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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents several spring concerts for student ensembles -- the choir, orchestra and jazz ensemble --  in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts, May 2-8.

More than 220 years ago, the founder of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, Samuel Kirkland, joined forces with Chief John Skenandoah to accomplish a noble goal. They were to found an institution of higher education, where the native population and the European colonizers could learn with, and from, one another. Seven generations later, his descendant, Joanne Shenandoah, is carrying on his dream of cultural harmony.

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart along with five other college presidents will be addressing a crowd of nearly 400 educators, journalists and business leaders next Monday, May 5, at  the Innovation + Disruption Symposium hosted by Colgate University at Manhattan’s TimeCenter. The panel of college presidents will focus on the topic of “Seizing the Initiative in the Digital Age.” 

The Hamilton Community showed its support for Autism Awareness Month in April.  Team Hamilton raised $2815 for a walk at SUNY IT on April 26.  Along with the Psi Chi contribution of $1,644 from an April 5 walk in Oneida, and $390 raised by selling Autism Awareness ribbons on World Autism Day on April 2, Team Hamilton raised $4849 for the Kelberman Center.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, published a letter in the April 4 issue of TLS, The Times Literary Supplement (London). The letter was Briggs’ second published in TLS in seven months.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera and Scholar-in-Residence David W. Rivera published “The Purposes of Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in American Higher Education: A Brief Introduction” as a chapter in a compendium of proceedings of the Second International Business Summit.

Alex Rudow, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Taiwan. A world politics major at Hamilton, she studied abroad at Sciences Po Bordeaux in France in 2013.

Prints by Professors of Art Bruce Muirhead and William Salzillo were awarded prizes at the 34th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink & Traveling Exhibit. The exhibition is on display through May 18 at Artlink, an art and cultural center in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Joana Sabadell-Nieto, professor of Hispanic studies and director of Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS), presented Differences in Common: Gender, Vulnerability and Community, on April 23 at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid. The book was co-edited by Sabadell-Nieto and Marta Segarra of the University of Barcelona.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was the guest speaker at the Caribbean Student Association (CSA) of the SUNY Cortland’s Annual “Taste of the Caribbean” dinner on April 25. Three students representing Hamilton’s Caribbean Students Association accompanied Westmaas to the event.