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Jay Vest, visiting associate professor of religious studies, authored "Dawn Bringer and the Christ Bearer: Mythography and the Columbian Impact upon Native America" in Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam, edited by V. Patea and M. Eugenia Díaz (University of Salamanca Press, 2001: 53-64).

AIDS Awareness Week events will begin on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at Hamilton College. Activities will include lectures, films and discussion groups. All events are free and open to the public.

Monk Rowe, director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, has written several biographies of jazz artists published in the New Grove Encyclopedia of Jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld. Rowe also fact-checked for Kernfeld, reviewing authenticity of facts against information obtained in the 200-plus video interviews gathered for the archive.

Hamilton junior Shauna Sweet will give a lecture, "Stories You Tell, and Stories You Don't: Identity on the Appalachian Trail," on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit (KJ 109). Her research was funded by the Bristol and Schambach Scholars Program, which awards research grants to students who have Bristol or Schambach scholarships.

Hamilton College Trustee Thomas Schwarz '66, who served as acting president of the College in 1999, has been nominated to serve as interim president of Purchase College of the State University of New York by Robert L. King, SUNY chancellor. SUNY's board of trustees is expected to act on the nomination at its meeting on November 26.

Daniel Chambliss, Sidney Wertimer Professor of Sociology has been elected to be the teaching chair for medical sociology for the ASA. Chambliss has also been elected to the ASA's Committee on Nominations, which selects the nominees for the major ASA offices, including president, vice-president and governing council.

Shoshana Keller, associate professor of history, chaired a panel at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in San Francisco. She presented a paper, "Secularization, Militant Atheism, and State-Building," and organized the panel, "Comparative Shock Modernization: Turks Under Ataturk and Stalin."

Phil Klinkner, associate professor of government, will be the next speaker in the Kirkland Project Brown Bag series on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at noon in the Red Pit at KJ. His talk is titled "Whose Vote Doesn't Count?: An Analysis of Spoiled Ballots in the Florida 2000 Presidential Election."

Twenty local middle school girls participated in Girls Speak Out: Conference on Individuality and Group Identity, held on Nov. 17 at Hamilton College. The conference was organized by Hamilton Senior Jessica Ambrose, who started a group at Clinton Middle School to give middle school girls a comfortable environment in which they could talk and write about issues important to them. This year she received a grant from the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Central New York to expand the program to other schools.

Summary/Teaser Hamilton College’s Information Technology Services department is participating in a consortium that is discussing the possibility of developing a Web portal product that can be adopted by all campuses involved in the consortium. The initial conference, held on-line, is taking place today from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.