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Meghan Dunn '06 was a guest on WAMC Northeast Public Radio's "The Best of Our Knowledge" on May 22. Dunn, a chemistry major, taped a studio interview with show’s host Glenn Busby in March as part of a National Science Foundation story about women in science and math. In the interview, Dunn describes why she likes Hamilton's size, the importance of her research on water clusters, gender equity in science and helping to get more young women into science. Dunn will enter graduate school in the fall at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in its atmospheric/environmental chemistry program. The interview can be heard on the Web; Dunn’s segment begins around 16:00.

Barbara Tewksbury, the William R. Kenan Professor of Geology, was awarded an honorary degree from her undergraduate alma mater, St. Lawrence University, on May 21. The citation awarded to Tewksbury noted "Barbara Tewksbury proves that experiential and cooperative learning in science creates the most innovative and accomplished science graduates."

Hamilton College’s annual Baccalaureate Service was held on May 20. Hamilton  President Joan Hinde Stewart introduced the Baccalaureate speaker, president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy Bill Moyers, whose address was titled "Pass the Bread."

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen urged Hamilton College graduates to “be not afraid” in her address at Hamilton’s 194th commencement on Sunday, May 21. Bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to 503 Hamilton graduates at the ceremony, held in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Quindlen told graduates that the phrase “be not afraid” is “a simple directive and an old and honorable one, found in both the Old and New Testaments. That is because it is truly the secret of life,” she said.

Construction projects on the Hamilton campus this summer will include the renovation of Kirkland Residence Hall, additions to the athletic facilities, and the renovation of the Glen House and Sigma Phi house to serve as new offices.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, gave a lecture at Mohawk Valley Community Action on May 4, to commemorate the organization's 40th anniversary. Adair shared the podium with N.Y. Senator Dave Valesky, N.Y. Representative Roanne Desitito and James Brown, mayor of Rome. Her talk, "The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education," was given in conjunction with the ACCESS Project's photo exhibit at MVCA throughout the month of May.

Reunions provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families family to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Nearly 700 alumni attended and total attendance approached 1300. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students, and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us! Jon A. L. Hysell '72 Director of Alumni Relations   See Who's Attended   Schedule of Events Photo Galleries from past Reunions: View photos from Reunions 2005  View photos from Reunions 2004  View photos from Reunions 2003  View photos from Reunions 2002     

Haley Reimbold, a candidate for graduation from Hamilton on May 21, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Germany. Reimbold, who also recently won a Huntington Public Service Award, will remain in Utica for the next year as a VISTA Community Outreach Coordinator. She will reapply to the Fulbright program for the following year. Three members of Hamilton's class of 2006 were awarded Fulbrights this year: Ann Horwitz to Indonesia, Matthew Handleman to Germany and Reimbold. Also this year Doreet Preiss '04 was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to France.

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams is the author of a chapter in Rhetorics of Display, Lawrence Prelli, ed., (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC: 2006). Adams' chapter, "Epideictic and Its Cultured Reception: In Memory of the Firefighters," uses former President Bill Clinton's eulogy of six firefighters killed during a warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts, as a case study. According to the editor's introduction, Adams "shows how epideictic can evoke a civic ethos enabling citizens to find in civic virtue a model of concord amidst the discord of public political life, provided that they are rightly predisposed to acknowledge its 'display' when actually exhibited before them."

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Steve Humphries-Brooks was interviewed by The Dallas Morning News about the upcoming release of the film, The Da Vinci Code (5/17/06). He predicts that the film will out-perform Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. "With Passion, Hollywood discovered that there are two sides to the Christian divide. People made an awful lot of money appealing to the evangelical market with Passion. This is the other side," Humphries-Brooks said in the article. He is the author of a forthcoming book Cinematic Savior, (Praeger, May 2006).