctoo, A Slice of Black History, The New York Times highlights a plan by Gerrit Smith, an 1818 Hamilton graduate and a wealthy landowner at the time, to give away land to black families so that blacks could "acquire the means to vote."

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck presented "The Quincunx of Kelantan: Values and Change over Thirty Years." (with Victor de Munck) at the 30th annual meeting of The Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Feb. 20-24, in Santa Fe, NM.

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Library Systems Manager Ken Herold's 1994 research guide, "Tibet and the United States of America: An Annotated Chronology of Relations in the 20th Century," 2nd ed. has been republished on the Internet by Tibet Justice Center.

Assistant Professor of English Naomi Guttman published two poems,"Real Living" and "Autumn Song," in the fall issue of GSU Review. She also gave a poetry reading at the Syracuse YMCA as a part of the "Writer's Voice" series in February.

Assistant Professor of English Naomi Guttman published "Ecofeminism in Literary Studies," which appeared as a chapter in the book The Environmental Tradition in English Literature, edited by John Parham and published in England by Ashgate.