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Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz gave a paper titled “Deceiving the Future: Lermontov and Narratology of the Moment” at the International Conference on Narrative in Las Vegas on March 17.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, gave a  lecture titled “Transatlantic Perspectives on the Crisis of the Eurozone” at the U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki, Greece, on March 17.  The lecture was sponsored by the U.S. Consul General and the American College of Thessaloniki.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a lecture titled “History, Counter-Memory, and the Search for a Modern Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art” on March 20 at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga.

Galia Slayen ’13, a Chinese and government major, has been accepted as a delegate to Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford University (FACES).  FACES is an exchange program that sends 20 American and 20 Chinese students to Stanford University and then to China to promote cross-cultural exchange. Forty delegates were chosen from among 316 applicants.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus presented an invited talk titled “Critical Assessment of the Scientific Method: Experience, Intuition, and Justification” on March 19 at the University of Southern California (USC).

Hamilton College's Megan Gibbons '12 and Maggie Rosenbaum '14 earned All-America honors on the fourth and final day of the NCAA Division III men's and women's swimming & diving championships at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Natatorium on March 24.

Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones was an invited keynote speaker at a conference titled “Promoting the Understanding of Co-operatives for a Better World” on March 16 in Venice, Italy.

Hamilton College's Maggie Rosenbaum '14 defended her national title in the 100-yard backstroke on the third day of the NCAA Division III men's and women's swimming & diving championships at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Natatorium on March 23.

What does one pack for a trip to an Antarctic island?  Items not found on a typical packing checklist, as some Hamilton students learned this week when they prepared for an expedition to Robertson Island.  It’s week two of the Antarctica 2012 research expedition, aboard the ship Nathaniel B. Palmer for Natalie Elking ’12, Manique Talaia-Murray ’12, Andrew Seraichick ’13, Elizabeth Bucceri ’11 and Associate Professor of Biology Mike McCormick. 

Hillary “Kip” Langat ’13 has been awarded a Davis Peace Project Fellowship program grant of $10,000.  Through his project titled “Pulling Villages out of Poverty with a Community Tractor in Kenya,” Langat will help to empower people in three Kenyan villages by purchasing a community farming tractor and training them in farming techniques in an effort to break the cycle of poverty.