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“I really just want to help people,” declared Kate Northway ’11, an Emerson Fellowship recipient who will be staying on campus over the summer, pursuing an independent research project in the city of Utica. Northway’s project examines and promotes the local food movement in underprivileged communities.

During the 2009-2010 academic year, close to 500 Hamilton students and employees contributed more than 12,000 community service hours in local and remote communities.

Tom Nevers '10 and his senior thesis advisor, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones, have published an article titled "Temperature-dependent distortions of the host structure of propylene oxide clathrate hydrate," published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (published in the March 11 print issue and Feb. 17 online). The article is a result of a detailed structural study they performed of clathrate hydrate, an arrangement of atoms and molecules in an ice-like compound.

The Hamilton College chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, elected 22 students to associate membership and three faculty to full membership on May 10. Two alumni who were elected to associate membership at the time of their commencement were promoted to full membership.

Student leaders of The Young People’s Project at Hamilton College participated in the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in Raleigh, N.C., in April. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) celebrated its 50th anniversary by bringing past and current civil rights leaders together at Shaw University in North Carolina.

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.