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Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Xavier Tubau recently organized panels and presented papers at two conferences.

The New York City program made the most of recent spring weather, taking a trip to Columbia University’s campus to get lunch from the row of Chinese, Korean and Thai food trucks in front of the campus’ main gates. The food trucks near Columbia reflect the university’s changing demographics.

Clothing fashioned from newspapers, magazines and recyclable items was modeled on the runway at the 5th annual Sustainability Trashion Show.

Adrian Summers ’19 has been named a 2017 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education.

Terri Cook, co-author of Allies & Angels, a memoir about her transgender son, will deliver a lecture on Tuesday, April 4, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Students in Hamilton’s Program in France recently attended a round table on the upcoming French presidential election. The event was organized by Hamilton in France on behalf of the Francophone programs at Reid Hall in Paris, where HiF is located. The roundtable attracted a full house, especially since it followed closely the first televised three-and-a- half-hour log debate of all candidates in the April 23 first round of voting.

Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend was a plenary speaker at the 2017 Birders Meeting of the Massachusetts Audubon Society on March 19th in Boston.

Alexandra Nasto '13 majored in Russian studies and minored in art. She is a special sales manager at Sterling Publishing in New York City.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of Literature, has published the lead essay in the most recent edition (Vol. 3 No. 1) of the scholarly journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Assistant Professor of Geosciences Catherine Beck recently traveled to the University of Minnesota to sample from the 216 meters of core collected through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project in 2013.