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Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu was elected to the executive committee of the Association of Modernization for Chinese Language Education (AMCLE). AMCLE is the world largest association for Chinese language education, headquartered in Beijing and Hong Kong. It hosts a biennial international conference on modern Chinese language education ICNTTLC. Its members are from China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America.  Xu was the keynote speaker of ICNTTLC5 (the fifth International Conference on New Technologies in Teaching and Learning Chinese) hosted by City University of Hong Kong, July 19-22, 2006. The title of his speech was "Multimedia Instruction: Reasons, History, Current Situation, and Future."

Nominations are now being sought for The Beverly S. and Eugene M. Tobin Employee Awards, an annual recognition for Hamilton College administrators, staff and maintenance and operations workers.

Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Dan Chambliss was a participant in the "Test of Leadership" Higher Education Summit convened in March by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in Washington D.C., comprising 300 college presidents, business leaders, and education activists and policy makers from around the country. Chambliss was one of only three teaching professors in attendance, according to the Inside Higher Education Web site. Chambliss also was a keynote speaker at the Higher Education Data Consortium winter conference in Santa Fe, N.M., where he spoke on "Lessons from the Mellon Assessment Project at Hamilton College."

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Climates (2006) will be screened at the Marquee Cinemas in New Hartford on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. as the final installment of the Edge of Winter Film Series.

Grant Zubritsky '07 presented a paper at the Colgate Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in March.  A philosophy major at Hamilton, his paper was titled "The Aesthetic Value of Emotional Responses to Music."

Lucas Thornblade, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Vietnam. He will study the establishment of family medicine as a practice in a communal health center in Khanh Hoa Province. Thornblade will survey and interview physicians who have undergone retraining in family medicine to measure their response and the development of primary care which has become a standard for cost-effectiveness and quality in rural health.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson gave an invited talk titled "Confucius on gods" to the Mellon Seminar on Confucius at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on February 23. He also presented a paper titled "Imperial and Ancestral Sacrifices to Confucius" at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Boston on March 21. Wilson organized the panel, titled, "Ritualizing Imperial Authority in the Ming and Qing."

Hamilton College Newman Chaplain the Rev. John Croghan was presented with the Hamilton Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award during Volunteer Weekend activities, March 30-April 1. Given annually for the past five years, the award recognizes an employee who has substantially contributed to Hamilton through distinguished performance in his or her position and through involvement in student, alumni or other activities in the College community.

Winter Burhoe '08 has been awarded a KWD 100 Projects for Peace grant of $10,000, which she will use for The Underground Café in Utica. Philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, on the occasion of her 100th birthday, established the new national program with a donation of $1 million. The objective of the program is to encourage and support motivated youth to create and implement their ideas for building peace throughout the world in the 21st century.

Michael Burkard, author of Unsleeping and My Secret Boat, and a teacher in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University, will give a poetry reading on Tuesday, April 3 at 8 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge. Burkard’s work has appeared in the American Poetry Review and the Laurel Review. This event is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and Department of English and is free and open to the public.