http://www.mills.edu Mills College is a nationally renowned independent liberal arts college for women with coed graduate programs. Selected by the New York Times as one of three outstanding California colleges. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle11122009ratcliffe_hamlet.php Mills College English professor and acclaimed poet Stephen Ratcliffe has released his newest book, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Denver: Counterpath Press, 2010), which explores the presence and significance of offstage action in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle11112009cal_pac_win.php The Mills College cross country team has captured the California Pacific Conference (Cal Pac) Championship, qualifying the team to represent Cal Pac at the 30th Annual Women's National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Championships. The competition will take place on Saturday, November 21, 2009, in Vancouver, Washington. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle11042009ethnic_studies.php More than forty years after students staged sit-ins at Mills and other Bay Area colleges to demand that academia include the perspective of students of color in the classroom, the Mills College Ethnic Studies Department has evolved into one of the longest-running and most innovative in the field. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle10162009public_art.php Mills College art professor Catherine Wagner will debut Ghost Grove, a new public art project for the city of Los Angeles. The laser etched aluminum installation with orange-colored mylar circles, is located in the Ronald F. Deaton Civic Auditorium, a part of the new Los Angeles Police Department's downtown headquarters. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle10022009chen_documentary.php Mills College assistant professor and book artist Julie Chen will be featured in Craft in America, a two-part television series premiering nationwide on PBS on Wed. Oct. 7, 2009.