Members of the Hamilton community were interested in far more than the results of the presidential election on Tuesday.  Two Hamilton alumni and a Kirkland alumna were also running for elected office.

Ron Kim '02 is running for the New York State Assembly.

In a statement he said, “Public service is about protecting the most vulnerable among us while ensuring that opportunity exists for all our citizens. As an immigrant and the son of a Vietnam veteran, I have seen just how much is possible in this great country. I am running for the New York State Assembly to be a fierce advocate for great schools and good jobs for Queens."

Hamilton College archaeologists were well-represented on the program of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held April 18-22 in Memphis, Tenn. Several students, faculty members and alumni presented research with other Hamilton alumni in attendance.

Research Associate Leanne Hirshfield ’02 was named 2011 Young Technologist of the Year by the Mohawk Valley Engineers’ Executive Council (MVEEC). According to the MVEEC, the award acknowledges the winner’s work and “contributions to our area’s knowledge base and to the next generation of technologists.”

Research Associate Leanne Hirshfield ’02 presented a talk titled “This is Your Brain on Computers: Using Non-invasive Cognitive and Physiological Sensors to Enhance Human-Computer Interactions” on Dec. 7 at Syracuse University.

Hamilton students and faculty are working with the U.S. Air Force this summer on a project that measures the neurological responses to fear, frustration and suspicion of humans as they interact with computers.

Four Hamilton students were co-authors of a paper accepted for presentation at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing held May 7-12 in Vancouver, B.C.

Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature Julie-Françoise Kruidenier Tolliver '02 gave a paper at a colloquium held May 11-14 at Concordia University, in Montreal. The colloquium was titled Francophonies trans-océaniques: vertiges de la balkanisation, rêves de mondialisation.

Team "Al Hamithon" spent a rainy April Saturday morning painting healthy vegetable characters on the walls of the Nurse's Station at the Bruce Monroe Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C. during Greater Washington Cares Servathon 2011.

On March 30, the BBC World News America on PBS and BBC networks worldwide aired "The American Dream,"a three-minute segment about the family of Ron Kim '02 and their journey from South Korea to the United States.