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  • Elaine F. Weiss K'73 is the author of a new book which explores the story of the "farmerettes" -- the women who made up the Woman's Land Army of America and did men's work in uniform on the rural home front during World War I. Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War is published by Potomac Books, Inc.

  • Kaitlin Britt '09 was named Hamilton's fifteenth GOLD Scholar. In the age of multi-million dollar gifts many young alumni have asked, "How does my $25, $75 or $250 gift matter when the financial needs of Hamilton College are so great?" This question is answered by the GOLD Scholars Program.

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  • Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, presented two papers at the annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in Orlando on Nov. 19-23. 

  • As the holidays approach, organizations and departments all over campus are getting involved in projects that are focused on making this time of year happier for others. We know that we may have missed some good stories of selfless giving, but we hope you enjoy those that we have gathered.

  • Hamilton College men's soccer player Max Akuamoah-Boateng '09 (Winneba, Ghana/Nottingham HS) has been selected to the 2008 all-region team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

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  • President-elect Barack Obama has tapped former Iowa governor and Hamilton alumnus Thomas J. Vilsack '72 to be his secretary of agriculture. He introduced Vilsack on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at a news conference in Chicago. According to The New York Times, "Mr. Obama particularly praised Mr. Vilsack's advocacy of biotech and his work to foster 'an agricultural economy of the future that not only grows the food we eat but the energy we use.'"

  • Over the past decade, Senior Fellow Kyla Gorman has closely followed the development of narrative structure within video games. As a computer science major and creative writing minor, her growing interest comes as no surprise. "I've played video games since I was little, but I also always wanted to be a novelist," she explains. "Slowly, I realized that the intersection was in video game story design."

  • S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently published the book, Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World, with the London-based film studies press, Wallflower (distributed in the U.S. via Columbia UP). The book is one of the first truly interdisciplinary works on the topic, investigating religions via film studies, and film via religious studies.

  • The Norwegian research group "A l'ombre des Lumières" invited Professor of French John C. O'Neal to speak at a colloquium in Norway, Dec. 4-5. Held at the University of Trondheim, 500 kilometers north of Oslo, the colloquium hosted a group of international scholars on 18th century literature, all of whom made separate presentations in a plenary format. O'Neal made his presentation on the pedagogical writings of Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his uses of the visual.

  • FibroGen, Inc. has named Hamilton graduate Frank Valone '70 as Chief Medical Officer. At Hamilton, Valone majored in Biology and Chemistry and was a member of the Men's Ice Hockey and Soccer teams.

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