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Seventy-three members of the Hamilton College Choir spent 12 days of spring break traveling across Italy as performers in the annual Hamilton College Choir Concert Tour. Singing from Venice, to Florence, to Perugia, to Rome, the students completed the choir's sixth European concert tour under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb. While the choir tours a region of the United States every March, the European tour is a special privilege that comes only once every four years. 

Hamilton students participating in the recent Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to South Carolina were featured in a news story in the Marion Star & Mullins Enterprise and on the Web site scnow.com (4/1/09).

Students from the Program in Washington, D.C. joined about 40 alumni at the Great Hamilton College Networking Party, sponsored by the Washington D.C. Alumni Association on March 30. It featured a panel of alumni talking about getting that first job.

Isha Ojha '09 has been selected as a finalist in Photographer's Forum magazine's 29th Annual College Photography Contest. Her photograph will be printed in the hardcover book Best of College Photography 2009 which will be distributed by the end of June 2009.

In a March 16 Wall Street Journal (Europe edition) article, Edward S. Walker '62, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Hamilton government professor, discussed the possible influence that Israel's new foreign minister, nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, might have on the peace process. Walker, the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, served as ambassador to Israel in 1997-1999, overlapping with the years in which Netanyahu first served as prime minister,

Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier on the front lines of combat in war-torn Sudan, will give a lecture on Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. Jal is the seventh guest in The Voices of Color Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan gave an invited talk, "Entre le vrai et le vraisemblable: enjeux de l'écriture romanesque de Sophie Gay, 1830-1845" on March 25 in Toulouse, France, at the international colloquium, "La littérature en Bas-Bleus. Romancières sous ls Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet."

Peter Mallozzi, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Indonesia, where he will teach English.

Atelier Four will exhibit 40 intaglio prints in the group's last exhibition of the academic year at the Herkimer County Community College (HCCC) Cogar Gallery from April 3 through May 15. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, April 8 from 6-8 p.m. Atelier Four is a group which includes Hamilton College professors Bruce Muirhead and William Salzillo and alumni Amy Georgia Buchholz '80 and Jake Muirhead '86.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Pakistani novelist and translator, will read from his work, The Adventures of Amir-Hamza: The Making of an Indo-Islamic Legend, on Wednesday, April 1, at 4 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. It is free and open to the public.