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Hamilton is known for the long winters, but for the Hamilton Club Nordic Ski team the snow is the best thing to come back to after winter break. Hamilton’s Nordic team is a member of the Mideast Conference of the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) and regularly competes against club teams in the New York and New England area.

The Community Outreach & Opportunity Project (COOP) employs senior fellows each year to help make the COOP an accessible place for service and learning in the Hamilton community and greater Clinton Area.

The end of the semester can be tough, but for the Beekeeping club it has been sweet. Before Thanksgiving, the Beekeeping club had started harvesting and extracting honey from six hives on campus which are located behind the community farm.

A liberal arts degree and double major, including math, propelled Mitchell Scher '14 into a career in the space industry.

As part of the Career Center’s “What I did with my major” series, four recent alumni gathered to speak about their experiences after Hamilton.

As a member of her high school’s Model UN, Maria Saenz ’19 had been exposed to various international issues and was looking to continue learning about immigration, poverty and women’s rights. A COOP Service Internship at the United Way allows Saenz to explore those interests through an internship in Utica.

A week after the 2016 Presidential election, The Spectator hosted “The Role of the Media in the 2016 Election,” the final SpecSpeak lecture of the semester. The guest was Scott Bixby ’11 who spent 16 months covering the Republican race to the White House for The Guardian. Bixby has written for several high-profile news organizations including the New Republic, Mic and The Daily Beast .

In this age of digital media, Hamilton students were able to learn about old-fashioned printing methods at an Apple and Quill series event, “Extravaganza in the Letterpress Studio,” on Oct. 19.

As a part of the new Alex Talks during family weekend, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Farah Dawood presented “Nanotechnology: Small Building Blocks that lead to Big Ideas.” Dawood began by giving the audience an idea about just how small a nanoparticle is in comparison to daily objects. A nanoparticle is 1 billionth the size of a meter, and can be seen using advanced microscopy.