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The Clinton "A Better Chance" (ABC) House is located on campus and supported by many members of the Hamilton community.

Leonard C. Ferguson Professors of Archaeology Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones collaborated together on works in 2002. Their first publication together was "Rocks are Heavy: Transport Costs and Paleoarchaic Quarry Behavior in the Great Basin." Beck and Jones worked together with Amanda K. Taylor, Cynthia M. Fadem, Caitlyn R. Cook, and Sara A. Millward to produce that work. Jones then published another piece with Robert D. Leonard titled "Natural Selection. In, Darwin and Archaeology: A Handbook of Key Concepts." The two proceeded to deliver a paper together at the 28th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, "Paleoarchaic Travelers in the Eastern Great Basin."

Hamilton College will break ground for a $56 million renovation and expansion of its Science Building on Friday, June 7, at 11:45 a.m. The ceremony, which will take place in the quadrangle in front of the existing Science Building, is open to the public.

College 130, "Coming of Age in America: Narratives of Difference," is a course about what it means to come of age, especially in the United States, when (and if?) most people do so, and how and why we define and celebrate this idea in our society.

Professor of English Margaret Thickstun delivered a paper,"God as Father in Paradise Lost," at the 7th International Milton Symposium in Beaufort, South Carolina, June 4th-8th.

Ambassador Edward S. "Ned" Walker, Jr., a 1962 graduate of Hamilton, will present "An Insider's View on United States Democracy," on Friday, June 7, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. His lecture will take place as part of Hamilton's Reunion Weekend activities, and is open to the public.

A poll released by Hamilton College and Zogby International reveals that 85 percent of Muslim Americans believe the United States has always supported the Israelis in the Israeli-Palestinian conlict, reports the White House Weekly.

Hamilton College will welcome back more than 700 alumni, plus their guests, when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 6-9. Highlights of this year's reunion will include a Kirkland College Commemoration, with the inauguration of the new Chuck Root '40 Kirkland College Lecture series, featuring a lecture by Samuel Fisher Babbitt. He served as the president of Kirkland College from 1968-1978. Also on tap is the groundbreaking for Hamilton's new science building, unveiling of the Kirkland Marker, and a Service of Remembrance dedicated to the three Hamilton alumni who lost their lives on September 11.

Glass work by Josh Simpson '72 has been selected by the United States Art in Embassies Program. Simpson's Blue New Mexico Super Bowl will soon be on display at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. His work is already on permanent display at U.S. Embassies in Ottawa, Canada; Wellington, New Zealand; and in Moscow at the ambassador’s residence.

Associate Director of Community Research in the Levitt Center Judy Owens-Manley presented a paper at the June 8-11 conference "Making America Home: Rebuilding Lives, Families, and Communities." This National Alliance for Multicultural Mental Health (NAMMH) 2002 Conference on Immigration and Refugee Services of America, was held in Atlanta, Ga. Owens-Manley's paper is on "Mental Health Needs in a 'Well' Population: Increasing Capacity for Attending to Refugee Family Well-Being." It was in a section on Innovative Approaches for Mental Health Treatment.