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Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has been selected as the 2011 winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award for her book of poetry, Murder Ballad.  The award is given by Alice James Books, a nonprofit cooperative poetry press founded in 1973. Springer will receive $2,000 and her book will be published with Alice James Books in May 2012.

Metropolitan Opera tenor Jon Fredric West, a lecturer in voice at Hamilton, will be the subject of a documentary airing this weekend on WURT, (channel 7 in the Clinton-Utica area).  The one-hour special, “From Concert Hall to Classroom,” will air on Saturday, April 30, at 7 p.m., and again on Sunday, May 1, at 10 a.m.  Part of the documentary was filmed on Hamilton’s campus and includes student Annie Phillips ’13.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, gave an invited keynote address “Assessing Mondragon: Stability and Managed Change in the face of Globalization” at the First International Conference on Co-operatives, Kish, Iran.

Miners may be most comfortable underground, but that was not evident when Scott Hand '64 spoke on the Hill on April 27.  Hand, currently the executive chairman of the board of the Royal Nickel Company in Canada, previously worked for International Nickel and shared his views on Hamilton, the mining industry and the international economy.

The Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, will perform its final concert of the season on Saturday, April 30, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Associate Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin chaired a roundtable discussion, “Fragmented Communities: One History, Several Memories,” at a UNESCO conference titled “Philosophical Dialogue between Africa and the Americas” held April 18-21 at Purdue University.

Hamilton hosted the sixth annual Parilia undergraduate classics research conference on April 22 with the Classics departments from Colgate, Union College and Skidmore College also participating. Three Hamilton seniors were among the presenters.

The 13th annual AIDS Hike for Life 5k Run/Walk will take place on Sunday, May 1, at 11 a.m., beginning at the Babbitt Pavilion. The AIDS Hike for Life is organized by AIDS Community Resources (ACR) and is the organization's largest outreach and fundraising program in the Mohawk Valley.

Zarqa Nawaz, a British-Canadian freelance writer, journalist and filmmaker, will present a lecture and film screening titled “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mosque,” on Thursday, April 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The event, part of Hamilton’s Humanities Forum, will address the effects of secularism on cultural production, such as television, and is free and open to the public.

The College Hill Singers, directed by G. Roberts Kolb, will present "How Can I Keep From Singing: Songs and Poems of Peace and War," on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.  The performance is sponsored by The Diversity and Social Justice Project and is free and open to the public.