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Richard Underwood '51 returned to Hamilton on March 4 to discuss his family's commitment to volunteer work in Korea. He said of his family's legacy, "I used to be very proud of my family, now I am very grateful." In his discussion, Underwood chronicled his own experience with service in Korea as well as the experience of his grandparents, parents and siblings. "Blessed with great parents," he spoke on how his faith in God and belief in service shaped the path of his family's and his own life in Korea.

The annual Alternative Spring Break auction will be held on Thursday, March 6, in the Tolles Pavilion. The silent auction will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and items include gift certificates to area businesses, a variety of baked goods, homemade crafts, gift baskets and more. The live auction will begin at 6:30 p.m. Items in the live auction include vouchers for the upcoming Aretha Franklin performance, a one-night stay at the Hotel Utica, a kayaking trip led by Adventure program director Andrew Jillings and more. 

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh recently completed the installation Swallows for the invitational exhibition "Part Clay. Part Object." at the Brewhouse Space 101 Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa. The piece is constructed of more than 400 thermoplastic filled porcelain spoons which cascade down a 12-foot tall gallery wall.

The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has just published its 25th volume: Richard Walsh's The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction. A provocative critique of many of narratology's favored assumptions, the book offers radically new ways of thinking about such concepts as narrator, voice, and especially fictionality.

Associate Dean of Faculty and Biology Professor Pat Reynolds is the co-author of a chapter in the new book Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca (University of California Press, March 2008). Co-author Gerhard Steiner is a long-time collaborator of Reynolds' from the University of Vienna, Austria. Their chapter is titled "Scaphopoda."

Fifteen seniors were recently elected to Hamilton's Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The students elected were: Aaron Balivet, Taylor Burt, Kathleen Donahue, Elena Filekova, Luke Forster, Joshua Frost, Andrew Graham, Julianne Jaquith, Adam Polonski, Fiona Rigby, Kimberly Roe, Templeton Smith III, Emily Tang, Albert Trithart and Olivia Vargo.

Professor of Economics Chris Georges published two papers in computational economics. "Bounded Memory, Overparameterized Forecast Rules and Instability" was published in Economics Letters in February. A companion paper, "Staggered Updating in an Artificial Financial Market" has been published online in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Both use agent-based modeling to study the impact of learning by traders on market volatility in an artificial financial market.

Jon Milgrom '08 is the co-author of a paper published in the Journal of Herpetology (vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 76-81, 2008). He wrote the article "Effects of Reproductive Burden on Endurance Performance in Side-Blotched Lizards" with former Hamilton professor of biology Pete Zani, and Ryan Neuhaus and Trevor Jones from Central College. Milgrom, a biology and economics major, received funding for his research from the Hamilton College Dean's Office and the Biology Department's Renwick Prize.

Heroes and Hard Times: A Black Folk History, a musical performance by James "Sparky" and Rhonda Rucker, will be presented on Thursday, March 6, at 4 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The event is being held in conjunction with the Emerson Gallery's current exhibitions which explore key moments in African American history through photography and political satire.

Major John Dehn, a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, will present "The President, the Congress, and the War on Terror" on Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Dehn will conduct a lecture-discussion on issues including detainee designation and treatment and the nature of the war making power.