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INTERESTED in learning how to conduct a focus group? A Focus Groups for Dummies workshop will be held tonight, March 28, at 8 p.m. in the Assembly Room at Bristol Campus Center.

The Department of Theatre and Dance will stage its annual Spring Dance Performance on Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The program will feature original works by students and faculty

The music department presents pianist Elinor Freer with cellist David Ying on Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert will feature the music of Franz Schubert, Francis Poulenc, Frederic Chopin, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Sergei Prokofieff.

Korey O'Malley, a senior from Liverpool, NY, has been selected for the second team of the 2001 Verizon Academic All-District I Women's College Fall/Winter At-Large Team. O'Malley, who ranks fourth in her class, is a member of the volleyball, diving and softball teams at Hamilton.

On March 22, 35 6th graders from Wettel Elementary School in Vernon, NY, got the opportunity to make green slime, pet large snakes, and conduct experiments and participate in demonstrations hosted by some of Hamilton's top science professors.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts will conclude the Contemporary Voices and Visions Series with the new music ensemble eighth blackbird on Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton sophomore Keith Foster returned to his alma mater, the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, during Spring Break. Foster, a Levitt Scholar, told students about his plans to attend the United Nation's World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Other Related Intolerance, to be held in South Africa in August.

Barbara Gold, associate dean of faculty and professor of classics, has written an article for the Association of American Colleges and Universities' publication, Diversity Digest. Gold's article, titled Diversifying the Curriculum: What Do Students Think, conveys the thoughts of a Hamilton College student focus group about diversity requirements.

Hamilton's bookstore made the transition to Barnes & Noble College Bookstores this week.The new store hours will be 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays 12 p.m. until 3 p.m.

Carl Hayden, a 1963 graduate of Hamilton, was re-elected by the New York state Board of Regents to a third three-year term as chancellor. Hayden, a member of the board since 1990, was first elected chancellor in 1995. He is an attorney in Elmira. Regents are elected to the board by joint sessions of the state Legislature. The board sets education policies for public schools throughout New York state.