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Citi, the leading global financial services company, announced that Jaime E. Yordan '71 has joined Citi Markets & Banking as vice chairman, Global Banking, Latin America. Yordan is a charter trustee of Hamilton and was one of three alumni who spoke to Hamilton international finance economics classes in 2007. According to a press release from the company, "Yordan will join Citi's efforts to build on its successful global banking business in Latin America through senior coverage of key clients in the region, as well as capitalizing on significant opportunities in banking, fixed income, and equity markets."

Hamilton has exceeded its $175 million capital campaign goal six months before the fundraising effort is scheduled to conclude. "Excelsior: The Campaign for Hamilton" reached this goal in the last week of December 2007. The campaign will continue through its planned close on June 30.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones will present "The Hydrogen Economy" as part of the Faculty Lecture Series on Friday, Feb. 1, at 4:10 p.m. in Dwight Lounge in the Bristol Center. Jones' presentation will include a discussion on the recent major research efforts to develop hydrogen as an alternative source of energy for the transportation industry.

The comma has been the subject of a best-selling book and can cause consternation to even the most experienced writer. On Thursday, Feb. 7, that small -- but necessary -- punctuation mark will be the focus of "CommaFest," an event hosted by the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center to teach proper punctuation in an entertaining way. CommaFest will begin at 9 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium and will feature workshops, contests, prizes and punctuation cupcakes.

Kateri Whitebean '08 is featured in a Utica Observer-Dispatch article (1/30/08) about her serving as coach for the Clinton Central School seventh grade girls' basketball team. The article, "Hamilton's Whitebean still doing what she loves," was written by Hamilton alumnus and Observer-Dispatch reporter John Pitarresi '70.

As Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley tells it, she was preparing dinner when she was seduced by a quaint fiddle tune emanating from the living room. To her surprise, she found the television showing a "Human Element" advertisement for Dow, the multibillion dollar chemical giant. The company's $20 million print and TV campaign inspired Professor Hamessley to explore the techniques that Dow uses to rebrand itself as a responsible corporate citizen that focuses on people.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "Fed's tough call: how far to cut interest rates" on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The article discussed the choices faced by the Fed in determining what might stimulate the economy.

Hamilton has received a four-year grant totaling $800,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create five postdoctoral fellowship positions in the arts and humanities.

The New York Times on Jan. 27 reported on the publication of The Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette, by Hamilton's Richard W. Couper Press. The book reveals the private thoughts of Chester Gillette, convicted murderer of his pregnant lover Grace Brown in the Adirondacks in 1906. The diary was written while he awaited his execution at Auburn State Prison in 1907-1908. The content of the book came from papers donated to the College last year by Gillette's grandniece, Marlynn McWade-Murray.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article titled "After South Carolina: Can Obama capture a wider swath of voters? "(1/28/08). Klinkner was among experts providing analysis of what Sen. Barack Obama needs to do to be successful on Super Tuesday, when 22 states vote for a Democratic presidential candidate. According to the article "'He needs to run better among older voters, more blue-collar and middle-class voters, and more downscale white voters,'" says Philip Klinkner, a government professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. 'That's where he's losing.'"