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Hamilton College won the 3,200-meter relay and the Continentals finished in seventh place at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships, which were held at St. Lawrence University on May 1 and 2.

Alex Augustyn '10 drove in four runs on two home runs and a double to lead Hamilton College past visiting Amherst College, 9-3, in a New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division game played at Royce Field on May 2.

Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall's novella, All the Day's Sad Stories, has been published by Caketrain Press. The novella is a collection of 48 short short stories that trace a year in the life of a couple trying to conceive a child.

Native American speaker Thomas R. Porter will give a lecture on Monday, May 4 at noon in the Chapel. Porter, whose Native American name is Sakokweniónkwas (He Who Wins Them Over or He Who Enables Them to Do Something), is a member of the Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, an Iroquois territory located on the St. Lawrence River.

Four Hamilton College men's lacrosse players were honored by the Liberty League on April 30 when the league announced its end-of-season awards.

Prison walls serve two main purposes: they keep the prisoners in, and they keep the outside world out. Last semester, students from Hamilton used literature to permeate these walls. Professor Doran Larson's 400-level seminar concentrated on prison writing, and traveled outside the classroom to participate in a creative writing class taught by Professor Larson at the maximum security Attica State Prison.

The Hamilton College Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble will present free spring concerts in Wellin Hall on the Hamilton campus this weekend. The Orchestra concert is Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m., and the Jazz concert will be Sunday, May 3, at 3 p.m.

Eight Hamilton math majors and one faculty member presented talks at the 16th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held this year at Union College on April 18. The students giving talks were seniors Andrew Forman, Keith Gross, Katie Hiltz, Chris Kasdorf, Xiabo Ma, Jacob Marcus and Li Qiu, and junior Alex Shoulson. Professor of Mathematics Larry Knop also spoke.

Professors of Anthropology Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones presented a paper titled "A Case of Extinction in Paleoindian Lithic Technology" at the 74th Society for American Archaeology Meeting in Atlanta on April 23. The paper is a continuation of Beck and Jones's research on the earliest colonists of North America and discusses the ultimate disappearance of a particular technology used initially by these early colonists.

Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren gave a lecture titled "Harnessing the Power of an Enzyme: Catalytically Active Biomaterials" on April 27 as part of the University of Rhode Island Chemistry Department's seminar series. Elgren presented the work of several of his Hamilton undergraduate collaborators, including Trevor Pedrick '10, Sydney Fasulo '09, Christina Clark '10, Nick Berry '09, and Senior Fellow Amy Barrows '08, who have contributed to their ongoing efforts to trap enzymes in functional materials.