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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 Milton F. Fillius, Jr. ’44, GP ’02, H’96, founder of the Jazz Archive.

Sam Matlick ’17 received a $1000 “People’s Choice” award in the Information Technology/Software category at the fifth annual New York Business Plan Competition on April 25 in Albany. A total of 92 teams from 36 New York colleges and universities vied for $500,000 in awards at the competition that took place at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

An article by Professor of Geosciences and Upson Chair of Public Discourse Barbara Tewksbury was published in the Geological Society of America’s journal, Geology. Titled “Polygonal faults in chalk: Insights from extensive exposures of the Khoman Formation, Western Desert, Egypt,” the article appeared online on April 15 and will be included in the June print edition.

History major John Boudreau ’14 presented a paper titled “Savages and Indians: European Perceptions of Native Americans in the Canadian Fur Trade 1754-1819” at the New York State Upper Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, at SUNY Oneonta on April 12. The faculty panel at the conference selected Boudreau’s paper as one of the six best presented.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kyoko Omori has been awarded an $11,000 grant from the Japan Foundation for a project titled “Reconstructing and Creating a New Japanese Silent Film Experience: Benshi, Music and Film.”

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 Béla Fleck.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale and Symphoria will perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons on Tuesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

In an online Discovery News article titled “Mt. Everest: Why Do People Keep Climbing It?,” Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, commented on the recent tragedy on Mt. Everest. A second article on the Discovery News site titled "Do We Need Police on Everest," appearing on April 24, also included comments from Isserman.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson spoke at Boise State University, April 8-10, and at The University of Houston - Downtown, April 15-17, about Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, and about the DHi project, The American Prison Writing Archive.

Cornell University Professor Suzanne Mettler spoke at Hamilton on April 24 about her new book titled Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream. Mettler addressed her concern that the American higher education system—though historically “associated with a path of upward mobility”—is becoming “increasingly stratified” and exacerbating inequality in the nation today.