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Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton College, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. In 1998 Vilsack became the first Democrat elected governor of Iowa in more than 30 years. Vilsack was recently featured in a TIME Magazine article that described his new plan to fight population drain in Iowa by luring immigrants to the state.

The fourth in the spring series of Kirkland Project Brown Bag talks will take place Wednesday, April 11, at noon in Schambach 108. Assistant Professor of English Doran Larson will read from Hazel Doherty, a novel in progress about sex and politics in Depression-era Hollywood.

Justin Tyler, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded the college's William M. Bristol Fellowship. The Fellowship was created for Hamilton College students to encourage discovery of self and the world, a greater appreciation and understanding of people and culture, and to enable individuals to act on great ideas through independent study projects rather than formal academic pursuit.

Celebrated author and poet Nikki Giovanni will perform at Hamilton on Thursday, April 12, at 6 p.m. in the Chapel. Free and open to the public.

Burke Library at Hamilton College is hosting an Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the library through commencement, May 20. Letters, documents and the lap desk on which Hamilton wrote his part of the Federalist papers and George Washington's Farewell Address are among items on display.

Hamilton Hillel, the campus Jewish student organization, invites all members of the college community to the annual Passover seder, Saturday, April 7, 6-8 p.m. in McEwen Dining Hall. Hillel student members will lead the Passover Haggadah service.

Richard Brookhiser, author of Alexander Hamilton, American and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, delivered the keynote address at the opening of The Hamilton Conference, being held at Hamilton College through Saturday, April 7. The conference is bringing together a broad group of scholars who are examining and analyzing the historical significance of Alexander Hamilton to American political, economic, and intellectual life.

Byron Miller, a junior at Hamilton College, has been selected as an American Political Science Association Summer Fellow with the Ralph Bunche Institute, to be held this summer at Duke University. Sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation, Duke University, and the American Political Science Association, the Bunche Institute is designed to introduce highly qualified students of color to graduate school and to encourage their application to Ph.D. programs in political science.

Ann Marie Toth, a junior from Tolland, CT, and Lorena Hernandez, a sophomore from the Bronx, have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2001-02 academic year. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.