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Ngoda Manongi '08 has been awarded the College's prestigious Bristol Fellowship. The Bristol Fellowship was begun in 1996 as part of a gift to Hamilton College by William M. Bristol Jr. '17. The purpose of the fellowship is to perpetuate Mr. Bristol's spirit and share it with students of the College that was such an important part of his life. Created by his family, the fellowship is designed to encourage Hamilton students to experience the richness of the world by living outside the United States for one year and studying an area of great personal interest. 

Celebrate April/National Jazz Month with The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band in a performance on Sunday, April 13, in the Fillius Events Barn. Founded and managed by Dr. Al Vollmer '52, the band will perform in a free concert at 3 p.m. preceded by a question and answer session with the artists at 2 p.m. This group of veteran jazz artists has played every important jazz venue both here and abroad. Sponsored by the Jazz Archive, BSU and the Dean of Faculty Office.

Washington State Senator Paull Shin will present a lecture "The Future Political and Economic Relationship between Korea and the U.S." on Thursday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. in The Chapel. A Korean-American member of the Washington State Senate, Shin serves on the Senate committees for International Trade & Economic Development, Agriculture & Rural Economic Development, and Early Learning, K-12 & Higher Education. Sponsored by Dean of Faculty, the Government Department and ACS.

Batu Erman '91, a molecular biologist from Turkey, has won the Marie Curie Excellence award from the European Commission for his work on cancer and AIDS. Erman, an assistant professor at Sabanci University, won the award for "his contribution to the fight against cancer and AIDS." His research is on "Molecular Biological Targeting of T Lymphocyte Signal Transduction and Development."

On April 9, John Hewko '79, vice president of the Department of Compact Development at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, discussed the fundamental concepts behind the newly-formed Millennium Challenge Corporation as well as related themes currently being discussed in the realm of the foreign aid debate.

Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley has contributed an entry, "Bosnian Americans," in a new reference book, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society edited by Richard Schaefer and published by Sage Publications. Owens-Manley is co-author of Bosnian Refugees in America: New Communities, New Cultures.

Leide Cabral '10 attended a briefing co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 9. The session focused on the positive results of expanded learning time programs in secondary schools.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur wrote an article for Sociology Compass titled "Social Movements in Organizations." The article reviews the literature on social movements that exist within organizations like colleges, religious orders, corporations and governmental agencies from disparate academic fields and outlines the main questions within this area of research, with the aim of introducing students and scholars to this area of research and its possibilities.

Priya Ananth, visiting assistant professor of Japanese, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta, April 3-6. She gave a poster presentation titled "Form-Meaning Association in toki 'when' clauses in Japanese -- A corpus analysis of native speakers' data."

David W. Rivera, lecturer in government, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago on April 3. Titled "The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin: How Wide and How Deep?" and co-authored with Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera, the paper examined the dominant paradigm for understanding contemporary Russia, which views Russia as a "militocracy" or "neo-KGB state."