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Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and third party presidential candidate in 2000, will give a lecture, "Politics and the Environment: Winners and Losers," on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. His lecture is part of the Levitt Public Affairs Center's series "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."

Professor of History Maurice Isserman reviewed Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie for the Chicago Tribune. Isserman writes: "Woody was certainly good to his future biographers. He left behind a trove of unpublished letters, reminiscences and manifestoes ....  [Biographer Ed] Cray has mined these sources thoroughly .... The result is a reliable and lucid work of biography."

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, discusses the presidential primary system on Wisconsin Public. The interview can be heard live on January 22 from 4-5 p.m. (Eastern) on WPR (click on Ideas Network.) Klinkner was also interviewed by New Hampshire Public Radio about celebrities endorsing presidential candidates and what, if any, impact these endorsements have on elections. His interview airs on New Hampshire Morning Edition, 5-8 a.m. on January 23.

Professor of Geology Eugene Domack is the editor of Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: Historical and Paleoenvironemental Perspectives, published by the American Geophysical Union. AGU released this "cohesive, structured monograph" at its annual meeting in December.

Etin Anwar, Freeman Fellow in Asian Studies, published an article, "Prophetic Models in Islamic and Christian Spirituality in the Thought of Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart," in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. This comparative study of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad in Christianity and Islam reveals common background, basic similarities and differences.

Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Reynolds has been elected divisional secretary of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. He will serve a two-year term in the Division of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology.

Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Reynolds has been appointed editor of the journal <EM>Invertebrate Biology</EM>, published by the American Microscopical Society, for a three-year term. The journal is one of the oldest biological journals in the United States, publishing continuously since 1879. Reynolds was named the 20th editor of the journal after serving six years as co-editor.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed for the Christian Science Monitor article, "A bill to Protect Campus Conservatives?" The "academic bill of rights" was proposed to address perceived liberal bias in academia. Klinkner said, "All the evidence is anecdotal. ...But on the other hand, there's a lot of it, and therefore should be a cause of concern."

Emily Backman '04 presented a poster at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting held in San Francisco in December. Backman's poster "Depositional Architecture and Seafloor Mapping of the Vega Drift, Erebus and Terror Gulf, Antarctic Penninsula" is based on the research she conducted during her trips to the Antarctic under the supervision of Geology Professor Eugene Domack. The AGU meeting attracts more than 10,000 international scientists.

Barbara Tewksbury, Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Geology, was presented with the 2003 Neil Miner award from National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) by President Edward Geary at the 2003 annual national meeting of the Geologic Society of America in Seattle.