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Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams is the author of a chapter in Rhetorics of Display, Lawrence Prelli, ed., (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC: 2006). Adams' chapter, "Epideictic and Its Cultured Reception: In Memory of the Firefighters," uses former President Bill Clinton's eulogy of six firefighters killed during a warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts, as a case study. According to the editor's introduction, Adams "shows how epideictic can evoke a civic ethos enabling citizens to find in civic virtue a model of concord amidst the discord of public political life, provided that they are rightly predisposed to acknowledge its 'display' when actually exhibited before them."

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Steve Humphries-Brooks was interviewed by The Dallas Morning News about the upcoming release of the film, The Da Vinci Code (5/17/06). He predicts that the film will out-perform Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. "With Passion, Hollywood discovered that there are two sides to the Christian divide. People made an awful lot of money appealing to the evangelical market with Passion. This is the other side," Humphries-Brooks said in the article. He is the author of a forthcoming book Cinematic Savior, (Praeger, May 2006).

Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey has been named the recipient of The Richardson Award for Faculty Innovation. Bailey is developing a Robotics course that combines the hardware and software of a working robot at an introductory level. The course is one of three new Computer Science courses to be offered by the College next semester, in order to reignite interest in Computer Science at Hamilton and on a national level.

Thirty members of Hamilton's class of 2006 were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. They are: Caroline Beaudrias, Alan Clark, Seth Coburn, Svetoslav Derderyan, Emily Dick, Anne Donohue-Rolfe, Andrew Fulton, Daniel Gottlieb, Helena Grabo, Sarah Gross, Matthew Handelman, Jason Hecht, Adam Hiller, Ann Horwitz, Jennifer Kahn, Heather King, Karilyn Larkin, Adrienne Liddic, Eric Lock, John Lynch , Courtney McBride, Grant McSurdy, Renita Moniaga, Colin Mortensen, Charles Neff Jr., Carlyn Patterson, Emily Rowland, Brian Sweeney, Claire Terraillon and Justin Young.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl N. Kirschner recently published a book chapter titled "Incorporation of Carbohydrates into Macromolecular Force Fields."  The chapter was coauthored with Dr. Sarah Tschampel ('00), a former Hamilton chemistry student, and with Dr. Robert Woods from the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) at the University of Georgia.

The inaugural winners of the Beverly S. and Eugene M. Tobin Employee Awards were announced at Hamilton's annual employee service recognition luncheon on May 15. Athletic grounds foreperson Ted Wampfler, Staff Assistant for Registration Diane Brady and Registered Nurse/HCEMS Coordinator Diann Lynch were presented with the awards. All three are long-time Hamilton employees: Brady has been employed at Hamilton for 32 years, Wampfler for 23 years and Lynch for 22 years.

Hamilton College will hold an Open House to provide information on upcoming day and overnight camps this summer. The Open House will take place on Thursday, May 18, from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. at the Hamilton College Events Barn. The event requires no registration and is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College has announced the names of two individuals and a couple who will be awarded honorary degrees at the college’s 194th commencement on Sunday, May 21. Hamilton’s commencement ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The honorary degree recipients are Joseph S. Nye, Jr., the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations; author and Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen; and broadcast journalist Bill Moyers and his wife, Public Affairs Television President Judith Moyers. Quindlen will deliver the Commencement address and Nye will offer the Baccalaureate sermon, which will be given on Saturday, May 20, at 3 p.m. in the Scott Field House.

Andrew Lyons '06 and Joshua Hicks '09 have just completed redesigning the Web site for Oneida County Communities That Care, a local non-profit organization. Lyons and Hicks did their work as the service-learning component of a class taught by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita.

An article by Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was published in the June issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. The article titled “Mr. Bush’s War: Foreign Policy in the 2004 Election” examined the factors that accounted for George W. Bush’s victory in the 2004 election.