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Douglas Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology, with alumni Carlyn Patterson '06, Erica Colligan '06, Christina Nemeth '06 and Avery Rizio '09 recently published an article in Behavioral Neuroscience. The paper reports an investigation of the superior colliculus, an area of the midbrain that might be involved in the detection of and reaction to significant events.

Brendan McCormick '01 recently announced that a Wall Street Association meeting will be held on Thursday, June 26, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Racquet and Tennis Club. Featuring a panel of industry leaders, experts and economists, discussion will center on the current state of the economy. To register for this event, either call the Office of Alumni Relations at 866-729-0314 or register online by clicking here. Please direct questions to the Office of Alumni Relations.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman has received a $20,000 grant for Mid-Career Professional Writers from the Canada Council to work on a third book of poems.

Jay G. Williams '54, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, gave a gallery talk in conjunction with his "Emancipation and Denigration" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, N.Y., on April 27. The exhibit explores the reality of life for many African Americans in post-Civil War America as seen through the eyes of political cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902). It is on display, as it was at Hamilton, with two collections of photographs on Civil War sites and the Underground Railroad by William E. Williams '73.

Hamilton's Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is hosting several events to celebrate Green Week, April 28 – May 2. On Monday, community members can participate in a Glen Cleanup at 4 p.m. On April 29 HEAG will present a screening of "Everything's Cool," a film about global warming, at 8 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium. The Community Garden Project will meet on Wednesday, April 30, at 4 p.m. at the garden, east of the Ferguson House parking lot.

The Class of 2008 achieved notable success on Friday, April 18, as their class catapulted over the 90 percent trustee participation deadline and secured its place in College history.  Raising money and awareness for the Class of 2008 Environmental Endowment Fund, the fearless 2008 Senior Gift Committee, lead by co-chairs Ned Gilliss '08 and Blythe Winchester '08, scoured the campus for donors to ensure that they earned the final notch of challenge money.

Three Hamilton students and an alumna presented posters at the Northeast Natural History Conference, held April 17-18 at the New York State Museum in Albany. Heidi Clark '08, Katie Goodwin '08 and Katie White '08 were joined at the conference by Emily Starr '07 and accompanied by Associate Professor of Biology Bill Pfitsch and Professor of Biology Ernest Williams. In total, the group presented six posters on different projects that have grown out of its collaborative summer research in the Rome Sand Plains. Nearly 500 people participated in the conference.

Professor of Biology Ernest Williams gave a public talk in Clinton at the Kirkland Town Library on "The Remarkable Migration of Monarch Butterflies" on April 24. The event was sponsored by the organization Beavers: Wildlife and Wetlands. Williams is the co-author of The Stokes Butterfly Book, published by Little, Brown and Co. His most recent book is The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, which is a field guide to patterns in nature and was released in 2005 by Oxford University Press. 

The Hamilton College Choir will perform with the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society and Orchestra during its spring concert on Tuesday, April 29, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by G. Roberts Kolb, the program includes Anton Bruckner's Mass in F Minor along with Nänie and Schicksaslied by Johannes Brahms. Featured soloists include Janet Brown, soprano; Robert Allen, tenor; Alyssa Voolker, mezzo-soprano; and Timothy LeFebvre, baritone.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya was awarded a $25,000, two-year, grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. The primary investigator is Akemi Matsuya, Takachiho University, Japan. The title of the research is "Acquisition and Learning Processes of Negative Polarity Items and Quantifiers."