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COOP Senior Fellows Sarah Graves '16 and Sarah Thomsen '16, along with John Thomsen '19, played Santa and delivered gifts to children at Upstate Cerebral Palsy in Utica. Hundreds of gifts and numerous food baskets were donated by Hamilton staff and students for the COOP and HAVOC's annual holiday gift drive.

In the last month, several national media outlets – including National Public Radio, National Journal and Inside Higher Ed – have included comments from Hamilton experts in various news stories related to corruption, politics and academe.

Hamilton’s women’s volleyball team raised more than $1,000 for its 2015 Dig Pink campaign. Dig Pink is an initiative of the Side-Out Foundation. Funds raised for Side-Out enable scientists to continue their research studying patient tumors to determine the best treatment for patients with stage 4 (metastatic) breast cancer, the most advanced form of the disease and the least funded area of research.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art welcomed 25 local Boy Scouts to the museum for a tour on Dec. 12.  Later that day the museum hosted a Wellin Kids event, where children made holiday ornaments of felt.

The Hamilton College Board of Trustees has elected unanimously David Wippman, the William S. Pattee Professor of Law and dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, to be the College’s 20th president. The appointment is effective July 1, 2016.

Hamilton College's Director of Athletics Jon Hind '80 was presented with the 2015 Extra Man Award by the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association in Baltimore, Md., on Friday afternoon.

Hamilton Board of Trustees Chair Steve Sadove '73, P'07,'10,'13 and Bob Delaney ’79 , co-chairs of the Presidential Search committee, announced in an email to the Hamilton community that the College’s 20th president will be introduced today. The announcement will be live-streamed at 4 p.m.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate recently published Key Terms in Material Religion, his eighth edited book. The volume includes 37 short essays on key terms that are shaping the rapidly growing field of material religion.

Eight Hamilton students have been selected to receive the Class of 1979 Student Travel Award. The award, established by the alumni of Hamilton’s Class of 1979, offers financial assistance to Hamilton students who wish to pursue extensive research projects in different parts of the world.

Hamilton’s Athletics Department celebrated the holiday season with generous giving to the less fortunate. The department participated in COOP’s Holiday Gift Drive and supported individuals from the Johnson Park Center and a family through the Department of Social Services.