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Hamilton College will welcome back nearly 1200 alumni and their guests when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 3-6. A special welcome is extended to members of the class of 1960 who are celebrating their 50th reunion. A full schedule of events will keep attendees busy through a weekend that promises pleasant weather.

WRVO’s The Campbell Conversations – Conversations in the Public Interest will feature an interview with Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, at noon on Friday, June 4. Domack will speak about Antarctica and climate change, the recent earthquake in Chile, the Deep Water oil well blow out and the local natural gas exploration effort in the Marcellus shale via hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking.

Political ideology goes a long way in determining how a state deals with a crisis. Authoritarian regimes, historically, have been the least tolerant of dissent, but authoritarian reactions to dissent have been diverse, ranging from openness and tolerance to censorship and violence. Levitt Fellow Cristina Garafola ’11 is especially interested in the authoritarian regimes in China and Russia, and will spend the summer  learning more about the cultures of dissent and the governments’ responses in China and Russia.

The spring 2010 edition of Insights, the journal that features the best of undergraduate social science research papers at Hamilton, has been published by the Levitt Center. Edited and refereed by students and Associate Professor of Government P. Gary Wyckoff, Insights features articles by J. Max Currier '10, Lauren Howe '13, Richard Maass '12 and Julie Melowsky '11.

Hamilton College will welcome an estimated 1,200 alumni and guests for its annual Reunion Weekend from Thursday through Sunday, June 3-6. During the four-day event, several free presentations will be open to the public.

Assistant Director of Custodial Services Casey Wick will chair a task force charged with revising and authoring the next edition of the Association of Higher Education Facilities Managers’ (APPA) Custodial Staffing Guidelines. Wick will also serve on the steering committee overseeing the revision of the APPA’s “staffing trilogy,” Custodial Staffing Guidelines, Maintenance Staffing Guidelines and Operation Guidelines for Grounds Management. He will serve as a contributing author for the latter two guideline editions.

David Stoughton, lighting designer/technical director and Theatre Department lecturer, will serve as resident lighting designer for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s 2010 season. During his residency at the festival (Jackson, Mich) this summer, Stoughton will design the lighting for the productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Comedy of Errors and supervise all lighting department activities.

The Emerson Gallery Student Art Invitational 2010, features artwork from 15 students who recently completed courses in the visual arts at Hamilton College and celebrates their creativity. The exhibition includes photography, video, sculpture, drawing and painting ranging from introductory to advanced academic levels. The Emerson Gallery Student Art Invitational 2010 will be open through the summer and will close Tuesday, Aug. 31. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College will welcome back alumni and their guests when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 3-6. A full schedule of events will keep everyone busy through the weekend.

“I really just want to help people,” declared Kate Northway ’11, an Emerson Fellowship recipient who will be staying on campus over the summer, pursuing an independent research project in the city of Utica. Northway’s project examines and promotes the local food movement in underprivileged communities.