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For the last week of winter break, a small group of Hamilton students set off into the Adirondack backcountry for five days of winter camping in New York’s High Peaks region.

Thirty-eight members of the class of ’20 as well as 12 transfer students arrived on the Hill on Jan. 13 to register, move in and take part in Hamilton orientation.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presided over a roundtable discussion during the annual joint meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Toronto on Jan. 7.

Hamilton is known for the long winters, but for the Hamilton Club Nordic Ski team the snow is the best thing to come back to after winter break. Hamilton’s Nordic team is a member of the Mideast Conference of the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) and regularly competes against club teams in the New York and New England area.

Seniors Brett Bracco, Sara Purinton and Dan Farina presented posters based on their senior theses at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs presented “Correlates of Immune Defenses in Golden Eagles” at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

In a Guardian article titled "Paintings reveal early signs of cognitive decline, claims study," Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown firmly disagreed with the researcher’s findings. In her 2006 paper published by the journal Nature, Brown debunked a previous theory that fractal analysis could be used to authenticate Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings.

A grant Lilly Pieper ’18 received from the American Microscopical Society (AMS) in 2016 that enabled her to conduct summer research on seas urchins, has led to inclusion of her poster at the 2017 AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald was interviewed in a seven-minute video about The Qatsi Trilogy that launched on FilmStruck, a subscription-based on-demand film service, on Jan. 6.

The Hamilton College men's hockey team has moved up the two Division III polls again after winning both of its NESCAC games this past weekend.