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Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill is co-editor of Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday with Lisa M. Hoffman (University of Washington-Tacoma). The book, a collection of essays published by University of Georgia Press, is part of its Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series.

Dozens of Psi Upsilon alumni returned to campus on Friday, Nov. 13, to spend that night and all day Saturday working with 30-40 current Hamilton undergraduate members to help prepare them in their pursuit of internships and full time jobs. Indicative of the five-year-old program’s success, 40 out of 44 undergraduate members had jobs or internships before commencement last year. Eight of this year's 11 seniors have already secured jobs after graduation.

Phyllis Breland ’80, director of Opportunity Programs and interim director of Diversity and Inclusion at Hamilton College, was featured in “Avoiding Burnout: How 10 CDOs Balance Work with Life” in Insight Into Diversity magazine. Breland is an Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity (HEOP) graduate of Hamilton.

Seven students from Hamilton’s Microfinance organization attended Lend for America’s 7th Annual Summit at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, on Nov. 7 and 8. Hamilton attendees were Arthur Williams ’16, Enjay Ofoleta ’16, Flavia Oliveira’16, Sarah Magee’18, Elizabeth Tran’18, Joey Rokous’18 and Ifeoluwa Aiyelabowo ’19.

Hamilton’s Curling Club is back in action with two tournaments under their belts and a number of promising underclassmen on the roster. The team has already participated in tournaments hosted by Boston University at Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, Mass. (Nov. 7-8), and by the Rochester Institute of Technology (Nov. 13-15).

Several Hamilton College athletes took part in an athletic panel discussion on Nov. 19 at Clinton High School.  Hamilton provided lunch and five athletes talked to interested CCS students about playing varsity sports in college, how to balance academics, and a bit about how recruiting works.

“Afrocentrism or Assimilation: The Case of Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth” by Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was recently published as a chapter in the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas.

Hamilton College's Michelle Fish '17 (Slingerlands, N.Y./Guilderland HS) competed in the 2015 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championship at Lake Breeze Golf Club in Winneconne, Wis., on Saturday morning.

Hamilton College finished in 21st place out of 32 teams at the 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Championship, which was held at Lake Breeze Golf Club in Winneconne, Wis., on Saturday afternoon.

Hamilton College's Michelle Fish '17 travels to Winneconne, Wis., to run in the 2015 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championship at Lake Breeze Golf Club on Saturday, Nov. 21.