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Kateri Whitebean '08 was featured in a Syracuse Post Standard article (6/5/08) about her upcoming Fulbright Teaching Assistantship trip to South Korea. Whitebean, of Fabius, N.Y., majored in neuroscience at Hamilton and will spend a year in South Korea teaching English. The Fulbright Program is a United States international educational exchange program which was begun in 1945. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching. The U.S. Student Program awards approximately 900 grants annually.

Thanks to its graduates, Hamilton is a leader nationally in alumni participation for annual giving. For the 26th consecutive year, last year more than 50 percent of alumni made a gift to the College. A 52% participation goal has been set this year to continue our remarkable tradition of excellence in participation - a metric that speaks to the loyal support of alumni and their involvement in the success of the College.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, travelled to Hawaii in June where she presented a lecture and did program assessment on the Bridge to Hope program, modeled after Hamilton's ACCESS Project, for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Adair was the founder of ACCESS at Hamilton College, a program dedicated to providing low-income, first-generation college-educated parents in central New York with all of the support necessary to thrive in an academic community.

Three Hamilton students will get a close-up view of the American political process when they participate in the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this summer. Carly McWilliams '09 and Samuel Cowan '11 have been selected as two of 27 interns who will assist in preparations for the 2008 Republican National Convention. Stacey Klein '09 a communication major, will be a member of the press pool for the Democratic convention, taking place in Denver on Aug. 25-28.

In anticipation of the College's Bicentennial in 2012, an effort is under way to collect and preserve the reflections of Hamilton alumni, students, professors and staff. Alumni visiting the Hill for reunions this weekend are encouraged to share their favorite Hamilton story as part of the College's Oral History Project. Staff will be on hand for recordings at Kirkland Cottage on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 3-4:30 p.m.

Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, got the last word in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "In Sealing Nomination, Obama Makes History" published Wednesday, June 4. The article chronicled Barack Obama's route to securing the Democratic presidential nomination and analyzed its unconventional nature. Klinkner observed that never before had a candidate attracted such a diverse coalition of supporters.

Thanks to the generous support of its young alumni, Hamilton College is pleased to name Pragyan Pradhan '08, of Kathmandu, Nepal, as its 11th GOLD Scholar.  Being one of the top students in his high school, Pragyan received acceptances from some of the best schools in Nepal, but he wanted a superior international education. After reading about the College on the Hill in U.S. News and World Report, he spoke with two students from his high school who were attending Hamilton, and was intrigued by what they described. The opportunities for student-faculty research, exceptionally small class sizes and a closely-knit community created the perfect match for him.

With presidential candidacy seemingly decided for both Republican and Democratic parties, Eric Kuhn '09 took his camera and hit the streets of London to ask British citizens how they feel about Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. His video is posted on The Huffington Post.

Hamilton College will welcome back more than 1,500 alumni and their guests when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 5-8.

Although classes have ended for the 2007-08 academic year, 118 Hamilton students won't be going home right away. They'll spend at least part of their summer on campus conducting research with Hamilton faculty. Eighty-two students will conduct science research, 18 students will work with faculty on Emerson grant projects and another 18 will study public policy for the Levitt Center.