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Hamilton was well represented at the annual Utica Marsh clean-up on April 26. The Hamilton contingent focused on one part of the marsh, that near Dousharm Ave. The group collected many bags of trash and even found and moved an abandoned boat.

Most college students and their parents worry about the recession’s effect on graduates’ job opportunities. While recent unemployment trends and hiring statistics may appear daunting, the numbers offer only a glimpse at the uncertainty involved in the job search. However, even in fearful times it is important to remember that finding employment is not, in fact, a hopeless endeavor. Hamilton College’s Career Center remains hard at work combining powerful resources to help students land an internship, secure a job and begin a career.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons has published a book, Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, with Vanderbilt University Press.

Students in the NYC Program visited the Guggenheim Museum where they were given a tour by a docent on March 31. The main exhibit, "Haunted," examines the ghostly nature of reproductions in recent art: photography, film and video. The group was pleased to discover six photographs in the exhibit by Spencer Finch ’85. The pieces are titled "42 Minutes (After Kawabata)." He also has an installation on the High Line Walkway titled "The River that Flows Both Ways."

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, gave an invited lecture to the Classics Department at Columbia University on April 21. The lecture was titled "Perpetua, Martyr: Athlete of God" and was part of Gold's book project on the Saint Perpetua for Oxford University Press.

Meredith Kivett ’10, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to South Korea. She is a psychology and Hispanic studies major at Hamilton.

Historian and author Adrian Burgos, Jr. will present a lecture titled “Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line” on Tuesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. 

The 12th Annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 25, at 11 a.m. The 5k (3.1 mile) fundraising run and walk on Hamilton's campus will benefit AIDS Community Resources, a not-for-profit organization.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 was the colloquium speaker at LeMoyne College's Mathematics Department on April 15. In his talk, "Golf, tee ball, and triangles," Kantrowitz compared various solutions to the problem of determining the angle of launch that maximizes the range of a projectile released from above ground level and landing on a hill.

Scholar-in-Residence Joyce M. Barry was awarded a $30,000 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Fellowship based on her book project Bombing Appalachia: Gender and Environmental Justice in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.