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Hamilton students in the Program in Washington were invited to participate in a conference titled “Realizing a World Without Nuclear Weapons” on March 30. The conference was held in the new George C. Marshall Conference Center at the State Department and brought together several key Department of State assistant secretaries dealing with disarmament, private experts, non-governmental representatives of interested organizations and college graduate and undergraduate students and faculty.

Fifty-seven Hamilton seniors were inducted into Phi Sigma Iota, the national honorary society for students of foreign languages, in a ceremony on April 29 in the Science Center atrium. Each student was awarded a certificate to recognize outstanding achievement in the study of one or more foreign languages. In addition, three seniors were recognized by the Classics Department for their outstanding achievement in Latin and Greek.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson gave an invited talk, "The Confucius of the Temple Cults," at the China Institute in New York on May 11 in connection with the exhibition, "Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art." He is the co-author with Michael Nylan of Lives of Confucius: A Cultural History (Doubleday Religion, 4/10).

Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Oldfield has published “‘Confusion in the Universe’: Conflict and Narrative in Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire” in The Annual of Urdu Studies 25 (2010).

Eve Denton ’12 and Kelsey Rice ’10 have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to pursue learning in critical needs languages this summer. Denton will study Chinese in Shanghai and Rice will study Azerbaijani in Azerbaijan. Denton is a Chinese major and Rice is majoring in history at Hamilton.

Emily Zeidler ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia. She is an anthropology major at Hamilton.

John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Art, has published Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age with the University of Texas Press.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya recently gave an invited talk, “Japanese children's interpretation of numerals; pragmatically derived vs. lexical ones,” at the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University.

Bag it, don’t toss it. Hamilton’s annual clear bag reuse and recycle program known as Cram & Scram is back. Its purpose is to reduce the college’s burden on the local landfill by putting aside items that the student body can use next year.

Professor of Music Heather Buchman was the top female individual finisher, Stephen Wright ’13 was the top male individual, and Team m-b-h (Jared Mereness ’10, Andrew Brodsky ’11 and Lucas Harris ’12), won the relay in the seventh annual HamTrek Triathlon on May 7.