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Hamilton graduate Jesse Zanger '92, an editor for Fox News, commented on the new use of crawls for the Chicago Tribune. A trend since Sept. 11, Zanger explains that crawls allow stations to get current news breaks onto the air faster than ever before. "News is breaking," he explains, "the crawl is an amazing opportunity to put news out there right away."

The George I. Alden Trust has awarded Hamilton College a $75,000 grant to equip and expand a newly developed networked polarized-light microscopy facility for the science department. The networked microscopy facility will enable the implementation of inquiry-based, cooperative group-learning activities that are part of Hamilton's new curriculum.

Hamilton College Scholar in Residence Tacey Rosolowski has been asked to curate Material Explorations: Wearable Objects of Non-traditional Materials, an international juried exhibition opening at the Munson Williams Proctor Institute School of Art Gallery on March 29.

The Performing Arts at Hamilton opens the spring semester with the Aquila Theatre group performing "The Wrath of Achilles" based on Homer's epic war poem, The Iliad, on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture's "The Body in Question" series continues with a Body Images panel, on Friday, Jan. 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts begins the spring Classical Connections series with an all-German recital by baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, accompanied by pianist Russell Ryan on Friday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Cheng Li, acting chair and professor of government, serves as a commentator and contributes analysis to the quarterly journal, China Leadership Monitor. The new on-line version of the journal may be found at http://www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org/ and is administered by the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.

Edward North Professor of Classics Carl Rubino travelled to Cuba to participate in Complexity 2002-Havana, Philosophical, Methodological and Epistemological Implications of Complexity Theory. Rubino presented a paper about complexity and society.

Tim Elgren, associate dean of the faculty, travelled to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 11, to chair a review panel for Merck and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who jointly sponsor an Undergraduate Science Research Program.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Currently in the Erebus and Terror Gulf doing additional mapping of the sea floor topography before heading towards Seymour Island later tonight.