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Nearly 50 Hamilton students met their match on Jan. 22 when they participated in the Career Center’s Communicate 301. The event, formerly known as Interview Mojo, pairs a student with an alumna/us, member of the business community or Hamilton staff member for a one-on-one mock job interview. This was the seventh year for the event.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was a discussant of the keynote presentation at the Mid-Year Fellows Workshop on Capital Shares and Research Questions in the Social Sciences.

Hamilton College charter trustee Linda E. Johnson, a 1980 graduate, has established the Johnson-Pote Museum Director Fund in support of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art director’s position.

Bill Moyers, well known journalist, documentarian and former White House press secretary, interviewed Professor of Government Philip Klinkner and historians from Princeton, Yale and Harvard’s Kennedy School for a program titled "Lest We Forget - Bill Moyers and four historians on the big lie behind the rise of Trump" for the Moyers & Company website.

Assistant Professor of Economics Javier Pereira presented a paper and chaired a panel at the annual international meeting of the Western Economic Association in Santiago, Chile.

Miriam Merrill has been named Hamilton's associate director of athletics/senior woman administrator. Merrill was the director of athletics at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago from 2012 until 2014. Most recently, she was pursuing her doctorate degree and teaching in the kinesiology department at Temple University.

More than 180 Hamilton students participated in HAVOC’s 19th annual MLK Jr. Day of Service on Jan. 21. The students volunteered at 23 different organizations in the Utica, Clinton, Rome and New Hartford communities, and served a combined 555 hours.

Assistant Professor of Geosciences Catherine Beck recently traveled to Tempe, Ariz., to present at the third annual workshop for the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project.

Hamilton’s Theatre Department students and faculty joined with theaters across the country to take part in the Ghostlight Project on Jan. 19, gathering at 5:30 p.m. outside Romano Theater in the Kennedy Arts Center.