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Student writer Hannah Katz ’21, an Outing Club leader, describes a weekend camping trip held right in her own backyard — on campus in the Glen.

Hamilton at Heart reached its goal of inspiring 3,517 donors to show their support with gifts totaling $1,696,681 on October 1.

Utica College Professor Anthony Baird, Hamilton Professor Todd Franklin, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute Professors Mark Montgomery and Ronni Tichenor spoke in a webinar addressing “What is Systemic, or Institutional Racism?” on Sept. 30. This event was part of an ongoing series focused on Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform in Oneida and Herkimer Counties.

Oliva Rissland, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Colorado, read a scientific paper every day for 899 days. At the end of that stretch, she picked her favorite: “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers,” written in 1989 by Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton.

She works for what she and her colleagues call a “60-year-old start-up,” which is situated in a region of canyons and otherworldly rock formations. Mary Langworthy ’17 can explain why the rocks are red in Red Rock Country and pretty much anything else a visitor could want to know about the Colorado Plateau.

Charlotte “Charlie” Gutterman ’22 started her job as an arboretum intern a few weeks ago. Hannah Katz ‘21 sat down with her to talk about what that means and how she got involved.

Hamilton is one of six institutions — the only undergraduate college — to share a $2.7 million National Science Foundation grant to investigate big questions about climate, tectonics, and the evolution of life at a rich location in Kenya.

Utica City Councilman Delvin Moody and Utica College Professors Clemmie Harris and Bernard Hyman spoke in a Zoom webinar titled “Black Lives Matter: The Movement and Its Importance to All of Us” on Sept. 23. The webinar, which was also broadcasted on WUTR, was moderated by Hamilton Professor Frank Anechiarico and sponsored in part by the Levitt Center Law and Justice Lab.

She’d planned to go home to India this summer, but instead the pandemic trapped Isha Parkhi ’21 in the U.S. With no internship in sight, she jumped on a surprise email from the College that landed in her inbox: An alumna was looking for a film student to help make a movie about the Suffrage movement.

Week after week, year after year, The Media’s Effect on Women’s Body Image, a story written and published on Hamilton’s news site in 2010, remains at the top of those most read with 182,000 page views. On its 10th anniversary, we contacted the author, Alex Ossola ’10, and the researcher, Arielle Cutler ’11, for their reactions.