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Four Hamilton College men's lacrosse players were honored by the Liberty League on April 30 when the league announced its end-of-season awards.

Prison walls serve two main purposes: they keep the prisoners in, and they keep the outside world out. Last semester, students from Hamilton used literature to permeate these walls. Professor Doran Larson's 400-level seminar concentrated on prison writing, and traveled outside the classroom to participate in a creative writing class taught by Professor Larson at the maximum security Attica State Prison.

Professors of Anthropology Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones presented a paper titled "A Case of Extinction in Paleoindian Lithic Technology" at the 74th Society for American Archaeology Meeting in Atlanta on April 23. The paper is a continuation of Beck and Jones's research on the earliest colonists of North America and discusses the ultimate disappearance of a particular technology used initially by these early colonists.

The Hamilton College Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble will present free spring concerts in Wellin Hall on the Hamilton campus this weekend. The Orchestra concert is Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m., and the Jazz concert will be Sunday, May 3, at 3 p.m.

Eight Hamilton math majors and one faculty member presented talks at the 16th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held this year at Union College on April 18. The students giving talks were seniors Andrew Forman, Keith Gross, Katie Hiltz, Chris Kasdorf, Xiabo Ma, Jacob Marcus and Li Qiu, and junior Alex Shoulson. Professor of Mathematics Larry Knop also spoke.

Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren gave a lecture titled "Harnessing the Power of an Enzyme: Catalytically Active Biomaterials" on April 27 as part of the University of Rhode Island Chemistry Department's seminar series. Elgren presented the work of several of his Hamilton undergraduate collaborators, including Trevor Pedrick '10, Sydney Fasulo '09, Christina Clark '10, Nick Berry '09, and Senior Fellow Amy Barrows '08, who have contributed to their ongoing efforts to trap enzymes in functional materials.

A team of three Hamilton College students finished second among 28 teams in a computer programming contest held on April 24 at SUNY Plattsburgh. The Hamilton team included Tom Helmuth '09, Tyler Chamberlain '09 and Tawanda Mashavave '10.

Susan H. Frey '84 will return to campus for her 25th reunion in June; however, before she can make the trip to College Hill, she will lead her own trek with 20 Hamilton friends at the Thoreau Institute at the Walden Woods Project in Lincoln, MA. Susan, with the support of the Hamilton College Alumni Association of Boston, has invited Hamilton alumni, parents and friends to join her on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at Walden Pond for a 2 mile hike where she will offer commentary on the natural history of the Pond as well as the most famous denizen of Walden Woods, Henry David Thoreau.

Ketura Brown '04 has been selected as a 2009 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow following a highly competitive nationwide contest. The Rangel Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and managed by the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University, supports extraordinary individuals who want to pursue careers in the U.S. Foreign Service.

Lisa Fontes '09, with co-author Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale and others, presented a paper titled "Migration and Cultural Transmission: A Study of Side-Notched Projectile Points, Athapaskan Tradition, and Evolutionary Patterns" at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Atlanta on April 23.