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Dr. Ken Miller, professor of biology at Brown University, presented a lecture titled "Finding Darwin's God" to the Hamilton community on February 28. Dr. Miller's research focuses on cell biology and he is the co-author of three high school biology textbooks. Outside the lab, Dr. Miller lectures and debates about evolution on the pro-evolution side. He is the author of Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, and most recently was the lead witness for the parents in the 2005 Dover, Pa., "intelligent design" case.

Eric Kuhn '09 interviewed "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan on his radio show "Kuhn and Company" on Saturday, February 25, on Hamilton's radio station WHCL 88.7 FM. Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in the war in Iraq, led an anti-war protest outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch in August and has gone on to speak out against the war and the President.

Gregg Mitman, professor of science and technology studies in the programs in history of science and history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin presented a biology seminar on February 20 titled “Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in America.” The talk was based on Mitman’s book to be published in the spring of 2007.

Mary (Bernardine) Dias '98 was featured in a January 30 SciDev.net article titled "Learning to listen: technology and poor communities," about TechBridgeWorld. It is the initiative she founded in 2004 to forge collaborations between Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and developing communities around the world in order to promote innovative ways of using technology in poor communities.

Haley Reimbold ’06 received a $500 Youth Literacy Grant from the National Educational Agency for the Young Scholars Community Initiative, a youth empowerment group that Reimbold began at Proctor High School in Utica. The goal of the group, which currently has 68 members, is to reach out to low-income teens who live in the Cornhill neighborhood of Utica by creating a teen-run coffee shop that will function as a community arts center and performance venue.

Carl T. Hayden '63, Chancellor Emeritus of the New York State Board of Regents, will join the Hamilton faculty for the spring 2006 semester as a lecturer in government.

Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, will join the Hamilton College faculty this spring as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs.

Dr. Larry Weed ’45 was featured in an article published in The Economist on December 10 titled “The computer will see you now” about his career-long goal of increasing the use of computers and technology to improve the efficiency of healthcare.

The students of Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo’s Introduction to Environmental Politics course (Government 285) held a mock U.S. Senate hearing on the Kyoto Treaty on climate change, on Wednesday, December 7. The students represented 10 different interest groups and addressed the “Senators” of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, played by other Government 285 students.

Frances Dunwell K’74, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, spoke to the Hamilton community on November 29. Dunwell’s presentation included a slideshow and a history of the Hudson River as well as the plans for implementation of Governor Pataki’s Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda to conserve the resources of the Hudson River watershed.