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Catherine Gunther Kodat, former professor of English and American studies at Hamilton and current acting provost and dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 4:10 p.m., in Room 3024 of the Taylor Science Center.  Her lecture is titled “Modernist Dance and the Metapolitics of Cold War Culture,” and it is free and open to the public.

Hamilton and Colgate University’s curling teams are co-hosting the annual College Bonspiel on Feb. 13-14 at the Utica Curling Club, 8300 Clark Mills Road, Whitesboro. Saturday’s individual matches begin at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., with the championship at 4:30 p.m. The tournament is free and open to the public. A live stream will be available here.

Hamilton College is among  U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. students,  according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program.  

FebFest’s annual Mr. Hamilton competition attracted a large crowd to the Annex on Feb. 11.  Mr. Football, Lashawn Russell-Ware ’17, was crowned Mr. Hamilton from a field of seven contestants.  Nearly $900 was raised at the event to benefit Alternative Spring Break.

The Monday, Feb. 9  reading and Tuesday talk by The New Yorker author and staff writer D.T. Max have been cancelled due to the weather in the Northeast. His visit will be rescheduled for a later date.

New titles from the Richard W. Couper Press present groundbreaking research on the Shakers, House of David, and Mary's City of David. Materials from these intentional religious communities form an integral part of the Special Collections at Burke Library.

Six members of the Hamilton Men’s Soccer team traveled to Guatemala for a service trip during winter break in January through the Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation (GHHF). They spent a week in the village of Chichoy Alto, in the region of Patzun, Chimaltenango, where they worked to help finish building  the village school. With the newly constructed second floor, students entering middle school will now have adequate space to continue their education.

The conversion of Minor Theater to a residence hall is proceeding on schedule with an anticipated August 2015 completion date. When remodeling is finished the building will house 52 students on three floors.

Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with two events.  The annual MLK Day dinner and lecture on Monday, Jan. 19, will feature Syracuse University Professor Arthur Flowers. The Hamilton Theatre Department will present a play, The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, on Jan. 20, 21 and 22.

Spring semester classes don’t begin until Jan. 20 but 39 Hamilton students are back on campus a week early to take part in two Levitt Center programs. Twenty-six students are participating in the fourth Levitt Leadership Institute and 13 are involved in the Social Innovation Fellow Program.