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The Class of 2008 achieved notable success on Friday, April 18, as their class catapulted over the 90 percent trustee participation deadline and secured its place in College history.  Raising money and awareness for the Class of 2008 Environmental Endowment Fund, the fearless 2008 Senior Gift Committee, lead by co-chairs Ned Gilliss '08 and Blythe Winchester '08, scoured the campus for donors to ensure that they earned the final notch of challenge money.

Professor of Biology Ernest Williams gave a public talk in Clinton at the Kirkland Town Library on "The Remarkable Migration of Monarch Butterflies" on April 24. The event was sponsored by the organization Beavers: Wildlife and Wetlands. Williams is the co-author of The Stokes Butterfly Book, published by Little, Brown and Co. His most recent book is The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, which is a field guide to patterns in nature and was released in 2005 by Oxford University Press. 

The Hamilton College Choir will perform with the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society and Orchestra during its spring concert on Tuesday, April 29, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by G. Roberts Kolb, the program includes Anton Bruckner's Mass in F Minor along with Nänie and Schicksaslied by Johannes Brahms. Featured soloists include Janet Brown, soprano; Robert Allen, tenor; Alyssa Voolker, mezzo-soprano; and Timothy LeFebvre, baritone.

Hamilton Director of Web Content J.D. Ross will be one of five presenters in a session titled "Using the Web to Connect with Alumni" at the Computing Officers Association Western Region Spring Forum at Buffalo State College.

Greg Ray '08 presented a poster titled "Microbial Diversity in a Meromictic Lake, Green Lake (Fayetteville, NY)" at the Northeast Regional Undergraduate and Graduate Student Sigma Xi Poster Conference at Cornell University on April 19. Biology faculty Michael McCormick and Jinnie Garrett, and Allan Guiney '08 are co-authors of the poster.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya was awarded a $25,000, two-year, grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. The primary investigator is Akemi Matsuya, Takachiho University, Japan. The title of the research is "Acquisition and Learning Processes of Negative Polarity Items and Quantifiers." 

Stuart Ingis '93 gave a talk titled "The Policy of Privacy" concerning Internet law and privacy protection on Thursday, April 24. Ingis, a partner in the law firm of Venable LLP, discussed current topics of debate around Internet policy and the possible implications that shaping Internet policy has for democracy in the near and distant future.

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman will present his complete set of works titled Selected Planets on Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m. at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton.  These pieces, for digitally synthesized instruments, will be presented with video by Lauren Koss '00.  Each planet of the solar system (including the recently demoted Pluto) is represented metaphorically by one of the works of the collection. There will be a modest admission charge. The show is not recommended for children under six.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson gave an invited lecture at Old College, the University of Edinburgh, on April 21. His talk was titled "The Cultic Confucius." The lecture was part of "Faces of Confucius," an international lecture series of the Confucius Institute of Scotland.

Hamilton College was well represented at the 15th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held on April 19 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., with 11 students giving talks.