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Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Psychology Penny Yee and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research and Assessment Gordon Hewitt recently discussed ePortfolios in San Francisco.

Going “against the grain” can be painful and cause splinters, but as speakers at Hamilton’s TEdX talks advised, there is often good reason to endure that pain. The four speakers at the Feb. 11 event spoke to different reasons to move “against the grain.”

Hamilton will host the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, a collection of short films about mountain sports and culture, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The screening is sponsored by the Hamilton Outing Club.

Superhero Costumes Come to Parents' Rescue, a Feb. 8 Wall Street Journal article, featured a recent study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White titled The “Batman Effect”: Improving Perseverance in Young Children.

More than 50 students, faculty and administrators came together to celebrate the Lunar New Year in a festival hosted by the Asian Student Association (ASA) on Feb. 2.

David Gapp, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Biology, led a conversation about Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World as part of the Kirkland Town Library series “Hamilbrary: A Year of Reading with Hamilton College Professors.”

“Mexico is one of the most important countries in the world for the United States,” began this year’s Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs E. Anthony Wayne in his essay, “Why US should treat Mexico as vital partner, not a punching bag,” published on Feb. 8 on theconversation.com.

The second Girls & Women in Sports Day, sponsored by Hamilton’s Athletics Department, drew more than 70 local girls to the Field House on Sunday, Feb. 5. The national event celebrates the extraordinary achievements of women and girls in sports.

Al Tillery, a professor of political science at Northwestern University spoke at Hamilton about “The Legacy of Barack Obama” in a lecture on Feb. 6.

On Feb. 3rd to 5th Hamilton Mock Trial competed in the Regional American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) tournament at Pennsylvania State University. This was the first of three AMTA elimination tournaments that aim to bring together the best teams from all around the country. Hamilton placed third out of 24 teams, earning it a spot to the next AMTA tournament, Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) in Lancaster, Pa., March 17-19.