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Students on the Washington D.C. program recently had the opportunity to meet with Johnnie Carson, who served as ambassador to several African nations and was the assistant secretary of state for African affairs under President Obama. He was also a visiting professor at Hamilton College where he taught courses on African politics.

Amy Gaffney, director of the Oral Communication Center, co-authored “Spewing nonsense [or not]: Communication competence and socialization in optics and photonics workplaces,” published in the journal Communication Education.

More than 200 posters plus souvenir pins, banners, toys, even cigarettes, comprise Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca’s unparalleled collection of Soviet-era propaganda recently donated to the Burke Library Special Collections.

Three Hamilton environmental studies students and their professor had credentials to attend a U.N. meeting where, for the first time, all the countries of the world hashed out details of a global treaty governing the "high seas."

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz published an article titled “Sedimental Education: or, Reading as We Age” in a PMLA feature on “Reading over Time.”

When Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph ’81 first pitched the idea that would one day become the worldwide streaming service to his wife, she told him: “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”

The Hamilton New York City Program kicked off the semester by going on a private tour of the Whitney Museum’s exhibition An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 on Aug. 24. This semester’s program, titled “The Economy of the Social Sector in the Global City” is directed by Professor of Economics Chris Georges and studies social enterprises, the nonprofit sector, corporate social responsibility, and impact investing.

Hamilton’s Model United Nations (MUN) team competed in the Columbia Model United Nations in New York (CMUNNY) conference from Sept. 27 to Sept. 30 in New York City. The conference invited colleges from all over North America to compete over the weekend, engaging students in 19 specialized committees.

Last autumn, Andres “Fluffy” Aguilar ’19 embarked on an extensive year of study abroad in the Southern Hemisphere. Aguilar, a Gilman Scholarship recipient, spent his junior year studying all across South America, from comparative education studies in Chile and Argentina, to youth popular culture and youth media studies in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

André Kneib and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy, by Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg, was recently published by Mare & Martin (Paris) as the first volume in the new Méroé series.