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Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 24, at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Hamilton will award degrees to 472 seniors.  Black will be awarded an honorary degree, along with John Adams, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Colgate University President Rebecca Chopp; and Stuart Scott, a 1961 graduate of Hamilton and former chairman of its Board of Trustees.

The Diversity and Social Justice Project, with matching funds from the Kirkland Endowment, announced that two students will receive funding to conduct social justice internships this summer. Recipients are Sujitha Amalanayagam '10 and Sarah Goodell '11. The students' goal is to do work that makes a significant contribution to society.

Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Oldfield presented at a conference titled "Totalitarian Laughter: Cultures of the Comic Under Socialism" held at Princeton University on May 15-18. Her presentation was titled "Laughter and the Anxiety of Ethnicity: The New Caucasian Woman in Kavkazskaia Plennitsa and Qayinana."

Franklin & Marshall College built a six-goal lead at the half and held on to defeat Hamilton College 16-13 in an NCAA Division III tournament semifinal played at Roanoke College's Donald J. Kerr Stadium in Salem, Va., on May 16.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell hosted a panel on "Scottish Literature and Identity" at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University on May 9. In a separate panel at the Congress, she delivered a paper titled "Propaganda, Politics, and the Anglo-Scottish Border," in which she examined portrayals of the medieval Anglo-Scottish border in historiography, cartography, and law.

Two Hamilton College pole vaulters competed in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III outdoor track and field championships at Springfield College's Blake Track on May 14.

Defending NCAA Division III women's lacrosse champion Hamilton College is featured in various newspapers, Web sites and local television networks as the team prepares for its NCAA tournament semifinal at Roanoke College in Salem, Va., on Saturday, May 16.

Hamilton College's Max Foster '10 (Sherborn, Mass./Groton School) has been selected to the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference baseball all-conference team.

Roberta L. Krueger, Burgess Professor of French, gave one of the two keynote addresses at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on Friday, May 8. Krueger's talk, titled "Fictions of Conduct in Medieval France," examined the dynamic and sometimes problematic intersection of didactic prose and narrative fiction in four moral treatises written for young women and men between 1372 and 1456.

Hamilton College's Kate Fowler '10 (Branford, Conn./Wilton HS) has been selected the NCAA Division III Defensive Player of the Week by Womenslacrosse.com.