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Sophomore Galia Slayen was featured on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Say Something website, described by the publication as a collection of “stories from college students about what they’re up to and why.” In the March 7 story and linked audio recording, Slayen described the recent National Eating Disorder Awareness Week activities on campus and her motivation for engaging in the project. A committee of students, headed by Slayen and Perry Ryan ’12 provided the impetus for Hamilton’s participation in the national awareness week.

About 90 members of the Hamilton community participated in the annual America’s Greatest Heart Run & Walk on Saturday, March 5, at Utica College. Although donations are still being counted it’s estimated that Team Hamilton raised approximately $5700. These volunteers were among the 8444 total participants who walked or ran between three and five miles.

Hamilton’s curling team has recently competed in two bonspiels (tournaments). The team traveled to Boston for their first bonspiel of the year, where they competed against teams from MIT, Villanova, Colgate and RPI. A week later, the Club, in conjunction with the Colgate Curling Club and Mary Jane Walsh from the Utica Curling Club, hosted the first Utica Curling Club Collegiate Friendly with 13 teams.

Hamilton College will remain closed today, March 7, due to snow conditions.  All classes are cancelled. The College will reopen at the normal time on Tuesday, March 8.

Professor of Anthropology Charlotte Beck was quoted in the journal Science, in LiveScience, in The Oregonian and in U.S. News & World Report about a study, published in the journal Science on March 4, that raised questions about how prehistoric peoples, upon their arrival from Asia, journeyed south to the Americas. Beck and Professor of Anthropology Tom Jones published a paper in 2010 that concluded that the initial colonization of the intermountain region of the Great Basin was probably by populations from the Pacific coastal area and not, as conventional wisdom holds, from the Great Plains.

Six prizes were awarded across three categories in the annual Public Speaking Competition on Saturday, March 5, in the Chapel. The 17 finalists were chosen after an open preliminary round held in February. Speakers' presentations were either persuasive or informative in nature, and in one category, speakers were asked to address an assigned topic.

The Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture by Anthony Kronman scheduled for Monday, March 7, has been cancelled because the College is closed for the day. Organizers hope to reschedule for the fall.

Associate Professor of English Steven Yao delivered a lecture titled "Global Literary Studies and the Rising Tide of the Transpacific," as part of the Faculty Research Colloquium Series at UMass, Amherst, on March 1. While there, he also taught a graduate seminar on Global Modernisms.

A previously owned ion trap mass spectrometer (LC/MS) was recently donated to the Chemistry Department by SAIC – Frederick, Inc. Dr. Jack Simpson, a senior scientist at SAIC, made the donation possible. A similar, new LC/MS would cost about $175,000.

George Baker ’74 returned to Hamilton on March 3 and spoke with students about starting their career search in Washington. The discussion, titled “So You Want to Work in Washington, D.C.: A User’s Guide to Finding a Job in the Nation's Capital,” introduced students to the nature of the Washington job market and provided a framework for beginning the search. Baker is a partner at Williams & Jensen PLLC in D.C., a litigation lobbying firm where he started working in 1980.