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Education Studies Program Director Susan Mason has been awarded a New York Six Consortium-Teagle Blended Learning Grant to develop and pilot the one unit course, "Ethnography of Leadership in Organizations,” during summer 2015.

Hamilton Microfinance hosted its 2nd annual Date Auction on Feb. 12 as it continues to raise additional funds to provide small business loans to local entrepreneurs. From this year’s auction, the organization raised $1300 and almost tripled the $532 they raised last year.

Although our nation prides itself on the separation of church and state, one needs only look at the Christian ideologies against marriage equality for same-sex couples, the conservative right’s pro-life movement, and the anti-Muslim rhetoric of politicians to understand that these connection was never truly cleaved.  Richard Newton, assistant professor of religious studies at Elizabethtown College, visited the Hill on Feb. 16 for a discussion about African Americans’ connection to the Bible.

Honoring a department tradition, Hamilton’s 22 Hispanic studies majors and their eight professors came together for a dinner party in Spencer House on Feb. 6 to celebrate their senior year.

Associate Professor of Government Peter Cannavò was a member of a panel that explored ways to discuss environmental issues without the conversation becoming polarized. The session, “Depolarizing the Environment: Thinking Broadly about Science Policy and Politics,” was Feb. 13 at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse.

The start of the Spring 2015 semester at Hamilton marks the 10th anniversary of Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders, or Project SHINE, operated through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.  The service-learning program helps students understand the needs and circumstances of others through work in the community.  Students act as English coaches to refugees and immigrants, and work one-on-one or in small groups with adult learners and young adults.

Ashley Carducci ’15, Bryan Ferguson ’17, Sophie Mayeux ’15, Laura McCormick ’15 and Mason Schoeneck ’15 presented three posters at the 59th Annual Biophysical Society Conference that took place Feb.8-11 in Baltimore.

Hamilton will host the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, a collection of short films about mountain sports and culture, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.  The screening is sponsored by the Hamilton Outing Club. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children under 12, and $10 with a Hamilton ID. The material is appropriate for families.

Hamilton Opportunity Program (HEOP) students met with Ronald Kim ’02, HEOP alumnus and the first Korean-American New York Assemblyman, when they traveled to Albany, N .Y., on Feb. 10 for Student Aid Alliance Day. This yearly event allows students from across New York State to talk to N.Y. legislators about the value of state aid programs like HEOP and the New York State Tuition Assistsance Program (TAP).

Students in Hamilton’s program in NYC met with Michael Stone ’72, founder and CEO of Beanstalk, a global brand licensing corporation on Feb. 11 to learn about the brand licensing business.