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Students in Associate Professor of Government Sharon Rivera’s introductory comparative politics class (Govt 112) participated in a mock parliamentary debate as part of a semester-long simulation staged in the fictitional country of West Europa on April 1.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons was an invited speaker recently in two seminars. She discussed “Parametrizing a family of indecomposable modules” at Syracuse University and “Blank Space” at Adelphi University.

Hamilton students in the New York City Program attended the premiere of a new New York Philharmonic symphony by John Adams, “Scheherazade.2-Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra,” on March 27 in Avery Fischer Hall.

In concert with the National Park Service's call to ring “Bells across the Land: A Nation Remembers Appomattox,” the College's Chapel bell will ring for four minutes at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, to mark the four years of war that ended 150 years ago at Appomattox.  One hour later, at 4:15 p.m., a short memorial program will commemorate the role Hamilton students and alumni played in the Civil War, as well as  in the abolitionist movement that preceded the war. This program is free and open to the public.

Hannah Wagner ’15 presented a poster titled “Rusophycus in the Herkimer Formation Building Materials on the Hamilton College Campus” at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America - Northeastern Section. The conference was held in Bretton Woods, N.H., on March 23-25 and the technical program consisted of symposia, theme and general sessions, arranged in oral and poster format.

Thistle Farms/Magdalene founder Becca Stevens will present a lecture titled “Living Out Our Ideals in the Practical World” on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel. Stevens’ lecture is sponsored by the STOP TRAFFIK organization and is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Choir, conducted by G. Roberts Kolb, will present the home concert of its recently completed spring break tour on Wed., April 8, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Gretha Suarez ’15 has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to India. Through her project, Gender and Public Space: Politics of Women’s Safety in Ahmedabad and Mumbai, she will spend the 2015-16 academic year studying how urban infrastructure regulates women’s presence in Mumbai and Ahmedabad’s public spaces.  These cities provide a platform to examine the conditions of women’s safety and rights to public space by comparing infrastructure that facilitates access.

Author, advocate and independent scholar Barbara Smith will present a lecture titled “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building” on Tuesday, April 7, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Smith’s lecture is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Department and is free and open to the public.

Ten Hamilton students along with faculty advisor Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny traveled to Skidmore College to participate in the three-day Model European Union conference on March 26.