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Hundreds of college students wait anxiously with sleeping bags in hand, after traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles. They are ready for a weekend of intense competition against opposing teams from around the country. This isn’t March Madness; this is the world of debating. In a world where names like Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford reign supreme, the Hamilton College Debate Society is stepping in to butt heads with the best of American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA).

William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li was interviewed by Dow Jones Newswire reporter Lingling Wei for a profile of Zhou Xiaochuan titled “China's Zhou, A Western-Style Voice Heard In Washington.”

When Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams sent a student’s paper to the Eastern Communications Association to be considered for presentation at its 2006 conference, it was the first time Adams had done so for a Hamilton student. Not only was it the first paper to be submitted by a Hamilton student, but now it’s the first paper to be competitively accepted for presentation at the conference. Katie Riposta ’06 and her paper, “Internet as Point of Purchase: The Function of Word of Mouth Communication,” will be making the trip to Philadelphia, Pa., for the 97th annual Eastern Communications Association Conference, April 26-30. She will be presenting the paper as part of a panel that includes the top five submissions for Lambda Pi Eta 2006.

The University Continuing Education Association announced that Equity And Excellence in American Higher Education by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil and former Hamilton College president Eugene M. Tobin is the recipient of the 2006 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Higher Education.

Douglas Ambrose, Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History, and Associate Professor of Government Robert W.T. Martin co-edited a recently published book titled The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America’s Most Elusive Founding Father.

Sparked by Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States, the BBC’s World Today interviewed William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li several times this past week. Among the half dozen interviews in which Li participated, Li was asked to comment on Hu’s visit to the United States, Saudi Arabia and Africa and on China’s growing need for oil. The interviews included both live and taped sessions.

Hamilton's Classics department faculty took five students to Union College for the first Classics Undergraduate Research Conference with Hamilton, Union, Skidmore, and Colgate. It was supported partly by a joint Mellon grant and partly by the four schools involved. Three students from each school presented papers and other students attended. Hamilton students presenting papers were Jessica Glidden, Sarah Schmidt and Brian Sweeney (all '06); attending were Chrissy Rubino '08 and Cassie Sullivan '09. Hamilton will host the conference in 2007.

A $27,000 Small Grant for Exploratory Research was awarded by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs to Assistant Professor of Biology Mike McCormick and his collaborators, Professor of Geosciences Eugene Domack and Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett. The project, titled "Geologic Constraints on Life in an Antarctic Sub-ice-shelf Environment," will pursue the first geochemical and microbial characterization of a novel ecosystem discovered by Domack in 2005.

Seniors Erik Goulding, Michael Gruen and Aram Kudurshian attended and presented posters at the Northeast regional Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges at Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., on April 21 and 22.

The 8th Annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place at Hamilton College on Sunday, April 30. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the 5K walk begins at 11 a.m. The AIDS Hike for Life is a walk/fun run committed to raising funds that provide direct care to families and individuals living with AIDS, and help support AIDS Community Resources’ (ACR) Teen AIDS Task Force prevention program in area high schools.