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Tiffany Sanders '11 has been awarded a Davis Peace Project Fellowship program grant of $10,000. A Posse Foundation scholar from Boston, she plans to use her to project award to create open enrollment, free karate classes at the Orchard Gardens Community Center in Dorchester, Mass.

One hundred Hamilton students are spending a week of their spring break volunteering at nonprofit organizations during Spring Break, March 12-26. This year marks Hamilton's 18th Alternative Spring Break (ASB), an annual volunteer venture that consists of 10 different community service trips.

Students who traveled to Wilmington, N.C., for Alternative Spring Break last week gathered at the home of Executive Director of Principal Gifts Mary Evans '82 for a dinner party. They were also joined by Missy '79 and Andy '70 Kennedy, and Durwood '67 and Gloria Almkuist. The students volunteered at an elementary school and at two teen drop in programs in Wilmington.

The second annual Milton Marathon drew avid Paradise Lost fans, members of English classes, faculty and interested bystanders to the browsing area of Burke Library on Feb. 27. Margie Thickstun, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English, organized the marathon for her English 228 class.

Andrew Lee ’94, vice president, new businesses for Aetna, has been selected by the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, as a Young Global Leader for 2011.

The Hamilton College Choir will perform in seven Mid-Atlantic cities during its annual March tour. The 64-member choir will begin the tour on Saturday, March 12, in Stroudsburg, Pa., and conclude on Friday, March 18, in Princeton, N.J.

An 80-mile bike ride and a Facebook posting with a photo was all it took to propel Stephen Wright ’13 to Chobani yogurt fame. Wright stars in a “Real Chobani Love Story” commercial that is currently airing on TV.

Mark Padilla, provost and professor of classics at Christopher Newport University, will present a lecture titled “Classical Myth in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock” on Thursday, March 10, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

James Robbins, senior editorial writer for foreign affairs at the Washington Times, will present a lecture on “West Point Culture and the Civil War” on Thursday, March 10, at 4:15 p.m. in the Hamilton College Kirner-Johnson Red Pit (127). The event is free and open to the public.

About 90 members of the Hamilton community participated in the annual America’s Greatest Heart Run & Walk on Saturday, March 5, at Utica College. Although donations are still being counted it’s estimated that Team Hamilton raised approximately $5700. These volunteers were among the 8444 total participants who walked or ran between three and five miles.