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The Hamilton College Hill Singers, directed by Professor G. Roberts Kolb, led a Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols on Dec. 5 in the Hamilton College Chapel. Organ music and accompaniment was provided by Professor of Music Sam Pellman.

Hamilton’s Mock Trial team is following up one of its best finishes in program history with another strong start to the season. The team began the season by finishing second at the Colgate Classic Tournament on Nov. 6-7. Hamilton’s team faced teams from Cornell University, Villanova University, Canisius College and Colgate University. Noah Bishop ‘11 won an outstanding attorney award while Lennie Specht ‘11 and Ashley Vanicek ’13 both won outstanding witness awards.

Daniel Feinberg '12 spent the fall semester as a student in the Semester in Environmental Science, in Woods Hole, Mass. The first Hamilton student to participate in the program, he has been measuring the lifetime of Permeable Reactive Barriers, relatively affordable systems that can remove nitrate pollution from groundwater.  Here he describes his experience in the program.

Less than a year after becoming need-blind in admission, Hamilton College has announced “Bicentennial Initiatives,” a $117 million capital campaign whose primary objective is funding the new policy.

“Shakespeare’s Dolphin, Dumbo’s Feather, and Other Red Herrings: Some Thoughts on Intention and Meaning,” by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has been published in Style as part of a cluster of articles devoted to Shakespeare’s intentions.

Local radio stations WIBX and Lite 98.7 aired an interview with Susanna White, associate director and curator of the Emerson Gallery, on Nov. 21. The 14-minute segment was part of Central New York Travel, Oneida County Tourism’s weekly radio show.

The Hamilton College Hill Singers, directed by Professor G. Roberts Kolb, will lead a Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 4 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. Organ music and accompaniment will be provided by Professor of Music Sam Pellman. The service is free and open to the public.

Musical performances by the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble and The College Chamber Ensembles will be featured this weekend.

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Language in Motion) series concludes with self-taught photographer Hitoshi Toyoda and his slideshow NAZUNA on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, has been named to the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) Polar Research Vessel Committee, which will plan the progress for a new Polar Research Vessel (PRV) for the U.S. Antarctic Program.