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Editor's Note: Many major news outlets have covered this announcement. Here are links to stories that appeared in USA Today, InsideHigherEd.com and Boston Globe. Hamilton College will no longer offer merit scholarships, beginning with the first-year class that enrolls in the fall of 2008. "We are discontinuing our merit scholarship program so that we can provide more need-based aid," said Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer. "We believe we are the first college or university in the U.S. to abandon its merit scholarship program."

In a March 15 article in the The Oregonian, History professor Maurice Isserman, a Reed College SDS member during the late 1960s, commented on the recent efforts to revive the organization.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert is the author of a new book, Mexico’s Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era (The University of Arizona Press, March, 2007). Gilbert who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1976 and is currently chair of the Sociology Department, earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University. His primary research interests are Latin American and American class system. He is also the author of Sandinistas: the Party and the Revolution (1988) and The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality (2003).

Research by Professor of Geosciences Cynthia Domack and Associate Professor of Geosciences Todd Rayne was presented at the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America by their Hamilton College student co-authors.

Associate Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Gunther Kodat contributed an essay to Blackwell Publishing's recently-released A Companion to William Faulkner. Titled " 'C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse': Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem," Kodat's essay discusses the long-recognized influence Faulkner's narrative structures had on mid-20th century cinema, and in particular on the early work of the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was interviewed this month by both the Associated Press and Reuters for news stories related to shifts in Chinese leadership and military spending.

Hamilton's efforts to establish more "green initiatives" on campus have been recognized by the Hudson Valley College Consortium, an intercollegiate association established to more fully engage its member institutions in the region’s environment. An article on the association's website, "Greening of a Historic Campus: Hamilton College's 'Green Team Approach,'" details Hamilton's greening efforts as described by Steve Bellona, associate vice president for facilities and planning, when he spoke at the Environmental Consortium's 4th annual conference.  The article highlight's Hamilton's new Science Center and its many green features. Bellona is quoted as saying that using the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards as a guide for new construction and renovation at Hamilton, "provides the rigor that creates the momentum for the project to succeed."

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, contibuted an op-ed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (3/13/07) titled "Education Key to Getting Past Welfare." In it she wrote "As a former welfare recipient who escaped poverty through higher education (North Seattle Community College and the University of Washington) and as a researcher and educator, I argue that if the goal of welfare reform was to move poor single mothers toward self-sufficiency, the program has failed."

Hamilton’s Mock Trial Team is heading to the AMTA (American Mock Trial Association) national championships in Waukegan, Ill., the weekend of March 16-18, during Spring Break. The members of Hamilton’s qualifying team are Joshua Agins '07, Larry Allen '09, Michael Blasie '07, Scott Iseman '07, Wenxi Li '10, Stuart Lombardi '09, Alia Rehman '10 and Stacy Sadove '07.

Christopher Abram, a 2004 graduate of Hamilton College, is currently serving with the Peace Corps in South Africa. Working as an education resource volunteer, Abram, 25, hopes to put his degree in government, and previous community service experience, to good use. “Education is the foundation of society. It sounds cliché, but with education, everything really is possible,” he says.