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Sylvia de Swaan presented a slide talk about her work at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y., on Wednesday April 4, as the community service component of her 2006 photography fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her presentation, which was free and open to the public, included selections from her work of the last 15 years. She placed special emphasis on her ongoing project "Sub-version," which on a range of contemporary issues - terror, surveillance, mass media, post millennial anxiety, dual realities, shadowy threats and ominous rumors.

Robin Wong, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to China. She plans to study attitudes toward aging in China to investigate the relationship between age identity, life satisfaction and positive mental health. In her proposal Wong says, "Maintenance of an identity younger than one's actual age has been correlated to positive well-being in the U.S. but may bit hold true for adults in a collectivist culture such as China. Both explicit and implicit measures are necessary for a more complete view of age identity."

The Hamilton College Womyn's Center will sponsor its annual Womyn's Energy Week (WEW) from April 10-14. Womyn's Energy Week, held every April, celebrates the accomplishments of Hamilton women and address issues relating to women at Hamilton and around the world. This year's WEW will include events on such topics as women's athletics, issues of gender, race, and class related to Hurricane Katrina, women's health, car maintenance and self-defense.

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The 458 members of the class of 2007 will receive bachelor's degrees.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, gave two recent lectures. She spoke at LeMoyne College on March 8 and Alfred University on April 2. Both lectures were titled “Poverty, Higher Education and the Politics of Representation” and were presented in conjunction with a photography exhibit, “The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education.”

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller gave a lecture at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on March 29. She was invited by their Central Asian Studies and History programs, and spoke on "Story, Time and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum," concerning the creation and teaching of a narrative of Uzbek history to schoolchildren.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Department of Education's Fulbright Hayes Group Project Abroad program for her proposal "ACC Post Study Abroad Field Experience Program for U.S. Undergraduate Students." The project will provide 12 nationally selected students, who have already completed a term or more of a study abroad program in China, with the opportunity to participate in a language-intensive and experience-based language/culture internship in China for seven weeks in the summer of 2007.

Daniel Griffith, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Germany. His proposed project, to be conducted at the Technical University of Braunschweig in the lab of Dr. Ullrich Jahn, aims to develop an efficient and generally applicable synthesis of a class of natural products called cyclopentanoid monoterpenes.  He also plans to appreciate the German culture through community involvement.

Brie O'Reilly '07 and Christine Mays '07 presented at the Conference for Undergraduate Research in Communication held by The Rochester Institute of Technology's Department of Communication on March 22.

The Diversity and Social Justice Project will host a panel titled “Working for Social Justice in Jobs that Pay Actual Wages,” on Monday, April 9, at 4:10 p.m. in the K.J. Auditorium. The panel will consist of recent Hamilton graduates Thomas Acampora '05, a freshmen seminar and U.S. history instructor at Baltimore Talent Development High School; Rebecca Libed '99, development manager at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; and Ali Cherry '03.