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Jennifer Kleindienst '09 has been awarded a Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to honor Congressman Morris Udall and his legacy of public service. The Udall Foundation furthers Udall's legacy by awarding scholarships of $5,000 to undergraduates who study the environment and related fields. Approximately 75 scholarships are awarded annually. 

Marco Allodi, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Germany. His proposed project, to be conducted at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Heinreich-Heine University in Dusseldorf with Professor Hans Betterman, will research the excited triplet state of cartenoids. Cartenoids play a major role in the photosynthetic pathway, but their triplet states are difficult to study because precise forms of spectroscopy must be employed. Intracavity absorption spectroscopy will be used to investigate triplet states in zeaxanthin, violaxanthin and fucozxanthin.

Hamilton students are having a successful year as recipients of national fellowships and scholarships. Most recently Marco Allodi '08 has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct science research in Germany at the Heinrich-Heine Universitat in Dusseldorf with Professor Hans Bettermann.

Jennifer Earl, associate professor of sociology and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented her studies of online activism on April 15 at Hamilton. Earl suggested that online activism reflects significant changes in the structure and practice of activism, and is worthy of further scholarly attention. 

Students in "Introduction to Comparative Politics" class will conduct a public debate, part of a fictitious political campaign staged in the imagined country of West Europa, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in the Kennedy Science Auditorium. This is the fourth year that Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera has organized this debate and competition.

Victoria Schacht '08, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia, where she will teach English. 

Jennifer Earl, director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will lecture at Hamilton on Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center. Her lecture is titled "Protest on the Information Highway: Trends in Online Activism," and is part of the Levitt Center's year-long series, The Age of Information. It is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller recently attended the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University, where she participated in a panel discussion of Adeeb Khalid's book Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia, and chaired a panel on "Ethnicity, Family, and Gender" in Soviet Central Asia.

A song by the band Filligar, of which Casey Gibson '09 is a member, will be featured on the season premiere of MTV's "Real World: Hollywood," on Wednesday, April 16, at 10 p.m. EST. The song, "Big Things," is from the band's 2006 release, Succession, I Guess. Filligar is a rock band based out of Chicago whose other members include Gibson's childhood friends Pete, Teddy and Johnny Mathias. The band has been together for about seven years. 

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams presented a paper at the Second International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment: Thinking and Speaking a Better World, April 11-13 at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. His paper was titled "Stasis, Debate, and Accountability."