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Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has won a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Murder Ballad" which originally appeared in the winter 2010 edition of Cincinnati Review.  Springer’s poem will be reprinted in The Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses.

Steven Pet ’12, received the Robert G. Bottoms Award for Best Analytical Essay at the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Ethics Symposium held April 7-9 at The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University.

Professor of English Onno Oerlemans was the top individual finisher, Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication  Cheryl Casey was the top female individual, and team "Favored to Win"  (employees David Swartz and Claudette Ferrone ’88 and Jelena Lacelle), won the relay in the eighth annual HamTrek Triathlon on May 6.  

Alexander Benkhart ’11 has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Japan. He will spend the 2011-12 academic year studying depictions of homosexuality in Japanese popular culture, and the relationship between the concepts expressed in popular culture and the identity politics of the Japanese gay rights movement. As an integral part of his research, he will continue to engage in intensive language study to familiarize himself with the vocabulary and methods of expressing and describing sexuality in the Japanese language.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at Hamilton's 61st annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Friday, May 6, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, Hannah Schacter ’12 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Mary Phillips ’11 was named the recipient of the James Soper Merrill Prize.

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented at Class & Charter Day on May 6 to  Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen, Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies Anne Lacsamana and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus. Frank Anechiarico '71, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, was presented with the Sidney Wertimer Award by the Student Assembly.

Four members of the Hamilton faculty were recognized for their research and creative successes through the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards at Class & Charter Day on Friday, May 6. The awards were established in three categories by former Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo in 2008.

Carl Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics,  presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association in Durham, United Kingdom, on April 17.  The paper was part of a session on "The Identity of the Artist" and was titled "'Horace, Odes 4.1: The Voices of Silence." 

Erica Kowsz, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Vancouver, British Columbia,  Canada. She will spend the 2011-12 academic year conducting fieldwork among the Sinixt First Nation in the Slocan Valley. Kowsz will produce an ethnographic film exploring the connections between indigenous conceptions of past, place and identity and how these understandings relate to archaeology.

Hamilton's Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 6, at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel. This year's speaker is Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English Emeritus and Lecturer in English John H. O’Neill whose topic is “‘A Nest of Singing Birds’: Writers at Hamilton.” The ceremony will be available online via live webcast.