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Richard Karrat ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Jordan. A Dean’s List student, Karrat is a French and world politics major at Hamilton.

The Gotham Chamber Opera has revived their inaugural production of Mozart’s Il Sogno di Scipione in celebration of company’s 10-year jubilee season. Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Andrew Holland designed the scenery for the American stage premiere of the rare Mozart offering 10 years ago.

Even with a full plate of seminars, jobs, debates, meetings and independent research, students in the Program in Washington find time to explore the capital’s cultural and sporting life. Amy Soenksen ’13 described an April 7 outing to see the DC United soccer team.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a talk on “The Gardens of Japan” to the Rotary Club of Sherrill, N.Y. The meeting was held April 5 at Vernon Downs Hotel.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department will present its Spring Theater Production, Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee. Performances will run Thursday, April 12, through Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m., and Wednesday, April 18, through Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. There is an additional performance at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 14. All performances will take place in Minor Theater.

Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Gunther Kodat was invited to supply the concluding "Afterword" to the latest issue of Philological Quarterly, a special number on the New Southern Studies and the New Modernist Studies.

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer made her second appearance this year on NBC’s Today Show on Thursday, April 12. The topic of the segment focused on the college selection process - what students should consider after they are accepted to an institution.

Elly Field '13 presented a paper with Professor George Hobor of Colgate University at the annual conference of the Southern Sociological Society in New Orleans on March 22. The paper was co-authored with sociology students Amy Dow '12 and David Schwartz '13 and details the results of the group's summer research on the social and economic integration of Utica's Karen and Bantu refugee population.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "Economic and Geopolitical Dimensions of the Crisis of the Eurozone" at the International Studies Association annual convention in San Diego.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Crystal Leigh Endsley was featured as the keynote performance for the 2012 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference hosted by George Mason University. This year’s conference was titled “Politics of Justice: New Visions of Culture and Society.”