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Naomi Guttman, associate professor of English, will give a poetry reading in The Factory Series at the Ottawa Art Gallery on Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. 

When Hamilton's trustees gathered on March 6-9 for their quarterly board meeting, they participated in a number of activities that illustrate their ongoing commitment to the College, beyond serving on committees and attending meetings. For many it's a way to stay involved, while observing firsthand the current generation of students and their interests.

When Marco Allodi '08 was an Oriskany (N.Y.) high school senior applying to colleges four-and-a-half years ago, he was convinced that he wanted to study pre-med. So the schools to which he applied were all over the map. "People were telling me to apply to the Ivies, to large research universities and small schools, local schools and out-of-state schools, so where I applied covered a pretty wide spectrum," he recalled. His decision to attend Hamilton was one he said he'll never regret.

Two groups of Hamilton students, led by the College's outdoor leadership staff, are headed to the U.S. seacoasts for eight days of adventure during spring break. Six students and a Hamilton professor will spend part of their spring break exploring the Everglades on a sea kayaking trip led by Andrew Jillings, the director of Outdoor Leadership. Sarah Weis, the assistant director of Outdoor Leadership, and about 10 students are spending eight days hiking in the Ventana Wilderness along California's Big Sur Coast.

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center recently announced the 2008 Levitt Research Fellows. Levitt Fellows spend 10 weeks during the summer working intensively in collaboration with a faculty member on an issue related to public affairs. Eighteen students and 17 faculty members will engage in research on a wide-ranging variety of topics.

Dr. Hugh A. Sampson '71 was elected president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) during its 2008 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. He will serve as president through March 2009. Sampson is professor of pediatrics and chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he also serves as director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute and Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences. 

The one-hour documentary titled "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism" produced locally by WCNY will be shown again on Sunday, March 23, at 3 p.m. Included in the documentary footage are shots of the recent Emerson Gallery exhibition "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist" as well as images of the Root Glen and the Root homestead.

Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major published an article in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Class. Quantum Grav. 25 (2008) 065003). The article titled "On the q-quantum gravity loop algebra" shows that "that portrait is not me!" or more technically, the kinematic algebra of q-deformed loop quantum gravity (the person) is not represented by the Temperley-Lieb algebra (the portrait).

Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin B. Kinnel visited the Boston College Chemistry Department at the invitation of Jason Kingsbury, '97, now an assistant professor there. At Kingsbury's suggestion Kinnel prepared a retrospective talk, which he titled "Adventures and Lessons from Three Decades of Natural Products Chemistry: Some Finished and Unfinished Business." In the audience were Hamilton graduates Kevin Brown, '02, and Ming Chan, '05, both graduate students in chemistry at B.C. Also in attendance were Danielle Massee, '07, now at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and Elita Pastra-Landis, professor of chemistry at Wheaton College and mother of Tanya Pastra-Landis, '98.

Two Hamilton College seniors have been awarded prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for 2008-2009. Greg Hartt of Troy, N.Y., and Magda Wierzbicka of Warsaw, Poland, were notified that their project proposals were among 50 national winners of the Fellowships. This year, 175 finalists competed on the national level, after their institutions nominated them in the autumn. Each fellow receives $25,000 for a year of travel and exploration.