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As the end of classes and final exams approach students had the chance to de-stress and relax with dogs and cats from the Rome Humane Society during “Paws to Relax” on April 27 in the Fillius Events Barn. Students could buy time to spend with the animals and money raised went to the Rome Humane Society. The event was sponsored by HAVOC and Active Minds.

Twenty Hamilton students have been named recipients of the 2012 Emerson Summer Grants. The students receive a stipend and spend the summer working collaboratively with a Hamilton faculty member, researching an area of interest.

Philip Maier ’12 co-authored a paper in the June, 2012, issue of the journal Civil Wars, published through the University of Birmingham. The forthcoming journal is a special issue – “Assessing the Capabilities of Regional and International Organizations in Civil Wars” – that examines the ability of various organizations to deal with internal conflicts, such as the African Union in Burundi and NATO in Afghanistan.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has invited Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Languages Mary Sisler to participate in a three-week summer institute titled  “Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art and Science.”

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton College Choir and the College and Community Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra in Brahms’ Requiem on Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Tamora Pierce, an author of young-adult fiction, will lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 30, at 7 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Barbara K. Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article, "Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?," in A Companion to Roman Love Elegy, ed. B.K. Gold.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

To conclude its program series on Security, the Levitt Center brought John Dehn to campus to present a lecture titled “War and the Constitution: Military Commissions, Targeted Killing of Citizens, and Other Hard Cases.” Dehn – a senior fellow at the West Point Center for the Rule of Law at the United States Military Academy – discussed the philosophical, constitutional and legal underpinnings of the doctrine and law of war and the implications they have on the international system, as well as on due process rights of American citizens and foreigners involved in war.

Only A Game, an award-winning weekly sports magazine broadcast by National Public Radio, featured an interview with Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu about his and senior Kendall Weir’s study, “The Effects of Character on NFL Draft Status and Subsequent Performance.”

“What Would Michael Harrington Say?,” an article by Maurice Isserman, Harrington’s biographer and the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, appeared in The Nation on April 25. In the article, Isserman described Harrington as “the pre-eminent figure of American socialism” and noted that he was often referred to as the “man who discovered poverty.”