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Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg and Michael Thomas Viveiros '08 presented the results of their collaborative work, supported by an 2008 Emerson Summer Research Grant, at the 2008 Annual Conference of ASIANetwork hosted by Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, on March 16.

Christopher Bouton '09 has been awarded a 2008 fellowship to participate in The Society for Historians of the Early Republic (SHEAR)/Mellon Foundation Summer Undergraduate Seminar in American History, 1776-1861.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori presented a paper at the 43rd meeting of the 20th-century Media Research Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, on April 5. The talk was titled "Two Radio Shows from the Occupation Period; Japan's First Quiz Show 'Hanashi no izumi' and a Satirical Variety Show 'Nichiyô goraku-ban'."

Thanks to the generous support of its young alumni, Hamilton College is pleased to name Sokhna "Aminata" Diop '11 of Dakar, Senegal, as its ninth GOLD Scholar.  Aminata's talent as a writer brought her halfway across the world.  After impressing a high school teacher with her essay response to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the teacher suggested that she apply to Hamilton. So without visiting, she made Hamilton her first choice and, to her surprise, was accepted.  She arrived on a "chilly" summer day, but has since found warmth and comfort in good friends and Pub lunches. 

Three Hamilton seniors attended the 43rd annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America in March at SUNY-Buffalo. Taylor Burt, Andrew D'Amico and Tim Fox presented their senior projects as posters. Eugene Domack, The Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, is advisor to the students and also attended.

Alumnus John Hewko '79, vice president at The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), will present "U.S. Foreign Aid: New Approaches to Old Questions" at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, in the Red Pit in Kirner-Johnson. MCC is a U.S. Government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world.

Lorraine Sperling '08 was recently awarded third prize in the Institute of Human Studies (IHS) essay contest for undergraduates. Her topic was "On Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty." According to the IHS, more than 750 essays were submitted for this contest, from students studying a wide range of disciplines. Sperling is a philosophy major at Hamilton.

Kateri Whitebean '08, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to South Korea, where she will teach English. 

Eight Hamilton students traveled to the borderlands of Southern Arizona to participate in a service trip with No More Deaths during spring break in March. The participants included Wai Yee Poon, Melissa Balding, Devin Farkas, Sara Miller, Laura Radlinski, Caroline Pierce, Alex Benkhart and Corinne Bancroft. These students spent a week camping with No More Deaths and providing humanitarian aid to migrants crossing the desert. They experienced the extremities of the desert, surviving snow the first night and 80 degree heat in the following days.

McCullough Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy Laura Purdy's article "Bioethics of New Assisted Reproduction" has been published in the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, a Wiley enterprise with both a hardcopy and online version. The article provides an overview of moral issues inherent in a variety of new reproductive technologies, focusing centrally on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).