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Visiting Assistant Professor of English Hoa Ngo has recently had a short story, “Tell Us About Your Best Kiss," appear in Stone Canoe (Vol. 4), an award-winning journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York published by Syracuse University. "Next to My Heart I Keep a Digitally Altered Photo of You," another short story by Ngo, was published in the latest issue of Thin Air Magazine (Vol. 16), published by Northern Arizona University.

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center has reorganized into three, thematically based programs: Security, Sustainability and Inequality and Equity. The goal in creating these groupings is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and discussion among those with similar interests, but potentially different perspectives.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited talk in a special session on Graph Theory at the recent Eastern Sectional Meeting of the American Math Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In her talk, "The Cost of 2-Distinguishing," Boutin described a set of vertices that can be used to remove all symmetries from a network, and she presented new results on how surprisingly small these sets of vertices can be in some well-known network families.

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric Company (GE), told Hamilton’s Class of 2010 to be optimistic at its commencement ceremony on May 23. Acknowledging that we are in economically difficult times, Immelt emphasized the need for creative and independent thinkers and the importance of maintaining a spirit of reality-based optimism.

The Hamilton College Music Department presents the 2010 Senior Concert on Saturday, May 22, at 9 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Stephen Ellingson, associate professor of sociology, published a chapter in The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, edited by Bryan S. Turner.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten served on a panel at the 2010 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference in Anaheim, Calif. in April. The panel was part of a session titled “The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Career Spectrum.”

Twenty-seven seniors were elected to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society, on May 20.

Anna Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, is publishing "Bridging Turkish with Azerbaijani: Music and Musicians – Azeri Folklore in the 20th Century” as part of a Department of Education funded grant project at the University of Wisconsin Center for Education and Research.

Russell Marcus, the Truax Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy, presented an interactive workshop and the annual Waldman Lecture on May 16, at Temples Emanu-El and Beth El in Utica.