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“Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud,” the Wellin Museum of Art’s exhibition that opened in October, focuses on the loss of Iraq’s art and cultural wealth via colonization, archaeological exploration, and war. The exhibit focuses on the re-creation of Room H of the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud (Kalhu), constructed between 883 and 859 BCE, first excavated between 1845 and 1851 and thought to have included nearly 200 rooms.

Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi is the co-principal investigator of a four-person team recently awarded a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) Incubator grant.

A pandemic coupled with a presidential election have made for a challenging but successful season for the HamVotes team of students, faculty, and staff as they have focused on increasing the voter participation at the College.

A recent afternoon celebration of Kevin ’70 and Karen Kennedy’s generosity and participation in American Art 1900-1950 offered all those involved, directly and tangentially, an opportunity to revisit the wealth of experiences incorporated in the course.

The Zo, a series of videos from The Marshall Project that takes a look at life inside prison received the 2020 Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling from the Online News Association. The series is based on the sentiments expressed in letters in the American Prison Writing Archive founded by Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Doran Larson.

A clawhammer banjo player and a scholar of Appalachian old-time and bluegrass music that focuses on women, Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley was the natural choice to write Unlikely Angel – The Songs of Dolly Parton.

President David Wippman co-authored an opinion piece published by Inside Higher Ed on Oct. 12 titled The Education Department’s Race to the Bottom.

The College’s Board of Trustees nominated and elected four candidates to serve as charter trustees. Mason P. Ashe ’85, Manal Ataya ’01, Peter B. Coffin ’81, P’14, and Sharon D. Madison ’84 joined the board on Oct. 2.

Oliva Rissland, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Colorado, read a scientific paper every day for 899 days. At the end of that stretch, she picked her favorite: “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers,” written in 1989 by Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton.

Week after week, year after year, The Media’s Effect on Women’s Body Image, a story written and published on Hamilton’s news site in 2010, remains at the top of those most read with 182,000 page views. On its 10th anniversary, we contacted the author, Alex Ossola ’10, and the researcher, Arielle Cutler ’11, for their reactions.