All News

Byron Miller, a junior at Hamilton College, has been selected as an American Political Science Association Summer Fellow with the Ralph Bunche Institute, to be held this summer at Duke University. Sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation, Duke University, and the American Political Science Association, the Bunche Institute is designed to introduce highly qualified students of color to graduate school and to encourage their application to Ph.D. programs in political science.

Ann Marie Toth, a junior from Tolland, CT, and Lorena Hernandez, a sophomore from the Bronx, have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2001-02 academic year. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

A new, endowed fund, the income from which will be used to make gifts or grants to organizations and agencies servicing the Town of Kirkland and the Village of Clinton, has been established at Hamilton College by anonymous donors.

Hamilton junior Maggie Hanson was featured in a Utica Observer-Dispatch article (3/31) about her winning the 5,000 meters in the NCAA Division III indoor meet in March.

Richard Brookhiser, author of Alexander Hamilton,American, will be the keynote speaker at The Hamilton Conference at Hamilton College. The conference, which examines the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton, takes place from Thursday, April 5, to Saturday, April 7. The keynote address, “Alexander Hamilton: His Success and His Failures,” will take place on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel.

Jeffrey Krutz, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been selected as a Junior Fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Carnegie is one of the world's leading think tanks specializing in foreign affairs and conducts programs of research, discussion, publication and education in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. The Junior Fellows program is designed to provide a substantive work experience for students who have a serious career interest in the area of international affairs. Each year the Endowment holds a rigorous national competition to select 10 graduating seniors to serve as junior research fellows. They are matched with senior associates to work on a variety of international affairs issues.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented a lecture titled "Semi-Direct Products of Graphs of Groups” at the SUNY Albany Algebra Seminar in April. The work gives a new construction to study auto-morphisms of free groups and was done in collaboration with Tom Stiadle of Wells College.

Bob Moses, a 1956 graduate of Hamilton, will be honored by Community Works and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Sunday, April 1, at the Center in Harlem. Moses is architect of Freedom Summer and director of the Algebra Project.

Hamilton's successful women's lacrosse team is featured this week on the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association Web site. Each week the site highlights a team of one of its member schools. Hamilton Sports Information Director Steven Jaynes wrote the article for the UCAA.