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Hamilton students participating in the recent Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to South Carolina were featured in a news story in the Marion Star & Mullins Enterprise and on the Web site scnow.com (4/1/09).

Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan gave an invited talk, "Entre le vrai et le vraisemblable: enjeux de l'écriture romanesque de Sophie Gay, 1830-1845" on March 25 in Toulouse, France, at the international colloquium, "La littérature en Bas-Bleus. Romancières sous ls Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet."

Peter Mallozzi, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Indonesia, where he will teach English.

In a March 16 Wall Street Journal (Europe edition) article, Edward S. Walker '62, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Hamilton government professor, discussed the possible influence that Israel's new foreign minister, nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, might have on the peace process. Walker, the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, served as ambassador to Israel in 1997-1999, overlapping with the years in which Netanyahu first served as prime minister,

Atelier Four will exhibit 40 intaglio prints in the group's last exhibition of the academic year at the Herkimer County Community College (HCCC) Cogar Gallery from April 3 through May 15. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, April 8 from 6-8 p.m. Atelier Four is a group which includes Hamilton College professors Bruce Muirhead and William Salzillo and alumni Amy Georgia Buchholz '80 and Jake Muirhead '86.

Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier on the front lines of combat in war-torn Sudan, will give a lecture on Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. Jal is the seventh guest in The Voices of Color Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Pakistani novelist and translator, will read from his work, The Adventures of Amir-Hamza: The Making of an Indo-Islamic Legend, on Wednesday, April 1, at 4 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. It is free and open to the public.

St. Lawrence University won all three doubles matches and handed visiting Hamilton College a 6-3 loss in a non-conference dual match played at Sammis Tennis Courts on March 31.

Jonathan Mallinson, professor of French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Trinity College, presented a lecture, "Reading Candide Today: From Voltaire to Cormac McCarthy," on Monday, March 30. The lecture was sponsored by the Offices of the President and Dean of Faculty and the French Department.

The Carter Center invited Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell to join with other experts on election observation and campaign finance monitoring in developing democracies in a "shirtsleeves" meeting March 31. Organized by the center's Democracy Program, the group explored practical means for systematic collection of information on campaign finance laws and their enforcement, political party practices and problems related to vote buying and the use of the media and state finance during campaigns.