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Five Hamilton alumni have been chosen for awards recognizing "exceptional accomplishments and leadership" by Hamilton Ventures, Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized to bring together individuals with an interest in private investment and entrepreneurship. The alumni will be honored at the Venture Symposium and Conference to be held at the United Nations on Feb. 7, 2009. Award criteria includes vision, leadership, achievement and maintaining the College ideals of honor and integrity.

Beginning her lecture with something of a riddle, Sustainable South Bronx founder Majora Carter read a mystery quote and asked the attendees to figure out the original speaker: "I have been wondering for a long time why some of our own defense officials do not put more emphasis on finding a good substitute for oil and worry less about where more oil is to come from. Our people are ingenious. New discoveries are all around us, and when we have to make them, we nearly always do… If it is essential to find a substitute for oil or rubber or any other material, I have faith that it can be done, because it has been done in the past."

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh had artwork featured in the Metro UK November 26 edition. Sophie Freeman authored the article which featured three photographs from the installations "To Mark a Significant Space."  Metro UK is Britain's first urban national newspaper, which is distributed to more than 1.3 million readers in 16 of Britain's major cities.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck attended the Middle East Studies Association Conference held in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22-25. She presented a paper titled "Of Prophets: Exploring Christian-Muslim Spaces in Early Modern Spanish Muslim Texts." The paper looked at the anonymous 16th-century Muslim-authored text, "The Hadith of the Death of Muhammad," written in aljamiado (Spanish transliterated through the Arabic alphabet and seasoned with Arabic words and phrases).

An article by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 was recently published in the Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (Volume 108, Issue 2, 2008). In the paper, "Approximation by Weighted Composition Operators on C(X)," Kantrowitz and co-author Michael M. Neumann of Mississippi State University investigate bounded linear operators between Banach algebras of continuous functions.

Senior Eric Kuhn interviewed Ron Alsop, author of the recently published The Trophy Kids Grow Up, for a Dec. 2 article titled "Trophy Kids in the Workplace" in the Huffington Post. Alsop, a freelance journalist and consultant and former Wall Street Journal editor, discussed this generation's unprecedented entitlement, demand for a work-life balance, optimism and parental involvement with Kuhn.

The College Hill Singers, directed by Prof. G. Roberts Kolb, will lead a Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 7, at 4 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. The service is free and open to the public.

Nearly 60 alumni and friends of Hamilton Swimming and Diving reunited this past weekend for the Third Annual Friends of Hamilton Swimming and Diving Reunion.  Alumni arrived as early as Friday afternoon to take advantage of the weekend events on the Hill. Things kicked-off Friday night with a performance by this year's Sacerdote Great Names Speaker and host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show Jon Stewart. Stewart's sharp-witted comedy had the audience in stitches and set the tone for a memorable FHSD reunion.

Moving to Chicago after graduating from Hamilton College, Allison Krutal '06 first fell in love with the Midwest after she traveled with the Hamilton College Choir during its annual spring tour. Since 2006, Allison has enjoyed the windy city thanks to the vibrant city life, her continued education in psychology and the new friendships she has made after life on the Hill. However, her experience on the Hill has continued to play a large role in her social life as she plans quarterly social hours with Hamilton friends. Hosting a happy hour in Chicago on November 14, Allison was joined by 11 GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) alumni. Allison reports "the event that I hosted was quite successful... about 11 people come out, including several who I did not know previously. I was very happy."

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Jonathan Vaughan presented a paper at the Psychonomic Society meeting on Nov. 15 in Chicago. The paper was titled "Planning Complex Limb Trajectories" and was based on research conducted at Hamilton. Co-authors included Hamilton students Julia Brandt '07, Drew Lindsey '08, Ann Dickson '09, and Deborah Barany, '11, all of whom participated in the research project during the academic year and summer months.