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Hamilton College's Director of Athletics Jon Hind '80 was presented with the 2015 Extra Man Award by the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association in Baltimore, Md., on Friday afternoon.

Phyllis Breland ’80, director of Opportunity Programs and interim director of Diversity and Inclusion at Hamilton College, was featured in “Avoiding Burnout: How 10 CDOs Balance Work with Life” in Insight Into Diversity magazine. Breland is an Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity (HEOP) graduate of Hamilton.

Prints by Amy Buchholz ’80 and Professors of Art Bruce Muirhead and William Salzillo are on display in the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) centennial exhibition at The Art Students League of New York.

Hancock Estabrook, LLP is proud to announce that John L. Murad, Jr. and Cora A. Alsante have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for 2016.  Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

Although globally humans rely mostly on agriculture as a source of sustenance, farmers around the world are not on equal footing. Eren Shultz ’15 is particularly aware of this disparity “having both grown up in rural Wisconsin and spent significant amounts of time traveling and living abroad in small agrarian villages in Eastern Africa.” Shultz said he was both “fascinated and concerned” with “the differences in mechanization and lifestyles” between those communities.

Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) Janet Simons, Philippa (Pippa) Schwarzkopf ’16 and John Bartle, associate professor of German and Russian languages and literatures, gave an invited presentation of two short films on April 2 at Hartwick College.

An etching by Scholar-in-Residence Amy Buchholz ’80 was selected for inclusion in the 2015 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition. The show continues through Feb. 27 at Arkansas State University’s Bradbury Gallery.

Hamilton Opportunity Program (HEOP) students met with Ronald Kim ’02, HEOP alumnus and the first Korean-American New York Assemblyman, when they traveled to Albany, N .Y., on Feb. 10 for Student Aid Alliance Day. This yearly event allows students from across New York State to talk to N.Y. legislators about the value of state aid programs like HEOP and the New York State Tuition Assistsance Program (TAP).

Hamilton students in the Program in New York opened their semester with a visit to Richard Bernstein Advisors, an investment advisory organization led by alumnus Rich Bernstein '80. The group traveled to Times Square, where they were met by program participant Katherine Gross '16, who is interning with Bernstein this semester. This semester's Hamilton program is being led by Professor of Economics Erol Balkan and the topic is Global Financial Networks.

John L. Murad, Jr. ’80, has been selected as an Upstate New York Super Lawyer for 2014. Mr. Murad is a partner in the Litigation Practice of the Syracuse, NY-based law firm of Hancock Estabrook, LLP, which is currently celebrating its 125th Anniversary. He has successfully tried cases in State and Federal Court for more than 25 years, obtaining jury verdicts in favor of healthcare institutions and practitioners, product manufacturers, employers, petroleum distributors, and municipalities.