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Patrick Mottola '88 is among a group of attorneys who recently received the Golden Hammer Award for their pro bono work for the Raritan Valley Chapter of Habitat for Humanity (RVHFH) serving Somerset and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. The Real Estate & Land Use Group of the Somerville, N.J. law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. worked to obtain variances and site plan approval for RVHFH's Somerset County Franklin Township project. The project, which includes four homes for low-income families, is the first in a series of projects for which the Real Estate & Land Use Group is offering its services gratis.

Patrick Mottola '88 is among a group of attorneys who recently received the Golden Hammer Award for their pro bono work for the Raritan Valley Chapter of Habitat for Humanity (RVHFH) serving Somerset and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. The Real Estate & Land Use Group of the Somerville, N.J. law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. worked to obtain variances and site plan approval for RVHFH's Somerset County Franklin Township project. The project, which includes four homes for low-income families, is the first in a series of projects for which the Real Estate & Land Use Group is offering its services gratis.  

Utica attorney J.K. Hage '72 and business partner Joseph Karam are bringing cutting edge technology to the renovation of a downtown office building with the installation of a geothermal energy system that will heat and cool the building without the use of conventional power sources. The energy system, which is already installed, consists of 25 wells that run 420 feet below the earth and draw geothermal energy to the surface. A vegetation-topped roof will help reduce the waste of energy resources.

Hamilton Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Xavier University Assistant Professor of Political Science Mack Mariani presented "Indoctrination U.? The Effect of Faculty Ideology on Changes in Student Political Orientation" at the North East Association for Institutional Research 34th annual conference in New Brunswick, N.J., in November.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu gave a lecture in November at the Technology-Assisted Approaches to Teaching Chinese conference sponsored by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education at Southwestern University. His talk was titled "An Overview of the Development of Multimedia Chinese Language Teaching from 1970-2007." He also chaired the panel "Multimedia Chinese Language Teaching-Development and Application." Xu was a member of the planning group for the conference.

Embarking on its 29th season as a Varsity sport at the College, the women's basketball team has high expectations for the 2007-08 season thanks to the team's celebrated accomplishments this past season. First year Head Coach Sean Mackin has a team which consists of five returning starters, five first-year talents, and a deep bench that should combine for continued success.  

Michael Ratliff '07 was recently awarded first prize for fiction in the Alpha Delta Phi National Literary Competition. The competition features non-fiction, fiction, poetry and photography submissions from undergraduate members of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and the Alpha Delta Phi Society active in their chapters. Ratliff received first prize in the fiction competition for his piece titled Bad Lands. Alpha Delta Phi was founded at Hamilton in 1832.

Martin Winkler, professor of classics at George Mason University, will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium. The lecture, accompanied by film clips, will examine the influence of Gibbons' classic book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on the 1964 Hollywood epic it inspired. This event is free and open to the public.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold is part of a group that has received a grant from the Teagle Foundation. The grant is titled "A Longitudinal Study of Critical Thinking and Postformal Reasoning: Assessing Undergraduate Outcomes within Disciplinary Contexts." The $215,899 grant will fund a three-year longitudinal study designed to measure the development of undergraduate student outcomes in two fields: classics and political science.

Generation Investment Management, a London investment company started by David Blood '81 with former Vice President Al Gore, was featured in a Fortune magazine article "Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC " (11/13/07). The article profiles Generation and its new alliance with Kleiner Perkins, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. It notes that Generation, a $1 billion investment company, was started three years ago "to analyze and invest in publicly traded 'sustainable' companies. Blood, who is former head of Goldman Sachs Asset mangement, is featured in a sidebar article titled "Talking 'bout their generation."