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LITS recently hosted the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES District’s 2019 Battle of the Books. More than 100 middle and high school students from eight regional school districts competed.

Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting her artwork in The Form Will Find Its Way, Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery in Minneapolis, through March 30.

Colleen Wahl ’19, a computer science major from Berkeley, Calif., has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to South Korea.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang has presented some 30 lectures since beginning a yearlong sabbatical in China in the fall.

Judy Zhou ’19 and her virtual reality project that is focused on empathy is one illustration of how digital technology is integrated across campus, a key priority of the College's Because Hamilton campaign.

Not surprisingly, Juliette Reiss ’03, an actress in Los Angeles, participated in theatre productions at Hamilton. But she also loved singing with the College Choir and the a cappella group Tumbling After, for which she served as president.

As college students, we read novels, short stories, textbooks, even perhaps poems or memoirs. We write essays, lab reports, Blackboard discussion posts. We read and write every single day, yet how much do we know about how a book goes from a manuscript to a product in Barnes & Noble? How many people are a part of the process? Who is behind that book description on Amazon?

Henry Shuldiner ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Colombia. A literature major from Washington, D.C., he studied in the School for International Training’s Education and Social Change Program in Santiago, Chile, in 2018.

It isn’t all play and no work for Hamilton College students during their spring break, March 15 to 31. From Alternative Break volunteer service trips in Baltimore and South Carolina to a trek over the Himalayas in Nepal, Hamilton students are pursuing their academic, charitable, and athletic interests all over the globe.

In the true spirit of Hamilton’s liberal arts education, various classes offer students an opportunity for unique experiences in the field of Humanities. Taught by Professor Knauer, The Matter of the Text focuses on exploring the material conditions of the texts we read and how the medium in which they’re presented affects how we understand them.