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Last year at this time (Heqing) Amy Zhang ’18 was a senior at Sheboygan Falls High School in Wisconsin. Little did she know then that a piece she wrote for a high school English assignment would within less than a year become a young-adult novel. Falling Into Place was published by Harper Collins in September.

Two busloads full of Hamilton College students and a half dozen faculty members arrived in New York City on Saturday, Dec. 13, to join a march against police shootings, primarily of black men. Part of a national movement, people gathered in cities including Boston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to march in reaction to recent events.  

Alan Cafruny , the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a lecture at Kings College London as part of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Research Seminar Series  in November. His talk was titled “The Political Economy of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).”

Six members of the Hamilton College men's soccer team will travel to Guatemala during winter break in January 2015 through the Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation (GHHF).

Ken A. Dill, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Chemistry at Stony Brook University, visited Hamilton on Dec. 4-5, as the College’s second Robert S. Morris Class of 1976 Visiting Fellow.

Le Discours africain à l’ère des exorcistes (“African Discourse in the Era of the Exorcists”) by Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali was recently published in Paris by Panafrika/Silex/Nouvelles du Sud. The book re-examines the contact of Africa with the West.

Thousands of spectators filled the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House to hear Derek Jeter, five-time World Series champion and member of MLB’s 3,000-hit club, participate in a moderated question and answer session.

In what has become an end-of-semester tradition,  students were able to take a break from studying for finals and spend some time relaxing with pets during HAVOC’s  “Paws to Relax” in the Annex on Dec. 9.

Hamilton College Department of Music and Utica Dance, Inc., will collaborate on a fully-staged production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13 and 14 in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Throughout his 20-year career with the New York Yankees, Derek Jeter had the reputation as a “gamer” – always the player who gave 110 percent and played harder than anyone else. The former Yankees captain and shortstop proved that label still holds when he slogged through snow, ice and a Nor’easter to keep his date at Hamilton College as a guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series on Dec. 10.