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Last summer Hamilton alumna Jenney Stringer '08 was awarded a Levitt Community Service Fellowship to create and facilitate a community garden in Utica for refugees living in public housing. Stringer recently penned an opinion piece for the Utica Observer-Dispatch thanking the many organizations that contributed to the project's success.

Dan Nye '88, CEO of the Internet professional networking site LinkedIn, appeared in a live interview on FoxBusiness.com (6/10/08). In the interview, filmed on Stanford University's Palo Alto, Calif., campus, Nye noted that he is a graduate of Hamilton College. Nye said LinkedIn currently has 23 million members, 1.2 million new members sign on each month and it is the largest professional network. "On LinkedIn people are exchanging knowledge, advice and opportunities and everybody is trying to help each other be the best they can be at what they do. The focus is on productivity," Nye explained "and giving the information and tools to be a more effective participant in this knowledge economy."

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman's book of poetry, Wet Apples, White Blood, shared the best book of poetry award with The Origin of the Milky Way by Barbara Louise Ungar at the Adirondack Center for Writing's (ACW) third annual Adirondack Literary Awards. The awards were announced at Blue Mountain Center in Blue Mountain Lake on June 8. The Adirondack Literary Awards celebrate and acknowledge the books that were written by Adirondack authors or published in the region in the previous year. There were 37 entries this year. Wet Apples, White Blood was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007.

Levitt Center Associate Director of Community Research Judith Owens-Manley presented a workshop at the 2008 Summit on Political Engagement and Bonner Summer Leadership Institute that explored the themes of political and civic engagement.

Record heat and humidity for Central New York in early June didn't stop 1,289 alumni and guests from participating in Hamilton's Reunions '08, held on June 5-8. Alumni were able to reconnect with former classmates at activities ranging from the annual parade and cookout to class dinners, arts events and for the athletically inclined, a bicycle ride through the Mohawk Valley, the Long Run and the annual Winton Tolles golf tournament. Many of this year's 16 Alumni Colleges featured alumni talking about an area of their expertise or interest.

Kateri Whitebean '08 was featured in a Syracuse Post Standard article (6/5/08) about her upcoming Fulbright Teaching Assistantship trip to South Korea. Whitebean, of Fabius, N.Y., majored in neuroscience at Hamilton and will spend a year in South Korea teaching English. The Fulbright Program is a United States international educational exchange program which was begun in 1945. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching. The U.S. Student Program awards approximately 900 grants annually.

Thanks to its graduates, Hamilton is a leader nationally in alumni participation for annual giving. For the 26th consecutive year, last year more than 50 percent of alumni made a gift to the College. A 52% participation goal has been set this year to continue our remarkable tradition of excellence in participation - a metric that speaks to the loyal support of alumni and their involvement in the success of the College.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, travelled to Hawaii in June where she presented a lecture and did program assessment on the Bridge to Hope program, modeled after Hamilton's ACCESS Project, for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Adair was the founder of ACCESS at Hamilton College, a program dedicated to providing low-income, first-generation college-educated parents in central New York with all of the support necessary to thrive in an academic community.

Three Hamilton students will get a close-up view of the American political process when they participate in the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this summer. Carly McWilliams '09 and Samuel Cowan '11 have been selected as two of 27 interns who will assist in preparations for the 2008 Republican National Convention. Stacey Klein '09 a communication major, will be a member of the press pool for the Democratic convention, taking place in Denver on Aug. 25-28.

In anticipation of the College's Bicentennial in 2012, an effort is under way to collect and preserve the reflections of Hamilton alumni, students, professors and staff. Alumni visiting the Hill for reunions this weekend are encouraged to share their favorite Hamilton story as part of the College's Oral History Project. Staff will be on hand for recordings at Kirkland Cottage on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 3-4:30 p.m.