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Members of the Global Volunteers organization will be volunteering with non-profit agencies on the Caribbean island of Nevis, birthplace of Alexander Hamilton, from March 19-26.

Tsion Tesfaye ’16 has been selected to present her Commitment to Action project “Youth for Ethiopia” in a skills building session at the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting that will be held April 1-3 at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ian T. Dunning ’16 presented a poster titled “A Deadly Tornado in Upstate New York:  The Smithfield Tornado of 2014” at the 41st Annual Northeastern Storm Conference held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on March 4-6.  

Hamilton College students are currently on spring break but that didn’t prevent science faculty from mesmerizing some other willing students with awe-inspiring demonstrations this week.

Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art, discussed her work on March 16 at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. She also had individual meetings with several students after her talk.

Lisa Forrest, director of research and instructional design, presented “Partners in Teaching and Learning: Peer Research Tutors at the Desk, in the Classroom, and Across Campus” on March 4 at the Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC) conference.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Third Saturday series continues on Saturday, March 19, with professional landscape designer and garden writer Judy Nauseef K’73. She will present a lecture titled “Residential Garden Profiles” at 10 a.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate recently published several chapters and articles in edited volumes, and co-edited a special issue of the journal Material Religion.

Associate Professor of History John Eldevik delivered a paper, "Blood Meridian: Pagan Atrocity and the Christian Body on the Saxon-Slavic Frontier," at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in Boston on Feb. 26. It was part of a panel on German-Slavic relations in the Middle Ages.

 Among the Levitt Center’s programs aimed at connecting Hamilton students with the Utica community are Project SHINE and VITA. SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders) is a service learning program in which Hamilton students tutor refugees and immigrants learning English. VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) offers free tax help to families who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Hamilton students become certified volunteer tax preparers through the IRS.