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A luncheon with Acting President Joe Urgo on Thursday, April 30, marks the final event in a busy year of Hamilton Alumni Leadership Training (HALT) events. Earlier this month, HALT held a week-long series of promotional events to educate the Hamilton campus about HALT and how graduating seniors can stay engaged with the College as alumni. Applications for membership on next year's HALT committee are due May 1.

Leeann Brigham '09, a Senior Fellow at Hamilton, has been named to the All-USA College Academic Honorable Mention Team by USA Today. USA Today honors 19 Honorable Mention Team members for outstanding intellectual achievement and leadership. Judges considered grades, leadership, activities, and, most importantly, how students extend their intellectual talents beyond the classroom.

Nathan Goodale, assistant professor of anthropology, co-organized a symposium titled "Lithic Technological Systems: Evolutionary Approaches to Understanding Stone Tools as a Byproduct of Human Behavior," at the 74th Society for American Archaeology meeting, held in Atlanta, April 22-26.

L. Vincent Strully Jr. '69 is founder and chief executive officer of The New England Center for Children (NECC), an internationally recognized leader in autism intervention, research and professional development. Vinnie will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the Western New England College Commencement on May16 in Springfield, MA.

Alejandro Gentry '01 has been awarded the Bronze Star for his efforts with Operation Iraqi Freedom. The citation reads, "For exceptionally meritorious service as the operations advisor and fires and effects advisor while conducting combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Captain Gentry's actions contributed immeasurably to the success of building a free and Democratic nation for the citizens of Iraq, and to the efforts to win the global war on terrorism." Capt. Gentry was a history major, member of the Men's Swimming and Diving team, and an Annual Fund intern at Hamilton.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin recently presented lectures and workshops in Hong Kong and Beijing. She was invited to the College of Education at Hong Kong University to give a guest lecture on "The Role of Negotiation of Meaning and L2 Acquisition in a Classroom Setting" on April 18. The lecture was attended by 50 K-16 educators in the Hong Kong area specializing in foreign language education.

The Burke Library Browsing area will host "Nine canvases, One installation," an exhibition of an independent project in painting by Xin Wang, a senior art history and math double major. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 1, at 3 p.m. It is funded by the Casstevens Family Scholarship, supervised by Professor of Art William Salzillo, and co-curated with Couper Librarian Randy Ericson. Refreshments will be served.

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled "The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin: How Deep and What Impact?" at the 63rd Annual Conference of the New York State Political Science Association, held in New York City, April 24-25.

What do Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Luther Vandross, James Brown and Michael Jackson have in common? Well, yes, they are all African-American musical artists. But more important to NYC Program students, all of these artists have competed in the famous Apollo Theater's Amateur Night, which the students attended on April 22.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently gave the keynote plenary address at the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society in Des Moines, Iowa. Chambliss's talk was titled "How College Works: Why Standard Approaches to Improving Undergraduate Education Typically Fail."