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Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz's article "Rats Behind the Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler's The Big Sleep," was reprinted in "Raymond Chandler: A Documentary Volume" Dictionary of Literary Biography. The article was originally published 1980 and this volume was edited by Robert F. Moss (The Gale Group, 2002).

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller published, "Teaching the Silk Road," in Central Eurasian Studies Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 2002). This is the inaugural issue of the journal of the Central Eurasian Studies Society.

On Feb. 14, at 7 p.m., the third annual benefit reading of Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play, "The Vagina Monologues," will take place in the Events Barn. A $2 donation is the price of admission, but no one will be turned away. V-Day is a worldwide movement to stop sexual violence against women and girls and to proclaim Valentine's Day as the day to celebrate women and demand the end of abuse.

Ever wonder the answer to "Does God exist?" Contrary to popular perception modern science does not necessarily rule out God's existence. Carl Rosenzweig, professor of physics at Syracuse University presents, "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of Einstein, Darwin and Marx," on Feb. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the Physics Auditorium. The Hamilton College Hillel and the physics department are sponsoring the lecture which is free and open to the public.

Thomas Diggins, visiting assistant professor of biology, published "A Seasonal Comparison of Suspended Sediment Filtration by Quagga (Dreissena bugensis) and Zebra (D. polymorpha) Mussels" in the Journal of Great Lakes Research. Diggins found only a modest difference between the water filtration rates of these two species, a factor previously believed to be significantly different. Diggins is one of only a few scientists working on comparing zebra and quagga mussels, work that is important in understanding contemporary Great Lakes ecology.

Krystyn Schmerbeck '02 presented the results of her summer research project, "Forging the Unforgeable," which explores why some works of art are forgeable and others are not, on February 13 in the Red Pit. Schmerbeck worked with Assistant Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow. Their research was made possible by an Emerson Summer Collaboration Award.

Hamilton College is hosting the third annual FebFest, the revival of an old college tradition, through February 9 on the campus. Upcoming activities include fireworks, communtiy sledding and a snowman building contest in the village of Clinton. Many events are free and open to the public.

In an article revisiting the past terrorism of the Symbionese Liberation Army, Hamilton Professor Maurice Isserman was quoted, "The SLA was like an existential statement- like al-Qaida attacking the World Trade Center. Similarly with the SLA, there was no political program to connect with. It was just terrorism for its own sake."

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton co-presented a paper, "Does Action Identification Mediate Underperformance Following Stereotype Threat," with Nikisha Williams '01 at the 3rd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Savannah, Ga., held Jan. 31 - Feb. 2.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager returned from a year-long leave devoted to researching the history of Soka Gakkai, a Japan-based, global Buddhist movement. His research was sponsored by the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century.