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Hamilton's Department of Dance and Movement Studies will present its annual Spring Dance Concert on Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and Performing Arts. The performance will feature Hamilton student dancers and choreography by Hamilton faculty Sandra Stanton-Cotter and Paris Wilcox in addition to guest choreographers Chuyun Oh, David Fernandez, and Catherine Wright.

About 30 students from three classes recently went on a joint field trip to the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, N.Y.

An article titled “Germany in the Crosshairs?” by Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, was published by the Valdai Discussion Club on Feb. 20.

The Peace Corps announced that Hamilton was listed 22nd among small schools on the agency’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are nine Hamilton alumni currently volunteering worldwide.

Civil rights activist Diane Nash spoke to the Hamilton community about her experience as a civil rights leader in the South, the nature and strength of nonviolent protest, and the current political sphere in a lecture on Feb. 27. She broadly covered recollections of fear, violence, cooperation, and success during her early days of activism and leadership.

As representatives of Hamilton’s Asian Student Association, Gillian Mak ‘18 and Molly Clark ‘19 traveled to Raleigh, N.C., to attend the East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECAASU) conference over President’s Day weekend.

Five student and alumni co-authors contributed to research from the laboratory of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck that was recently published online in the journal Tetrahedron Letters.

After spending eight years in the fashion industry, Kate Flynn '08 recently switched careers and is now a User Experience (UX) Designer. Most recently, Kate was doing UX design for The New York Times.

Although STEM is focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Hamilton students who had internships in those fields emphasized that it was their liberal arts education that made them stand apart.

Following a fall semester abroad in the UK, Timothy Hartell ’18 wasted no time getting back into the rhythm of theatre at Hamilton, presenting a one-man show titled Room 101 on Feb. 24 and 25. Hartell describes the piece as “a performed discussion of repetition and exhaustive pleasure/pain and the neo-baroque and the queer body in space and TIME and everything else and nothing really.”