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Students from the Hamilton Mathletics team won first place in the annual Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and Saint Lawrence University.  To determine the winner, each team in the competition added their top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam. 

Students in Hamilton’s New York City Program recently visited the American Museum of Natural History, especially spending time in the new Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, in connection with their work on global infectious diseases.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton presented an invited lecture titled “Fragile Self-Esteem and the Focus of Attention After Ego Threat” on March 23 at Syracuse University.

One of the biggest and most dangerous misconceptions of the modern day is the notion that we live in a post-racial America, that institutionalized racism is effectively over and everyone can afford to live “colorblind.” But how does post-racism differ from post-blackness? Touré, pundit and author of Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?, constructed his own analysis around a television show that most college students know: (Comedy Central’s) Chappelle’s Show.

Nicholas Green, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Nepal.  A Dean’s List student, he is a philosophy major and geosciences minor at Hamilton.

Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight’s photography project Sleepless was featured March 23 on Wired.com. An article titled “Restless Nights Inspire Artist’s Spectral Photos” describes Knight’s long-exposure photography of peoples’ nocturnal movements and features a slideshow of his images.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate presented invited lectures during March in Ithaca and Syracuse, N.Y., Louisville, Ky., and Richmond, Va.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a research talk at the American Mathematical Society Southeastern Section Meeting at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., on March 11. In this talk, Boutin described a set of vertices that can be used to remove all symmetries from a network and presented new results on the size of such sets in some well-known network families.

Brian Levin-Stankevich ’72 was named president of Westminster College on March 27. He is currently the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a position he has held since 2006, and was previously interim president of Eastern Washington University.

Professor of English Steven Yao has been named an American Council on Education (ACE)  Fellow for 2012-13. The announcement was made by Molly Corbett Broad, president of ACE.