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Cynthia Domack, an associate professor of geology at Hamilton College, has been promoted to full professor. Promotion to full professor is based on recommendations of the dean of faculty, the committee of appointments and senior departmental colleagues.The college president makes the final decision on promotion to full professor and in the case of tenure, presents the final recommendation to the board of trustees.

David Paris, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Hamilton College, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2001-2002 academic year, including five tenure track appointments, 23 visiting professors, and six lecturers, teaching fellows and instructors.

A performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream will be presented by Untitled at Large, a student-run theatre group, on Saturday, Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. in Root Glen. Enter through the Anderson Connell Alumni Center parking lot. Free.

The Kirkland Project the Study of Gender, Society and Culture has announced two upcoming events. Paula Rothenberg, director of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, will give a lecture titled "Learning to See the Squirrels: Multicultural Curricular Perspectives and Critical Thinking," on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 4:15 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. On Thursday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel, Lorene Carey will give a lecture titled, "Living to Tell the Tale," a discussion of her experiences as an African-American woman teaching in elite educational institutions.

Joycelyn Moody, an English professor from the University of Washington, Seattle, has been named to hold the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies Chair for the 2001-2002 academic year at Hamilton College.

The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College has received a $500,000 grant from New York State through the office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to launch its model pilot program.

Utica native and Congressman Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, will deliver the Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College tonight, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture, titled "Creating a Scientifically Literate Political Culture," is free and open to the public.

Sarah Gloo, a May graduate of Hamilton College, was named ECAC Lacrosse Player of the Year. She averaged 4.23 goals per game, placing her 10th in the nation. Gloo's teammates, Caty Wakefield and Lauren Bruce joined Gloo on the ECAC Division III Upstate Women's Lacrosse All-Star first team.

Associate Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith presented two posters, co-authored with Hamilton students, at the international Dynamic Processes Conference 2001 in Lyon, France. Rachel Anderman '01 was a student co-author on the poster titled "Fluorescence line-narrowing and decay dynamics in sol-gel glasses containing Eu3+." Linwood Rumney '04, David Shaye '03, and Bryan Smith '03 were Hamilton student co-authors on the poster, "Red-to-green upconversion in Er-doped SiO2 and SiO2/TiO2 sol-gel silicate glasses." Both will appear as papers in the Journal of Luminescence.

"Lingua Franca," The Review of Academic Life, asked five experts to pick the best recent books about American political parties. Phil Klinkner's The Losing Parties" was chosen for the list by Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Hill and Wang, 2001).