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During the second week of spring break, a group of nine Hamilton students and Professor Margo Okazawa-Rey attended a student activist leadership retreat at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn. The Highlander Center is an 85-year-old popular education center that works with grassroots organizing and movement-building across the U.S. South and Appalachia to promote sustainability, social and economic justice, and equity.

Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend presented an invited lecture at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C., on March 23.

Hamilton College’s Mock Trial teams traveled to Lancaster, Pa., on March 23-25 to compete in the Opening Round Championships Series (ORCS), the second round of the American Mock Trial Association’s (AMTA) annual national tournament. This tournament was hosted by Elizabethtown College in the Lancaster County Courthouse, with 24 teams competing.

A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Are Small Classes Best? It’s Complicated,” included insights offered by Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss, co-author of How College Works.

The Hamilton choir’s annual spring break tour took on a new element this year with volunteer community service work in addition to choral performances.

Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures John Bartle recently stepped down as associate editor for reviews for the Slavic and East European Journal, a position he held since the journal’s fall 2001 issue.

Nineteen Levitt Leadership Institute (LLI) students traveled to Washington, D.C., during the first week of spring break to study leadership. A continuation of the week-long January program that was primarily focused on theory, the trip allowed students to apply what they learned as they interacted with influential leaders in public service, government, and nonprofit sectors.

The American Council on Education (ACE) recently named Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Psychology Penny Yee an ACE Fellow for academic year 2018-19.

Students in the Hamilton in France Program recently embarked on a weekend visit to Burgundy, a region located in east-central France. The excursion was closely planned by Director In-Residence Roberta Krueger and Assistant Director Laurence Lemaire, who both accompanied the students to Burgundy.

Nine hardy Hamiltonians and one brave Brit rocketed toward Abu Dhabi on an Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, en route to Kathmandu, Nepal.