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Sacrifice in a Time of Pandemic: A Model for Climate Change? was published on Medium by Professor of Government Peter Cannavò on March 20.

He originally wanted to be a school principal, but that career plan didn’t last long. After Hamilton, Mac Abbey ’69 joined the Peace Corps and traveled the world. Through this process, he learned about the work of NGOs and how they can help those in need. He had found his purpose.

In every human society … there is an effort, continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

On March 30, Hamilton students and faculty began navigating a new way to teach and learn, as the College moved to remote online classes in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), one of the foremost associations in social science and humanities scholarship, awards highly competitive scholarships to a select number of applicants to support their academic research and writing. As such, the prestigious fellowships often require years of application fine-tuning to achieve. Assistant Professor of Literature Stephanie Bahr secured one on her first try.

As artists, academics, and friends, they’d talked about doing a show together and, when it was finally lined up, the coronavirus hit.

For the second year in a row, Hamilton’s Mathletics team has won the Snow Bowl competition, icing the competition from Colgate University, St. Lawrence University, and Skidmore College.

When he assigned a Russian role-playing and survival game to his students last semester, little did Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Jason Cieply know that a few months later, the game would inspire him to try making his own batch of hand sanitizer.

President David Wippman with his co-author Cornell Professor of American Studies Glenn Altschuler wrote an op-ed titled How America's undergraduates can survive — and thrive — at home in The Hill published on March 24.

Hamilton College basketball player Kena Gilmour ’20 (New Paltz, N.Y./Kent School [Conn.]) was selected the male winner of the 2020 Jostens Trophy in an announcement made by the Rotary Club of Salem (Virginia) on Monday, March 23.