Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn and Lillia McEnaney ’17 co-authored an article published last week in Religious Studies and Theology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion.

The work of nine Hamilton College senior art majors will be featured in an exhibition at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art May 4th to 20th. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, May 4, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Six current students, six Hamilton alumni, and four employees attended the Northeast Regional Association for Experiential Education (AEE) Conference in Becket, Mass., from April 21 to 23. The regional conference draws educators and students who use experiential methodology to engage with students and participants in and out of the classroom.

The Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) led 30 Hamilton students to Washington, D.C. for the People's Climate March on Saturday, April 29. This student-organized and student-led trip started with 1 a.m. departure from campus to reach D.C. in time for the march.

In a demonstration of intercollegiate collaboration, President David Wippman, Colgate President Brian Casey and Hamilton alumnus and Colgate employee Brian Grady ’00 joined together to win HamTrek’s men’s relay competition with a time of 1:05:45. Casey swam the sprint triathlon’s 21 lengths in the pool, Wippman biked nine miles (two times around the Griffin Road loop) and Grady ran five kilometers around the cross-country course at the Friday, April 28, event.

Jack Wright ’19, last year’s winner of the Adirondack Council’s Wilderness Writing Contest, collected on his prize of an airplane flight over the Adirondacks on April 23. He was chosen based on a letter he wrote to Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressing reasons why the state should expand the High Peaks Wilderness area.

Erin Lewis ’18 recently received one of five Undergraduate Poster Awards given by the Computers in Chemistry Division at the national meeting of the American Chemistry Society.

Students on Hamilton’s Poetry Slam Team recently competed in the 2017 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. CUPSI 2017 included 72 teams from around the globe and was hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago from April 12 through 16.

The Career Center’s Student Connect Team led an overnight trip to Boston designed to offer fellow students the opportunity to explore potential careers through site visits, panel discussions and networking with alumni employees at various companies and organizations.