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A group of refugees from Russia, Bosnia, Somalia and Belarus will travel to Hamilton's greenhouse on Saturday, April 5, to plant seedlings for their gardens located at the F.X. Matt Apartments. Senior Jenney Stringer, who organized the community effort that resulted in the creation of a community garden at the apartments last summer,  planned Saturday's event as a way for residents to start the gardening process in advance of the outdoor growing season.

The Hamilton College Choir will present its recent Midwest tour program in a home performance on Friday, April 4, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. The show is free and open to the public. The program will include works by Handl, Lassus, Monteverdi, Pinkham, Barber and Whitacre, as well as a Beatles medley and a selection of folk songs and spirituals.

Recording artist and multiple Grammy Award winner Aretha Franklin will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series at Hamilton College. She will perform on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The event is free and no tickets are needed, but seats for the general public will be limited to approximately 1,000, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Four Hamilton students chose to spend their spring break working at non-profit agencies in Utica through the Urban Service Experience (USE) program. They volunteered at Thea Bowman House, JCTOD Outreach, Inc. and Y-Girls in Utica, in addition to creating welcome baskets for new refugee families accepted through the Refugee Center. 

Phyllis Breland '80, director of Opportunity Programs and ACCESS Pathways, was honored at the YWCA of the Mohawk Valley's Salute to Outstanding Women on April 3. The annual Salute celebrates and honors women who have made "exemplary contributions in their industry." Breland was recognized in the education category.

A collection of music for compositions by Ben Moore '82 titled Ben Moore, 14 Songs has been published by G. Schirmer, Inc. In the preface Moore writes "Many of the (songs in this album) are settings of poems that have attracted me since childhood … The texts, for the most parts, are about love, but love in quite a wide variety of modes and orientations." For this collection Moore was inspired by poems by Keats, Yeats and James Joyce. Songs include "In the darkpine-wood," "The Ivy-Wife" and "This heart that flutters."

A panel discussion to commemorate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 40th anniversary of his death will feature historians and community advocates including Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History.

Laura Purdy, the McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, published a paper titled "Could There be a Right Not to be Born an Ocutuplet" in Taking Responsibility for Children, edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007).

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a talk titled "Determining Sets, Resolving Sets, and the Exchange Property" at a section meeting for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) held at the University of Central Florida March 14-15. In her talk Boutin described two types of subsets of a network that capture its symmetries. Further she discussed when such subsets are analogous to a basis, a set that is fundamental to other areas of mathematics.

Ashleigh Smythe, visiting assistant professor of biology, co-taught a workshop on the taxonomy and identification of free-living marine nematodes at Kyoto University's Seto Marine Biological Laboratory in Shirahama, Japan, March 21-24. The workshop was sponsored by the NaGISA Project, an international Census of Marine Life field project.