All News

Korey O'Malley, a senior from Liverpool, NY, has been selected for the second team of the 2001 Verizon Academic All-District I Women's College Fall/Winter At-Large Team. O'Malley, who ranks fourth in her class, is a member of the volleyball, diving and softball teams at Hamilton.

On March 22, 35 6th graders from Wettel Elementary School in Vernon, NY, got the opportunity to make green slime, pet large snakes, and conduct experiments and participate in demonstrations hosted by some of Hamilton's top science professors.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts will conclude the Contemporary Voices and Visions Series with the new music ensemble eighth blackbird on Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton sophomore Keith Foster returned to his alma mater, the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, during Spring Break. Foster, a Levitt Scholar, told students about his plans to attend the United Nation's World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Other Related Intolerance, to be held in South Africa in August.

Barbara Gold, associate dean of faculty and professor of classics, has written an article for the Association of American Colleges and Universities' publication, Diversity Digest. Gold's article, titled Diversifying the Curriculum: What Do Students Think, conveys the thoughts of a Hamilton College student focus group about diversity requirements.

Hamilton's bookstore made the transition to Barnes & Noble College Bookstores this week.The new store hours will be 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays 12 p.m. until 3 p.m.

Carl Hayden, a 1963 graduate of Hamilton, was re-elected by the New York state Board of Regents to a third three-year term as chancellor. Hayden, a member of the board since 1990, was first elected chancellor in 1995. He is an attorney in Elmira. Regents are elected to the board by joint sessions of the state Legislature. The board sets education policies for public schools throughout New York state.

Josh Simpson '72 will be featured in a PBS documentary, "Where the Earth Meets the Sky, the Glassworks of Josh Simpson," this weekend. WGBY Springfield, MA, (channel 57) will air the program on Saturday, March 24, at 7:30 pm.

A group of 20 Hamilton students and their faculty advisor, Biology Professor William Pfitsch, are on a two-week trip to study tropical field ecology in Costa Rica.

Two Hamilton College seniors have been awarded Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for 2001-2002. Louisa Smith, an economics and art double major from Duxbury, MA, and Justin Stein, a philosophy major from Larchmont, NY, were selected from among 1,000 students who applied for the awards. This is the third consecutive year that Hamilton students have been among the recipients of a Watson Fellowship.