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Terri Cook, co-author of Allies & Angels, a memoir about her transgender son, will deliver a lecture on Tuesday, April 4, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Students in Hamilton’s Program in France recently attended a round table on the upcoming French presidential election. The event was organized by Hamilton in France on behalf of the Francophone programs at Reid Hall in Paris, where HiF is located. The roundtable attracted a full house, especially since it followed closely the first televised three-and-a- half-hour log debate of all candidates in the April 23 first round of voting.

Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend was a plenary speaker at the 2017 Birders Meeting of the Massachusetts Audubon Society on March 19th in Boston.

Alexandra Nasto '13 majored in Russian studies and minored in art. She is a special sales manager at Sterling Publishing in New York City.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of Literature, has published the lead essay in the most recent edition (Vol. 3 No. 1) of the scholarly journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Assistant Professor of Geosciences Catherine Beck recently traveled to the University of Minnesota to sample from the 216 meters of core collected through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project in 2013.

Hamilton Professor Doran Larson’s American Prison Writing Archive project has been awarded $262,000 by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), the single largest NEH grant awarded solely to a Hamilton faculty member in 17 years.

Hamilton College Performing Arts Series continues the spring series with two performances by The Acting Company in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation, will be performed on Saturday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m and William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on Sunday, April 2, at 2 p,m.

The Music Department will present the home concert of the Hamilton College Choir’s Italian tour on Friday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The concert is free and open to the public.

Eighteen students, faculty and staff trekked to the base camp of Annapurna in Nepal's Himalaya as an optional part of Professor Maurice Isserman's History and Literature of Himalayan Mountaineering course. Anne McGarvey '17 blogged from Nepal.