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Skidmore College shot 60 percent from the floor in the second half and handed visiting Hamilton College a disappointing 74-59 Liberty League loss at the Sports and Recreation Center on Feb. 20.

Ephraim McDowell '12 sank two free throws with 1.2 seconds left in regulation to erase a two-point Hamilton College deficit and the visiting Continentals went on to a 64-62 overtime win against Skidmore College in a Liberty League game at the Sports and Recreation Center on Feb. 20.

As a January '07 admit, Charlie Warzel wasn't sure where he wanted to spend his junior year when the time came to think about off-campus study. Most of his friends were traveling abroad, but he had already spent his first semester in London before coming to the Hill in the spring of 2007. Instead of venturing to Europe, Warzel has found himself in an incredibly unique situation: interning at NBC's Meet the Press.

Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (2008), the new book co-authored by Matthew Kahn '88 and his wife Dora L. Costa, recently received high praise in a review in The Wall Street Journal (1/12/09). The book examines possible factors and causes that led to nearly 200,000 Union soldiers deserting their positions during the Civil War. It provides a look into military sociology and the social costs of diversity, and the authors note the contemporary implications of their historical study.

Brian O'Malley '10 scored the game-winning goal 2:23 into overtime and Hamilton College won a 3-2 thriller against visiting Williams College in a New England Small College Athletic Conference contest at Russell Sage Rink on Feb. 20.

Hamilton College was dominant in a 9-0 win at Colgate University on Feb. 18. The Continentals evened their record at 10-10 this season with the victory.

On February 18, students in the Program in Washington, D.C., visited the Pentagon to meet with Fred Shear '03, a writer on the staff of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Students toured the massive facility, whose 6.5 million square feet and 17 miles of corridors are home to 23,000 military and civilian employees who plan and execute the nation's defense. Students also visited the Pentagon's 9/11 Memorial.

The Loughlin Meghji Company, one of the leading financial advisory firms in the United States, has announced the addition of Hamilton graduate Charles Smith '89 to its senior staff.  Smith, most recently a Managing Director in JPMorgan's Leveraged Finance Group, joins Loughlin Meghji with nearly twenty years of leveraged loan and high-yield experience with merchant banking transactions.

Hamilton College competes in the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference women's swimming and diving championships at Bowdoin College's Leroy Greason Pool in Brunswick, Maine, this weekend.

Forty-two students from Boston's Citizen Schools are visiting Hamilton this week as members of 8th Grade Academy. Citizen Schools is a growing national network of after-school education programs for middle school students. This is the fourth year the Boston-based middle schoolers are visiting Hamilton to get a taste of college life.