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Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell chaired a panel on "Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain" at the 41st annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association held in Montreal, Quebec, April 8-11.

Hamilton College and Clinton Elementary School celebrated Arbor Day with a tree planting on April 30 at the elementary school. This marked the fourth Colorado Spruce planted for Arbor Day by the Hamilton Arboretum for the Clinton Elementary School. The spruce was planted in honor of Clinton resident Tom Evans, Sr., who is 90 years old and has been volunteering at the school for five years.

Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, gave a talk as part of Colgate University's year-long series on Human Nature and Human Values on April 15. The talk, titled "Knowing Ourselves," addressed issues about the extent to which scientific discussions of free will and irrational choices contribute to self-knowledge and to our knowledge of what it is to be human.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society with the Hamilton College Choir on Tuesday, May 4, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts

Hamilton was well-represented at the Northeast Regional Association of Experiential Education (AEE) Conference held April 23-25 at Camp Kieve in Nobleboro, Maine. The annual conference is attended by classroom educators, corporate trainers, outdoor and environmental education leaders and others interested in incorporating experiential education into their professions.

“We’re confident that it will save students some money,” says Jason Mariasis ‘12, a member of the Hamilton Entrepreneur Club, as he loads the club’s brainchild on the laptop screen. The website’s interface is simple, sleek and intuitive. Visitors to the site merely select their state and their school from two large drop-down panels and then click one of the two shiny blue buttons: BUY A TEXTBOOK or SELL A TEXTBOOK.

Mallory Reed ‘10 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Thailand. Reed is a sociology major at Hamilton.

Bruce Muirhead, the William R. Kenan Professor of Art, recently received an award for one of his two prints chosen for display in the 30th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink. The exhibition runs through May 26. Artlink, a not-for-profit contemporary visual arts gallery that showcases the work of emerging and mid-career artists, is located in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, Science Center Administrator Alissa Nauman and students Erica Kowsz ’11, Madeleine Gunter ’11 and Laura DeFrank ’10 presented their work at the 75th anniversary meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in April in St. Louis, Mo. 

The Ohio State University Press series (“Theory and Interpretation of Narrative”) co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan has added two more titles to its list of published books.