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Early spring is the time of year on the hill when hopeful student grant and fellowship candidates begin to hear back from organizations on the status of their applications. For a lot of students, reception of a prestigious award can be the highest honor and a dream come true. It can mean the chance to conduct independent research at a foreign university, teach English in a developing nation, or implement a self-designed project in the name of global peace and sustainability.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi was a featured speaker in the South Asia Program Seminar Series at Cornell University on April 9.  Trivedi's talk "Women at Work in India: Photographs from Ahmedabad, 1937," examined a collection of some 70 photographs taken by Pranlal Patel and commissioned by the Jyoti Sangh, a women's organization.

Utican Helen Sperling, a Holocaust survivor and renowned lecturer, will speak at Hamilton College on Tuesday, April 17, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture is sponsored by Hillel (Jewish Students Organization) and the Days-Massolo Center and is free and open to the public.

An article co-authored by Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones was published in the April issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

The spring theater production of Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee debuted on April 12 in Minor Theater.  Directed by Professor of Theater Craig Latrell and featuring a cast of 14 Hamilton students, the production is a postmodern version of Euripides’ classical tragedy.

Caroline Winterer, professor of history and classics at Stanford University, will present a lecture, “The Classical World of Alexander Hamilton,” on Monday, April 16, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is sponsored by the Classics Department and is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series concludes the spring series with ETHEL string quartet on Sunday, April 15, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury gave a keynote address at the Geology of the Nile Basin Countries Conference in Alexandria, Egypt. Her talk was titled “The Potential of Google Earth for Conducting Research in Remote Regions of the World.”  

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman published an essay and nine poems in Arc Poetry Magazine #67, Winter 2012. The essay, “Scenes from the Opera: On Writing a Novella-in-Verse,” concerns the creation of the manuscript, "The Banquet of Donny and Ari," from which the poems are excerpted.