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LaurieAnn Russell, associate director of Alumni Relations and director of Reunion Weekend, contributed an article to the February 2008 issue of CASE Currents. Her article "Finding their Voice," discusses ways to engage alumni of color. The monthly magazine is published by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981, The Hamilton Choir and College Hill Singers will perform throughout the Midwest from March 13 – 19. They will present both sacred and secular works ranging from the Renaissance to the present day in Buffalo, Cleveland, Appleton, Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. The program will include works by Handl, Lassus, Monteverdi, Pinkham, Barber, and Whitacre, as well as a Beatles medley and a selection of folk songs and spirituals. To learn more about the upcoming tour, to see a list of performance dates and venues and to register to attend a performance, please click here.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer performed his one-man show, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, at Keystone College in Scranton on Feb. 4 as part of its Black History Month celebration.  Cryer created the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions.

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was interviewed for an Albany Times Union article titled "Pavlovian patter" about our automatic verbal personal exchanges and what they say about us (2/3/08).  The article quotes Adams, "There is cultural meaning attached to utterances even when we know the words to be literally meaningless." 

Antarctic research work by Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, is cited in a new book, Earth under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, by Gary Braasch (University of California Press). Published in late 2007, it is a comprehensive look at the worldwide effects of climate change. The book includes Domack's research work at Antarctica's Larsen Ice shelf in 2002. Braasch also accompanied Domack to Larsen in 1999.

Fourteen years after roaming Steuben Field for the Hamilton College Continentals, Sean M. Ryan '94 was patrolling the sidelines for the New York Giants during Super Bowl 2008, in which the Giants defeated the New England Patriots 17-14. Ryan, a former Continental defensive back and outside linebacker, is now an assistant coach for the champions of the National Football League.

While balancing academic work with the demands of participating in varsity athletics, members of Hamilton's women's basketball team have found time to start a reading program for the students at Clinton Elementary School. 

The most recent issue of the literary journal Salmagundi has published Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat's review of Martin Duberman's The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (Knopf, 2007). "If it is read with the careful attention it deserves," Kodat writes, "Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein should have several bracing effects on U.S. cultural scholarship, not least of which would involve serious re-examinations of the purposes of arts patronage, the cultivation of aesthetic distinction, and the intersections of class, politics, and sexuality in mid-century U.S. life."

Nikki Reynolds, director of instructional technology support services, Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, and Susan Mason, director of the Education Studies Program, presented a paper in January at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting in San Antonio. The paper was titled "Building the Scaffolding: Supporting Student Use of Technology in the Learning Process." 

A group of Hamilton College faculty and administrators presented a case study exercise at the Collaborative Pedagogy and Instructional Design Session of the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) held in Southbridge, Mass., on Jan. 25. James Helmer, director of the Oral Communication Center; Lynn Mayo, reference librarian; Sharon Werning Rivera, assistant professor of government; and Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, discussed the election campaign simulation used in Rivera's comparative politics course and helped participants design personalized course projects.