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Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Brookings Institution non-resident fellow, participated in a panel discussion of the strategic relationships in Asia at the 34th Williamsburg Conference at Wye River. Titled "Asia 20/20: Focus on the Future," the conference also included meetings and addresses by prominent leaders in business, politics and the media. Li’s presentation was titled “China’s Future: A Paradox of Hope and Fear.”

Thirteen Hamilton College students were awarded funding from the college to pursue summer internships around the country and overseas. Nine students received funding through the Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund, while the Jeffrey Fund in Science, the Richard and Patsy Couper Grant, the Summer Internship Support Fund and the George and Martha Darcy Internship Support Fund each awarded stipends to one student respectively.

Key Award to Clarence E. Aldridge '45 Alumni who participated in a special reunion this past year, the Class of 1955 and earlier, were able to do so thanks to Clarence Aldridge.  Last year, Clarence created and managed a program for Half-Century alumni, which proved to be of great benefit to participants and to Hamilton. His determination and organizational skills were critical in bringing to College Hill 65 post-50th reunion alumni and guests. The model that he developed serves as a template for this year's program, and is certain to do so for future reunion celebrations.   Key Award to Brendan D. McCormick '01The vision and drive of Brendan McCormick has led to the creation of the Hamilton College Wall Street Association.  The first event was held on May 3rd, with Richard Bernstein '80, chief U.S. strategist for Merrill Lynch, as the keynote speaker.  Over 130 New York alumni attended. The Wall Street Alumni group is open to all alumni, whether individuals work in the financial services or related fields or simply have an interest in finance. 

The Bell Ringer Award is presented each year at Reunions to a member of the Hamilton family in recognition of contributions made to the College, its alumni and the community. This year Milton P. Kayle '43 and Donald O. Pollock '51 had the honor bestowed upon them at the annual meeting of the Alumni Council.

Abhishek Maity ’08 was a 2006 fellow of StartingBloc, a non-profit institute of social innovation for social entrepreneurs. Maity (Kolkata, India) was one of 200 students chosen from a pool of more than 3,000 applicants. He spent the year attending training and networking events at top business schools, including Wharton, Columbia and Yale.

About 70 Seneca Street Elementary School students (Oneida) in grades 3-6 visited Hamilton for a Science Day on June 5. The students completed a reading challenge and this field trip was their reward. The morning began with a presentation by Doug Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology. Weldon showed optical illusions and explained how vision is controlled by the brain and why we see images the way we do.

George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, presented a lecture at the 38th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 5, in Hershey, PA.  His talk, "Computational Design of a Small Peptide that Inhibits Breast Cancer: An overview of computational chemistry research at Hamilton College," encompassed the work that he and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner have completed with their students over the past few years.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane attended the 32nd annual convention of the African Literature Association in Accra, Ghana, where on May 17 she presented a paper, "Rape, Race, and Incest in the New South Africa: Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit."

The Village Voice, after months of turmoil and layoffs, has named a new chief editor. He is Erik Wemple, editor of Washington City Paper. Wemple will be the legendary alt-weekly's fourth editor in the past year. It is now owned by New Times Media of Phoenix, which owns a chain of weeklies. Wemple has spent his entire journalistic career in Washington, so will be an outsider in New York City. He will start his new job in July. New Times has said it is trying to get more reporting and less opinion in the weekly. "Erik Wemple stood out in a process that went on for months as I reviewed applications and interviewed journalists from major American dailies, national magazines and alt-weeklies," said Michael Lacey, executive editor for Village Voice Media., in a Wednesday release. "Wemple's savvy and grit are reflected in the newspaper he edits. I'm looking forward to his leadership, as well as the speculation and second-guessing sure to commence with this announcement." http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002611350

Alison Fisher ’08 (Medina, Wash.) became aware of the depth of the problem of sex trafficking after a friend returned from a trip to Thailand and brought up the issues. Fisher became “blown away by the magnitude of this subject” and applied for and received an Emerson grant in collaboration with Associate Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson to pursue research on the topic this summer. Fisher’s project is titled “People for Sale: Modern Day Slavery in America.”