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Hamilton’s curling team is back in action with 20 members competing this season under captain Meghan Doherty '14 and president Trevor Howe ’14. The team’s season began in October and will continue until March.

Hamilton College Performing Arts begins the spring semester with a modern dance performance featuring Doug Varone and Dancers, presented by the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership, on Saturday, Jan. 25.  This and all performing arts events will take place in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts, at 7:30 p.m.

"American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn," a book written by Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, was ranked #2 in a Slant Magazine article titled “The 10 Best Film-Studies Books of 2013.”

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Chicago in January.  She organized a panel titled “Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority?" (with Chiara Sulprizio, who previously taught at Hamilton) and introduced the panel.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck co-authored a featured article published in the Jan. 3 issue of The Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC).

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Great Names visit to Hamilton in October  drew a great deal of interest from local – and national – media during 2013. Student research and volunteering garnered significant local attention, and faculty members and administrators offered expertise on timely news topics throughout the year.

Professor of Economics Stephen Wu participated in the 2014 American Economic Association Annual Meetings, held in Philadelphia on Jan. 3-5.  He was part of panel discussion of online learning in economics courses in a session titled "Research in Economic Education."

Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, contributed a column on the disappearance of Monarch butterflies to the January/February 2014 issue of the Adirondack Explorer.

An article by Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman titled “Starting Out in the Fifties” appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Dissent Magazine. The publication commissioned Isserman to write the article, a history of the magazine for its 60th anniversary celebration in October 2013.

Hamilton co-ed a cappella group Duelly Noted is preparing for its fourth annual concert tour over the college’s winter break. The four-day tour will include several performances throughout New York State and Vermont.