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Claire Goldstein '94 and an alumna of the Hamilton College Junior Year in France, will give a lecture titled "Eclipsed by the Sun King: Vaux, Versailles and the Creation of Classical France" on Thursday, April 17, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center, room G041.

Jennifer Kleindienst '09 has been awarded a Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to honor Congressman Morris Udall and his legacy of public service. The Udall Foundation furthers Udall's legacy by awarding scholarships of $5,000 to undergraduates who study the environment and related fields. Approximately 75 scholarships are awarded annually. 

Victoria Schacht '08, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia, where she will teach English. 

Students in "Introduction to Comparative Politics" class will conduct a public debate, part of a fictitious political campaign staged in the imagined country of West Europa, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in the Kennedy Science Auditorium. This is the fourth year that Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera has organized this debate and competition.

Jennifer Earl, director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will lecture at Hamilton on Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center. Her lecture is titled "Protest on the Information Highway: Trends in Online Activism," and is part of the Levitt Center's year-long series, The Age of Information. It is free and open to the public.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 presented results from his recently-published paper "Is the Optimal Rectangle a Square?" (co-authored with Michael M. Neumann) at the spring 2008 meeting of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The talk discussed how geometric properties such as concavity, log-concavity, and symmetry of the graphs of the underlying functions may be applied to ensure uniqueness of solutions to various optimization problems.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller recently attended the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University, where she participated in a panel discussion of Adeeb Khalid's book Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia, and chaired a panel on "Ethnicity, Family, and Gender" in Soviet Central Asia.

A song by the band Filligar, of which Casey Gibson '09 is a member, will be featured on the season premiere of MTV's "Real World: Hollywood," on Wednesday, April 16, at 10 p.m. EST. The song, "Big Things," is from the band's 2006 release, Succession, I Guess. Filligar is a rock band based out of Chicago whose other members include Gibson's childhood friends Pete, Teddy and Johnny Mathias. The band has been together for about seven years. 

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams presented a paper at the Second International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment: Thinking and Speaking a Better World, April 11-13 at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. His paper was titled "Stasis, Debate, and Accountability."

Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French, gave a paper titled "Representing Authority in the Chantilly Manuscript of Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche" at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago on April 3. Krueger examined the richly illuminated manuscript prepared in 1541 for the Queen of Navarre to illustrate a love debate poem that she dedicated to the mistress of her brother, King François 1er.