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Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, was among five community college alumni presented with the Outstanding Alumni Award on April 19, at the 90th annual convention of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) held in Seattle, Wash. The award is presented annually to individuals who have excelled in their field and given back to the community.

Nine Hamilton students attended the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held March 21-25 in San Francisco. The theme of the meeting was “Chemistry for a Sustainable World.” Also during the meeting Hamilton students and chemistry faculty attended an award symposium in honor of Edward “Ted” Taylor ’46, who received the Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry.

A group of 14 Hamilton students and faculty traveled to Union College on April 16 for the fifth annual celebration of Parilia, an undergraduate Classics conference sponsored by Colgate, Hamilton, Skidmore and Union.

The Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) will celebrate Green Week with a number of activities. All are free and open to the public.

Students accepted to Hamilton’s class of 2014 will get a chance to determine if the College is a good fit for them when they attend Accepted Student Open House on Monday, April 19. A full day of activities is planned for accepted students and their families in an effort to illustrate all aspects of a typical day at Hamilton.

Baratunde Thurston, The Onion’s Web/Politics editor, will host a discussion at Hamilton College about political humor and the effect of new media on progressive politics on Tuesday, April 20, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson building. The lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton College Democrats and is free and open to the public.

“Sue Beevers: Quilt Bliss,” an exhibition of art quilts, paintings and textile designs by Sue Beevers ’97, a lecturer in music performance, is on display through May 6, at Utica College’s Edith Langley Barrett Fine Art Gallery.

Cracking his first joke of many, Paul Lieberstein said that “it’s like a bizarre reunion where I’m the only one who’s aged,” referring to the standing-room only crowd in Wellin Hall on April 16. Lieberstein graduated from Hamilton in 1989 with a degree in economics, but, as everyone in the audience was well-aware, he became a household name not as an auditor but as a writer and actor on the hit NBC show The Office. Ultimately getting to that destination, however, was not easy: Lieberstein had to climb over and sidle past unhelpful career counselors, dead-end bank jobs, crazed bosses, incompetent agents and Los Angeles itself.

Paul Lieberstein ’89, Toby Flenderson of NBC’s “The Office” visited Hamilton on April 16 for a sold-out lecture sponsored by the Campus Activities Board. During the afternoon Lieberstein took some time to talk with students from various Hamilton media organizations and toured the campus.

Janet Simons, associate director of Institutional Technology and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative, Graphic Design Instructional Technologist Krista Siniscarco, Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Library Marketing/Outreach Kristin Strohmeyer and Gabriela Arias ’11 participated in the Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts workshop held in March at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.