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The 20 residents of the Woollcott House, also known as the CoOp, celebrated Thanksgiving on Nov. 14 with a collaborative feast where each resident made a dish for this yearly tradition.

Nine Hamilton students have received grants from the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Fund. The Fund aims to encourage student creativity among Hamilton students by providing funds for projects displaying originality, expressiveness and imagination.

Hamilton students have the opportunity to establish meaningful relationships with local nonprofit organizations beginning in their first semester of college through a pilot program operated by the Hamilton Community Opportunity and Outreach Project (COOP).

A new housing policy at Hamilton College allows students of any biological sex, gender identity or expression to live together in the same room on campus.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was a respondent in a discussion of Dr. Brian Johnson's “The Psychoanalysis of a Man with Heroin Dependence: Implications for Neurobiological Theories of Attachment and Drug Craving," published in Neuropsychoanalysis, 2010, 12 (2) pp. 207-215. The discussion took place on Nov. 17 at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department’s presentation of Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City delved into numerous social issues during its November run in Minor Theater.

Christian Goodwillie, Hamilton College rare books librarian, and Jane Crosthwaite, professor of religion at Mount Holyoke College, will give the Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Monday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building at Hamilton College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is based on their book on Shaker hymnody. Hymnody is the singing or composing of hymns.

Performances of the Theatre Department’s production of Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City will continue from Thursday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theater. The play is open to the public, and tickets cost $5 for adults, and $3 for senior citizens and students.

The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing presented three works by Samuel Pellman,  the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, on Oct. 27 as part of the Musicacoustica 2010 Festival. The concert included M45, NGC 1999, and NGC 6357 -- three works from the Selected Nebulae series of works composed for virtual instruments with video by Miranda Raimondi '08.

Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 11, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “The Fall and Rise of Sacred History in Early Modern Europe” is free and open to the public.