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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. 

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer performed his one-man show, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., on April 17 for new admitted students. Cryer created the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran gave a paper, "Environmentalism at a Crossroads: Cosmopolitanism vs. Localism?," on April 17 at the SUNY-BROOME conference on Environmental Ethics: The Spaces Between, Contested, and Shared.

Several Hamilton students who participated in SIT Study Abroad programs have had their independent research projects published on the program website.

“A New Way to Deal with Iran” will be the topic of a lecture by former U.S. Ambassador William Luers ’51 on Monday, April 26, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium. Luers is the Sol M. Linowitz Professor of International Affairs. He will be joined by former U.S. Ambassador Ned Walker ’62, and Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny for a discussion about improving U.S.-Iranian relations. The event is free and open to the public.