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Peter Bauer, executive director of Protect the Adirondacks!, visited Hamilton on Nov. 18 to deliver a lecture on “The Adirondack Park in The Andrew Cuomo Years: Forever Wild Under Assault.”

Hamilton a capella group Duelly Noted recently took second place in an a capella competition fundraiser for Herkimer High School’s Drama Department. The co-ed group that was founded in 2008 also won the award for best stage presence.

Hamilton’s Program in Washington, D.C. recently met former six-term Delaware Congressman Mike Castle ’61 at his DC office of DLA Piper. DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 30 countries. Castle also served as Delaware’s governor for two terms.

A children’s literary prize named for Jean D’Costa, the Leavenworth Professor of English emerita, was recently presented during the inaugural Lignum Vitae Writing Awards at the National Gallery of Jamaica. D’Costa taught at Hamilton from 1980 to 1998.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons was the co-organizer of a special session at the Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The annual meeting, held Nov. 14-15, was hosted by Rutgers University.

The Hamilton Association for Volunteering Outreach and Charity (HAVOC) general board hosted an education and literacy panel on Nov. 17 which discussed libraries, the Common Core and the critical importance of early childhood literacy. The four panelists were Adjunct Professor Richard Hunt, Director of the Utica Public Library Darby O’Brien, America Reads Student Co-Director Erica Quach ’16, and Brian Sobotko ’16, head tutor at A Better Chance (ABC) House.

Students on Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain program left Madrid on Nov. 12 for a four-day cultural trip to Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain. Capital of Catalonia, and the most important port of the Mediterranean cost in Spain, Barcelona offers a wide diversity of cultural experience. The students were able to explore the city´s unique personality, language, and culture, and experience first-hand its strong sense of identity and uniqueness.

“The Eleatic and the Indispensabilist,” an article by Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus, was recently published in the open access journal Theoria. The article focused on the debate over whether we should believe that mathematical objects exist and how that debate connects to the general question of how to determine what we should believe to exist.

Hamilton College's Brett Hull has been selected the 2015 Atlantic Region Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year for Division III by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

The editors of the Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB) have chosen Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs’ paper “Flea fitness is reduced by high fractional concentrations of CO2 that simulate levels found in their hosts’ burrows” as the Editors’ Choice for its December issue. The paper is featured in the Inside JEB section of the publication, titled “Fleas Don’t Cope in Burrowing Host’s Stale Air.”