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In April, Visiting Instructor of Government Kristin Campbell presented a paper titled "Struggling to Set the Campaign Agenda: Candidate Strategy and Campaign Dialogue in Senate Elections" at the annual Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.

Robert Pollin, professor of economics and a founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at UMass Amherst, will present “The Living Wage and Global Anti-Sweatshop Movements: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?” on Monday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium. This program is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and the Hamilton College Economics Department.

Archaeology majors Amanda Taylor '02 and Rebecca Kessler '03 presented posters at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meetings in Denver, Colorado. The SAA is the primary national organization for North American archaeology.

U.S. Consul-General in Hong Kong Michael Klosson '71, will give a talk titled "U.S. Policy in Asia Post September 11th," on Wednesday, April 17 at 8 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Campus Center. The government department, the Edwin Lee Fund, and the career center are sponsoring the talk.

Professor of Geology Eugene Domack was quoted in a USA Today article about why an Antarctic ice shelf broke up and what the implications are for global climate change.

Daniel Boisvert, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for his project, “Beyond the Classroom,” to teach English as a foreign language in Germany.

Rice University Professor of Earth Science John Anderson was among opening day speakers at the NSF-funded "Antarctic Peninsular Climate Variability" conference, being held at Hamilton College. The conference is the first opportunity for Antarctic researchers to discuss the recent losses to the Larsen B ice shelf.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane presented a paper, "Unspeakable Injuries in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Zoe Wicomb's David's Story," as part of a panel titled "South African Literature: Gender and Nation Formation" at the 28th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in San Diego.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane wrote the lead essay in the March 2002 issue of Modern Fiction Studies, a special issue on Postmodernism and the Globalization of English guest-edited by Michael Bérubé. Her essay is titled "Migrancy, the Cosmopolitan Intellectual, and the Global City in The Satanic Verses" and is accessible on Project MUSE.

Scientists from around the globe are meeting at Hamilton College April 3-5 to discuss climate changes on the Antarctic Peninsula. Topics for discussion include: the effects that a long-documented warming trend has had on plants, animals and ice conditions; and whether similar conditions have existed previously over recent geological time. The keynote address and panel discussion will be available via a live Web video stream on April 5 from 4-6 p.m.