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Seventeen low-income women from the Mohawk Valley are taking the first step toward a college education as members of the pilot class of the ACCESS Project, a comprehensive program designed to provide low-income parents in Central New York with all of the support necessary to thrive in an academic community.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series opens the spring semester with a performance by the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. This public performance ends a week-long residency that includes master classes, school matinees and a public performance. The residency is a partnership between Hamilton College, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and the Central New York Arts Council’s Arts in Education Institute.

Twelve students and Hamilton faculty participated in USE -- Utica Service Experience -- during the winter break. The participants volunteered at Utica-area organizations Hope House and Westminster Church. The three-day project was sponsored by the Kirkland Project and the Office of the President.

Power of the Word will be on display at the Emerson Gallery through Friday, March 30. The nine contemporary Chinese artists in this exhibition both celebrate and critique the conventions of calligraphy.

Mitchell Stevens, an assistant professor of sociology at Hamilton College, and author of an upcoming book about home schooling, has launched a Web site gallery of art by homeschooled children.

Julie Rizzo '03 and Professor Robin Kinnel are isolating compounds that may be toxic to cancer cells from sea sponges.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will give a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. His visit is part of the Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton, named in recognition of a significant gift from the family of Alex Sacerdote, a 1994 Hamilton graduate.

Eve Ensler, writer and performer of the Obie Award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, will give a lecture titled, "The Vagina Monologues: Organizing against violence against women," on Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. at Hamilton College's Fillius Events Barn in the Beinecke Student Activities Village. Her visit is sponsored by the Jane Watson Irwin Chair in Women’s Studies, the Kirkland Project, Sexual Assault Center, and Women’s Studies Program.

Elena Wood '01 of Newport, N.Y., is examining the messages of social and political change found in the "female rock" movement.

Monk Rowe, director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, and a lecturer in saxophone at the college, presented a clinic at the 28th annual conference of the International Association of Jazz Educators, Jan. 10-13 in New York City.