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Each fall the Nominations Committee of the Hamilton Alumni Association presents the Alumni Council with nominees to fill three positions on the Board of Trustees. After considering a lengthy list of potential nominees and assessing indicators of effective trusteeship including volunteer experience, professional expertise and representation of varied alumni demographic groups, George Baker ’74, Nancy Roob ’87 and Torrence Moore ’92 were nominated. Prior to the meeting Benjamin Wu ’73 and Peter Brown ’73 fulfilled the necessary petition threshold of 25 alumni signatures and became candidates as well necessitating an alumni-wide election. It is now time for alumni to exercise their franchise by voting.

Hamilton College is pleased to name Jovan Livada, a junior from Belgrade, Serbia, as its third GOLD Scholar.  To find Livada, you might search the chemistry laboratories, sports fields, ballroom dancing class, the stage, or the Writing and Oral Communications centers … unless, of course, you were looking for him this past fall, in which case he was on the water enrolled in Boston University's Semester at Sea program. Livada, a junior from Belgrade, Serbia, is the paradigmatic multi-talented Hamilton student.

A. G. Lafley ’69, CEO of Procter & Gamble, was featured in a USA Today article (2/19/07) on what makes a good leader. In October, Lafley was named one of “America’s Best Leaders” in 2006 by U.S. News and World Report. After just six years of Lafley’s leadership, the value of P&G stock has risen by 66%. In the February 19 article, he told USA TODAY how a good leader operates.

Participants in Boston's Citizen Schools program 8th Grade Academy spent three days and two nights exploring the Hamilton campus earlier this month. This visit marks the third straight year that students have had the opportunity to visit Hamilton.  Citizen Schools is a national education initiative utilizing adult volunteers to help improve student achievement through skill-building apprenticeships, rigorous academic and leadership development activities and real world learning projects.

A transcript of sophomore Eric Kuhn's interview with Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield on WHCL Radio 88.7 FM was published on MSNBC.com on Friday, Feb. 22. The interview was featured on "Give and Take," a section of MSNBC.com devoted to charity news. Kuhn spoke with Greenfield about the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the charitable arm of the company, and the importance of responsible business practices.

Wei-Jen Chang, assistant professor of biology, gave a talk in the Asa Gray Seminar series held by the Biology department of Utica College on February 26. His talk, titled "Genome Organization in Spirotrichous Ciliates (Protozoa)," summarized progresses made toward understanding the complicated genome architectures found in unicellular organisms - ciliates. He also discussed ongoing research projects in his lab with faculty and students in Utica College.

The Hamilton chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Epsilon of New York) proudly announces the election of the following members of the class of 2007: Michael Andrew Blasie, Mary Beth Day, Cecilia Lynch Disney, Mark Hayden Hodges, Suleman Khoja, Kellen Shawn Leon-Atkins, Jessica Lynn Lewis, Lindsay Michelle Marks, Silas Alexander McKee, Laura Jean Oman, Catherine Elizabeth Pallin, Leanne Marie Pasquini, Rachel Ann Schwartzman, Drew Jacob Thomases, Yin Tian and Robin W. Wong. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honorary society in America, founded at William and Mary in 1776 to foster love of learning. The chapter at Hamilton elects members from the student body during their senior year in recognition of their outstanding academic performance across the curriculum.

Stephen Ellingson, assistant professor in the sociology department, has been awarded a research grant from the Louisville Institute. The award will allow him to collect and analyze data during the 2007-08 academic year for his project titled: “Green Partnerships: A Sociological Investigation into the Factors that Facilitate and Constrain Cooperation among Religious and Non-Religious Environmental Organizations.”

Research performed by Eugene Domack, Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies, and his students during a recent expedition to Antarctica is highlighted in the National Science Foundation’s 2006 annual report along with a photograph taken by geosciences technician Dave Tewksbury.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Shannon Stanfield '07, an ACCESS Project student, were interviewed for an Associated Press article about the growth of the welfare state (2/26/07). In the article, Adair, a former welfare recipient who founded Hamilton's ACCESS Project for low-income parents in 2001, said  "If the goal of welfare reform was to get people off the welfare rolls, bravo. If the goal was to reduce poverty and give people economic and job stability, it was not a success." Stanfield, a 36-year old mother of two, who will graduate from Hamilton in May, said in the article, "I slowly built up my confidence through education. I can't honestly tell you how much it has changed my life."