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In response to the news that the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Hamilton's Music Department will present a special performance by the musicians of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and soprano Janet Brown on Sunday, May 8, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Erica Kowsz, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Vancouver, British Columbia,  Canada. She will spend the 2011-12 academic year conducting fieldwork among the Sinixt First Nation in the Slocan Valley. Kowsz will produce an ethnographic film exploring the connections between indigenous conceptions of past, place and identity and how these understandings relate to archaeology.

Hamilton's Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 6, at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel. This year's speaker is Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English Emeritus and Lecturer in English John H. O’Neill whose topic is “‘A Nest of Singing Birds’: Writers at Hamilton.” The ceremony will be available online via live webcast.

The Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble will celebrate Cinco de Mayo with its spring concert on Thursday, May 5, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Lydia Rono ’11 has been awarded the Samuel F. Babbitt Kirkland College Fellowship for graduate study. Rono will pursue a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Princeton University in the fall. In addition, Haley Riemer-Peltz ’12, Jennifer Roberts ’14 and Jill Chipman '14 were recently selected by the Kirkland Endowment as 2011 Summer Associates. They will conduct research with faculty advisors and receive stipends for their work.

“Barack Obama and American Racial Politics,” an essay co-authored by Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, was published in the spring issue of Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Photos taken by Ernest Williams for his book The Nature Handbook (2005) are currently being exhibited at The Old Forge Arts Center through July 28.  Williams is the Christian A. Johnson  Excellence in Teaching Professor of Biology.

Five students in the Hamilton College Public Policy department posed a question at the outset of their thesis presentation on May 2: are the columnists you read and talking heads you watch better than a coin flip?

A dinner and reading by author Colum McCann was the culminating event for students in this semester’s Program in New York City.  The event was part of the Eat, Drink & Be Literary series sponsored by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The Hamilton students’ attendance was underwritten by Arthur Levitt  P’81, HD ’81, Brooklyn native and BAM enthusiast, and Bill Lynch ’82, vice president for development at BAM.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover published a paper "Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility" (co-authored with Adriana Camacho)  in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 3, Issue 2, May 2011.