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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.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole L. Snyder presented research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco in March. Her talk was titled “Synthesis of carbohydrate-porphyrins conjugates via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling approach.”

The journal Polity has published an essay written by Associate Professor of Government Robert W. T. Martin in its April issue.

Sudipta Sen, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, will present a lecture titled “Sacred Drops: History, Ecology, and the Ganga” on Friday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., in KJ 102. It is free and open to the public.

In an April 15 visit to Hamilton College, Senior Vice President and President of Merrill Lynch Global Research Candace Browning Platt P'10 gave an honest and engaging lecture on her career and the advice that she would like to pass down to those interested in finance.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson has co-authored a book with University of California Berkeley Professor Michael Nylan titled Lives of Confucius: Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages (Doubleday Religion, 4/10).

Herm Lehman, chair and associate professor of biology, has published a chapter titled “The Cellular and Molecular Biology of Octopaminergic Neurons” in Biogenic Amines: Pharmacological, Neurochemical and Molecular Aspects in the CNS, edited by Tahira Farooqui and Akhlaq A. Farooqui (Nova Science Publishers, 2010).

Stephen Okin '10, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Barbados. He will pursue a master’s degree in integration studies at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus in Barbados. Through his project Okin seeks to understand the role regional cooperation plays in the eastern Caribbean, which faces unique challenges due to its history, geography and limited resources. Specifically he’ll focus on security cooperation by volunteering at a regional security organization.

Hamilton students are having an impressive year in being named the recipients of national fellowships and scholarships. Among the awards are the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Fulbright grants and NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.