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Alex Rudow, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Taiwan. A world politics major at Hamilton, she studied abroad at Sciences Po Bordeaux in France in 2013.

Prints by Professors of Art Bruce Muirhead and William Salzillo were awarded prizes at the 34th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink & Traveling Exhibit. The exhibition is on display through May 18 at Artlink, an art and cultural center in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Joana Sabadell-Nieto, professor of Hispanic studies and director of Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS), presented Differences in Common: Gender, Vulnerability and Community, on April 23 at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid. The book was co-edited by Sabadell-Nieto and Marta Segarra of the University of Barcelona.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was the guest speaker at the Caribbean Student Association (CSA) of the SUNY Cortland’s Annual “Taste of the Caribbean” dinner on April 25. Three students representing Hamilton’s Caribbean Students Association accompanied Westmaas to the event.

Senior mathematics concentrators Caitlin O'Connor, Meghan Doherty, Mao Ding, Carson Potter, Peter Talpey and Madeline Umscheid were speakers at the 21st annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held this year at Marist College on April 26.

For the last 53 years Minor Theater has served as the home for countless Theatre Department programs. From productions of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Streetcar Named Desire, the darkly comic Etta Jenks to the fanciful Big Love, the brick building on Campus Road has provided a stage and a home for Hamilton’s aspiring actors, actresses, playwrights and stage crews.

To celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), each day in April Hamilton’s Fillius Jazz Archive has featured an artist on the news site along with that individual’s archived audio interview. Since 2012, April 30 has been designated International Jazz Day by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). To wrap up JAM, and in celebration of International Jazz Day, four artists are featured today: Eiji Kitamura, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Annie Ross and Keith Ingham.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, and director of the Associated Colleges in China program, presented a keynote lecture on April 19 at the 2014 Chinese Pedagogy Workshop for the Greater Washington, D.C., area.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar fellowship to attend the four-week program on “Reform and Renewal in Medieval Rome” in Rome, Italy, June 22-July 25.

Assistant Professor of Photography Rob Knight took his Advanced Photography class on a field trip to visit Light Work and ArtRage in Syracuse on April 24.  Both are non-profit gallery spaces committed to exhibiting emerging and mid-career artists.