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The Hamilton College Choir will hit the road for its annual spring break tour, this year visiting cities in the Northeast. The 78 members are directed by G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981.

Tracy L. Adler, director of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, welcomed New York City alumni for a talk with artist Casey Ruble on March 7 at Volta NY. Ruble’s work was included in the museum’s fall exhibition A Sense of Place, which was curated by Adler.

Through Hamilton’s off-campus study programs students can witness the inner workings of government in Washington, D.C., or experience the heart of the U.S. financial and publishing industries in New York. Now they’ll have yet another option for off campus study, a bit closer to campus and in a far less urban setting. Hamilton’s faculty recently approved the creation of a pilot off-campus semester-long Program in the Adirondacks. The proposed start date is fall 2015.

Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer recently published the instructor’s and student’s solutions manuals for the introductory chemistry textbook Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach.

Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin was a panelist at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association held February 26-29 in Chicago. The discussion focused on ethical assessments of Abraham Lincoln.

Since it started in 2011, the Community Outreach and Opportunity Project, or COOP, has been buzzing with activity. It’s a win-win relationship. Hamilton students want to help their neighbors and effect positive change; and their neighbors, in the greater Mohawk Valley, provide numerous opportunities for activities like tutoring, working in soup kitchens or building houses, to name a few. In fact, the number of interactions with local organizations has grown annually, requiring the COOP to increase the number of it senior fellows.

Students in the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C. recently met with Robert (Bobby) Herman, vice president for regional programs at Freedom House, for a discussion of the organization’s efforts to promote human rights and democratic change. Freedom House was founded in 1941 as an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.

Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino's paper, “Wounds That Will Not Heal: Heroism and Innocence in Shane and the Iliad,” was published in the inaugural issue of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (1.1, Spring 2014).

Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan contributed a chapter in La Littérature en bas-bleus. Tome II - Romancières en France de 1848 à 1870 and several entries in Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices.

“This room holds many ghosts,” Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson ’72 said as he began his talk in the Chapel on Tuesday, March 11. “Ghosts in every corner.” Nelson delivered the Tolles lecture titled “The Peculiarity of Theater.”