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In what has become a once-a-semester event,  students were able to take a break from studying for finals and spend some time relaxing with pets  during HAVOC’s  “Paws to Relax” in the Annex on May 8.  More than 15 faculty and staff dogs came by for a visit with students.  Hamilton students signed up for $5, 10-minute time slots and donations went to Spring Farm Cares, a local animal sanctuary.

Students in the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C., recently met with program officers at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for a discussion of the organization’s efforts to promote human rights and democratic change in the post-communist region. The endowment is “a U.S. initiative to strengthen democratic institutions throughout the world through private, non-governmental efforts” that “embodies a broad, bipartisan U.S. commitment to democracy.”

Hamilton College’s Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Monday, May 12, at 4:15 p.m., in the College Chapel.

Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a lecture titled “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age” on April 24 at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill.

For the fifth year, Hamilton College is the recipient of STARTALK funding to operate two programs for Chinese language this summer — a Chinese teacher development program and a week-long intensive Chinese immersion program for students in grades 8 and 9.

You never know what you’re going to find in the Hamilton College Archives. With a collection as extensive and varied as Hamilton’s, it can sometimes be months or even years before documents in the collection are fully processed and understood. For example, Special Collections Coordinator Mark Tillson recently unearthed a file of letters from noted suffragist Charlotte Wilbour, wife of Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour, whose papers the College also possesses.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents the Schambach Center 25th Anniversary  Concert with pianist André Watts concert on Saturday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m, in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.  The program includes Scarlatti’s Three Sonatas, Beethoven’s Sonata in D, and Chopin’s Three Etudes, among other work.

The work of nine senior art majors will be featured in an exhibition at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, May 8-24. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Robert Hayden ’14 has been awarded a research/study Fulbright Grant to Copenhagen, Denmark. He will spend the 2014-15 academic year studying epidemiology and the development of medicines, and apply that coursework to biomedical research with the Copenhagen Hepatitis C (CO-HEP) Program group under the direction of Professor Jens Bukh. Hayden is a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Hamilton.

Oral Communication Center (OCC) tutor Max Schnidman ’14 and OCC Director Jim Helmer presented at the National Association of Communication Centers (NACC) Conference held April 11-12 at Arizona State University.