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Congratulations to Lara Bratcher for receiving the ODK National Leader of the Year Award for 2004

Some of Lara's previous awards are as follows:
Lara was one of the winners of Glamour Magazine's "Top 10 College Women" of 2003. The annual commetition looks for college women around the nation who demonstrate leadership skills, community involvement and academic success. Lara meets all of these expectations and more. She was featured in the October addition of Glamour Magazine. Stop by the Anthropology office to read up on all of Lara's press!

Lara also won the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for 2003. She was one of 75 students across the country selected. There is a $30,000 scholarship that goes with this award. Lara is going to be using the money to pursue a joint Medical Doctor and Master's of Public Health degrees. She is going to concentrate in Rural Health.

During the 2004 Undergraduate Awards Day, Lara took home an Outstanding Senior Award and the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.

Way to go Lara!!!

**Discovery Day 2004**
	Recognition of Undergraduate Research at USC - Poster Competition The Anthropology Department had the following winners: Laura Hayden - 1st place in Humanities (left) and Reba Landry - 3rd place in Humanities (right)

We invite you to view these winning posters in the 3rd floor hall of Hamilton College

Laura's poster was entitled: Landscape Design for the Courtyard Between Hamilton and Barnwell Colleges.	Reba's poster was entitled: A Truly Different World View

The Anthropology Department would like to congratulate Lindsey Davis for winning a McNair Scholarship!

We would like to congratulate the following students:
Laura Hayden for winning the Anthropology Department's Outstanding Senior Award - 2004
Dana Helbert (double major with Geology) won a Joseph R. LeConte Outstanding Senior Award - 2004

Evelyn Cate Ackerman, a Spring 2003 graduate of our department, is now in Bangladesh with the Peace Corps. Here is a little about her life there in her own words:

As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I serve in one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in the world. Bangladesh is the size of the state of Iowa and has a population of over 130 million people. Corruption is rampant in all sectors of public life. The rivers are polluted; the mosquitoes carry diseases; and the country is prone to severe flooding and other natural disasters. There seem to be no rules or regulations - traffic laws are rarely enforced and sanitation is far from Western standards. But although it has its share of problems, this third world country has a silk lining embedded in the generousity and spirit of its people, the lush tropical foliage, and the colorful, ornate fabrics. Peace Corps Volunteers work in many fields, but as a Youth Development Worker, my primary responsibility is to teach English at the Department of Youth Development Center. In the future, I will develop a secondary project in correspondence with one of many non-governmental organizations here. Peace Corps Volunteers work for a total of twenty-seven months in their country of service with about three months of language and technical training followed by twenty-four months of service. We currently live and work at the grass roots level in sisty-five developing countries worldwide.
This is only the beginning of my Peace Corps adventure. Everyday I understand more and more why former PCV's say, "Peace Corps is the hardest job you'll ever love." Peace Corps is not for everyone, but it is definately for me! If you are interested in applying for Peace Corps or have any question, please feel free to email me Evelyn_Bangladesh@hotmail.com.

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