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Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman and his former student and CBS News Associate Producer Walter Cronkite IV ’11 presented their new book, Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home, to a full house at the National Press Club (NPC)  in Washington, D.C., on June 4. Proceeds from the event benefited the National Press Club Journalism Institute.

CBS This Morning Saturday will feature an interview with Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman and his former student Walter Cronkite IV ’11 about their new book Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home. The segment is tentatively scheduled to air at 7:45 a.m.

On Thursday, April 11, 18 members of the LARISSA (Larsen Ice Shelf System Antarctica) science team and 26 additional scientists from the Korean Polar Research Institute sailed from  Chile toward the Antarctic Peninsula on the Korean Icebreaker Research Vessel ARAON. Among the LARISSA researchers are Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professorship of Environmental Studies, and his former advisee, alumnus Andrew Christ ’11, who is providing continuing information and images throughout the expedition

A film produced by Erica Kowsz ’11 and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, along with Irish filmmaker Kieran Concannon and University of Notre Dame Professor of Anthropology Ian Kuijt, was published by The Archaeology Channel.  Silent Stones of Inishark: Memories, Archaeology, Landscape was featured in a January “Video News” segment.

Associate Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang and Ke Xu ’11 were among authors of an article published in the journal Gene. The article, “Copy number variations of 11 macronuclear chromosomes and their gene expression in Oxytricha trifallax,” appeared in Gene, Volume 505, Issue 1, 15 August 2012, Pages 75-80.  Xu majored in biochemistry and mathematics at Hamilton and is now a research technician at the Molecular Cytology Core Facility in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Jon Bon Jovi and The Kings of Suburbia played to a sold-out group of Hamilton alumni, parents and friends at New York’s Best Buy Theater on Dec. 5 in a benefit concert for scholarships and the arts at Hamilton. The DownBeat Keys, a Brooklyn-based hip-hop band featuring five Hamilton College alumni, opened for Bon Jovi.

Zachary Pych '11 has been promoted from associate to senior associate consultant at Mars & Co, a global management consulting firm specializing in business strategy and operational improvement for major corporations.

Lauren Vilardo '11 has joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest (JVC) for a one year full time volunteer service.  Vilardo is one of 138 Jesuit Volunteers serving 24 communities in five states.  In her second year with JVC Northwest, Vilardo will be stationed at the Tundra Women's Coalition in Bethel, AK, where she will assist teenage girls who are affiliated with a domestic violence shelter.

Will Gowen '11 was recently interviewed on the WCAX (the local CBS affiliate in Burlington) talk show "The :30" about his participation in the Farmer Training Program at the University of Vermont, a six-month certificate program in sustainable agriculture. The program gives students opportunities to learn from local farmers and to experience managing their own growing sites.  Students oversee “every component of growing” on a three acre plot and then sell vegetables every Tuesday at an on-campus farm stand. They also sell vegetables wholesale to Sodexo, UVM's Dining Hall Service, and have an 11-person CSA.

A fictional story by Georgia Mierswa '11 was featured on NPR's All Things Considered in their Three-Minute Fiction Program.