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The Theatre and Dance Department invites you to see "A Reluctant Tragic Hero" by Anton Chekhov,a senior project by Douglas Harris and "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" by Eric Bogosian, a senior project by Cameron Larson, on Tuesday, May 8, at 7 p.m. at Minor Theater. Admission is free.

Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance Mark Cryer received The John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award this spring at Class and Charter Day. The award supports an annual prize for a tenure-track faculty member who has been employed by the College for fewer than five years, and who has demonstrated superior teaching, high-quality scholarly research and a significant and positive impact on students.

The Leonard C. Ferguson Professors of Archaeology Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones received the Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching this spring at Class and Charter Day. They are the third recipients of this award, given annually to a senior, tenured faculty member for superior teaching and having made a significant and positive impact on students. Beck and Jones have spent the past 16 summers in eastern and central Nevada teaching an archaeological field school and involving undergraduates in field and lab research.

Assistant Professor of History Kevin Grant’s paper, "Christian Critics of Empire: Missionaries, Lantern Lectures and the Congo Reform Campaign in Britain," was published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 29:2, May 2001, pp. 27-58.

Students of Biology 437 Tropical Field Ecology will present posters describing the research they conducted during their field trip to Costa Rica today, May 4, from 1-2 p.m. outside the Science Auditorium.

Thanks to the efforts of co-chairs Cynthia Conde and Paul O'Donnell and the entire Senior Gift Committee, the Senior Gift effort has met the goal of 90% participation and therefore is qualified to receive a $10,000 challenge. Altogether, they have raised over $13,600 toward a scholarship in memory of their classmate, Michael Maslyn. With two weeks left before graduation, they can now focus their efforts on breaking the 96% participation record held jointly by the Classes of '96 and '97.

The annual awarding of prizes and scholarships took place on Friday, May 4, at Class and Charter Day. See following for a list of students who received awards. More than 130 Hamilton students won prize scholarships, achievement prizes and awards in public speaking and writing.

Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented on May 4 to two professors of archaeology, an assistant professor of theatre and dance, and an assistant professor of psychology. Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professors of Archaeology, won “The Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching;” Mark Cryer, assistant professor of theatre and dance, was named the recipient of “The John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award;” and Julie Dunsmore, assistant professor of psychology, received “The Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award.”

The annual cleanup of the Utica Marsh, the large wetland between Utica and the NY Thruway, will take place on Saturday, May 5. The cleanup is scheduled for 9-11 a.m., with a nature walk through the marsh from 11 a.m.-noon. Biology professor Ernest Williams will leave ELS with a van at 8:30 a.m. and return around noon. Contact him at ewilliam@hamilton.edu if interested in joining in the cleanup.

Professor Mark Malvasi of Randolph-Macon College will speak on Allen Tate’s novel "The Fathers" on Thursday, May 3 at 2:30 p.m. in room 104, Benedict. Malvasi is a prize-winning historian and author of "The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson" (1997).