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Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ashleigh Smythe was recently invited by students from Utica College’s Asa Gray Biological Society to give a lecture in their research seminar series. She presented a seminar titled “Neptune’s Nematodes: Searching for the Root of the Nematode Phylogeny in the Sea.” The talk described Smythe’s on-going research into the evolutionary relationships of free-living marine nematodes.

Hamilton's Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 7, at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel. This year's speaker is Hamilton Charter Trustee Arthur J. Massolo ‘64, P ‘93. An all-campus picnic will follow the awards from noon to 3:30 p.m. on Dunham Green, and HamTrek, the seventh annual campus triathlon, will begin at 2:30 p.m.

“I don’t feel worthy of speaking to an economics class. I was a history major,” began CBS 60 Minutes producer and Hamilton alumnus Andrew Metz ’91. Formerly a reporter with Newsday covering the Middle East, Metz shared his experiences and observations on the region in Professor of Economics Erol Balkan’s Political Economics of the Middle East class on Tuesday, May 5.

Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu is joining the editorial board of the International Journal of Wellbeing. This is a blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely original high-quality scholarly articles and book reviews focused on scientific and philosophical investigations into wellbeing.

There was a palpable tension in the air during a special mid-week Wednesday night Trivia Competition, as nine of Hamilton’s finest and most dedicated trivia teams took a trip to the Colgate Inn in Hamilton, N.Y., to match wits with Colgate students and faculty members.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas has been appointed to the board of directors of the Guyana Institute of Historical Research (GIHR). The Institute, which collaborates with the History Department of the University of Guyana, conducts programs and research on labour history, women’s history and other histories of Guyana and the Caribbean.

Nineteen Hamilton students presented at the Seaway Section Meeting of the Mathematics Association of America at SUNY Oswego on April 24. The speakers were seniors Pablo Abreu, Jiong Che, Paul Griggs, Timothy Kubarych, Xiyue Li, Hai Lin, Michael Marcal, Tawanda Mashavave, Philip Milner, Lindsay Repp, Mike Schmidt, Jaclyn Schuck, Alex Shoulson, Grace Stadnyk, Chandra Thompson, Laura Tornatore, Danica Wuelfing, Xiaolu Xu, Fenglin Zhao and Ke Xu ’11.

“Bonanza!,” an artist book by Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant is on display in Fit to Be Bound through July 11 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse.

Hai Lin ’10 has been awarded a national Math for America fellowship. Lin, a mathematics major, is the first Hamilton student to receive the award. The fellowship provides a full tuition scholarship, annual stipends of up to $100,000 over five years, in addition to a full-time teacher’s salary and mentoring and professional development services.

Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Oldfield has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages in Almaty.