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Professor of Chemistry George Shields gave an invited lecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, on April 16. His talk, "An Overview of Chemical Physics Research at Hamilton College: Accurate pKa calculations in aqueous solution, progress and challenges," was part of a series on interdisciplinary problems in chemistry and physics.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson spoke at the University Center for International Studies of the University of Pittsburgh on April 11. His talk was on "Ritual Purity/Ritual Victim in Confucian Cult Sacrifice."

Vivyan Adair, assistant professor of women's studies and director of the ACCESS Project, will lead the Think Tank discussion on "Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education Today." Think Tank will take place at noon, Friday, April 11 in Kirner-Johnson room 221.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao will speak at Harvard University on "'Dent those Reprobates, Romulus and Remus': Lowell, Zukofsky and Legacies of Modernist Literary Translation." His talk on April 18 was part of the Modernism Seminar Series sponsored by Harvard's English department.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, spoke at Princeton University at "On Top of the World: An Everest Anniversary Conference" on April 12. Isserman's talk, "Camelot on the Khumbu: Kennedy Liberalism and the American Triumph," was part of the weekend conference covering topics on the history of mountaineering and Everest.

This year's Edwin B. Lee Lecture was presented by two prominent speakers, Wan Yanhai, AIDS activist and founder of Aizi Action Project in China; and Bates Gill, an expert on US-China relations and chair in China studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The speakers addressed "China's Looming AIDS Crisis."

Thomas A. Crist, assistant professor and forensic anthropologist at Utica College, will lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 14 at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. His talk is titled "Skeleton Keys: Unlocking Doors to History and Crime." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the biology department and Hamilton College Chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.

Construction of Hamilton’s new, $56-million science center is on schedule despite record-breaking winter weather, said Douglas A. Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology and science curriculum and facilities coordinator. Students who enroll at Hamilton this fall as members of the class of 2007 will have full use of the new facility when they begin their concentrations at the start of their junior year in 2005. The newest portion of the center will be open one year earlier, in the fall of 2004.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane presented a paper, "Libraries, Black Writers and Fire," at the meeting of the African Literature Association held in the Bibliotheka Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, in March. She also published an article, "Mixed-Up, Jumble-Aya, and English: 'How Newness Enters the World' in Salman's Rushdie's 'The Courter'," in a long-delayed issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 32, no. 4 (cover date October 2001): 47-68. "Achebe, Soyinka, and Other-Languagedness" appeared in The Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, and Translator in African Literature, edited by Angelina E. Overvold, Richard K. Priebe, and Louis Tremaine (Africa World Press, 2003): 131-49.

Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan gave a talk, "Moving about obstacles: Pass the salt, but don't spill the milk," at the International Workshop on Posture-Based Motion Planning at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn.