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Kevin Rowe '10 was featured in an article in his local newspaper, Cadence (Grand Rapids, Mich.), about his recent Alternative Spring Break trip to Biloxi, Miss. Rowe was part of a group of 150 students from a number of colleges who worked with hands on Gulf Coast, a program of the Points of Light Foundation and Hands On Network – a network of nonprofit organizations around the world that inspire volunteers, create leaders and change lives and communities through effective volunteer action. 

Bruce Simon '91, an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia, contributed a column to Inside Higher Ed titled "A Challenge to Billion Dollar Endowments" (3/31/08). In the column Simon calls on the wealthiest universities to donate one percent of their return on endowment to less well-off institutions. He discusses his blog, Citizen of Somewhere Else, where he has "contrasted the fortunes of the 76 colleges and universities in what I've come to call the Billion Dollar Endowment Club (BDEC) with my own university's roughly $80M operating budget and $20M endowment, commented on the calls to hold the BDEC and other 4000+ colleges and universities in the United States accountable for spending 5 percent of their endowments annually, and made a few modest proposals to the BDEC itself."

Bruce Simon '91, an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia, contributed a column to Inside Higher Ed titled "A Challenge to Billion Dollar Endowments" (3/31/08). In the column Simon calls on the wealthiest universities to donate one percent of their return on endowment to less well-off institutions.   

Hamilton's Bicentennial Class, so named because the members of the class of 2012 will graduate in the same year the College celebrates its 200th anniversary, is setting records well before students matriculate in the fall. 

Sixth graders from William A. Wettel elementary school in Vernon visited Hamilton for a morning of science on March 21. The students began the day with a presentation by Doug Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology. Weldon discussed the brain and showed examples of the function of the nervous system. The students then broke into groups and rotated through classes in biology, chemistry and geology. A highlight of the visit was an erupting volcano, in this case a simulated eruption of red-tinted liquid in a large trash can placed outside.  

Assistant Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang co-authored a paper titled "The pathway to detangle scrambled genes" in the journal PLoS ONE. This interdisciplinary, collaborative research attempted to decipher pathways for piecing correct DNA segments together in protozoan ciliates.

Five Hamilton students got a glimpse inside the world of family practice medicine during the second week of spring break (March 17 – March 21). Nicholas Berry '09, Mikel Etchegaray '09, Matthew Sharbaugh '08, Nedzada Smajic '10, and Benjamin Van Arnam '09 participated in the Health Experience Learning Program (HELP) at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica. During this five-day internship, the Hamilton students shadowed first, second, and third year residents of St. Elizabeth's Family Practice Residency Program as the young physicians treated patients and went about their clinical activities.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave the keynote speech on the occasion of Ghana's 51st Anniversary Celebration on March 15 at the Gordon Student Center, Onondaga Community College. The speech, "Ghana: Democracy and Sustainable Development – An African Example" was based on Odamtten's observations during his recent sabbatical in the West African country.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Yuwen Hsiung's paper "Emotion, Visuality, and Subjectivity: Meng Jinghui's Urban Play Rhinoceros in Love" won the 2008 Emerging Scholar award. She is invited to present her paper during the AAP conference in Denver in July and the paper will be published in the Asian Theatre Journal.

Hamilton's Jazz Archive is featured in the April issue of JazzTimes in an article titled "Swinging Spoken Words." The writer, Nat Hentoff, visited Hamilton and spoke with Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive. Hentoff noted that when he saw the video interviews with 280 jazz musicians "it was for me like hearing the voices of participants in the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, where our swinging liberties were being improvised by James Madison and other sidemen and set down for posterity."