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The Levitt Center will screen the award-winning documentary, Moving to Mars, on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit, K.J.  The film follows a group of Burmese refugees from their camps in Thailand to the town of Sheffield, England.  The screening is free and open to the public.  

Hamilton students Noah Bishop ’11 and Thomas Cheeseman ’12 recently presented papers at the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity hosted by The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.  

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart was elected secretary of the Commission on Independent College and Universities (CICU) executive committee  at CICU’s board of trustees meeting on April 21.

Caroline Davis, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Kenya. She will spend the 2011-12 academic year studying methods of transitional justice among Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) in the Rift Valley province of Kenya.

Associate Professor of History Chad Williams has contributed to the website Africana Age.   Developed by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Africana Age is a multimedia resource devoted to tracing the history of African and African diasporic transformations in the 20th century.

A memorial service for Professor of Biology Emeritus Eugene Putala will be held on Saturday, April 23, at noon, in the College Chapel. A reception will follow at the Science Center atrium.  

Dani Forshay '11, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Russia.

Dr. James Afful Clarke, Ghanaian ophthalmologist and Unite for Sight medical advisory board member, will give a lecture titled “Global Health Delivery in Ghana: Reaching the Poorest of the Poor” on Tuesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

The Burke Library held a formal re-opening of the Emerson Rare Book Room, honoring Patsy Couper W'44 and Dr.Walter Brumm, with a dedication of the Patricia Pogue Couper Research Room on April 14.

William Billiter, director of foundation, corporate and government relations, has written a book of poetry titled Stutter (University of Georgia Press, April 1, 2011). Stutter was a winner in the 2010 National Poetry Series, an award program judged by distinguished national poets.