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When ESPN’s 30 for 30 O.J.: Made in America, was announced at this week’s Academy Awards ceremony as the winner in the best documentary category, alumna Deirdre Fenton ’04, was one of its producers receiving an Oscar.

The Peace Corps announced that Hamilton was listed 22nd among small schools on the agency’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are nine Hamilton alumni currently volunteering worldwide.

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the world’s first jazz recording, the Hamilton College Fillius Jazz Archive has begun to add its more than 300 videotaped interviews with jazz greats onto its YouTube channel.

New York Times quoted Professor of Economics Paul Hagstrom and referenced his research focused on refugees in a Feb. 22 article in the Times titled “A Surprising Salve for New York’s Beleaguered Cities: Refugees.”

In one of many interviews on American Public Media’s Marketplace program, Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, discussed what regulators might consider when making changes to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in a segment titled “How small is too big to fail?” on Feb. 16.

The Wellin Museum will host an opening reception for Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, oil paintings that explore our relationship with the media landscape and a graphic memoir based on the architecture of urban playgrounds in the 1970s, on Feb. 18.

Professor of Government Robert W.T. Martin's essay titled “What Did the Founding Fathers Think of Fake News?” appearing on the History News Network site called on Americans to take the role of the press more seriously.

In an essay published by Inside Higher Ed, Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss observed that on the day after the election and for the rest of the semester his students were “as committed to learning as any students I’ve seen in 40 years of college teaching.”

Superhero Costumes Come to Parents' Rescue, a Feb. 8 Wall Street Journal article, featured a recent study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White titled The “Batman Effect”: Improving Perseverance in Young Children.

“Mexico is one of the most important countries in the world for the United States,” began this year’s Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs E. Anthony Wayne in his essay, “Why US should treat Mexico as vital partner, not a punching bag,” published on Feb. 8 on theconversation.com.