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HAVOC’s 20th Annual MLK Jr. Day of Service saw the largest turnout yet with just under 250 people coming out early on Jan. 20 to volunteer in Clinton, New Hartford, Utica, and Rome. HAVOC sent students to 28 sites ranging from organizational work for a city mural to spending time with the elderly to playing with kittens.

Hamilton will welcome two prominent visiting professors for the spring 2018 semester. Nicholas Rostow will serve as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs, and Gwen Dordick has been named Distinguished Lecturer in American Public Policy and Practice.

At Hamilton, Mitch Bierman ’21 is more than 700 miles away from his home in Newton, Ill., but he left something behind that will help people in the community remember him. Before he came to College Hill, Bierman established a non-profit organization, Eagle for Life, in Newton. The organization will provide a permanent source of funding for future school improvements at Newton Community High School.

Year’s end is the occasion for many “best of” and “most read” news story compilations. Here’s a look at some of the most popular articles on Hamilton’s website in 2017.

Sixteen Hamilton students have received creativity grants from the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Fund, which provides funds for projects displaying originality, expressiveness and imagination.

Classes are over for the semester and students spent the week of December 11 taking exams and turning in final projects. But that didn’t prevent them and other Hamilton community members from taking a little time to get in the holiday spirit.

Petra Elfström ’18 and Emily Hull ’18 have been awarded Class of 1979 Travel grants to attend the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting in Washington, D.C. in April, 2018. They will present posters about research conducted at Slocan Narrows Pithouse Village in British Columbia, Canada, during past summers in Associate Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale’s six-week archaeology field school course.

Five Hamilton juniors have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad during the spring 2018 semester. Recipients are Mariani German, Byung Yo (Taylor) Kim, Emily Lei, Christina Plakas, and Emily Yong.

The Hamilton Mathletics Team took part in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition on Dec. 2. The competition took the form of a six-hour written exam, which the team had trained for throughout the fall semester.