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Professor of Classics Shelley Haley represented Anna Julia Cooper as part of the Ancestors Project of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States on March 21. The presentation was sponsored by the Columbia University Classics Department and by the New York Classical Club.

Eric Kuhn '09 included portions of his interview with former New York City mayor Ed Koch in an article, "Koch on Maddoff: 5 Horses on each limb. Yell giddy-up.," appearing on Huffington Post on March 26. Koch addressed several topics related to Kuhn's senior thesis, specifically corruption and oversight.

Justin Atwood '11 had three hits, including a triple and a home run, scored two runs and drove in two to help lead Hamilton College to a 9-7 win against Westminster College at Lake Myrtle Park in Auburndale, Fla., on March 27.

Scott MacDonald's interview with Austrian filmmaker, installation artist and architect Gustav Deutsch has just been published in a book titled Gustav Deutsch and edited by Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg and Michael Loebenstein. Deutsch has added new dimensions to what is called "recycled cinema" or "found-footage film," that is, films made from other films.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, spoke on the history of mountaineering on March 27 at Montana State University. The co-author of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, Isserman was invited to speak by the university's department of history and philosophy.

Dr. Christian Christensen '88 who is an orthopedic surgeon at the Lexington Clinic in Kentucky, recently published a study comparing operative times and hospital stays in obese patients and non-obese patients. Dr. Christensen was a physics major at Hamilton, as well as a member of the soccer team and Theta Delta Chi. He received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University.

Two Hamilton seniors, Austin Hawkins and Kenyon Laing, have been awarded prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for 2009-10. They were among 40 national winners of the Fellowships. This year, 177 finalists competed on the national level, after their institutions nominated them in the autumn. Each fellow receives $28,000 for a year of travel and exploration outside the U.S.

Hamilton College led 2-1 after the first inning but eventually dropped a 19-4 decision against St. Olaf College in a non-conference game played at Lake Myrtle Park in Auburndale, Fla., on March 26.

Hamilton College won the first game with a run in the bottom of the seventh inning and the Continentals went on to sweep a doubleheader against Kalamazoo College at Lake Myrtle Park in Auburndale, Fla., on March 25.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper at the 6th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium held at the Atlanta University Center on March 20 under the central theme "Genderizing Political Activism." His paper, "Gender Relations and Issues in a Political Movement: Reflections of a Male Activist," drew on his experience as a member of Working People's Alliance (WPA) of Guyana while that organization was centrally involved in the Guyanese opposition movement.