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Students, faculty and staff gathered on Monday, Jan. 16, in the Fillius Events Barn to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Participants shared a dinner of some of King’s favorite foods and engaged in conversation about King’s inspiring words and viewpoints.

For the past six years a group of students has returned from winter break early to converge on the otherwise vacant Kirner-Johnson academic building. One group of 28 comes with the hopes of learning how to recognize, develop and practice the kinds of leadership skills that are essential to create personal and societal change. These are students participating in the Levitt Leadership Institute (LLI).

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons was the co-organizer and co-chair of a session at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). The meeting took place in Atlanta Jan. 4th to 7th.

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.