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The flexibility of creating art and the limitless mediums at an artist’s disposal allow for bold originality and ingenuity. Multidisciplinary artist Chris Doyle takes full advantage of the vast range of possibility in art, and he shared his unique perspective with the Hamilton community as the college’s first speaker in the Artists in Conversation series.  Doyle’s video “Waste Generation” is on view at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton.

Kimberly Bogardus ’14 has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for the 2013-14 academic year. She is among 271 scholars from across the U.S. to receive the Goldwater, the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson received a Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies from the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library, Taiwan.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg published a chapter in the book Contemporary Chinese Art and Film: Theory Applied and Resisted (New Academia Publishing, 2013), edited by Jason C. Kuo of the University of Maryland.

Bestselling author Julianna Baggott will read from her poetry on Thursday, April 4, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free, open to the public and sponsored by Hamilton’s Creative Writing department.

While many students may have been relaxing at home or on the beach during spring break, 19 Hamilton College students participated in the second week of the two-week Levitt Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C.

In preparation for the 2015 World Economic History Congress, Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi was a featured speaker at a workshop sponsored by the Japanese government.

Students in the Hamilton College Junior Year in France spent the weekend of March 23-24 in Normandy where they visited the World War II Memorial Museum in Caen, the American cemetery facing Omaha Beach, and the cliff top battle site of the Pointe du Hoc, a point of attack by the United States Rangers on June 6, 1944.

Professors of Dance Elaine Heekin and Bruce Walczyk presented during the New England American College Dance conference held March 14-17 at the Five College Dance Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The Tamagawa University Taiko (Drum) and Dance Group will give a workshop and performance on Wednesday, April 3, in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The workshop will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and the performance will follow at 7 p.m.  The workshop and performance are free and open to the public.