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Helen Epstein, an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries, will give a lecture titled "The Invisible Cure, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Monday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton. 

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi traveled to San Antonio, Texas, in March to attend the annual meeting of ASIANetwork, an organization of 170 liberal arts colleges with Asian Studies Programs. Trivedi is currently serving as a member of the executive board of the organization for a period of three years. She has just begun a term as the chair of the Membership Committee which is responsible both for retaining members and identifying new members. This summer Trivedi will also contribute to the organization as a writer of grants, including one ASIANetwork plans to make to the Mellon Foundation.

John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts, was recently appointed senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This summer in Athens he will launch a new research project investigating architecture and social identity in Crete from the Classical period through Early Byzantine. Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the major research center for American scholars in Greece, and a forum for international collaboration.

A group of five students and four faculty members from the Chemistry Department traveled to New Orleans for the 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 6-10. They delivered 11 talks and posters that focused on research in chemistry, pedagogical innovation and faculty development. Student presenters were Amy Barrows '08, Brandon Clair '08, Katie Donahue '08, Elizabeth Faroh and Kaitlin Johnson '08. Chemistry faculty making the trip were Karen Brewer, Nicole Snyder, Valentin Sukharev and Tim Elgren.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen Goldberg was a speaker at Asian Art Study Day in Colgate University's Picker Art Gallery with Colgate professors Padma Kaimal and Robert Hung-Ngai Ho on Saturday, April 12.

Marco Allodi, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Germany. His proposed project, to be conducted at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Heinreich-Heine University in Dusseldorf with Professor Hans Betterman, will research the excited triplet state of cartenoids. Cartenoids play a major role in the photosynthetic pathway, but their triplet states are difficult to study because precise forms of spectroscopy must be employed. Intracavity absorption spectroscopy will be used to investigate triplet states in zeaxanthin, violaxanthin and fucozxanthin.

Hamilton students are having a successful year as recipients of national fellowships and scholarships. Most recently Marco Allodi '08 has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct science research in Germany at the Heinrich-Heine Universitat in Dusseldorf with Professor Hans Bettermann.

Jennifer Earl, associate professor of sociology and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented her studies of online activism on April 15 at Hamilton. Earl suggested that online activism reflects significant changes in the structure and practice of activism, and is worthy of further scholarly attention. 

Haeng-ja Chung, assistant professor of anthropology, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta on April 3-6. She delivered a paper titled "Neoliberalism and its Economic Impact in Japan: Mizushóbai and Fúzoku Industries." She discussed how the adult entertainment industry was transforming along with the larger economic restructuring in Japan where neoliberalism became pervasive. Chung argued that the adult entertainment industry was expanding and estimated to have 42 billion dollars' impact per year on the Japanese economy.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will exhibit sculpture in her solo exhibition "The Sweetest Battle" at The Red House in Syracuse.  A reception will be held on Thursday, April 17, from 5 - 8 p.m. and Murtaugh will give an artist talk at 7 p.m. in the gallery. This exhibition explores the sport of boxing as a metaphor for the act of interpreting art. Notions of temptation and desire are elicited by colorful candy like sculptures that challenge the viewer to imagine the potential of our senses.