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Immerse yourself in a visual and textual telling of Hamilton history with the new Hamilton Timeline, a dramatic digital rendering of the Hill past and present.  The timeline, designed to celebrate Hamilton’s Bicentennial, recounts the history of the college starting with the pre-Hamilton days and Samuel Kirkland’s plan to educate the Indians. Significant events in Hamilton’s history are portrayed through photos and text.

Lehigh University political science and environmental initiative professor Breena Holland will present a lecture titled “Public Health and Environmental Justice in an Era of De-Industrialization: A Role for Community-Engaged Academic Research” on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium (G027). Her lecture is part of the Levitt Center’s Sustainability Series and is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College is number No. 18 on Peace Corps’ 2013 Top Colleges for small schools, those with a student population under 5,000. The annual list recognizes the highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the U.S. for small, medium, large and graduate institutions.

After a semi-formal dinner at Gabriel's Restaurant, a few of Hamilton's Program in New York City students stopped to pose in front of the fountain at Lincoln Center before enjoying an all-Beethoven program with Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the New York Philharmonic in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.

Matt Zeller ’04, who served as an embedded combat adviser with the Afghan security forces in Ghazni and then wrote about his experiences, will give a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The lecture, titled after his book “Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan,” is free and open to the public.

Brett Reichman, a painter and associate professor of painting at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) will speak at Hamilton College in its Visiting Artist Series on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.  The event is sponsored by Hamilton’s Art Department and is free and open to the public.

After their original plans to visit the studios of professional artists fell through in October due to damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, nine senior art concentrators and art faculty were able to reschedule the always-anticipated trip and visit New York City on Jan. 24-27.

Nine Hamilton students traveled to Montreal January 24-27 to participate in the 24th annual McGill University Model United Nations Conference (McMUN).

Andrew Holland, visiting assistant professor of theatre, designed the set for a Canadian Opera Company production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito. The production was originally staged in 2009 in Chicago and after its success the Canadian Opera Company decided to revive the show for the 2012/2013 season. The opera premieres on Feb. 3.

A book review by Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik has appeared in the latest issue of Speculum, the leading North American journal of medieval studies.