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Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with two events.  The annual MLK Day dinner and lecture on Monday, Jan. 19, will feature Syracuse University Professor Arthur Flowers. The Hamilton Theatre Department will present a play, The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, on Jan. 20, 21 and 22.

Thomas Wilson, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of History, presented a paper titled “The Imperial Cult of Heaven-God” on a panel at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on Jan. 4 in New York. 

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Dr. Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton) jointly facilitated a roundtable discussion at the meetings of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the APA) in New Orleans, Jan. 8-11.

Spring semester classes don’t begin until Jan. 20 but 39 Hamilton students are back on campus a week early to take part in two Levitt Center programs. Twenty-six students are participating in the fourth Levitt Leadership Institute and 13 are involved in the Social Innovation Fellow Program.

Women's basketball and men's and women's hockey games will be broadcast this week on Northeast Sports Network (NSN). NSN is producing video webcasts of Hamilton athletic events for the remainder of the 2014-15 academic year. All broadcasts are available at no cost to viewers.

Three Hamilton students have been selected to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) that will take place in March 6-8 at the University of Miami, Florida. Ryan Ong  ’16, Sharif Shrestha ’17 and Jose Vazquez ’15  will attend CGI U along with Tsion Tsefaye ’16 who was chosen in November.

Opinion pieces, letters to the editor, expert commentaries and studies, book reviews and special projects all contributed to Hamilton’s many appearances in the national media this year. From National Public Radio to The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, faculty and staff submissions and responses to media outlets made the college very visible.

Eight Hamilton students have received creativity grants from the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Fund. The 2014 recipients are Kate Bickmore ’15, Sean-Henry Smith ’15, Lesley Klose ’15, Sawyer Konys ’16, James Larson ’17, Megan O’Sullivan ’15, Caroline Rudd ’16, and Sara Wortman ’15.

The opening of the Kevin and Karen Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Performing Arts and former New York Yankees captain and shortstop Derek Jeter’s visit to Hamilton in December drew a great deal of interest from local media during 2014. Student research and volunteering garnered significant local attention, and faculty members and administrators offered expertise on timely news topics throughout the year.

While most students were studying for exams as the semester came to a close, members of Hamilton Microfinance (HMF) were finalizing their third loan. Building off the momentum from October’s Great Pumpkin Challenge Fundraiser – which raised more than $1000 toward providing small business loans to local entrepreneurs – Hamilton’s micro-lenders identified several potential loan applicants, moving one step closer to achieving their strategic goal of issuing a loan by the end of the semester.