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Marketa Crandle ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Thailand. She is an anthropology major at Hamilton.

The small Kirner-Johnson classroom was packed on Monday, May 3, for a debate regarding Obama’s healthcare reforms and how these policies might be bettered. Fourteen public policy majors, “armed only with a semester's worth of study of the economics, ethics and politics of health care,” engaged in the debate.

Four Hamilton students participated in the 10th annual Russian Language “Olympics,” held at Syracuse University on April 17. Ethan Ayres, Stephanie Hudon, Grace Lee (all ’13), and Alexander De Moulin ’12 joined undergraduates from Hobart-William Smith, SUNY-Binghamton, Syracuse University, Union College and the United States Military Academy at West Point for a friendly competition in various Russian language activities.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell chaired a panel on "Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain" at the 41st annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association held in Montreal, Quebec, April 8-11.

Hamilton College and Clinton Elementary School celebrated Arbor Day with a tree planting on April 30 at the elementary school. This marked the fourth Colorado Spruce planted for Arbor Day by the Hamilton Arboretum for the Clinton Elementary School. The spruce was planted in honor of Clinton resident Tom Evans, Sr., who is 90 years old and has been volunteering at the school for five years.

Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, gave a talk as part of Colgate University's year-long series on Human Nature and Human Values on April 15. The talk, titled "Knowing Ourselves," addressed issues about the extent to which scientific discussions of free will and irrational choices contribute to self-knowledge and to our knowledge of what it is to be human.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society with the Hamilton College Choir on Tuesday, May 4, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts

Hamilton was well-represented at the Northeast Regional Association of Experiential Education (AEE) Conference held April 23-25 at Camp Kieve in Nobleboro, Maine. The annual conference is attended by classroom educators, corporate trainers, outdoor and environmental education leaders and others interested in incorporating experiential education into their professions.

“We’re confident that it will save students some money,” says Jason Mariasis ‘12, a member of the Hamilton Entrepreneur Club, as he loads the club’s brainchild on the laptop screen. The website’s interface is simple, sleek and intuitive. Visitors to the site merely select their state and their school from two large drop-down panels and then click one of the two shiny blue buttons: BUY A TEXTBOOK or SELL A TEXTBOOK.

Mallory Reed ‘10 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Thailand. Reed is a sociology major at Hamilton.