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Hamilton’s Levitt Leadership Institute participants spent their first week of spring break refining leadership skills and networking in Washington, D.C. Expanding their networking beyond the governmental and non-profit agencies with which they met, the students seized the opportunity to gather with Hamilton alumni and fellow students participating in the semester-long D.C. program.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate discussed his book, A History of Religion in 5½ Objects, at the University of Pennsylvania. He also published an article about teaching a MOOC (massive open online course) in Beacon Broadside.

The momentum of the 4th annual Levitt Leadership Institute continued off-campus in Washington, D.C., the week of March 16. Led again by Former Ambassador Prudence Bushnell and Christine Powers, and later joined by Director of Hamilton’s Education Studies Program Susan Mason, the group applied leadership lessons learned in the first week in January, and viewed leadership-in-action in our nation’s capital.

The first week of Hamilton’s spring break is over and the first five Alternative Spring Break trips have returned. A new trip this year went to Philadelphia where students worked with the Urban Tree Connection and with the Nationalities Service Center.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, presented “Heretics, Prophets, and Organizers of The American Left” on March 19 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His talk was part of the New Democrats’ QNDP Speaker Series.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Andrew Rippeon has published a sequence of poems with Delete Press. Delete Press publishes work by established and emerging poets, and Rippeon's book is the tenth volume released by the organization.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman is the author of a new book of poetry, The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera, published this month by Brick Books.

The Hechinger Report recently interviewed President Joan Stewart for a feature article focused on Hamilton’s initiatives to expand access and equalize student experience on campus.  The article appeared online on March 17 on The Hechinger Report website and the Washington Monthly magazine "College Guide" website.

Eleven Hamilton student volunteers and Assistant Professor of Government Heather Sullivan are spending this week of spring break in San Ramon, Nicaragua, where they’re working on Finca Esperanza Verde, an organic coffee farm.

The Huffington Post recently named Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art, one of the “13 Artists You Should Fall in Love With This Spring,” and Whitewall magazine featured one of her paintings in a slideshow of highlights from The Armory Show.