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Lauren Peters-Collaer '11 placed second in the high jump as Hamilton College competed in the New England Small College Athletic Conference track and field championships at Connecticut College's Silfen Track and Field Complex on April 25.

Connecticut College players won two singles matches in three sets and that was the difference in a 5-4 New England Small College Athletic Conference victory against visiting Hamilton College at South Tennis Courts on April 25.

Hamilton College split a doubleheader against host Middlebury College in New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division action played at Forbes Field on April 25.

On April 22, students in the Program in Washington, D.C., met at the World Bank with Hasan Tuluy P '08, vice president of human resources, and Peter Stephens, director of operations & communications.

Nine different players scored at least one goal for St. Lawrence University as the nationally ranked No. 16 Saints defeated visiting Hamilton College 13-9 in a Liberty League game played at North Country Field on April 25.

Hamilton College dropped two New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division games against visiting Wesleyan University at Ferguson Fields on April 25.

New York City Program students entered a warped and twisted world in which two dimensions become three and three become two. No, they didn't stumble upon a portal to another universe or try too hard to understand a collateralized debt obligation. On April 7, they visited the Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison.

Larry Knop, professor of mathematics, recently presented two talks on "Google's PageRank, the Simple Version." The talks described the mathematics underlying the ranking method Google uses to determine the order in which web pages are displayed when you request a web search, which is by finding the dominant eigenvector of an 8 billion by 8 billion matrix.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin recently published a research article "Small label classes in 2-distinguishing labelings" in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea. In her paper Boutin describes a set of vertices that can be used to to disrupt all symmetries in a network and presents her results on how surprisingly small such a set of vertices can be in some well-known network families.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung gave an invited talk in Japanese at the Association for the Study of Korean Culture and Society at the University of Tokyo, Hongo, on April 2. Her talk was titled "Passing: Korean-Origin Hostesses in Japan."