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Butterflies are predictors of global warming. A project funded by the NWF will restablish Frosted Elfin and Karner Blue Butterflies

Hamilton College will mark the end of its 191st academic year with a commencement ceremony honoring 465 graduates on Sunday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m. The ceremony will be held in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer will deliver the commencement address and he and five others will receive honorary degrees.

Peter MacDonald assistant systems manager at Burke Library, delivered a presentation at Syracuse University on May 16 highlighting Hamilton's Digital Civil War Collection. Funding for this project came from the Central New York Library Resources Council, who also sponsored the presentation. The Digital Civil War Collection presents images of more than 1000 documents and objects from the special collections. The complete journal of a Civil War soldier from Marcy, N.Y., and more than 50 letters from a soldier from Clinton were converted to text. These will be indexed and fully searchable in the future when the Web site is made available to the public.

Professor of Art Rand Carter will deliver the opening lecture at The Friends of Schinkel's second triennial event that will be held in cooperation with the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, June 19–21, 2003, at the Schinkel-Klause, Berlin-Mitte. His lecture addresses "Schinkel and the Pompeian Style" in a session titled "Schinkel und Italien." Conference proceedings will be published as a volume in the FOS triennial series by Edition Axel Menges.

Susan Mason, director of oral communication and director of education studies, was interviewed by Black Enterprise magazine on how to effectively manage and lead virtual and remote teams and workers. She drew from an instructional program, "Leading Virtual and Remote Teams," which she recently designed and developed for the American Management Association.

More than 150 Hamilton students received awards at Class and Charter Day on May 9, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year.

Bret Olsen from the Mellon Foundation and Middlebury College’s Center for Educational Technology will be on campus Thursday and Friday, May 22 and 23, to teach a Final Cut Pro workshop to Hamilton faculty interested in film and the use of film assignments in courses. This workshop was limited to 11 participants and is full.

Associate Professor of Government Stephen Orvis will participate in a U.S. Department of State seminar to brief U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William M. Bellamy on May 29. Orvis whose expertise is in emerging democracies, will discuss "The Role of Civil Society in the Liberalization Process."

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano has been named a Visiting Faculty Fellow for fall 2003 at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. She will be in residence at the Tanner Center working on her manuscript, "Revisions of Mourning: Loss, Nationality, and the Longing for Form in Nineteenth-Century America," and related projects focusing on public grief and memorial.

Gilbert Adams '45 and his wife, Margaret, were presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Clinton A Better Chance (ABC) Program. The award was presented on the occasion of the ABC program's 30th Anniversary Dinner and Award Celebration held on May 10.