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The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art welcomed 25 local Boy Scouts to the museum for a tour on Dec. 12.  Later that day the museum hosted a Wellin Kids event, where children made holiday ornaments of felt.

The Hamilton College Board of Trustees has elected unanimously David Wippman, the William S. Pattee Professor of Law and dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, to be the College’s 20th president. The appointment is effective July 1, 2016.

Hamilton College's Director of Athletics Jon Hind '80 was presented with the 2015 Extra Man Award by the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association in Baltimore, Md., on Friday afternoon.

Hamilton Board of Trustees Chair Steve Sadove '73, P'07,'10,'13 and Bob Delaney ’79 , co-chairs of the Presidential Search committee, announced in an email to the Hamilton community that the College’s 20th president will be introduced today. The announcement will be live-streamed at 4 p.m.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate recently published Key Terms in Material Religion, his eighth edited book. The volume includes 37 short essays on key terms that are shaping the rapidly growing field of material religion.

Eight Hamilton students have been selected to receive the Class of 1979 Student Travel Award. The award, established by the alumni of Hamilton’s Class of 1979, offers financial assistance to Hamilton students who wish to pursue extensive research projects in different parts of the world.

Hamilton’s Athletics Department celebrated the holiday season with generous giving to the less fortunate. The department participated in COOP’s Holiday Gift Drive and supported individuals from the Johnson Park Center and a family through the Department of Social Services.

The Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach and Charity (HAVOC) recently donated $1,026. to the Utica Public Library for its backpack exchange program.  The early literacy program offers themed activity backpacks for infants to children age 5.  Each backpack includes books, musical CDs, activities list and educational toys. These are borrowed by parents and caregivers to expand the library experience to the home.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, presented “The Future of the Economic and Monetary Union” in a graduate seminar on Dec. 4 at King’s College London.

The Hamilton women's lacrosse team organized a drive during the fall semester to collect items on the Utica Rescue Mission's "most needed" list. On Dec. 4 senior captains Margaret Gabriel and Caroline McCarthy, and Assistant Women’s Lacrosse Coach Nora Fallon-Oben took the goods to the Utica Rescue Mission.