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Michael Cooney '83 was named Community Champion for his volunteer work in Rochester, N.Y.  He was a Russian Studies major and after he graduated from Hamilton he went on to the University of Virginia to earn his J.D. in 1988. He and wife wife, Elizabeth, live in Pittsford with their three children.  Cooney is a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a paper at the 37th Annual Conference of Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies on Oct. 25. The title of his presentation was "The Past Ain't What It Use to Be: Trauma, Counter-Memory, and Parody in the Art of Post-Mao China."

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung was awarded a grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is currently a Social Science Research Council and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow at the department of cultural anthropology at the University of Tokyo.

Walter Cronkite IV '11 has been spending the past few months dedicated to a government project. This is not simply a school assignment, however; rather it is the labor-intensive product of an internship at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C that began this past summer. As a contributor to an index that compiles hot-button issues relating to the presidential election, Cronkite plays an important role in providing an information outlet for voters. 

More than 1,560 students and their families will gather on the Hill on Oct. 30-Nov.2 for Hamilton's annual Family Weekend. The weekend will give families a good idea of all the Hill has to offer, from athletic contests and concerts, to an Adirondack Adventure slide show and educational family colleges.

Rensselaer scored two goals midway through the second half and went on to a 2-0 Liberty League win against visiting Hamilton College at Renwyck Field on Oct. 26.

Colleen Callaghan '11 scored three goals, including the game-winner 2 minutes, 35 seconds into overtime, to lift visiting Hamilton College to a 3-2 Liberty League win against William Smith College at McCooey Field on Oct. 26.

Hamilton College's "A" entry in the Frosh/Novice 8 finished ninth at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta in Philadelphia on Oct. 25.

Hamilton College's entry in the Open 4 finished third at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta in Philadelphia on Oct. 25.

Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University professor of comparative and Latin America politics, will give a lecture, "Why Latin America is Turning Left," on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. in KJ Auditorium. His research is devoted to the study of political parties, populism, and labor and social movements. Roberts is the author of Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Stanford University Press, 1998), along with a forthcoming manuscript from Cambridge University Press on the transformation of party systems in Latin America's neoliberal era.