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Eight Hamilton students traveled to the borderlands of Southern Arizona to participate in a service trip with No More Deaths during spring break in March. The participants included Wai Yee Poon, Melissa Balding, Devin Farkas, Sara Miller, Laura Radlinski, Caroline Pierce, Alex Benkhart and Corinne Bancroft. These students spent a week camping with No More Deaths and providing humanitarian aid to migrants crossing the desert. They experienced the extremities of the desert, surviving snow the first night and 80 degree heat in the following days.

McCullough Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy Laura Purdy's article "Bioethics of New Assisted Reproduction" has been published in the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, a Wiley enterprise with both a hardcopy and online version. The article provides an overview of moral issues inherent in a variety of new reproductive technologies, focusing centrally on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori presented a paper at the 43rd meeting of the 20th-century Media Research Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, on April 5. The talk was titled "Two Radio Shows from the Occupation Period; Japan's First Quiz Show 'Hanashi no izumi' and a Satirical Variety Show 'Nichiyô goraku-ban'."

Heather Buchman, assistant professor of music and director of the Hamilton College Orchestra, has been awarded a Women Conductors Grant from the League of American Orchestras. This new grant program is for projects and activities intended to support the artistic growth and professional development of women conductors of exceptional talent. Buchman will use these funds to continue her studies this summer at the International Academy of Advanced Conducting after Ilya Musin in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented a paper at the annual International Studies Association conference in San Francisco on Friday March 28. In "Slippery Perch: the Precariousness of the Petrochemical Basis of American Hegemony" Lehmann argued that American hegemony grew from exceptional statecraft based on its overwhelming oil resources after WWI and has begun its steady transition and relative stagnation due to merely adequate statecraft and declining resource base since WWII.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and a saxophonist, played in Aretha Franklin's back-up band when she performed at Hamilton on April 5. Following are his impressions of an evening with the Queen of Soul.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell published an article titled "Competing Gender Ideologies and the Limitations of Language in Le Roman de Silence" in the Winter 2008 (vol. 55) issue of Romance Quarterly. The article discusses an Old French romance whose heroine--named Silence--passes as male and becomes a preeminent knight and minstrel.

Aretha Franklin performed to a capacity crowd at the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House at Hamilton on April 5. The Queen of Soul, visiting Hamilton as the 16th guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series, had the crowd on their feet as she sang such classic hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love," and "Chain of Fools." Her back-up band included Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, on the saxophone.

Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient and his co-author Michael Frame of Yale University recently published a paper titled "Carrying Surfaces for Return Maps of Averaged Logistic Maps" in Computers & Graphics. The logistic map is a well known example of a chaotic system.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a free concert titled "Vision of Sound" on Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.