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When there is an emergency involving illness or injury on Hamilton’s campus, student EMTs can reach somebody in need within minutes. The team that forms Hamilton College Emergency Medical Services (HCEMS) consists of 21 students from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. This week, Hamilton recognizes their efforts through the National Collegiate Emergency Services Foundation’s National Collegiate EMS Week.

Hamilton students won the first round of the College Fed Challenge competition  on Friday, Nov. 9. The team of presenters - seniors Eric Boole, Danny Kaufman, Aislinn Shea and Amanda Thorman - advance to the semi-final round of the challenge to be held at the New York Federal Reserve on Wednesday, November 14. The first round was hosted by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Author and University of Pennsylvania professor Annette Lareau will give a lecture titled “Unequal Childhoods” on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.  Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheer Professor of Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn.  The lecture, part of the Levitt Center’s Inequality and Equity series, is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College will host a fundraiser through next week for hurricane relief in Union Beach, N.J.  This relief effort is spearheaded by Sandhya Rao’15, who lives near Union Beach.  The small, beach-front town was devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

In the last talk of a semester-long series on the election season, The Publius Society invited Professor Phil Klinkner of Hamilton’s Government Department to give his thoughts in “An Election Post-Mortem.”

The Nov. 13 lecture by author and explorer Wade Davis has been postponed due to circumstances beyond his control.  Davis is an explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society, which has named him as one of the Explorers of the Millennium. The possibility of rescheduling the event is yet to be determined.

Professor of Art William Salzillo’s intaglio print, “The Minotaur,” is on display in “Art of Democracy: 2012” at the Sacred Gallery in New York City. The juried show, presented by The New York Society of Etchers, Inc., is on display through Nov. 30.

Hamilton is offering new ticket options for concert attendees and will accept donations for those affected by Hurricane Sandy when it hosts a benefit on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square.

Hamilton alumnus and 2012 honorary degree recipient Peter Cameron ’82 returned to the Hill on Nov. 7. He read excerpts from his 2012 novel Coral Glynn and a new short story. Cameron is a critically acclaimed fiction author who has six published novels.

Apart from the temporary suspension of operations the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, the Hamilton College campus was largely unaffected by Hurricane Sandy.