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A Hamilton College Computer Programming Team has been formed to compete in collegiate programming competitions. A select group of students, under the guidance of Associate Professors of Computer Science Alistair Campbell and Mark Bailey, have been training since January for competitions. At such competitions, student teams from various colleges and universities are each given a set of problems to solve by writing computer programs. In a race against the clock, each team is ranked according to the number of problems solved in the shortest time.

Natalie Tarallo, a candidate for graduation on May 20 from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to Mauritius. She will study ethnicity in youth political identity formation in Mauritius. Through observation, interviews and participation, she aims to discern and analyze the place of and role of ethnicity in Mauritian youth political identities as a model for other young multi-ethnic democracies. Tarallo will conduct research at the University of Mauritius, in secondary schools, community organizations, youth centers and the youth arms of political parties.

Brian J. Glenn, visiting assistant professor of government, served as the Public Policy program chair for this year's New England Political Science Association conference, held recently in Newton, Mass.  Glenn also presented a paper, "Embracing Risk II: The Rise and Decline of the Twentieth Century Social Policy Net."

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper on “1968 and the Social & Political Foundations of the Working Peoples Alliance” at the 39th annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) held in Kingston, Jamaica, May 7-11. The paper, an examination of a political party, the Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) of Guyana, assessed the emergence of new political forces in Guyana (along with regional and global influence) between 1968-1974, and established how the convergence of those forces or the ‘new politics’ culminated in the birth of the multi-racial WPA considerably changing the political equation in the South American republic.

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The 458 members of the class of 2007 will receive bachelor's degrees.

Alexander Hamilton airs on American Experience, PBS, tonight, Monday, May 14, at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m CT. The show promises to "cover the full sweep of Hamilton's short life, one that had more than its share of heroism, scandal and tragedy.

More than 125 Hamilton students will spend at least part of their summer on campus doing research with various faculty members. Students have received funding through the Dean of Faculty's office, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Emerson Foundation and the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

John C. O'Neal, professor of French, was elected president of the Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies, which is the French caucus of the national society. The election took place at the organization's annual spring meeting, held in Atlanta this year.

That the content of many websites is inaccessible to visually impaired computer users is not surprising. But surfers with vision problems can view sites using special software that reads web pages aloud - if sites are properly designed and coded. Students in a section of the computer science department's innovative new course “Explorations in Computer Science” led by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita learned how to increase accessibility and usability, focusing on the sites of a half dozen non-profit Utica-based organizations.

The winners of the Beverly S. and Eugene M. Tobin Employee Awards were announced at Hamilton's annual employee service recognition luncheon on May 14. Custodian Foreperson Bobby Evans, Academic Office Assistant Robin Vanderwall and Director of Central Information Services Martin Sweeney were presented with the awards.