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Barry Schwartz, professor of psychology at Swarthmore College, will deliver a lecture titled “Higher Education Must Be Character Education” on Tuesday, April 22, at 4:15 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. His lecture is part of the Christian A. Johnson Teaching Conference and is free and open to the public.

Students in the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C., met with officials from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State on April 2. Representatives from press and policy, foreign affairs, the Office of Global Programs and a program analyst comprised a panel that discussed the bureau’s efforts to promote democracy, protect human rights and international religious freedom and to advance labor rights globally.

Professor of Philosophy Todd Franklin delivered an invited lecture on April 10 at The Center of East Asian and Comparative Philosophy in Hong Kong.

Landscape architect Katchen Cardamone will deliver a lecture on Saturday, April 19, at 10 a.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center.  The event is part of the Hamilton College Arboretum’s “Third Saturday Speaker Series,” and is free and open to the public.

Kara Sage, visiting assistant professor of psychology, presented her work on April 11 at the International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Society in Bangkok, Thailand.

The National Museum of American History has designated April as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). So in the spirit of JAM, Hamilton’s Fillius Jazz Archive is featuring one artist daily on the news site along with that individual’s archived audio interview. Today’s featured artist is George Shearing H’94.

Hamilton College will name its theatre and studio arts building for Kevin and Karen Kennedy in recognition of their lifetime giving to the college, including $10 million for the new project. They are the lead donors to the $46.8 million building that is located directly across College Hill Road from the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, which opened in 2012.

Hamilton College Performing Arts concludes the spring series with a performance by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) on Friday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The Hamilton College Orchestra will appear as special guests with ICE.

Hamilton’s barbershop quartet, The Major Four-Teens, won the Seneca Land District collegiate quartet competition on April 11 in Geneva, N.Y. Seniors Gabe Mollica (tenor), Jake Taylor (lead), Andrew Rippel (baritone) and Will Robertson (bass) make up the quartet.

The National Museum of American History has designated April as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). So in the spirit of JAM, Hamilton’s Fillius Jazz Archive is featuring one artist daily on the news site along with that individual’s archived audio interview. Today’s featured artist is Nat Hentoff.