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Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Omobolaji Olarinmoye presented a paper titled “China in Africa” to the United Nations Association of Upper Mohawk Valley on March 21 in Utica, N.Y.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin published a research article titled “The Cost of 2-Distinguishing Cartesian Powers” in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.

Utican Helen Sperling, a Holocaust survivor and renowned lecturer, will speak at Hamilton College on Tuesday, April 9, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture is sponsored by Hillel and is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present filmmaker Su Friedrich with Gut Renovation (2012) on Sunday, April 7, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The event includes the screening of the film followed by a discussion. It is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Joana Sabadell-Nieto delivered an invited lecture on April 2 at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Syracuse University.

Dan Morgenstern, eight-time Grammy Award winner and recently retired head of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, will present the Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library Lecture on Monday, April 8, at 4 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center.  Morgenstern will address the changing nature of acquisitions, access and use of jazz archives, tying in to our own Jazz Archive.  His lecture is free and open to the public.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, presented a paper on March 24 during the Women as Classical Scholars Conference at King’s College in London.

Cheryl Morgan, associate professor of French, delivered a paper on March 22 for a Journée d’études at the Universté Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 in Bordeaux, France.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents jazz bassist Ben Williams and Sound Effect on Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Students came back from spring break to some good news concerning sustainability on the Hill. Hamilton was the winner of the three-week NY Negawatt/CCN Competition Challenge among New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium peer schools.  The student body, led by Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) reduced electricity consumption across all Hamilton residence halls by 5.8%, which equates to 27,909 kilowatt hours or approximately $2,500.