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Erin Lewis ’18 recently received one of five Undergraduate Poster Awards given by the Computers in Chemistry Division at the national meeting of the American Chemistry Society.

Students on Hamilton’s Poetry Slam Team recently competed in the 2017 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. CUPSI 2017 included 72 teams from around the globe and was hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago from April 12 through 16.

The Career Center’s Student Connect Team led an overnight trip to Boston designed to offer fellow students the opportunity to explore potential careers through site visits, panel discussions and networking with alumni employees at various companies and organizations.

Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS) students recently visited the autonomous community of the Basque Country, known as Euskadi in Basque, and situated in the northeastern part of Spain. Twenty-seven percent of the population speak Basque- an ancestral language isolate to its people that is believed to be one of the few surviving pre-Indo-European languages in Europe. Its origin is not known.

Two papers co-authored by Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibson were recently published.

The Hamilton College Orchestra presents its final concert of the semester on Friday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Juniors Andre Burnham and Derian De La Torre have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad this summer. Burnham will attend the Babilonia Language School in Sicily and De La Torre will study in Hamilton’s Associated Colleges in China program in Beijing.

The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970 by Dennis Gilbert, professor of sociology emeritus and lecturer in sociology, was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Research initiated by Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas at the March for Science was highlighted in a WIRED magazine online article on April 24 titled "Scientists Actually Did Some Science at the March for Science."

Students and faculty in the Classics Department participated in the annual Parilia conference, held this year at Skidmore College on April 21. Each year the Classics Departments from Hamilton, Skidmore and Union Colleges come together in late April for an undergraduate research conference. The Parilia conference is named after a Roman rural spring festival celebrated on April 21.