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Hamilton’s Model United Nations team participated in the annual Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) conference from Feb. 15 to Feb. 18, in Boston. Over 300 schools, including more than 60 from abroad, competed along with Hamilton.

Leila Simona Talani will present a lecture about Europe’s migration crisis on Monday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ. This lecture is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the Levitt Public Affairs Center.

The Hamilton College Arboretum’s 2017-18 Saturday Speaker series continues on Saturday, Feb. 17, with Leon Ginenthal, rose gardener and founder of Der Rosenmeister Nursery. He will discuss his work at 10 a.m. in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. This lecture is free and open the public.

Hamilton will host the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, a collection of short films about outdoor exploration and adventure, on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 4 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The screening is sponsored by the Hamilton Outing Club.

When Andy Berman ’06 and Kevin St. John ’06 first created Facebook accounts during their junior year at Hamilton College, they had no clue that they would be working for the social media company only a decade later. In fact, after graduating from Hamilton, Berman said that he had “no idea” what to do professionally. St. John, who eventually went to business school and developed an interest in startups, did not have a concrete job himself until he started working for Facebook in 2015.

Willie E. Williams ’73, a renowned photographer and the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities at Haverford, recounted his early experiences with art during a talk in the Wellin Museum’s gallery.

Hamilton’s Model United Nations team won second place in the small delegations category at the Columbia Model United Nations New York Conference.