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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.

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.