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Teach For America released its 10th annual list of the schools contributing the greatest number of alumni to its 2017 teaching corps and Hamilton College is among the top 10 small colleges and universities. This is the fourth year Hamilton has been named to the list.

On September 19, 2017, Senior Class President Lilly Pieper interviewed Hamilton President David Wippman. The interview was conducted live on Facebook.

Tickets for Hamilton College’s “Common Ground” discussion with political strategists David Axelrod and Karl Rove will be available to the public on Wednesday, Sept. 27. To obtain free tickets visit https://hamiltoncommonground.eventbrite.com

Yance Ford ’94 returned to campus on Sept. 24 to screen his critically acclaimed film, “Strong Island” as part of this fall’s F.I.L.M. series. The film, which follows a 10-year investigation into the murder of Ford’s brother, unflinchingly challenges viewers’ assumptions of what it means to seek truth, and posits that some questions will always go unanswered.

Natalie Nannas’ Bioethics class joined descendants of Henrietta Lacks in a conversation about their family’s story on Sept. 29. After reading and discussing Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the class generated questions for Victoria Baptiste and Alfred Carter Jr, a great-granddaughter and grandson of Henrietta Lacks.

More than 65 years after the passing of Henrietta Lacks, members of her family Victoria Baptiste and Alfred Carter, Jr. spoke on the dark reality behind the usage of Henrietta’s cells in medical research. The two presented a lecture and discussion in the Chapel on Sept. 21.

Borders, a short film designed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Sara Walsh, was recently accepted into the New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF).

For decades, Hamilton’s diversity overnight program has welcomed prospective students to the Hill to provide them with an opportunity to visit campus, attend classes, and experience life as a Hamilton student. On Sept. 17, 41 students from all around the country arrived for the first of this year’s two three-day programs

An article about monarch butterfly mortality and salvage logging in Mexico, co-authored by Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus and lecturer in biology, appears in the fall issue of American Entomologist.

Hamilton recently hosted the Liberal Arts Colleges Development Economics Conference (LACDEV) conference. The event was organized by Associate Professor of Economics Emily Conover.