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Hamilton College will welcome back more than 1,500 alumni and their guests when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 5-8.

Two groups of Hamilton students, led by the College's outdoor leadership staff, are headed to the U.S. seacoasts for eight days of adventure during spring break. Six students and a Hamilton professor will spend part of their spring break exploring the Everglades on a sea kayaking trip led by Andrew Jillings, the director of Outdoor Leadership. Sarah Weis, the assistant director of Outdoor Leadership, and about 10 students are spending eight days hiking in the Ventana Wilderness along California's Big Sur Coast.

The annual Alternative Spring Break auction will be held on Thursday, March 6, in the Tolles Pavilion. The silent auction will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and items include gift certificates to area businesses, a variety of baked goods, homemade crafts, gift baskets and more. The live auction will begin at 6:30 p.m. Items in the live auction include vouchers for the upcoming Aretha Franklin performance, a one-night stay at the Hotel Utica, a kayaking trip led by Adventure program director Andrew Jillings and more. 

Fourteen years after roaming Steuben Field for the Hamilton College Continentals, Sean M. Ryan '94 was patrolling the sidelines for the New York Giants during Super Bowl 2008, in which the Giants defeated the New England Patriots 17-14. Ryan, a former Continental defensive back and outside linebacker, is now an assistant coach for the champions of the National Football League.

While balancing academic work with the demands of participating in varsity athletics, members of Hamilton's women's basketball team have found time to start a reading program for the students at Clinton Elementary School. 

Hamilton College was named in a new report released by the Campus Ecology program of the National Wildlife Federation earlier this month. The report, "Higher Education in a Warming World: The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus," illustrates the ways in which more than 100 colleges and universities are making significant cuts in CO2 emissions while reaping financial, educational and other benefits.

An article by Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was reprinted in Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years (Parlor Press 2007). Adams' article, titled "Let's Re-enact Rhetoric's History," is one of 29 scholarly articles published in the journal. The collection covers a range of periods and topics in the history of rhetoric, including Greek and Roman rhetoric, rhetoric and religion, women in the history of rhetoric, rhetoric and science, Renaissance and British rhetorical theory, rhetoric and culture and the development of American rhetoric and composition.

Melissa Kong '08 wrote a review of Basic Black: The Essential Guide to Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black, that was posted on TIME staff-writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's blog. Kong, a former intern at Time, Inc., reviewed the part-autobiography, part-career manual by Black, the president of Hearst Magazine.

Randy Ericson, the Couper Librarian, accepted the Outstanding Project for 2007 award from the Communal Societies Association on behalf of Hamilton College at the CSA annual meeting on Sept. 29. Hamilton received the award for the digitization of the Shaker periodical, variously titled The Shaker, Shaker and Shakeress, The Shaker Manifesto and The Manifesto. This publication ran from 1871 until 1899 and shared religious and political opinions between Shaker communities from Maine to Kentucky.

Three members of the geosciences department presented their research at the 119th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA). William R. Kenan Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury, Associate Professor of Geosciences Todd Rayne and Dave Tewksbury, geosciences technician, spoke at the meeting held in Denver from October 27-31. About 6,300 scientists attended the meeting.