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“Field-scale habitat complexity enhances avian conservation and avian-mediated pest-control services in an intensive agricultural crop,” an article co-authored by Supervisor of Introductory Laboratories Jason Townsend, was recently published in the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.

Recording artist Janis Siegel P’16 was on campus April 29 to conduct a jazz vocal workshop for students. The event was sponsored by the Fillius Jazz Archive in recognition of Jazz Appreciation Month.

John Hartpence, assistant cross country & track and field coach, was the overall winner of the 2016 HamTrek triathlon with a time of 55:20.15. Lauren King ’16 was the top female individual at 01:03:32.95, and Team Hooper won the co-ed relay clocking in at 01:02:42.12.

Hamilton Microfinance hosted a bake sale and raised $836 at the 20th Sacerdote Great Names Lecture featuring astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson on April 12. Every year, the Great Names event attracts thousands of students, staff and community members.

Laura Becker ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan. A Chinese major at Hamilton, she studied in Beijing during her junior year.

With classes, labs, theatre productions and other responsibilities, some days start at 9 a.m. and end 14 hours later for Kevin Herrera ’16. If Herrera isn’t the only geo-sciences/theatre double major you’ve ever heard of, he’s likely the most determined. He still has the first-year planner in which he meticulously listed the requirements for the wildly divergent majors. He’s en route to both. Herrera admits the combination isn’t easy to manage, but says he’s in the right place to make it happen. If you want a school “in which you can do almost anything you can imagine, there really is no better place,” he says about Hamilton College.

 A team of Hamilton students won the programming competition at the 21st annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Northeastern Region, held at Hamilton on April 29 -30. Linnea Sahlberg ’17, Ryan Woo ’17 and Alex Dennis ’18 were the winners from among 39 teams. 

The Oral Communication Center hosted the second annual Three Minute Thesis competition on April 30. Open to all members of the senior class, the competition offers cash prizes for the students who can most effectively summarize their senior projects in three minutes or less. This year’s competition hosted 15 students whose majors and interests ranged from post-colonial economics to concussion management for athletes.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Vincent Odamtten discussed Nnedi Okorafor’s “Who Fears Death: Telling Trauma, Telling Justice” at the 42nd annual conference of the African Literature Association (ALA) held April 6-9 in Atlanta.

“‘Too Smart to be Religious?’ Discreet Seeking Amidst Religious Stigma at an Elite College,” an article by Kateri Boucher ’17 and Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas, was recently published in a thematic issue of the journal Social Inclusion.