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Hamilton College professor and chair of psychology Jonathan Vaughan has been awarded an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grant from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Strokes.

The talk by Paula Rothenberg, director of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, scheduled for today, Sept. 11, has been postponed.

Performance Artist Kate Bornstein will present "On Men, Women and the Rest of Us," on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theatre. Her appearance is sponsored by The Kirkland Project as part of its 2001-02 programming, "The Body in Question."

The department of German and Russian will sponsor a lecture, in English, by the young dramatist, translator and novelist John von Düffel on Monday, Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. in the Browsing Room, second floor of Christian Johnson Hall. Mr. Düffel's newest work, Ego, is set to appear this month.

Congressman Sherwood Boehlert, chair of the House Science Committee, said a scientifically literate citizenry needs a firm grounding in the social sciences, humanities and arts. Boehlert delivered the annual Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton on Tuesday, Sept. 4. A Republican who represents New York's 23rd Congressional District, which includes Oneida County, Boehlert said the federal government needs to focus more attention and more resources on science education.

Heidi M. Ravven, an associate professor in the Religious Studies department at Hamilton College, has been promoted to full professor.

The Kirkland Project 2001-02 series, The Body in Question, kicks off today with a Hamilton faculty panel discussion, "What the Body Knows," with moderator Chandra Mohanty, and panelists Carole Bellini-Sharp, Katheryn Doran, Sue Ann Miller, Susan Sanchez Casal, and Thomas Wilson. Today at 4 p.m. in the Emerson Gallery, followed by a reception.

Government Professor Cheng Li was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article, "Boomers assuming leadership Fourth generation will soon dominate the party," about leadership changes in China.

An article, "An ONIOM Study of the Bergman Reaction: A Computationally Efficient and Accurate Method for Modeling the Enediyne Anticancer Antibiotics," by Steven Feldgus, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Chemistry, and George Shields, professor and chair, has been accepted for publication in Chemical Physics Letters.

Sociology Professor Mitchell Stevens, author of the new book, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement,will be a guest on KUER radio (Salt Lake City) on Wednesday, Sept. 5, at noon. KUER is a public radio station operated by the University of Utah.The interview can be heard via KUER's Web site, www.kuer.org/listenlive.