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Students in the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C. met with Rep. Richard L. Hanna (R-22) in his Capitol Hill office on March 12.  He represents New York’s 22nd district in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes Hamilton College.

Spring break doesn’t just mean fun in the sun for all college students. One-hundred Hamilton students are spending a week of their spring break volunteering at one of 10 nonprofit organizations for Alternative Spring Break (ASB), March 16-28.

In an American Public Media Marketplace broadcast titled “Why the Federal Reserve is vague about interest rates,” Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, explained the value of being able to predict the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions. Her comments were included in the March 19 Marketplace Morning Report in advance of the  conclusion of the Fed's Open Market Committee two-day policy meeting Wednesday afternoon.

Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett gave two talks as part of the International Women's Day celebration on March 11, organized by the Department of International Business, University of Dhaka in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Hamilton College's Maggie Rosenbaum '14 (Alford, Mass./Monument Mountain Regional HS) will compete at the 2014 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships from Thursday, March 20, through Saturday, March 22.

Students in the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C., met with Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, CEO of Sage Associates, for a discussion of U.S. democracy promotion on March 5.  Ambassador Bushnell is the founder and co-director of the Levitt Leadership Institute at Hamilton College.

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor of English Janelle Schwartz's Extreme Adventure Narrative class practiced winter rescue in Root Glen last week. They were reading Joe Simpson's book Touching the Void and had a field day to experience what it's like moving an injured person in the cold.

Professor of English & Creative Writing Doran Larson spoke about his edited collection, Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, and The American Prison Writing Archive (a Hamilton, DHi project) in several places from Feb. 25 to 28.

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio will feature a reading by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate on Monday, March 17, as part of the station’s Academic Minute. Plate’s piece is titled “An object lesson in religious history” and relates to the topics explored in his new book, A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects. In a related essay, "A History of Religion in 11 Objects," Plate offered 11 images with his text to illustrate his Huffington Post piece.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten co-authored a chapter in the book  Advances in Biological Solid-State NMR: Proteins and Membrane-Active Peptides. The publication was just announced by the Royal Society of Chemistry.