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Overpopulation is inextricably tied to countless environmental issues: Poverty, water shortages, pollution and waste management, famine, and resource consumption. It was this topic, with a focus on family planning and sex education, that was the focus of a discussion on Wednesday in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit led by Izaak Walton League representative Rebecca Wadler Lase ’00 and Sierra Club representative Cassie Gardener.

Rebecca Wadler '00, a representative of the Sierra Club, will speak about global over-population and its adverse environmental impacts, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m., in the Red Pit at Hamilton. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Hamilton Environmental Action Group.

Hamilton’s largest class of Chinese Concentrators to date presented their senior project research at the Chinese Concentrators’ Conference on October 8 and 9. Seventeen members of the class of 2010 presented their research, all of which was done in Chinese.

Rich Bernstein '80 has been named a trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution based in New York City.  At Hamilton, Bernstein was a member of the Emerson Literary Society and majored in economics. He went on to earn his MBA in finance from NYU. Currently a Hamilton College Charter Trustee, Bernstein is the CEO of Richard Bernstein Capital Management and an adjunct associate professor at the NYU/Stern Graduate School of Business. He is the former chief investment strategist and head of Merrill Lynch’s Investment Strategy Group.

Caroline Webber K'73, assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics, Western Michigan Univeristy, presented a paper at the Society for Nutrition Education Annual Conference. Webber's study examined a rise in gasoline price and its affect on the food buying habits of low-income, ethnically-diverse families.  After graduating from Kirkland College, Webber continued her education at the University of California, Berkeley where she earned a bachelor's of science and then an MPH at the University of Minnesota. She acquired her Ph.D. at Cornell University. 

Wlajimir “Jimmy” Alexis ’13 is the recipient of a prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship (GMS), which provides full financial support for the cost of undergraduate education for outstanding minority students with significant financial need. One thousand recipients were chosen from 40,000 applications in this year’s competition, the 10th.

Joseph S. Lewis III '75 was named Dean of the Arts, University of California, Irvine and will begin his  tenure in March 2010. Lewis is currently at Alfred University as Dean, School of Art and Design. At Hamilton he majored in art and then went to Maryland Art Institute to earn his masters.

On the evening of October 14, students in the Program in Washington were welcomed into the office of Williams and Jensen, a leading government affairs law firm, for a presentation on politics and lobbying by principals George Baker ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89.

According to a recent article in the Hartford Courant, Gary Pandolfi '76, an instructional technologist and an adjunct English professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Quinnipiac University, was recently appointed to serve as a judge in the Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines (PRESLM) for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Pandolfi double majored in English and philosophy at Hamilton and then earned his master's of arts in liberal studies from Wesleyan University.

The American Heart Association announced that Lewis Kuller '55 has been selected as one of its 2009 Distinguished Scientists.  Each year this distinction is bestowed upon prominent AHA members whose work has advanced the understanding and management of cardiovascular disease and stroke.  The awards will be presented during the 2009 AHA Scientific Session, Nov. 14-18, in Orlando, Fla.