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Ella Gant, chair and associate professor of art, presented her work to Grrl Action, a program of the Austin-based theatre company, Rude Mechanicals. Rude Mechanicals are perhaps best-known for their off-Broadway run and national tours of Greil Marcus', "Lipstick Traces."

Sixteen members of Hamilton's class of 2009 were elected last week to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Steven Beale, Nicholas Berry, Abigail Crimmins, Leandra Folk, Andrew Forman, Casey Green, David Hamilton, Rachel Horowitz, Blake Hulnick, Fiona MacQuarrie, Sarah Moore, Cassie Sullivan, Rita Tran, Benjamin Van Arnam, Jennifer Vano and Xin Wang.

The Hamilton College Sailing Team ventured south last weekend to compete for the second time in the Eckerd Intersectional regatta in Saint Petersburg, Fla. The team, comprised of nearly 30 active intercollegiate sailors, races in both keelboat (Colgate 26 and J-105 class) and dinghy (420 and FJ class) regattas as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association.

Akilah Bond '09 finished seventh in the triple jump and earned All-America honors at the NCAA Division III men's and women's indoor track and field championships held at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Sports and Recreation Center in Terre Haute, Ind., on March 14.

Peter Kosgei '10 won the mile run at the NCAA Division III men's and women's indoor track and field championships held at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Sports and Recreation Center in Terre Haute, Ind., on March 14.

Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, will discuss Sunday's (3/15/09) episode of HBO's "Big Love" in a KUER (Salt Lake City)/ Radio West interview with Doug Fabrizio on Monday, March 16, at 1 p.m. EST. The show stars Bill Paxton as modern polygamist Bill Henrickson tackling problems outside his three-house suburban home. "Big Love" has been nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Listen live at http://www.kuer.org/.

Seven Hamilton College student-athletes were honored by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) on March 12, when the organization released its 2008 Division III National Academic Squad.

Ella Gant, chair and associate professor of art, returned to her alma mater, the art department of the University of Texas at Austin, to present her work to students studying Transmedia. Gant was invited by William Lundberg, Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor in Art and Art History, to discuss interconnections among video, film, performance, installation and digital technology as evidenced through her work with these media over the past 25 years.

Professor of Economics Erol Balkan and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Henry Rutz have co-authored "Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul," published in January. Focusing on the families of Istanbul's new middle class, the authors address questions about the social construction of middle-class reality in the context of the rapid changes that have come about through recent economic growth in global markets and the global diffusion of information technology.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu was invited to give two plenary talks at the annual Conference of Chinese Education last summer in China. He presented "The Crucialty of Learning Classical Chinese" at the Hainan session at Hainan Normal University, and "The First Step to Raise One's Reading and Writing Ability" at the conference's Wuhan Session at Hu Bei University.