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The work of 13 Hamilton College senior art majors will be featured in an exhibition at the  Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, May 5-21. An opening reception will be held Thursday, May 5, from 4 to 6 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Hamilton College’s Departments of Music and Literature and Creative Writing join forces to create a unique evening of poetry and music on Thursday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Café Opus.

Fifty-one members of the Hamilton Continentals football team recently spent a day doing yard clean-up at homes in Clinton.  Community Clean-Up day is a service project that originated with Coach Dave Murray when he coached at Alfred University. 

April 22-24, Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS) students visited the autonomous community of the Basque Country, or Euskadi in Basque, in the northeastern part of Spain, near the border with France. They visited historic sites and a museum, and had a chance to learn how to play jai alai.

Although many students receive some form of financial aid while in college, fewer receive financial literacy education. Last week, Hamilton hosted its first Personal Finance Week to address this discrepancy. The event was organized by a group of senior students, Ramon Villalona, Michael Nelson, Eudocia Montiel, and Flavia Oliveira and was “meant to increase awareness regarding steps that students can take now to secure themselves after graduation or even for retirement,” as Villalona stated.

“Field-scale habitat complexity enhances avian conservation and avian-mediated pest-control services in an intensive agricultural crop,” an article co-authored by Supervisor of Introductory Laboratories Jason Townsend, was recently published in the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.

Recording artist Janis Siegel P’16 was on campus April 29 to conduct a jazz vocal workshop for students. The event was sponsored by the Fillius Jazz Archive in recognition of Jazz Appreciation Month.

John Hartpence, assistant cross country & track and field coach, was the overall winner of the 2016 HamTrek triathlon with a time of 55:20.15. Lauren King ’16 was the top female individual at 01:03:32.95, and Team Hooper won the co-ed relay clocking in at 01:02:42.12.

Hamilton Microfinance hosted a bake sale and raised $836 at the 20th Sacerdote Great Names Lecture featuring astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson on April 12. Every year, the Great Names event attracts thousands of students, staff and community members.

Laura Becker ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan. A Chinese major at Hamilton, she studied in Beijing during her junior year.