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 Hamilton Microfinance (HMF) hosted its 3rd Annual Valentine’s Date Auction on Feb. 11 and again raised more than $1000. The organization continues to utilize events such as this to grow its funds for issuing small business loans to local entrepreneurs as well as raise awareness about microfinance.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus was the co-author of An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics, published this month by Bloomsbury. The book covers work from the Presocratics to the present.

Five Hamilton students travelled to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire on Feb. 20 to attend the 43rd annual Northeast Regional Latino Medical Student Association Conference. Tatenda Chakoma ’18, Daniela Gonzalez ’19, Emma Weller ’19, Alex Kaplan ’16 and Bryan Ferguson ’17 attended the conference which was focused on addressing the healthcare needs of the Hispanic/Latino community.

Former U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell led a workshop focused on helping women discover their leadership skills and learn strategies on how to be heard on Feb. 20. Sponsored by the Dean of Faculty's Office, this was an opportunity for female students, faculty members, and community partners to learn from Bushnell's rich experiences as a diplomat, leader and educator.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, presented “How College Works - and How to Make It Work Better” on Feb. 19 at Lewis & Clark College. He discussed what colleges can do to work better and improve student success.

Jazz critic, author and broadcast journalist Greg Thomas ’85 returned to campus on Feb. 18 to present  “Albert Murray and the Blues Idiom Worldview.” The event was in celebration of Black History Month and the 100th birthday of author and jazz critic Albert Murray.

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.