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Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season. The College will be closed from Dec. 24 through Jan. 3. Offices reopen on Jan. 4 and classes will resume on Jan. 19.

A Dec. 22 American Public Media Marketplace broadcast titled “How 2 percent GDP growth looks in the real economy” featured an interview with Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics. Owen commented on the relatively small gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, observing that typically, after a recession caused by a financial crisis, growth tends to be slow initially.

Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali discussed his book Tu le diras à ma mère on Dec. 17 at the French Ministry of Overseas Affairs in Paris. He was an invited guest of the National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery.

Hamilton juniors Angel Pichardo and Hannah Strong have been awarded Gilman International Scholarship Program awards for undergraduate study abroad in the spring 2016 semester. Pichardo plans to study in the biomedicine program at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Strong will enroll at the University of Capetown, South Africa, in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) arts and sciences program.

“On the Entry of Employee-Owned Firms: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1870–1960,” co-authored by Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, appears as the lead article in volume 16 of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms.

All semester long, the Hamilton College Career and Life Outcomes Center has brought back alumni to meet with students and discuss their careers and opportunities in their fields.  From Jake Taylor ’14 discussing AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) to Richard Previdi ’77 sharing details of his career in real estate, alumni were eager to provide advice and answer students’ questions.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate recently presented invited lectures at The Open University and the University of Zurich. He also presented and organized a panel at the American Academy of Religion conference in Atlanta.

Some Hamilton athletes took time from preparing for finals to read to children at several local elementary schools on Dec. 4.  Athletes representing many of Hamilton’s varsity teams went to Sauquoit, Clinton and Whitesboro Elementary Schools and read to K-5th grade classrooms. 

Hamilton’s need-blind admission policy is the focus of a Dec. 18 feature story published by Huffington Post titled “How One Top College Ended a Policy that Weeded Out Poor Students.” The article detailed how Hamilton made the decision to eliminate merit scholarships and later to adopt the need-blind policy that eliminates applicants' financial need from consideration in admission decisions.

Greenhouse and Invertebrate Care Technician Hillary Joy Pitoniak was appointed president of the Northeast Herbal Association (NEHA) last month. She is a certified herbalist who has studied medicinal herbs for 13 years.