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Hamilton’s curling team finished the 2013-2014 season ranked 16th in U.S. College Curling Merit Point Standings, thus qualifying for Nationals which will be held March 14-16 in Blaine, Minn. Hamilton Team 1 will be competing against 15 other teams from all over the country. Team 1 members representing Hamilton are captain Meghan Doherty ’14, Tara Huggins ’14, Josh Devinney ’15 and Jake Davidson ’15.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate was elected president of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life (ARIL)/CrossCurrents during a recent meeting of the board of directors in New York City.

Katherine Terrell, associate professor of English and creative writing, recently presented a paper at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, titled "Poetry, Politics, and Legendary History in Medieval Scotland."

John Given, associate professor and program director of classical studies at East Carolina University, will present the Winslow Classics Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 4 p.m., in room 3024 in the Taylor Science Center. The lecture is titled “Theatre as a Laboratory for the Humanities: A Classicist’s Tales of Directing Ancient Plays” and is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik gave a presentation titled "Vikings to Varangians: Medieval Scandinavians and the World They Made" to the Scandinavian Club of the Mohawk Valley on Feb. 19.

Students in the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C., met on Feb. 12 with Ted Piccone, the acting vice president and director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution, for an in-depth discussion of U.S. democracy promotion. The Brookings Institution is a highly respected, private, nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions.

Laverne Cox of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black reminded a Wellin Hall audience of the importance in claiming the intersecting components of one’s multiple identities with pride and creating spaces of independent gender expression in a lecture on Feb. 22. Her talk, the keynote address in the NY6 Spectrum Conference, was titled “Ain’t I a Woman: My Journey to Womanhood.”

Lawrence Chua, postdoctoral fellow in Asian Studies and visiting assistant professor of art history, co-chaired a session at the annual conference of the College Art Association in Chicago on February 15.

A letter urging protection for the monarch butterfly and co-authored by Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, was delivered to to President Barack Obama, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at this week’s North American Summit in Mexico.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jen Borton presented a poster on Feb. 14 at the 15th Annual Meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in Austin, Texas.