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Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on Friday to three faculty members from the philosophy and government departments. They were honored during the college’s Class & Charter Day celebration on May 7, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year.   Professor of Philosophy Robert Simon was awarded the Samuel & Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Assistant Professor of Philosophy Marianne Janack received the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award; and Assistant Professor of Government Rob Martin was awarded The Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award.

Clinton Child Care Center charter class member John Markos O’Neill is now 33, married, and living in San Francisco.  Former pre-schooler Marc Simon works for the PGA in Connecticut and Russell Morris is a lawyer in Manhattan.  These former pre-school pioneers are now flung far and wide, but they, and their parents, still remember with affection their first social and learning experience out in the world under the care of teacher Phyllis Larrabee.

The Levitt Center Announces student Levitt Fellows for the summer 2004. Fellows work in collaboration with faculty mentors on research designed to help the student pursue academic work outside of the classroom. Four additional awards have been extended to students to intern at several agencies in Utica, including Hope VI, Communities that Care and the Community Foundation.

A recent article published in Rolling Stone Magazine highlighted the efforts of  Hamilton undergraduate Young Han '06 to register to vote with the Oneida County Board of Elections. According to the article, "Election officials all over the country are erecting illegal barriers to keep young voters from casting ballots."

Thirty-five Hamilton College seniors were inducted into Phi Sigma Iota, the international foreign language honor society, on April 28. Phi Sigma Iota recognizes outstanding ability and high standards of students and faculty of foreign languages, literatures and cultures (including classics, linguistics, philology, comparative literature ESL, bilingual education, and second language acquisition). It is the highest academic honor in the field of foreign languages. 

An international team of scientists working in the Antarctic Peninsula have mapped, sampled, and collected bottom video data that indicates a major volcano exists on the seafloor of the Antarctic continental shelf.

Jeff Rubino '05 has received one of four awards issued to undergraduates this year by the New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS). Rubino used EPR and Vis spectroscopy to study enzyme reactions. Associate Professor of Chemistry and president elect of the Council on Undergraduate Research Tim Elgren was his advisor. According to its website, SAS is a nonprofit organization "formed to advance and disseminate knowledge and information concerning the art and science of spectroscopy."

Claire Ramsay, a 2003 cum laude graduate of Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Morocco. She will study the influence that francophone newspapers have on choice of language in Moroccan universities. Ramsay plans to study at the University Mohammed V and l'Institute Superieur de l'Information et de Communication in Rabat.

Peter Singer, the Ira. W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and a well-known public ethicist, gave a lecture titled “Ethics for One World” to a large crowd in the Hamilton College Chapel on May 4. Singer outlined the ethical implications and imperatives of climate change, global trade, international law and foreign aid, as discussed in his book, One World: The Ethics of Globaliztion. The lecture was part of the Globalization Sophomore Seminar lecture series.

Peter Singer, author of One World: the Ethics of Globaliztion (Yale University Press, 2002), presents, "Ethics for One World," on May 4, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.