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Susan Mason, director of the Oral Communication Center and Education Studies, is advising the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) on using curriculum mapping strategies to build their professional education programming.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Donald Martin Carter has published a book titled Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper titled “Kyndness of blude”: Kinship, Patronage, and Politics in Gavin Douglas" at a conference on "Border Families and their Books" held April 23-24 at the University of Oxford. The paper examined the role of family in the production and circulation of the works of the late medieval Scottish poet Gavin Douglas, as well as in his subsequent political career.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at Hamilton's 60th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Friday, May 7, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, Caroline Davis ’11 won the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Corinne Bancroft ’10 was awarded the James Soper Merrill Prize.

Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on May 7 to three faculty members. Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology and director of the Neuroscience Program, was awarded the Samuel & Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole Snyder received the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award; and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Angel David Nieves was honored with the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award.

Five members of the Hamilton faculty were recognized for their research and creative successes through the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards at Class & Charter Day on Friday, May 7. The Awards were established in three categories by Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo in 2008.

Carolyn Carpan, Burke Library’s director of public services, has been elected to serve as member-at-large on the executive committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) College Libraries Section. Her two year term will begin at the end of June.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ashleigh Smythe was recently invited by students from Utica College’s Asa Gray Biological Society to give a lecture in their research seminar series. She presented a seminar titled “Neptune’s Nematodes: Searching for the Root of the Nematode Phylogeny in the Sea.” The talk described Smythe’s on-going research into the evolutionary relationships of free-living marine nematodes.

Hamilton's Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 7, at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel. This year's speaker is Hamilton Charter Trustee Arthur J. Massolo ‘64, P ‘93. An all-campus picnic will follow the awards from noon to 3:30 p.m. on Dunham Green, and HamTrek, the seventh annual campus triathlon, will begin at 2:30 p.m.

“I don’t feel worthy of speaking to an economics class. I was a history major,” began CBS 60 Minutes producer and Hamilton alumnus Andrew Metz ’91. Formerly a reporter with Newsday covering the Middle East, Metz shared his experiences and observations on the region in Professor of Economics Erol Balkan’s Political Economics of the Middle East class on Tuesday, May 5.