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Debra Boutin, professor of mathematics, gave a research presentation "Parameters for Graph Symmetries" at the Center for Communication Research, in La Jolla, Calif. In this talk, Boutin surveyed known and new results on ways of measuring network symmetries. In this survey she not only introduced the audience to various parameters used to quantify symmetries, but showed some of the surprisingly strong connections between them.

The Levitt Center's Public Health Program will present a three-part series of lectures on the topic “Examining Health Care and Hospitals in Utica.” The Levitt series is in conjunction with Professor of Biology Herm Lehman’s Introduction to Public Health course in which students are given a specific issue or problem and spend the semester conducting research on it. This semester's topic is "Do we need to build a new hospital in Utica?"  The series begins on Tuesday, Feb. 23, with Scott Perra, president and CEO of Mohawk Valley Health System, discussing “The Future of Utica, NY, Hospitals.” His talk will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Events Barn.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the Hamilton College Athletic Department hosted its first sports clinic for girls in grades K-8. Participants from all over Central New York were taught skills and actively engaged in various sports stations run by Hamilton female student-athletes.   

“Gender, experimenter gender and medium of report influence the content of autobiographical memory report, an article co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Azriel Grysman and Amelia Denney ’17 was recently published in the journal Memory.

The spring F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1977) on Sunday, Feb. 21. All F.I.L.M. series events are on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building and are free and open to the public.

Hamilton’s Powder Club took 38 students to Killington, Vt., in January for a three-night ski trip. Killington is home to some of the East Coast's finest skiing and snowboarding terrain.

Magic Man, an electronic rock band from New England, visited the Annex on Feb. 18 for a CAB Acoustic Coffeehouse performance. Magic Man’s show was a highlight of this year’s FebFest.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present Franz Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise (Winter’s Journey) with Jonathan English, tenor, and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, on Sunday, Feb. 21, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Third Saturday series continues on Saturday, Feb. 20, with a lecture by Carol Bradford, horticulturist and gardening columnist for The Syracuse Post Standard. She will present “Springtime in Japan” at 10 a.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. All Arboretum events are free and open to the public.

Jared Mandelbaum ’18, Mr. HOC, was the victor in the annual Mr. Hamilton competition, held on Feb. 17 as part of FebFest. He prevailed over Mr. Track, Colin Horgan ’19, Mr. Psi U, Alan Yecies ’17, Mr. Philanthropy Committee, Jose Olivares ’16, Mr. Culinary Society, Thomas Hoffman ’16, Mr. HAVOC, Alan Yeh ’18 and Mr. Buffers, Sean Rose ’19.