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Professor of Art History Emeritus and Senior Lecturer in Art History Rand Carter was celebrated by some of his former students during Fallcoming/Family Weekend in October. Michael Shapiro ’71 and David Nathans ’72 worked with the Office of Alumni Relations to organize the event. Carter, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1970, retired at the end of the 2016-17 academic year.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, was interviewed by Marketplace Senior Reporter Nancy Marshall-Genzer for a segment titled “New Fed chair will be carrying out the board’s dual mandate” on the program’s Nov. 1 broadcast.

Hamilton’s two-year-old Coding Team, whose members represent a range of majors and interests, built apps and relationships at its first Hackathon, held at Boston University.

When Andy Berman ’06 and Kevin St. John ’06 first created Facebook accounts during their junior year at Hamilton College, they had no clue that they would be working for the social media company only a decade later. In fact, after graduating from Hamilton, Berman said that he had “no idea” what to do professionally. St. John, who eventually went to business school and developed an interest in startups, did not have a concrete job himself until he started working for Facebook in 2015.

Students in Geosciences 390: Advanced Paleontology visited Little Falls, N.Y., last week to collect specimens in a spectacular outcrop of Utica shale.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Nhora Lucía Serrano is the author of a peer-reviewed essay recently published in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk.

Professor Derek Jones’ Comparative Economic Systems class held a special additional session on Oct. 20 to hear from Robert Morris ’76, P’16,’17 founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Olympus Partners and a Hamilton trustee. Morris spoke about his career path and private equity around the world then finished the talk with Q&A.

As a part of the F.I.L.M. series, Hamilton welcomed Raoul Peck to campus for a screening and discussion of his his Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro.

The Hamilton community opened its arms - and candy bags – to around 100 children from Utica as the Newman Council hosted its 28th annual Trust Treat on Halloween.

“I’ve never felt so immersed in a community so quickly,” said Chris Hart ’19 when describing his internship experiences this semester as part of the Hamilton Adirondack Program. Ten students are interning with 16 different organizations in the Adirondacks. Each contributes to, and in some cases develops, essential projects that serve the local region, which they then apply directly to their coursework, research, and community building at The Mountain House, the program’s site.