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For most students, Thanksgiving Break is a week for family; for others, including international students who are not able to return home, it is a time for new cultural experiences and friends. Although the campus was quiet and cold, this Thanksgiving (or “Friendsgiving”) at Hamilton was made warmer with community-building activities and shared holiday spirit.

Hamilton’s Late Nite and Figure Skating Club teamed up to sponsor HamSkate on a recent Friday night. The campus community was invited for a night of public skating with free skate rentals, hot cocoa, pizza and cookies

Forecasting Private Consumption with Google Trends Data, a paper co-authored Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, and alumnus Jaemin Woo ’17, appeared in the Journal of Forecasting in October.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale with Symphoria will perform on Tuesday, November 27 at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

If there’s one piece of advice that students could take away from Brittany Tomkin ’12 and Sarah Kane ’12 at their Connect to Careers in Theatre talk, it’s that you don’t need to wait for permission to pursue your dreams.

Assistant Professor of History Celeste Day Moore recently published an essay in the edited volume New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, the first publication of the African American Intellectual History Society.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, recently presented at a conference titled “One Hundred Years of Communism in the USA.”

Hamilton’s New York City Program recently traveled to Midtown for a visit and presentation from the Municipal Art Society of New York. The Municipal Art Society (MAS) is a nonprofit organization that focuses on preserving legacy spaces, engaging in thoughtful city planning and design, and fostering inclusive neighborhoods across New York City. The presentation centered on MAS’s on-going project, the Accidental Skyline and their most recent report, A Tale of Two Rezonings: Taking a Harder Look at CEQR (City Environmental Quality Review), which debuted on Nov. 8.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics and Greek Literature Emerita, presented a lecture titled “Perpetua: Athlete of God” at Skidmore College on Nov. 15.

A collection of primarily 20th century resources on African-American history in Utica and the Mohawk Valley was recently donated to the Burke Library Special Collections by Kirkland Alumna Cassandra Harris-Lockwood K’74.