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Grant Zubritsky '07 presented a paper at the Colgate Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in March.  A philosophy major at Hamilton, his paper was titled "The Aesthetic Value of Emotional Responses to Music."

Lucas Thornblade, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Vietnam. He will study the establishment of family medicine as a practice in a communal health center in Khanh Hoa Province. Thornblade will survey and interview physicians who have undergone retraining in family medicine to measure their response and the development of primary care which has become a standard for cost-effectiveness and quality in rural health.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson gave an invited talk titled "Confucius on gods" to the Mellon Seminar on Confucius at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on February 23. He also presented a paper titled "Imperial and Ancestral Sacrifices to Confucius" at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Boston on March 21. Wilson organized the panel, titled, "Ritualizing Imperial Authority in the Ming and Qing."

Hamilton College Newman Chaplain the Rev. John Croghan was presented with the Hamilton Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award during Volunteer Weekend activities, March 30-April 1. Given annually for the past five years, the award recognizes an employee who has substantially contributed to Hamilton through distinguished performance in his or her position and through involvement in student, alumni or other activities in the College community.

Winter Burhoe '08 has been awarded a KWD 100 Projects for Peace grant of $10,000, which she will use for The Underground Café in Utica. Philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, on the occasion of her 100th birthday, established the new national program with a donation of $1 million. The objective of the program is to encourage and support motivated youth to create and implement their ideas for building peace throughout the world in the 21st century.

Michael Burkard, author of Unsleeping and My Secret Boat, and a teacher in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University, will give a poetry reading on Tuesday, April 3 at 8 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge. Burkard’s work has appeared in the American Poetry Review and the Laurel Review. This event is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and Department of English and is free and open to the public.

Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer presented at the 233rd American Chemical Society National Meeting in Chicago (Feb. 26–29) at the Division of Chemical Education Poster Session. Professor Brewer’s poster titled “Materials Chemistry Projects in Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry” presented the implementation of multi-week projects in the laboratory program for the spring semester course Inorganic and Materials Chemistry 265.

Economist Randy Albelda of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, discussed whether economic research can move policy debate to help low-wage women workers in a lecture at Hamilton on March 29. After a brief introduction by Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, Albelda delved into a wide-ranging array of statistics that lead economists to debate.

Brian Rosmaita, assistant professor of computer science, presented "Making Service Learning Accessible to Computer Scientists" at the Association for Computing Machinery SIGCSE 2007 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, held in Covington, Ky., March 7-10. In his paper, published in the conference proceedings, Rosmaita contends that service learning can play an important role in computer science education.

The Hamilton College Choir will present its mid-Atlantic tour program in a home performance on Friday, March 30, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall, Schambach Center on the Hamilton campus. The performance is free and open to the public.