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The Hamilton College chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, elected 22 students to associate membership and three faculty to full membership on May 10. Two alumni who were elected to associate membership at the time of their commencement were promoted to full membership.

Student leaders of The Young People’s Project at Hamilton College participated in the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in Raleigh, N.C., in April. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) celebrated its 50th anniversary by bringing past and current civil rights leaders together at Shaw University in North Carolina.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Hoa Ngo has recently had a short story, “Tell Us About Your Best Kiss," appear in Stone Canoe (Vol. 4), an award-winning journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York published by Syracuse University. "Next to My Heart I Keep a Digitally Altered Photo of You," another short story by Ngo, was published in the latest issue of Thin Air Magazine (Vol. 16), published by Northern Arizona University.

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center has reorganized into three, thematically based programs: Security, Sustainability and Inequality and Equity. The goal in creating these groupings is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and discussion among those with similar interests, but potentially different perspectives.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited talk in a special session on Graph Theory at the recent Eastern Sectional Meeting of the American Math Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In her talk, "The Cost of 2-Distinguishing," Boutin described a set of vertices that can be used to remove all symmetries from a network, and she presented new results on how surprisingly small these sets of vertices can be in some well-known network families.

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric Company (GE), told Hamilton’s Class of 2010 to be optimistic at its commencement ceremony on May 23. Acknowledging that we are in economically difficult times, Immelt emphasized the need for creative and independent thinkers and the importance of maintaining a spirit of reality-based optimism.

The Hamilton College Music Department presents the 2010 Senior Concert on Saturday, May 22, at 9 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Stephen Ellingson, associate professor of sociology, published a chapter in The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, edited by Bryan S. Turner.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten served on a panel at the 2010 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference in Anaheim, Calif. in April. The panel was part of a session titled “The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Career Spectrum.”

Twenty-seven seniors were elected to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society, on May 20.