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Continental Divide, by Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, was recently awarded honorable mention in the outdoor literature category of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA).

Associate Professor of History John Eldevik delivered a paper titled “The Strange Journeys of Thiemo of Salzburg: Exile, Martyrdom and Memory” at the annual meeting of the Haskins Society held Nov. 3-5 at Carleton College.

Joshua Rothstein ’19 is a member of the Campus Activities Executive Board, where he acts as concerts apprentice. helping CAB’s concert coordinator with booking and running shows. Josh had the opportunity to work with CAB’s fall concert, The Mowgli’s, and provided this behind-the-scenes look at running the show.

Assistant Professor of History Celeste Day Moore recently traveled to Dakar, Senegal, to participate in Cinquantenaire du 1er Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres.

Students in Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS) program visited Barcelona Nov. 4-6. The students explored the city and experienced firsthand its strong sense of identity and uniqueness.

Hundreds of Hamilton students, faculty and staff joined with students from Colgate University, Utica College and members of the local community for a rally on Nov. 15. The rally was planned in conjunction with a nationwide student movement called “Our Power Walkout,” with marches scheduled to take place at more than a dozen other institutions across the country.

Mary B. O’Neill, former director of Hamilton’s Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center, was a co-editor of QMaSC: A Handbook for Directors of Quantitative and Mathematics Support Centers, published recently by the University of Florida Scholars Commons.

A week after the 2016 Presidential election, The Spectator hosted “The Role of the Media in the 2016 Election,” the final SpecSpeak lecture of the semester. The guest was Scott Bixby ’11 who spent 16 months covering the Republican race to the White House for The Guardian. Bixby has written for several high-profile news organizations including the New Republic, Mic and The Daily Beast .

This week Hamilton celebrates National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week, which recognizes the College’s Emergency Medical Service (HCEMS) program. The service is available to all community members of the College 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week during the year when classes are in session. The program is made up of student volunteers who all are New York State certified EMTs.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presented an invited keynote address for a conference titled “Feeling History” on Oct. 28.