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Greg Mancusi-Ungaro '80 has been appointed vice president of marketing at SEPATON, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class disk-based data protection platforms. He will be responsible for all marketing on a global basis, including strategy development, messaging and positioning, lead generation, public relations, partner programs and product marketing. Mancusi-Ungaro said he is "very excited about joining the SEPATON team, and developing and implementing marketing strategies to take our business to the next level."

To David Grubin ’65, creating a documentary is a process that carries him, as a filmmaker, from a state of radical ignorance to a state of profound appreciation for the subject of the film. In his latest film, The Buddha, which originally aired on PBS late last year, Grubin examines past and present implications of the story of the life of Siddhartha Guatama, the spiritual teacher who is credited with the founding of Buddhism.

Michael Signorelli '05 participated as an editor faculty member in the 2010 Words & Music arts festival sponsored by The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society. The festival offers unpublished authors manuscript critiques and consultations with literary agents and editors. Signorelli has been with HarperCollins since 2005.

David Grubin ’65 will present a screening and discussion of his documentary The Buddha on Monday, Jan.31, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The film was originally made for and broadcasted on PBS in 2010. The event  is free and open to the public.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten presented the first Dr. Robert Milton Young Memorial Lecture in African American Literary and Cultural Theory on Jan. 27, at the University of Alabama. The recently established lecture series honors Robert M. Young ’90 who died in January 2010. Odamtten was Young’s mentor while Young was a student at Hamilton. In “The Pleasures of Influence and Reciprocity” Odamtten spoke about his professional relationship with Young.

Kevin McCarthy '07 and Chase Garbarino '07, after graduation from Hamilton, started Streetwise Media, a new media startup out of Boston. Their first product was Pinyadda, an online news aggregation and curation platform. In 2009, Pinyadda was selected as one of seven recipients of a DEMOgod Award at the DEMO conference in California.

A group of sophomores had the opportunity to spend time observing jobs that interest them, thanks to the Career Center’s inaugural career shadowing program, HamiltonExplore.

One of the priorities of the recently launched $117 million Bicentennial Initiatives campaign is construction of new art facilities that will include a studio arts building, a theatre complex, and a teaching museum on College Hill Road.

Allie Pohl '07 is continuing to attract attention with her artwork and her ideals. This November/ December edition of the Orlando Arts Magazine features her "Ideal Woman" work, which began as a series of sculptures that had chia growing out of where unwanted hair is. Pohl then transformed the shape into a pendant of a female torso.

Hancock Estabrook, LLP has proudly announced that Cora A. Alsante '85 and John L. Murad, Jr. '80 have been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for 2011.