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The Racial Justice and Criminal Justice in Oneida & Herkimer Counties Series continued on Oct. 7 with its third installment titled “Why is Diversity Not Enough?: Training and Best Practices for Policing Reform.”

There is only one place that you could find a fashion runway, a flower crown display, and a coronavirus-themed collage all in one space — the Wellin Art Share.

It took some elaborate planning and extraordinary safety measures, but the Music Department hosted a porch concert featuring Hamilton musicians and members of the College Choir at the Babbitt Pavilion on Sept. 29.

After having too much fun during his first months at Hamilton, David Sands ’07 needed to find something to do that would keep him out of trouble, so he took up poker and discovered he was very, very good at it, becoming a successful pro before he graduated from college.

Student writer Hannah Katz ’21, an Outing Club leader, describes a weekend camping trip held right in her own backyard — on campus in the Glen.

Hamilton at Heart reached its goal of inspiring 3,517 donors to show their support with gifts totaling $1,696,681 on October 1.

Utica College Professor Anthony Baird, Hamilton Professor Todd Franklin, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute Professors Mark Montgomery and Ronni Tichenor spoke in a webinar addressing “What is Systemic, or Institutional Racism?” on Sept. 30. This event was part of an ongoing series focused on Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform in Oneida and Herkimer Counties.

Oliva Rissland, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Colorado, read a scientific paper every day for 899 days. At the end of that stretch, she picked her favorite: “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers,” written in 1989 by Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton.

She works for what she and her colleagues call a “60-year-old start-up,” which is situated in a region of canyons and otherworldly rock formations. Mary Langworthy ’17 can explain why the rocks are red in Red Rock Country and pretty much anything else a visitor could want to know about the Colorado Plateau.

Charlotte “Charlie” Gutterman ’22 started her job as an arboretum intern a few weeks ago. Hannah Katz ‘21 sat down with her to talk about what that means and how she got involved.