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Hamilton College has received a record number of applications for admission to the Class of 2011.  Applications have been received from 4,951 prospective students, a 16 percent increase over last year’s final number, and 350 more than the college’s previous record of 4,601 set in 2001.

Hamilton lost an outstanding teacher and friend when Professor Russell Blackwood died Friday morning (Jan. 12). He was a member of the faculty for nearly 50 years. Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart sent news of Professor Blackwood’s passing to the College community.

The Hamilton College board of trustees has taken the next step leading to the creation of new arts facilities on the Hamilton campus.

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund has announced seven grants totaling $35,000 to local educational, public safety and other community organizations in the Town of Kirkland.

Internationally renowned jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern, the recipient of an honorary degree from Hamilton in 2000, died Tuesday, Dec. 12. Mr. Davern was a regular visitor to campus each fall, performing during Fallcoming with other jazz legends in an annual concert established by long-time Hamilton trustee and jazz aficionado Milt Fillius '44. Kenny Davern was one of over 250 jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics who have been interviewed by Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive at Hamilton, about the history and place of jazz in America.

Hamilton College has announced that the Alexander Hamilton Center will not be established at this time due to a lack of consensus about institutional oversight of the Center as a Hamilton program. The College administration and trustees believed the Alexander Hamilton Center to have significant potential to enhance the educational experience of Hamilton students and regret that it is not going forward. We are hopeful that -- even in the absence of a formal center structure -- some of the programming that was envisioned can still be realized.

Hamilton College welcomed members of the Blood family at a dedication ceremony for its new fitness and dance center in July. The Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center is scheduled to open officially on August 25, and will be dedicated formally during the college’s Fallcoming Weekend in October. It is being named for the parents of David Blood, a member of the Class of 1981 and the third generation of the Blood family to attend Hamilton.

Nominations are now being sought for The Beverly S. and Eugene M. Tobin Employee Awards, a new annual recognition for Hamilton College administrators, staff and maintenance and operations workers.

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund Committee recently awarded six grants totaling $34,020 to educational, cultural and public safety organizations in the Town of Kirkland. The fund has now disbursed more than $118,000 since grants were first awarded in fall 2001.

Hamilton recounts the loss of one of its longest-serving trustees, who died early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25. "[Dick Couper's] death is an immense loss for Hamilton," said President Stewart.