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Eunice Lee ’16 has been awarded a 2016-17 Fulbright U.S. student grant to the European Union (EU).  She will research the EU’s food quality policy and how origin and quality regulations affect small farming communities. Lee is an environmental studies and French major and will be based at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research in Toulouse, France, throughout her research. She studied in France during her junior year.

Students in Professor Nhora Serrano’s Visual Narrative: Images With(in) Books, Art History and Literature class had the chance this week to converse with Yun-Fei  Ji about his current exhibition at the Wellin Museum, The Intimate Universe. Students submitted questions in advance to Serrano, and she directed the conversation between Ji and the class.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya gave the opening remarks at the Third Biennial Undergraduate Student Research Conference held at the State University of New York at Binghamton on March 12. He then traveled to Cuba where he made two presentations and conducted research.

DK Lee ’17 presented at the 2016 Annual Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Conference in Providence, R.I., on March 23. The projects presented were developed throughout Lee’s year-long Instructional Technology Apprenticeship Program (ITAP) with Educational Technologist Benjamin Salzman ’14.

Oceanographer Robert Ballard detailed many of the revolutionary discoveries that have filled his 57-year-long career in a Chapel lecture titled “Ocean Exploration: Past, Present, and Future” on March 30. Prior to the lecture he met with Hamilton Marine Biology  and Geomicrobiology classes and science faculty.

Student organization Global Outreach Hamilton, a part of the Community Outreach and Opportunity Project (COOP), took nine students and two faculty members to the Caribbean island of Nevis to work with the St. Kitts- and Nevis-based non-profit organization Operation Future during the second week of spring break. Emily Rubinstein '16, one of the trip's organizers, shares this reflection.

The students participating in Hamilton’s Program in New York City recently had the opportunity to tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“It’s a Google and two clicks to get to the [Bon Appétit] menu,” Chris Lee ’16 noted, “and that’s just annoying.” Lee, a computer science major, isn’t being lazy; he understands that in the age of smartphones, convenience often determines usefulness. With this in mind, Hamilton App, available on both the App Store and the Play Store, aims to “centralize information to one useful app for the benefit of students, alumni, faculty and staff.”

The Hamilton College Choir presents the home concert of their recently completed Spring Break Tour on Friday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Kimberly Williams, associate director of the Days-Massolo Center, presented an interactive workshop about “Advocating for the Intersectional Student” during the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) conference held March 14-18 in Copenhagen.