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Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin wrote an op-ed about the need for increased federal support of undergraduate science education. The op-ed appeared in the May 21 edition of The Newark Star-Ledger.

The College Store summer hours will be 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin has created a new senior officer's position at the college and named David L. Smallen to fill it. Smallen will become vice president for information technology, the seventh member of the college’s senior leadership team. He had been director of Information Technology Services (ITS) since that position was created in 1986 and was director of the Computer Center from its inception in 1974. In 1987, he created the Office of Institutional Research at Hamilton and directed that office for a decade.

The 2001 Kirkland Project service associates for this summer are Rebecca Karb ’02, Ashland, MA, and Julie Loder ’02, San Francisco, CA. Karb will intern with US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) in Washington, DC,and Loder will intern with People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER) in San Francisco, CA. Service associates engage in unpaid socially useful work over a 10-week period in the summer and receive a stipend of $3000 from the Kirkland Project, with matching funds from the Kirkland Endowment, as support for this work.

Sunny skies prevailed at Hamilton's 189th Commencement, where Iowa Governor and 1972 graduate Tom Vilsack shared a lesson about looking for the simple things in life. A total of 430 bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to members of the Class of 2001.

Jamie Dubendorf, a 2000 graduate of Hamilton and recipient of a Bristol Fellowship, was the subject of a recent article in the Williams College-Mystic Program Alumni Magazine, the GAM. While at Hamilton, Dubendorf participated in Williams’ Mystic Program, a one-semester maritime studies program done in cooperation with Mystic Seaport Museum.

Dean of Students Flossie Mitchell announced two appointments to her office. Chris Willemsen has been named Associate Dean of Students (Academic), and Edith Toegel will return to the Dean of Students' office as Coordinator of Study Abroad Programs.

Hamilton's Baccalaureate Service took place on Saturday, May 19, at 3 p.m. in the Main Quadrangle. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, was this year's Baccalaureate speaker and presented her talk "On Voice, View and Visibility."

David Smallen, Director of Information Technology Services, has been named Vice President for Information Technology. In his new role, Smallen will continue to supervise operations in Information Technology Services, while working with his fellow officers to plan for the future development of technology on campus.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz’s paper, “Disjointness preserving and local operators on algebras of differentiable functions,” co-authored with Michael M. Neumann of Mississippi State University, was published in the May 2001 issue of the Glasgow Mathematical Journal.