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Eric Kuhn ’09 presented a lecture in March in Washington, D.C. to students participating in “Year Up,” a program that provides urban young adults 18-24, with a combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship opportunities. Kuhn’s presentation was on new media and how the history of journalism has evolved with blogs, YouTube and citizen journalists playing a larger role than ever in effecting the 2008 political campaign. Kuhn integrated real life stories based on his experience working for WHCL 88.7 FM and the Spectator to talk about citizen journalism.

The Hamilton College Womyn's Center will sponsor its annual Womyn's Energy Week (WEW) from April 10-14. Womyn's Energy Week, held every April, celebrates the accomplishments of Hamilton women and address issues relating to women at Hamilton and around the world. This year's WEW will include events on such topics as women's athletics, issues of gender, race, and class related to Hurricane Katrina, women's health, car maintenance and self-defense.

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.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, gave two recent lectures. She spoke at LeMoyne College on March 8 and Alfred University on April 2. Both lectures were titled “Poverty, Higher Education and the Politics of Representation” and were presented in conjunction with a photography exhibit, “The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education.”

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller gave a lecture at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on March 29. She was invited by their Central Asian Studies and History programs, and spoke on "Story, Time and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum," concerning the creation and teaching of a narrative of Uzbek history to schoolchildren.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Department of Education's Fulbright Hayes Group Project Abroad program for her proposal "ACC Post Study Abroad Field Experience Program for U.S. Undergraduate Students." The project will provide 12 nationally selected students, who have already completed a term or more of a study abroad program in China, with the opportunity to participate in a language-intensive and experience-based language/culture internship in China for seven weeks in the summer of 2007.

Daniel Griffith, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Germany. His proposed project, to be conducted at the Technical University of Braunschweig in the lab of Dr. Ullrich Jahn, aims to develop an efficient and generally applicable synthesis of a class of natural products called cyclopentanoid monoterpenes.  He also plans to appreciate the German culture through community involvement.

Brie O'Reilly '07 and Christine Mays '07 presented at the Conference for Undergraduate Research in Communication held by The Rochester Institute of Technology's Department of Communication on March 22.

The Diversity and Social Justice Project will host a panel titled “Working for Social Justice in Jobs that Pay Actual Wages,” on Monday, April 9, at 4:10 p.m. in the K.J. Auditorium. The panel will consist of recent Hamilton graduates Thomas Acampora '05, a freshmen seminar and U.S. history instructor at Baltimore Talent Development High School; Rebecca Libed '99, development manager at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; and Ali Cherry '03.

Rita Tran '09 has received a $1000 Youth Venture Grant through Youth Service America for The Accepted College Prep Program, an initiative that she and several other Hamilton students formed with The Underground Café. Rafael Rosa '10, Stephanie Tafur '10, and Mica Warton '09 were also involved in writing the grant.