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Thirteen Hamilton College students were awarded funding from the college to pursue summer internships around the country and overseas. Nine students received funding through the Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund, while the Jeffrey Fund in Science, the Richard and Patsy Couper Grant, the Summer Internship Support Fund and the George and Martha Darcy Internship Support Fund each awarded stipends to one student respectively.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey has been named the recipient of The Richardson Award for Faculty Innovation. Bailey is developing a Robotics course that combines the hardware and software of a working robot at an introductory level. The course is one of three new Computer Science courses to be offered by the College next semester, in order to reignite interest in Computer Science at Hamilton and on a national level.

Hamilton College will hold an Open House to provide information on upcoming day and overnight camps this summer. The Open House will take place on Thursday, May 18, from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. at the Hamilton College Events Barn. The event requires no registration and is free and open to the public.

HAVOC, the Hamilton Action Volunteer Outreach Coalition and one of Hamilton’s largest student organizations, has been recognized by Your Neighbors, Inc. as the Volunteers of the Year for the contributions of their Food Salvage project. For the past five years, HAVOC members have packaged food left over after meals at dining halls and delivered it to Your Neighbors. The project was started by Sharon Hakim ’06 with cooperation and support from Hamilton food service provider Bon Appetit. Suzy Belmont ’07 is the current head of the operation.

Hundreds of college students wait anxiously with sleeping bags in hand, after traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles. They are ready for a weekend of intense competition against opposing teams from around the country. This isn’t March Madness; this is the world of debating. In a world where names like Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford reign supreme, the Hamilton College Debate Society is stepping in to butt heads with the best of American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA).

When Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams sent a student’s paper to the Eastern Communications Association to be considered for presentation at its 2006 conference, it was the first time Adams had done so for a Hamilton student. Not only was it the first paper to be submitted by a Hamilton student, but now it’s the first paper to be competitively accepted for presentation at the conference. Katie Riposta ’06 and her paper, “Internet as Point of Purchase: The Function of Word of Mouth Communication,” will be making the trip to Philadelphia, Pa., for the 97th annual Eastern Communications Association Conference, April 26-30. She will be presenting the paper as part of a panel that includes the top five submissions for Lambda Pi Eta 2006.

Six winners of the Hamilton College 2006 public speaking contest were announced after the final round of the contest on March 4. Preliminaries were held on Feb. 11 as students competed for three separate prizes: The McKinney Prize, The Clark Prize and The Warren Wright Prize. Between the preliminary and final rounds, speakers had the option of working with “speech coach” Jim Helmer, co-director of the Oral Communication Center, who was also a judge in the preliminary round. Seventeen students competed in the final round.

Keeper of the Kohn, a documentary directed by Hamilton alumnus, David Gaynes ’99, will make its television debut on Maryland Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on Monday, April 3, at 10:30 pm. The film was recently shown at Hamilton College as part of the film and lecture series, “Forum for Images and Languages in Motion.” Last April his film won the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Vail International Film Festival in Colorado and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Beach International Film Festival in Florida.

It’s the beginning of March and that can mean only one thing: cycling season. Well, that’s what the beginning of March meant for the Hamilton College Cycling team as they traveled to Piscataway, N.J., for their first race ever at the Rutgers Classic Race Weekend on March 4 and 5. The team was founded last fall and competes in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (ECCC).

In the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler gallery it is possible to walk among the clouds thanks to Kirkland College alumna, Mei-Ling Hom K’73, whose exhibition, “Floating Mountains, Singing Clouds,” is currently on display in the entrance pavilion of the gallery. The exhibition is the first time a living Asian-American has had a solo exhibition at the gallery. "Floating Mountains" will be open through March 5.