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Hamilton College will welcome an estimated 1,200 alumni and guests for its annual Reunion Weekend from Thursday through Sunday, June 3-6. During the four-day event, several free presentations will be open to the public.

Assistant Director of Custodial Services Casey Wick will chair a task force charged with revising and authoring the next edition of the Association of Higher Education Facilities Managers’ (APPA) Custodial Staffing Guidelines. Wick will also serve on the steering committee overseeing the revision of the APPA’s “staffing trilogy,” Custodial Staffing Guidelines, Maintenance Staffing Guidelines and Operation Guidelines for Grounds Management. He will serve as a contributing author for the latter two guideline editions.

David Stoughton, lighting designer/technical director and Theatre Department lecturer, will serve as resident lighting designer for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s 2010 season. During his residency at the festival (Jackson, Mich) this summer, Stoughton will design the lighting for the productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Comedy of Errors and supervise all lighting department activities.

The Emerson Gallery Student Art Invitational 2010, features artwork from 15 students who recently completed courses in the visual arts at Hamilton College and celebrates their creativity. The exhibition includes photography, video, sculpture, drawing and painting ranging from introductory to advanced academic levels. The Emerson Gallery Student Art Invitational 2010 will be open through the summer and will close Tuesday, Aug. 31. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College will welcome back alumni and their guests when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 3-6. A full schedule of events will keep everyone busy through the weekend.

“I really just want to help people,” declared Kate Northway ’11, an Emerson Fellowship recipient who will be staying on campus over the summer, pursuing an independent research project in the city of Utica. Northway’s project examines and promotes the local food movement in underprivileged communities.

During the 2009-2010 academic year, close to 500 Hamilton students and employees contributed more than 12,000 community service hours in local and remote communities.

Tom Nevers '10 and his senior thesis advisor, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones, have published an article titled "Temperature-dependent distortions of the host structure of propylene oxide clathrate hydrate," published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (published in the March 11 print issue and Feb. 17 online). The article is a result of a detailed structural study they performed of clathrate hydrate, an arrangement of atoms and molecules in an ice-like compound.

The Hamilton College chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, elected 22 students to associate membership and three faculty to full membership on May 10. Two alumni who were elected to associate membership at the time of their commencement were promoted to full membership.

Student leaders of The Young People’s Project at Hamilton College participated in the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in Raleigh, N.C., in April. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) celebrated its 50th anniversary by bringing past and current civil rights leaders together at Shaw University in North Carolina.