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Jeffrey Gibson, the artist behind the Wellin Museum’s latest exhibition, attended an Artist Discussion in the Barrett Lab Theater on Sept. 8 as part of the opening events. Accompanied by the museum’s curator, Tracey Adler, Gibson described his experience in pulling together the exhibition. “It was challenging for a number of reasons, and part of it is because of the high level of details being considered.” Gibson works with materials ranging from paintings and sculptures to garments and film.

The students on Hamilton College’s D.C. Program, along with their program advisor Professor Steve Orvis, kicked off their D.C. adventure with a boat tour along the Potomac River and a tour of Mount Vernon, George Washington’s famous home.

In an email to the Hamilton community on September 7, President David Wippman announced the death of Life Trustee David Harden ’48.

As Ishan Mainali ’21 grew up in what he calls a “Kathmandu bubble” he only heard vague explanations for his homeland’s social and economic problems. Then he came to Hamilton and became involved in the Levitt Center’s Social Innovation Lab where his work finally gave him “the knowledge and vocabulary to think about social problems and ... potential innovative solutions.”

An article co-authored by Assistant Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson was recently published in Research and Politics.

The Flight 93 National Memorial, located near Shanksville, Pa., will dedicate its final element, the Tower of Voices (TOV), on Sunday, Sept. 9. The chimes’ pitch design was created by Professor of Music Sam Pellman, who was tragically killed shortly after completing this project.

During this midterm election year, many Hamilton students spent the summer volunteering for candidates on a national and local level.

Simon Coppard, scholar-in-residence in biology, recently published a research paper titled “Gene expression across tissues, sex, and life stages in the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla” in the journal Marine Genomics.

Elaborately adorned helmets, large-scale sculptural garments draped on tipi poles, beaded panels, tapestries, weavings, abstract geometric paintings and a new film greet visitors in an outpouring of color to the Wellin Museum’s fall exhibition.

An article co-authored by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Aaron Strong was recently published in System Dynamics Review.