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The Hamilton College Senior Art Show 2008 will be exhibited at the Emerson Gallery from April 25-May 25. There will be an opening reception on Friday, April 25, from 4 to 6 p.m., as well as a graduation reception on Saturday, May 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. The show's exhibiting senior artists are Sandra Chiu, Andrew Decristoforo, Liz Herring, Eric Janes, Kate Porter, Miranda Raimondi, Aliya Robbins, Erin Shapiro, Lauren Shugrue, Christina Shui and Denroy Thomas. Hours for the Emerson Gallery are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Associate Professor of Russian Franklin Sciacca has been accepted into a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for this summer. He will participate in the three-week program "Sources for Russian and Soviet Visual Cultures, 1860-1935: Study, Teaching, and Education" at The New York Public Library (NYPL).

The 10th Annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 27, on the Hamilton College campus. The Hike for Life is sponsored by the Class of 2008 and AIDS Community Resources. On-site registration will take place from 10-11 a.m. and the AIDS Hike begins at 11 a.m.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi attended the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies in Atlanta on April 2-6. Trivedi presented a paper, "Workers' Choices and Public Health: Maternity and Maternal Care in Bombay, 1920-1940," on a panel focused on the significance of Bombay in Indian history. Her paper explored views of government officials, social reformers and labor organizers to argue that far from being 'too superstitious' or 'too ignorant,' mill women made use of modern Western medical care when it was available to them. Through a comparison of records of Wadia Maternity Hospital, Bombay, and the Textile Labour Association, Ahmedabad, the paper demonstrated that physicians more so than union leaders approached mill women as patients capable of making good health decisions.

Jim Helmer, Oral Communication Lab coordinator, gave a presentation at the National Association of Communication Centers conference April 18-19 at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. In his talk, titled "The Canons Reloaded: the Seven Cardinal Virtues of Oral Presentation," Helmer described his work on creating a set of posters aimed at teaching fundamental oral presentation concepts and skills to support Hamilton's goal of communication excellence across the curriculum.

A group of 12 Classics students and faculty traveled to Saratoga Springs on Friday, April 17, for the third annual session of Parilia, an undergraduate research conference organized by faculty from Colgate, Hamilton, Skidmore and Union.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been awarded a four-year $994,700 grant from the Department of Education's Fulbright Hayes Group Projects Abroad program. The proposed project, The ACC Intensive Language Training Program for Students and Language Professionals, has three components. It will create 12 new full-year scholarships, enabling more students to join the ACC's existing advanced language and culture study aboard program; provide four new fellowships for ACC's post-study abroad field studies program; and establish a new summer Chinese language teachers' institute for 10 K-12 teachers.

Helen Epstein, an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries, gave a lecture titled "The Invisible Cure, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Monday, April 21. Epstein discussed her own views on the causes of the AIDS epidemic on the African continent as well as possible steps that can be taken to reduce the rate of infection in these countries. 

The Nominations Committee of the Alumni Council invites recommendations for the 2009 Distinguished Service Award. Presented by the council on behalf of the Alumni Association, the award recognizes an employee who has substantially contributed to Hamilton through distinguished job performance and through involvement in student, alumni, or other activities in the College community. At the time of selection, the recipient must be an active member of Hamilton's faculty, administration, staff, or maintenance and operations.

Assistant Professor of Music Heather Buchman will be interviewed on WCNY, Classic FM radio, with Bill Baker on Thursday, April 24, at noon. On Saturday, April 26, she will conduct the Society for New Music on a program of live film scores, with film, at the Everson Gallery in Syracuse. This program is the opening event of the 5th annual Syracuse International Film Festival. Classic FM, Central New York's only classical music radio stations, can be heard on WCNY-FM, 91.3 Syracuse, WUNY-FM, 89.5 Utica, and WJNY-FM, 90.9 Watertown. Listen live at http://wcny.org/.