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William D. Tifft ’14, a senior in the Geosciences Department, presented a poster titled “A Reference Collection of Middle Devonian, Upper Hamilton Group Brachiopods from the Geer Road Quarry in Eaton, New York” at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America - Northeastern Section.Tifft's work in paleontology was presented as a poster in the Geologic Education session and his abstract was published in GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 46, No. 2.

Angel David Nieves, associate professor and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) was awarded an NEH Office of Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant of $59,510 for "Dangerous Embodiments: Theories, Methods, and Best Practices for Historical Character Modeling in Humanities 3D Environments."

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the spring performing arts series with jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The National Museum of American History has designated April as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). So in the spirit of JAM, Hamilton’s Fillius Jazz Archive is featuring one artist daily on the news site along with that individual’s archived audio interview. Today’s featured artist is Marian McPartland H’97.

Ten Hamilton students interested in the art market visited Christie’s fine arts auction house in New York City on March 28. A massive, vibrant Sol LeWitt mural greeted attendees at Christie’s headquarters in Rockefeller Plaza and foreshadowed an exciting day. Mary Evans, director of Hamilton’s Career Center, remarked, “This is a great opportunity for students to learn about the art auction business in an internationally pre-eminent setting.”

Fiction writer and essayist Roxane Gay will read from her work on Friday, April 4, at 6 p.m., in the Red Pit (room 127), KJ. The event is sponsored by the English and Creative Writing department, and is free and open to the public.

Benjamin Smith, director of the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center (QSR),  presented a pre-conference workshop titled "Technological resources for the modern learning center: Online, offline, and on the go" at the annual meeting of the Association for the Tutoring Profession held March 23-26 in Nashville, Tenn.

A reception honoring Pranlal Patel’s son and grandson, who have traveled from India to view the Wellin Museum of Art exhibition “Refocusing the Lens: Pranlal K. Patel's photographs of women at Work in Ahmedabad,” will take place on Wednesday, April 2, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Wellin Museum. The public is invited to attend.

Huy Ho ’15 and Mandy Lin (Wong) ’15 have been awarded Gilman International Scholarship Program awards for undergraduate study abroad. Ho plans to study in Vietnam through the School for International Training (SIT) and Lin will study in Denmark through the Danish Institute of Study Abroad, Copenhagen.

The Hamilton College Choir will present the home concert of its annual spring break tour on Friday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.