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Evan Savage, '08, has been awarded an American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) Undergraduate Research Award for the summer of 2007. This highly competitive award will provide a stipend for Savage to pursue research on marine sponges with Robin Kinnel, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry, for 10 weeks.

Hamilton alumnus David Chanatry '80, a former NBC news producer, has been recognized by the Broadcast Education Association Media Arts Festival for two stories he reported from the Balkans last year. Chanatry, assistant professor of journalism at Utica College, won the audio short form category award for his coverage of an Albanian youth group. He also won the radio hard news category award for a story about lead poisoning affecting Roma refugees in Kosovo. Chanatry reported this year's award-winning stories for Public Radio International's "The World."

Professor of History Maurice Isserman was a panel member at a symposium noting the 25th anniversary of the publication of Cornell historian Nick Salvatore's prize-winning biography Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. The symposium was held on Friday, March 30, at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), held this year in Minneapolis. Isserman argued that Salvatore's interpretation of Debs was shaped by a "Sixties prism," emphasizing Debs' radical individualism rather than his role as a proponent of the class struggle.

Phoebe Potter ’09 published a summary of the event “Moving Toward a Free Cuba” on the American Enterprise Institute’s web site with another intern from the University of Kansas, Gregory Trum Jr. The article summarized speeches regarding Cuba’s future after Fidel Castro dies.

Eric Kuhn ’09 presented a lecture in March in Washington, D.C. to students participating in “Year Up,” a program that provides urban young adults 18-24, with a combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship opportunities. Kuhn’s presentation was on new media and how the history of journalism has evolved with blogs, YouTube and citizen journalists playing a larger role than ever in effecting the 2008 political campaign. Kuhn integrated real life stories based on his experience working for WHCL 88.7 FM and the Spectator to talk about citizen journalism.

The Hamilton College Womyn's Center will sponsor its annual Womyn's Energy Week (WEW) from April 10-14. Womyn's Energy Week, held every April, celebrates the accomplishments of Hamilton women and address issues relating to women at Hamilton and around the world. This year's WEW will include events on such topics as women's athletics, issues of gender, race, and class related to Hurricane Katrina, women's health, car maintenance and self-defense.

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The 458 members of the class of 2007 will receive bachelor's degrees.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, gave two recent lectures. She spoke at LeMoyne College on March 8 and Alfred University on April 2. Both lectures were titled “Poverty, Higher Education and the Politics of Representation” and were presented in conjunction with a photography exhibit, “The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education.”

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller gave a lecture at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on March 29. She was invited by their Central Asian Studies and History programs, and spoke on "Story, Time and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum," concerning the creation and teaching of a narrative of Uzbek history to schoolchildren.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Department of Education's Fulbright Hayes Group Project Abroad program for her proposal "ACC Post Study Abroad Field Experience Program for U.S. Undergraduate Students." The project will provide 12 nationally selected students, who have already completed a term or more of a study abroad program in China, with the opportunity to participate in a language-intensive and experience-based language/culture internship in China for seven weeks in the summer of 2007.