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Joycelyn Moody, an English professor from the University of Washington, Seattle, has been named to hold the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies Chair for the 2001-2002 academic year at Hamilton College.

A Gay Issues Poll of 1,000 high school seniors was developed by Hamilton College and administered by Zogby International. The release of the survey coincides with the Sept. 3 premiere at 10:30 p.m. of the first "Fight for Your Rights: Take a Stand Against Discrimination" episode of Flipped, a reality-based TV series on MTV.

Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard '48 addresses the Hamilton community at the 190th Convocation ceremony on August 26th, at 4 p.m. EDT. Professor Greengard's remarks, titled "A Life in Science: Selected Memories," will be available as live and recorded streaming audio via the Hamilton Web site.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields received a $782,220 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation grant program. The grant allows a consortium of six northeastern liberal arts institutions to acquire a supercomputer for various computational chemistry research projects.

Under the leadership of Associate Professor of History Thomas Wilson and drawing on the expertise of other members of the Asian Studies Program, the College received a $1,171,500 four-year grant from the Freeman Foundation, which will provide funding for two new tenure-track faculty positions — one in Japanese languages and literature and another in Japanese social science. The grant will also enable the College to establish a new post-doctoral teaching fellows program to augment the breadth of its course offerings on Asia, and will provide funding for intensive short- and long-term student-faculty research collaborations both abroad and on campus.

The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College has received a $500,000 grant from New York State through the office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to launch its model pilot program.

Utica native and Congressman Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, will deliver the Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College tonight, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture, titled "Creating a Scientifically Literate Political Culture," is free and open to the public.

Sarah Gloo, a May graduate of Hamilton College, was named ECAC Lacrosse Player of the Year. She averaged 4.23 goals per game, placing her 10th in the nation. Gloo's teammates, Caty Wakefield and Lauren Bruce joined Gloo on the ECAC Division III Upstate Women's Lacrosse All-Star first team.

Associate Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith presented two posters, co-authored with Hamilton students, at the international Dynamic Processes Conference 2001 in Lyon, France. Rachel Anderman '01 was a student co-author on the poster titled "Fluorescence line-narrowing and decay dynamics in sol-gel glasses containing Eu3+." Linwood Rumney '04, David Shaye '03, and Bryan Smith '03 were Hamilton student co-authors on the poster, "Red-to-green upconversion in Er-doped SiO2 and SiO2/TiO2 sol-gel silicate glasses." Both will appear as papers in the Journal of Luminescence.

"Lingua Franca," The Review of Academic Life, asked five experts to pick the best recent books about American political parties. Phil Klinkner's The Losing Parties" was chosen for the list by Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Hill and Wang, 2001).