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St. Lawrence University broke open a close game with a 9-2 run midway through the second half and the visiting Saints went on to a 63-56 Liberty League win against Hamilton College at Scott Field House on Feb. 14.

St. Lawrence University erased a two-point deficit midway through the second half with an 8-0 run and the visiting Saints went on to a 75-62 Liberty League win against Hamilton College at Scott Field House on Feb. 14.

Of the nearly 20 members of the scientific party on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel Knorr this past January and February, three were Hamilton alumni. Boston University Professor of Earth Sciences Rick Murray '85, Heather Schrum '05 and Ashley Hatfield '05 joined an international research team studying the distribution of microbial life beneath the seafloor on a research cruise to the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Hamilton College clinched a spot in the Liberty League championship tournament with a 76-62 win against visiting Clarkson University at Scott Field House on Feb. 13.

Hamilton College used a balanced scoring attack and shot 54 percent from the floor to post its fourth straight win, a 67-49 rout against visiting Clarkson University, in a Liberty League game at Scott Field House on Feb. 13.

The Hamilton College women's basketball program hosts its alumnae weekend on Saturday, Feb. 14.

Hamilton graduate Bob Hawkanson '98 has been named Director of Operations by Show Partners®, a global leader in television production.  As director, Hawkanson will manage Show Partners' expanding production, crewing, and client services operations while upholding Show Partners' expert ability to formulate intricate shows for industry leaders such as FOX, CBS, and NBC.

The Chordata: Mammalia got a thumbs up, Mollusca: Cephalopoda received mixed reviews, and Echinodermata: Echinoidea was simply "nasty," according to attendees of the Biology Department's Phylum Feast on Feb. 12. For the layperson, those are chicken wings, fried squid and sea urchin roe, and they were among delicacies served at the feast to celebrate Darwin Day, the 200th birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin.

In a time when the ozone is shrinking, countless species of animals are in danger of extinction, and the world's supply of natural resources is being tested, the ideas of environmental and ecological justice are relatively novel. In his Thursday evening lecture in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium, Northern Arizona University Professor David Schlosberg focused on the use of the "capabilities approach" in environmental and ecological policy-making.

The Performing Arts at Hamilton presents the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra with guest pianist Kirill Gerstein on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m., at Wellin Hall. It will be preceded by a special pre-concert talk by Syracuse Symphony musical director Daniel Hege and Gerstein at 2 p.m. in Café Opus. Featured on the program will be Diamond's "Music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet," Ravel's "Piano Concerto in G Major," with guest Kirill Gerstein, and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, "Italian."