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Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and feature writer and editor for the Washington Post, will speak at Hamilton College on Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge at the Bristol Campus Center.

Hamilton Hillel, the campus Jewish student organization, invites all members of the college community to the annual Passover seder, Saturday, April 7, 6-8 p.m. in McEwen Dining Hall. Hillel student members will lead the Passover Haggadah service.

Richard Brookhiser, author of Alexander Hamilton, American and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, delivered the keynote address at the opening of The Hamilton Conference, being held at Hamilton College through Saturday, April 7. The conference is bringing together a broad group of scholars who are examining and analyzing the historical significance of Alexander Hamilton to American political, economic, and intellectual life.

Wang Dan, co-leader of the 1989 movement at Tiananmen Square, delivered the Edwin B. Lee lecture in Asian Studies Thursday evening, highlighting his involvement in the protest and his thoughts on China's future.

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.