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  • Hamilton librarians Glynis Asu and Carolyn Carpan and ITS staff members Maureen Scoones and Nikki Reynolds presented a poster at the biannual Association of College & Research Libraries conference in Philadelphia on March 31.

  • Biopic documentary Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton premieres on Monday, April 11, on local PBS stations. It will air in the Clinton – Utica area on Monday at 10 p.m. on WCNYHD (853), Tuesday, April 12 at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on 853, and Wednesday, April 13, on WCNY (13) at 3 a.m. Check local listings for other areas.

  • Nearly 80 Hamilton students and alumni participated on April 8-10 in the first Hamilton Pitch Competition. The event, the brainchild of successful entrepreneur and alumnus Mark Kasdorf ’06, challenged competitors to pitch their best, most marketable business concept to a judging panel of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

  • Taylor Adams '11 and Deborah Barany '11 have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. Adams, a chemistry major, and Barany who is majoring in neuroscience, will both receive a three-year annual stipend of $30,000 and a $10,500 cost-of -education allowance for tuition and fees, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. or foreign institution of graduate education they choose.

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has six new poems published in this spring’s issue of The Southern Review. The poems are titled “Looks Like the Hound That Caught the Car”; “Nocturne: So Mixed Up She Don’t Know Daylight from Dark”; “In a Coon’s Age”;   “Don’t Know a Stranger”; “I’ll Wear the Hound out of That”; and “Pretty As You Please.” The Southern Review is published by Louisiana State University.  

  • Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Only one in 1000 members is elected to Fellowship each year. He will be honored at the December 2011 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco.

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  • Dean Obeidallah, comedian and political satirist, will perform at Hamilton on Tuesday, April 12, at 7 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The performance is sponsored by the Hamilton College Democrats and is free and open to the public.

  • Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald was the lead programmer at this year’s Brakhage Symposium at the Brakhage Center of the University of Colorado in Boulder on March 11-13.

  • In 2010, the federal government was placed under heavy public scrutiny after WikiLeaks, a nonprofit organization devoted to governmental transparency, released classified documents to American news media. Alasdair Roberts, author of Blacked Out  and an advocate of governmental transparency, spoke at Hamilton on April 7, offering his own assessment of the progression of the war on secrecy. He was a guest in the Levitt Center Security series.

  • Three technical theatre students recently traveled to the U. S. Institute for Theatre Technology Conference in Charlotte, N.C.  Juan Hurtado ’11, Lauren Lanzotti ’14 and Mary Lehner ’12 took part in the four-day event where they sat in on lectures, demonstrations and Q&A forums with professionals in the theatre technology industry. Lanzotti and Lehner won the “Jack Suesse Memorial Stump-the-Rigger” competition.

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