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Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu is joining the editorial board of the International Journal of Wellbeing. This is a blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely original high-quality scholarly articles and book reviews focused on scientific and philosophical investigations into wellbeing.

There was a palpable tension in the air during a special mid-week Wednesday night Trivia Competition, as nine of Hamilton’s finest and most dedicated trivia teams took a trip to the Colgate Inn in Hamilton, N.Y., to match wits with Colgate students and faculty members.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas has been appointed to the board of directors of the Guyana Institute of Historical Research (GIHR). The Institute, which collaborates with the History Department of the University of Guyana, conducts programs and research on labour history, women’s history and other histories of Guyana and the Caribbean.

Nineteen Hamilton students presented at the Seaway Section Meeting of the Mathematics Association of America at SUNY Oswego on April 24. The speakers were seniors Pablo Abreu, Jiong Che, Paul Griggs, Timothy Kubarych, Xiyue Li, Hai Lin, Michael Marcal, Tawanda Mashavave, Philip Milner, Lindsay Repp, Mike Schmidt, Jaclyn Schuck, Alex Shoulson, Grace Stadnyk, Chandra Thompson, Laura Tornatore, Danica Wuelfing, Xiaolu Xu, Fenglin Zhao and Ke Xu ’11.

“Bonanza!,” an artist book by Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant is on display in Fit to Be Bound through July 11 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse.

Hai Lin ’10 has been awarded a national Math for America fellowship. Lin, a mathematics major, is the first Hamilton student to receive the award. The fellowship provides a full tuition scholarship, annual stipends of up to $100,000 over five years, in addition to a full-time teacher’s salary and mentoring and professional development services.

Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Oldfield has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages in Almaty.

Marketa Crandle ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Thailand. She is an anthropology major at Hamilton.

The small Kirner-Johnson classroom was packed on Monday, May 3, for a debate regarding Obama’s healthcare reforms and how these policies might be bettered. Fourteen public policy majors, “armed only with a semester's worth of study of the economics, ethics and politics of health care,” engaged in the debate.

Four Hamilton students participated in the 10th annual Russian Language “Olympics,” held at Syracuse University on April 17. Ethan Ayres, Stephanie Hudon, Grace Lee (all ’13), and Alexander De Moulin ’12 joined undergraduates from Hobart-William Smith, SUNY-Binghamton, Syracuse University, Union College and the United States Military Academy at West Point for a friendly competition in various Russian language activities.