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Assistant Professor of Biology Steve Festin and Hamilton student Ernest DiGiovanni '05 participated in the 96th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Anaheim, Calif., in April. DiGiovanni and Festin presented their paper, "Effects of AFP peptide on cAMP levels and signaling pathways in MCF-7 and T47D cells." The work presented was suported by an NIH grant to Festin to study molecular pathways of breast cancer. Festin is a member the AACR Science Education Committee since 2002, and is responsible for both the high school program and Thomas Bardos award for undergraduates. Festin was on the Bardos award selection committee and gave a talk at the High School Program with Donald Coffey, former president of the AACR, Thomas Mack and a young cancer survivor. Festin's talk was titled "Why Cancer Research Needs You."  He was also a mentor for student poster and exhibit tours.

Hamilton College has announced the names of five people who will be awarded honorary degrees at the college’s 193rd commencement on Sunday, May 22. They are Hamilton graduate Mary Bonauto ‘83, civil rights project director, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD); The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University; Hamilton graduate Francis H. Musselman ‘50, life trustee and former chairman of the Kirkland College board of trustees; Kurt Schmoke, dean and professor, Howard University School of Law; and Joseph Volpe, general manager, Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Visiting Instructor of Sociology Dee Britton presented a paper and chaired a panel at the First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois on May 5-6. Her paper was titled "Visualizing and Remembering Terrorism: A Symbolic Interaction Analytic Framework."

Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu will deliver the keynote speech for ICICE4, the 4th International Conference on Internet Chinese Education, Taipei, Taiwan, June 3-5. His speech is titled "Adapting the Past, Facing the Future-An Overview on the Multimedia Instruction of the Chinese Language in the 21st Century." ICICE 2005 will have 150 participants.

Over 1200 Celebrated Reunions 2005  Reunions are here! A rich schedule of events makes this a great weekend. There are 23 Alumni Colleges including; guided tours of the campus, the Glen and the Arboretum. Jazz, rock and choral music are filling the air as reunions features a Saturday night dance band, two reunited rock bands from days of yore, the Alumni All Stars and both a mixed voice choir and the John Baldwin choir. Enjoy two Emerson Gallery shows, the State of the College Address by President Stewart, our Alumni Association Annual Meeting and the Half-century Annalist's letter and much more. The complete schedule can be found on our Reunions 2005 site. 

An exhibition of select material from the Hamilton College Ezra Pound Collection is on display in the College's Burke Library Browsing Room through Sunday, May 21. The show, which is free and open to the public, commemorates the 100th anniversary of Pound’s graduation from Hamilton. The library is open 24 hours a day through Saturday, May 14. On Sunday, May 15, the library is open from midnight until 4:30 p.m.  From May 16 through May 22, the library is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Saturday, May 21, the library is open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven attended a meeting of the Progressive Religion and Values Working Group of the Ford Foundation. The group includes professors of religion, philosophy and other disciplines as well as experts in immigrant and other minority communities. The members of the group span many religious and cultural groups: Jews, Moslems, Christians, Buddhists and people of several nationalities. The group is developing ways to introduce a more nuanced, truer and pluralist vision of religion into public discourse.

Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on May 6 to five faculty members from the English, government, economics and psychology and philosophy departments. They were honored during the Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at Hamilton's 55th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Friday, May 6, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, Jason Hecht '06 (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) won the Milton F. Fillius Jr./Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship and Alexandra Sear '05 (Canterbury, Conn.) was awarded the James Soper Merrill Prize. A total of 191 students won other prizes and scholarships for public speaking, writing and achievement in all academic disciplines.

Hamilton's Class and Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 6, at 12 p.m. in the Chapel. Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay G. Williams '54, will present a talk titled The Good Old Days? An all-campus picnic will follow the awards and HamTrek, the second annual campus triathalon, will begin at 1:30 p.m.