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Eight Hamilton College seniors were elected to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society, at the September meeting. The inductees are Rachel Alatalo, Kara Burns, Julia Carpenter, Dana Holloway, Sarah Magee, Theodore McKenna, Clare Munroe and Madeleine Roehl.

Three ceramic sculptures by Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh are included in a group exhibition titled Bound By Matter at the Lichtundfire Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Hamilton College remained in the top 10 in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III Top 20 poll released on Tuesday, Sept. 26.

Assistant Professor of Government Erica De Bruin has been awarded a $429,080 National Science Foundation for her project, "Explaining Civilian Support for Political and Criminal Armed Groups."

Hamilton lost a member of its community today. In a campus email, President David Wippman wrote this message.

Teach For America released its 10th annual list of the schools contributing the greatest number of alumni to its 2017 teaching corps and Hamilton College is among the top 10 small colleges and universities. This is the fourth year Hamilton has been named to the list.

On September 19, 2017, Senior Class President Lilly Pieper interviewed Hamilton President David Wippman. The interview was conducted live on Facebook.

Tickets for Hamilton College’s “Common Ground” discussion with political strategists David Axelrod and Karl Rove will be available to the public on Wednesday, Sept. 27. To obtain free tickets visit https://hamiltoncommonground.eventbrite.com

Yance Ford ’94 returned to campus on Sept. 24 to screen his critically acclaimed film, “Strong Island” as part of this fall’s F.I.L.M. series. The film, which follows a 10-year investigation into the murder of Ford’s brother, unflinchingly challenges viewers’ assumptions of what it means to seek truth, and posits that some questions will always go unanswered.

Natalie Nannas’ Bioethics class joined descendants of Henrietta Lacks in a conversation about their family’s story on Sept. 29. After reading and discussing Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the class generated questions for Victoria Baptiste and Alfred Carter Jr, a great-granddaughter and grandson of Henrietta Lacks.