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Daniel Chambliss, Sidney Wertimer Professor of Sociology, presented, "The Cascade Strategy for Improving A Department's Intellectual Climate," at the American Sociological Association's (ASA) annual meeting, held in Los Angeles in August.

The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College has announced the theme and programs for 2001-2002, "The Body in Question."

J. Brian Atwood, former administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), joins the Hamilton College faculty as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs. The Linowitz Visiting Professorship, established in 1986, is named in honor of Sol Linowitz, a 1935 Hamilton graduate who served as ambassador to the Organization of American States, chairman of the board of Xerox and co-negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties. The holder of the Linowitz chair teaches an upper-level seminar course while at Hamilton.

The Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College opens the 2001-02 season with the exhibit, "Duane Michals: Photographer as Magician." The exhibition will be on display through Oct. 21.

Rit Fuller, Hamilton College Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, will be a guest on WCNY TV's program, "Central Issues," on Friday, Aug. 17 at 9 p.m. Fuller is a member of a panel that will discuss the use of standardized testing in college admissions.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Park, Calif., has awarded Hamilton College $150,000 over three years as part of the foundation’s Pluralism and Unity program. The grant will support a new curricular initiative for discussing issues of diversity, difference and social justice in and out of the classroom. Hamilton will provide at least $157,000 toward the project, which will be led by Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy S. Rabinowitz.

Dr. Paul Greengard, a 1948 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hamilton College and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver the keynote address, titled, "A Life in Science: Selected Memories," at Hamilton College's convocation on Sunday, Aug. 26, at 4 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Greengard will also be awarded an honorary degree from Hamilton at the convocation.

Some 160 members of Hamilton's class of 2005 are arriving on campus a week earlier than their classmates to participate in Adirondack Adventure, an eight-day outdoor program that takes them on one of 18 trips into the Adirondacks.

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck recently returned from a three-month field trip to Kelantan, Malaysia where he reprised a study carried out several years ago. The results were both qualitative and quantitative, and should enable him to make some fairly precise statements about cultural change in Kelantan, and in general.