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Franklin & Marshall College built a six-goal lead at the half and held on to defeat Hamilton College 16-13 in an NCAA Division III tournament semifinal played at Roanoke College's Donald J. Kerr Stadium in Salem, Va., on May 16.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell hosted a panel on "Scottish Literature and Identity" at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University on May 9. In a separate panel at the Congress, she delivered a paper titled "Propaganda, Politics, and the Anglo-Scottish Border," in which she examined portrayals of the medieval Anglo-Scottish border in historiography, cartography, and law.

Two Hamilton College pole vaulters competed in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III outdoor track and field championships at Springfield College's Blake Track on May 14.

Defending NCAA Division III women's lacrosse champion Hamilton College is featured in various newspapers, Web sites and local television networks as the team prepares for its NCAA tournament semifinal at Roanoke College in Salem, Va., on Saturday, May 16.

Hamilton College's Max Foster '10 (Sherborn, Mass./Groton School) has been selected to the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference baseball all-conference team.

Roberta L. Krueger, Burgess Professor of French, gave one of the two keynote addresses at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on Friday, May 8. Krueger's talk, titled "Fictions of Conduct in Medieval France," examined the dynamic and sometimes problematic intersection of didactic prose and narrative fiction in four moral treatises written for young women and men between 1372 and 1456.

Hamilton College's Kate Fowler '10 (Branford, Conn./Wilton HS) has been selected the NCAA Division III Defensive Player of the Week by Womenslacrosse.com.

Frank Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor of Government, has co-authored the lead article, titled "Looking Back to Go Forward: Remaking US Detainee Policy," in the March/April edition of the American Bar Association National Security Law Report. In the article, Anecharico and co-author and Lt. Col. James M. Durant III explain why and how detainee policy applied to those labeled enemy combatants collapsed and failed in 2008.

Kamila Shamsie '94, was interviewed for a Toronto Star article about Pakistani writers (5/12/09) and the country's literary renaissance. The article noted that Shamsie studied creative writing at Hamilton College in the 1990s.

Author Amy Hatkoff K'78 has published a new book titled The Inner Life of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Intellectual, Emotional, and Social Capacities (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 176 pp) With a foreword by Jane Goodall and an afterword by Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the United States, the book combines the latest research on the emotional and intellectual capacities of farm animals with touching stories to bring their inner world to life. Soulful photographs of cows, goats, lambs, and other barnyard animals complement the text, and add to the argument that these creatures deserve our attention. In this heartfelt book, Hatkoff joins the growing call for treating these sentient, intelligent beings with compassion and respect.