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In an opinion piece published by Inside Higher Ed, Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, wrote about oft-biased student evaluations and how their use in assessing faculty leads to inequitable outcomes and could result in future lawsuits.

Fourteen attendees and three instructors from around the world have gathered on campus for the Short Course in Modern X-ray Spectrometry Theory offered by the Hamilton Analysis (XRF) Lab this week.

Paola Lopéz – a student affairs professional with expertise in diversity, equity, and inclusion – has been named director of the Days-Massolo Center.

U.S. News & World Report interviewed Vice President for Enrollment Management Monica Inzer for a June 13 article, What to Know About the SAT Environmental Context Dashboard.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Quincy Newell was interviewed by the Religion News Service about her new book Your Sister in the Gospel - The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon.

CASE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, announced today that “Because Hamilton,” the video produced to kick-off the College’s capital campaign, won this year’s Circle of Excellence Gold Award for the video: fundraising (long videos) category.

Past and future Hamilton Adirondack Program members and Janelle Schwartz, program founder and general director, participated in Adirondack Day in Albany. The program, designed to educate legislators and their staffs about the economic, education, and social issues and energy in the Park, was held on May 13.

Practicing year-round has paid off for members of the Hot Saucers, the men’s ultimate Frisbee team headed for College Station, Texas, where they will compete in the national finals.

The Washington Post published Assistant Professor of Government Erica De Bruin’s essay analyzing the current political situation in Venezuela.

Why do birds typically live longer than mammals? A new paper offers a hint, albeit not a conclusive answer. Assistant Professors of Biology Cynthia Downs and Ana Jimenez at Hamilton College and Colgate University respectively have co-authored a paper with nine students, “Does cellular metabolism from primary fibroblasts and oxidative stress in blood differ between mammals and birds? The (lack-thereof) scaling of oxidative stress” in press with Integrative and Comparative Biology.