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Five Hamilton seniors, Tim Currier, Alex Hodgens, Amy Rumack, Ben Saccomano and Jake Schneck, participated in a medical internship through the St. Elizabeth Health Experience Learning Program (HELP) during winter recess. From Jan. 12-16 the students shadowed doctors at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Utica, N.Y.

Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with dinner theatre performances of Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith on Monday, Jan. 19, and Tuesday, Jan. 20, in the Fillius Events Barn. Dinner, featuring music by the Zoe Jazz Ensemble is at 6 p.m. and the performance begins at 7 p.m. The performance is sold out.

Cindy Tower, an installation sculpture and performance artist as well as a painter, will orchestrate a human chain of drafts people in the art department on Wednesday, Jan. 21, from 4:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tower will give a brief presentation on drawing as performance and then will begin drawing with those in attendance. Participants may perform as drafts people or may document the event.

Hamilton College won two of three matches, including two victories against New England Small College Athletic Conference opponents, at Wesleyan University and Yale University from Jan. 16 to Jan. 18.

Hamilton College won three of four matches, including two victories against New England Small College Athletic Conference opponents, at Wesleyan University and Yale University from Jan. 16 to Jan. 18.

"The face of America today is the face of Barack Obama, an epochal change, whatever happens in the next four or eight years of an Obama administration," said Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, in an article appearing in the Monday, Jan. 19, edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods was honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Outstanding Community Service by the Mohawk Valley Frontiers Club at a luncheon on Jan. 19. The club sponsors or contributes to many community service programs in the Mohawk Valley.

A group of Hamilton employees are spending Martin Luther King Jr. Day doing volunteer work at non-profit agencies in Utica. This is the third year that the College has commemorated Dr. King's legacy with the employee volunteer effort. Staff and faculty are working at Hope House, The Underground Cafe, Johnson Park Center and the Utica Food Bank.

Government professor Philip Klinkner, who is attending the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, will be blogging about his observations on Huffington Post beginning on Monday, Jan. 19, and continuing on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at the publication's Obama Inauguration Coverage site. He will also be using Twitter to record his experiences at pklinkne.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Daniel Gries spoke at the annual Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America held in Washington, D.C., in January. In his talk, Gries presented web-delivered instructional materials that he programmed in Adobe Flash.