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This year's class gift has reached record levels, exceeding $50,000 in contributions from seniors, parents and trustees. Senior participation in the class gift is nearing 93 percent, making this the 15th year that the senior class gift has exceeded 90 percent participation. 

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "Globalization and Europe" at a workshop on globalization and the state on May 19 at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School.

Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, was the keynote speaker at the Bay Area Feminist Philosophy Seminar held at Mills College in Oakland.  She was invited by Libby Potter, a former Hamilton faculty member.

Hamilton College is conducting its first "Ham's Cram & Scram" from May 14-24. The project is designed to reduce the College's end-of-year waste by recycling and reusing items that would typically be thrown out at the end of the academic year.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the fifth triennial meeting of the Feminism and Classics Conference, "Bringing It All Back Home," at the University of Michigan on May 8-11. She presented a paper titled "The Meanings of Silence: Keeping Women Out and In."

Stewart G. Pollock '54, a retired New Jersey Supreme Court justice, will receive the New Jersey State Bar Foundation's highest award, the prestigious Medal of Honor, for his longtime commitment to New Jersey's legal legacy. The award, given each year to candidates who have made exemplary contributions to improving the justice system, will be presented at the foundation's annual Medal of Honor Awards Reception on Thursday, June 12, at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick.

Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico delivered the keynote address last week at a conference on public integrity in Lisbon sponsored by the European Union's anticorruption agency during the week of May 12.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper, "Women for Sale on Attic Painted Pots," in a session she chaired titled "Out of the Margins: Women in Public Space" at "Bringing it All Back Home," the Feminism and Classics V conference, at the University of Michigan held May 8-11.

Carl A. Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, together with Alicia Juarrero, the author of Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press, 1999), is the editor of a new book titled Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, May 2008).

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York in April attended a performance of the New York Philharmonic. They heard Chinese pianist Lang Lang perform the world premiere of Tan Dun's "Piano Concerto" and Stravinsky's "The Firebird." The New York Philharmonic performance was one of several cultural activities sponsored by Kevin '70 and Karen Kennedy for the students participating in the Program in New York.