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The Hamilton choir’s annual spring break tour took on a new element this year with volunteer community service work in addition to choral performances.

Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures John Bartle recently stepped down as associate editor for reviews for the Slavic and East European Journal, a position he held since the journal’s fall 2001 issue.

Nineteen Levitt Leadership Institute (LLI) students traveled to Washington, D.C., during the first week of spring break to study leadership. A continuation of the week-long January program that was primarily focused on theory, the trip allowed students to apply what they learned as they interacted with influential leaders in public service, government, and nonprofit sectors.

The American Council on Education (ACE) recently named Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Psychology Penny Yee an ACE Fellow for academic year 2018-19.

Students in the Hamilton in France Program recently embarked on a weekend visit to Burgundy, a region located in east-central France. The excursion was closely planned by Director In-Residence Roberta Krueger and Assistant Director Laurence Lemaire, who both accompanied the students to Burgundy.

Nine hardy Hamiltonians and one brave Brit rocketed toward Abu Dhabi on an Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, en route to Kathmandu, Nepal.

Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human, by Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Literature Onno Oerlemans, was published this month by Columbia University Press. The book presents different types of poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to today, classified into several categories.

History major Elza Harb ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Cyprus.

Hamilton has announced recipients of the 2018 Emerson Summer Grants. Created in 1997, the Emerson Foundation Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. Twenty-six Hamilton students and 26 faculty members will work on the following projects this summer. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the next academic year.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of International Affairs and professor of government, participated in a round-table discussion titled “What Has Inequality Got to Do With It?” at The New School on March 12.