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When the call came last year for volunteers to help out at an alternative community school in Cofradia, Cortes, Honduras, four Hamilton students stepped up and organized a week-long international service trip. This year seven students are carrying on the tradition with another week-long trip to San Jeronimo Bilingual School (SJBS) during Hamilton's spring break, March 18-25. Lauren Hayden '07, Lauren Miklos '07, Diana Gaydusek '07, Jessica Mariglio '07, Julie Young '07, Kenji Tabery '07 and Julia Daly '08 will work closely with the community in Cofradia to enrich SJBS. The presence of Hamilton College students will provide Honduran students with positive role models and new perspectives.

Hamilton’s Curling team took the Division 5 National Championship at the National College Curling Tournament, held March 16-18 at the North Shore Curling Club in Chicago.  Forty teams from 27 colleges and universities competed. Hamilton’s team consisted of Dave Hamilton (skip), Tom Irvin (vice), Katherine Alser (lead) and Yuqi Mao (second), all members of the class of 2009 and all chemistry majors. Teammate Victoria Jenkins was snowed in during the weekend Nor'easter and unable to make the trip.

Hamilton's College Hill Singers performed on Richmond, Va., TV station WTVR, CBS 6, on March 14, during its "Virginia This Morning" program. The College Hill Singers were invited to perform while visiting Richmond during the annual Choir Tour, which this year covered the Mid-Atlantic states. This year's tour also visited Baltimore, Charleston, S.C., Arlington, Va., Charlotte, N.C., Lawrenceville, N.J., and Binghamton, N.Y., and will conclude with a "home" performance at Hamilton College on March 30 in Wellin Hall.

The Amity Art Foundation of Connecticut has published a book about Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead's etchings. The book, "Robert Bruce Muirhead, Prints, 1969-2006, A Catalogue Raisonne," contains 130 illustrations of his etchings, most done while teaching at Kirkland and Hamilton.

Caitlin Jacobs, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2007-2008. Jacobs’ project is titled “An Examination of the Coexistence of Big Cats and Humans.”

The Great Noise Ensemble, a group specializing in the performance of contemporary concert music founded and directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo was recently nominated as "Best New Artist of the Year" by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA). The Great Noise Ensemble, which is in its second season, was the only classical ensemble nominated in the Best New Artist category in 2006.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields presented a seminar, "Computational Design and Experimental Discovery of an Anti-estrogenic Peptide Derived from Alpha-Fetoprotein," to an audience of 60 faculty and students in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Middlebury College on March 16. His lecture highlighted the work that he and Karl Kirschner, co-director of the Center for Molecular Design, have carried out with Hamilton students over the past few years.

Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a 2007 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The fellowship, granted yearly, supports the scholarly research, writing, and intellectual development of underrepresented faculty in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences in order to improve their success in attaining tenure. Williams will use the fellowship to complete his book on African American soldiers and the First World War, as well as begin research on a future project.

Four Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the college’s board of trustees during their recent meeting. The Board granted tenure to Jennifer Borton, psychology; Michelle LeMasurier, mathematics; Onno Oerlemans, English; and Tiffany Patterson, Africana Studies.

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the Summer 2007 Levitt Fellowship. To enhance student research around issues of public affairs, the Levitt Center funds student-faculty research through its Levitt Research Fellows Program. The program is open to all students who wish to spend the summer working in collaboration with a faculty member on an issue related to public affairs. Students receive a summer stipend and spend 10 weeks in the summer working intensively with a faculty mentor.