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The men’s basketball team paid a visit to the House of the Good Shepherd in Utica on Jan. 24 for a friendly game with about 45 residents. The House of the Good Shepherd is a comprehensive human service agency that provides treatment to children and families who are struggling with serious emotional, social and behavioral problems. It provides care to more than 360 children from infant to 21-years-old. The Hamilton players hung out with residents and played a few games of basketball.

Lisa Trivedi, associate professor of history, assumed her tenure as the president of Society for Advancing the History of South Asia (SAHSA) at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston, Jan. 6-9. Trivedi leads SAHSA in a period of growth and as it seeks a new role and position within the American Historical Association, the nation’s premier professional association of historians.

P•P•O•W  will present new work by Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, in an exhibition opening at its new space on West 22nd Street in New York City on Jan. 27. The following day, Jan. 28, the Philip Slein Gallery will show more of Kuharic’s work in its St. Louis, Mo., space.

Co-ed a capella group Duelly Noted performed after the men's ice hockey game against Castleton on Jan. 21 in Sage Rink. It was part of the College Figure Skating Club late night event that included a performance by club members, open skating and raffles.

Kate Cooper, professor of ancient history at the University of Manchester (UK), will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center. The lecture “City, Empire, Family Belonging and Resistance in the Prison Diary of Perpetua of Carthage,” is free and open to the public.

An exhibit featuring 40 intaglio works by members of the Atelier Four is on display through Feb. 3, in the Foreman Gallery at Hartwick College’s Anderson Center for the Arts. The Atelier Four is William R. Keenan Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, Professor of Art and Curator of the Hamilton Collects Program William Salzillo and artists Amy Georgia Buchholz ’80 and Jake Muirhead ’86.

On Saturday, Jan. 22, more than 120 students gathered for Hamilton’s 13th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day. The community service event, run by the Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach and Charity, or HAVOC, sent students to a wide variety of locations across the Utica area, from the Kirkland Town Library to Lutheran Home for the elderly to the Rome Humane Society.

Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery will host an opening reception on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at 4:15 pm for three new exhibits featuring eccentric views of men and women in photography, drawing, and painting. Rome native John Sonsini will present a gallery conversation sponsored by the art department. The reception and program are free and open to the public.

An article by Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, has been published in Journal of Chinese Teaching in the World (SJHYJX), 2011, Vol. 25:1, pp.78-98. The article is titled "Ten Methodological Principles of Modern Language Teaching."

Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies and Fulbright Scholar María Gabriela Portal discussed her first semester experience in a presentation titled “My First Three Months on the Hill,” at the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) Conference held December 8-11, in Washington, D.C.