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Fifteen Hamilton students and three faculty and staff members traveled to the New England Center for Children (NECC) in Southborough, Mass., on March 30.  Students who had expressed interest in pursuing internships and careers at the center were invited to tour the facility and meet members of the staff.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu chaired and was a discussant on a panel titled “The teaching and acquisition of Chinese vocabulary and characters-discussions in a modern context” on March 17 at the Annual Meeting of Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in Toronto.  

Seven members of the Hamilton College Cycling Club competed in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference’s Nittany Classic hosted by Penn State in State College, Pa., on March 31-April 1. Events included a rolling 9.5-mile team time trial and 21-mile loop road race on Saturday, as well as a criterium, or short technical loop which cyclists ride for a specific number of laps, on Sunday.

The “Theory and Interpretation of Narrative” series, published by the Ohio State University Press and co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, James Phelan and Robyn Warhol, recently published its 41st volume, Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.

Visiting Instructor of Hispanic Studies Alessandra Chiriboga presented “Differing Performances, Differing Modernities: Early Central American Experimental Theatre” on March 3 at the 20th Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Films at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla.

Austin Walker ’12 was selected to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University conference, March 30 – April 1 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin and Associate Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn published their joint work "Posets of Geometric Graphs" in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea.

Historian James Brewer Stewart will present a lecture titled “Abolishing Slavery in Lincoln’s Time and Ours: Toward the Development of a 21st Century Abolitionist Movement” on Friday, April 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

Pat Dunn ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Malaysia. He is an environmental studies and creative writing major at Hamilton.  

Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett presented a poster, “High Resolution Characterization of Bacterial Diversity and Geochemistry in a Meromictic Lake (Green Lake, Fayetteville, NY)” on her research done in collaboration with Associate Professor of Biology Michael McCormick, at a meeting sponsored by the Department of Energy, March 20-24, at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif.