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Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human, by Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Literature Onno Oerlemans, was published this month by Columbia University Press. The book presents different types of poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to today, classified into several categories.

History major Elza Harb ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Cyprus.

Hamilton has announced recipients of the 2018 Emerson Summer Grants. Created in 1997, the Emerson Foundation Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. Twenty-six Hamilton students and 26 faculty members will work on the following projects this summer. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the next academic year.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of International Affairs and professor of government, participated in a round-table discussion titled “What Has Inequality Got to Do With It?” at The New School on March 12.

Seniors Elizabeth Perry and Danielle Reisley recently presented posters at the 2018 Geological Society of America (GSA) Northeastern Section meeting in Burlington, Vt.

Hamilton students are heading back to campus after spring break with tales of mountain climbing in Nepal, hiking the Shenandoah National Park with the Outing Club, and volunteering with Alternative Spring Break. But there’s no time for a post-spring break letdown because the college calendar is loaded with lectures, performances, and events from now until the end of the semester.

The serendipitous discovery of a passion for computer science has opened many doors for Eseosa Asiruwa ’18, who will head to Adobe to become a software engineer in tools after graduation. “I’ll be helping to build the software that releases new software and updates to the digital imaging operations Adobe has. Photoshop and Illustrator, work like that,” she explained.

The Hamilton in NYC program recently heard from Chris Nagy, director of research and education at Mianus River Gorge Preserve – an independent, not-for-profit organization which works to preserve the Mianus River watershed and undertakes scientific research and public education throughout the region.

Assistant Professor of Physics Kristen Burson and Hannah Burrall ’19 are co-authors of a paper published earlier this month in the journal Physical Review B.

Daniel Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, discussed his research on the role of relationships in the college experience in a lecture at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., on March 15.