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Hamilton’s Mock Trial team competed at Yale University’s Invitational tournament  on Dec. 4-6. Unlike many tournaments, Yale’s divides teams into upper and lower divisions. For the first time in Hamilton’s history, the Mock Trial team competed in the upper division alongside other nationally ranked teams such as Harvard (last year’s national champions), Yale (last year’s 2nd place team at nationals), and New York University (ranked fourth in the nation).

Hamilton College Department of Music and Utica Dance, Inc. will collaborate for the second time on a fully-staged production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11, 12 and 13 in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center, on the Hamilton College campus.  Performance times are Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The Hamilton College Orchestra will play Tchaikovsky’s score for the evening performances. The afternoon performances will have recorded music.

The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera, by Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman, was named the winner of the CNY Book Award in Poetry for 2015. The announcement was made on Dec. 3 in Syracuse, N.Y., at the CNY Book Awards reception.

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, attended the UN COP21 Climate Change summit at Le Bourget convention center in Paris on Dec 4. Barry participated in a women and gender constituency conversation that explored the ways in which gender equality and women’s human rights are fundamental to combating global climate change.

The Hamilton Mathletics Team sat for the William Lowell Putnam exam on Saturday, Dec. 5.  Coached by Associate Professor of Mathematics Andrew Dykstra, the team had trained for the exam throughout the fall semester and consisted of a record-high number of 20 students. The Putnam exam is the most famous undergraduate mathematics competition in the country.  The exam is so challenging that most years the national median score is zero out of 120 possible points

A paper co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Douglas Edwards was published in The Journal of Philosophy. “From Truth Pluralism to Ontological Pluralism and Back” was written with A.J. Cotnoir of the University of St. Andrews and focused on connections between ontological pluralism and truth pluralism.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, directed a national mentoring workshop for female economists last month in New Orleans. The workshop, sponsored by the American Economic Association, was designed for female economists working toward tenure at institutions that do not offer a Ph.D. in economics.

Although Kwanzaa is still a few weeks away, Hamilton’s Black and Latino Student Union (BLSU) invited 50 guests, including students and faculty, to celebrate the spirit of Kwanzaa and each other as the academic semester comes to a close. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton Jazz Ensemble’s winter concert, “Big Band Bop!” on Monday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in Café Opus, McEwen Hall.

The fall 2015 F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series concludes on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m., when filmmaker Bill Morrison presents The Great Flood (2013). The screening takes place in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium and is free and open to the public.