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2007-2008


LinkedIn CEO Nye '88 to Speak Thursday on Social Networking

Dan Nye '88
Dan Nye '88
Dan Nye, CEO of the social and professional Internet networking site LinkedIn, will present "Social Networking: The Next Generation" at Hamilton. Nye, a 1988 graduate of Hamilton College, will speak on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. * Please note this is a change of location.
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Hamilton College Youth Polls Live On in National News Stories

Several national Youth Polls conducted at Hamilton through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center continue to be cited in recent national news stories on related topics. More ...

Levitt Center's Age of Information Series Will Continue in February

Hamilton College's Levitt Center will continue its year-long series, The Age of Information, with four speakers during the 2008 spring semester. The Levitt Council selects a theme for its speakers series that allows speakers from a broad range of disciplines. The speakers in the "Age of Information" series have and will address the cultural, political, legal and economic consequences of recent innovations in information technology. More ...

Students Participate in Model EU Conference in Germany

Hamilton students in Germany at international Model European Union conference.
Hamilton students in Germany at international Model European Union conference.
Sponsored by the Levitt Center, 11 Hamilton students recently traveled to Germany to represent Romania and Slovakia at an international Model European Union (EuroSim) conference. This year's event was hosted by the Universities of Trier and Saarbrucken, and concentrated on possible independence for the Kosovo region of Serbia. The participants Elena Filekova '08, Stephen Sallan '08, Tamim Akiki '08, Murtaza Jafri '08, Matt D'Amico '08, Henok Alemayo '10, Mariam Ballout '10, Zeynep Harezi '10, Kasey Hildonen '10, Reisa Asimovic '11 and Robert Eisenhart '11 prepared through weekly meetings and individual research in the preceding months.
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Economist Describes Promises and Perils of Globalization in IT Sector

On Thursday, Nov. 15, the Levitt Speaker Series brought economist Catherine Mann to Hamilton to speak about information technology and globalization. Mann outlined the promises and perils surrounding globalization in the information technology sector, and proposed new investments in training to allow the U.S. to continue to compete in an increasingly open economy. 
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Langdon Winner Discusses Technology and a Democratic Society

Levitt Series speaker Langdon Winner, the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presented "Information Technology and the Dream of Democratic Renewal" on October 18 in the Science Center. The presentation focused on the conviction that new technology will revitalize democratic society. Winner also highlighted such themes as the public disconnect created through the rise of technological advancements, as well as the role the Internet plays in working toward a democratic society.
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Barbie Zelizer Lectures: "When War Reporting is More Imagined Than Real"

Barbie Zelizer
Barbie Zelizer
Barbie Zelizer knows that war is not a happy topic. On August 30, the former journalist thanked students for coming out to the Science Center during the first week of classes to think about heavy issues. Zelizer hoped that thinking about images of war would inspire students beyond her talk. More ...

Matt House '08 Researching WW II Veterans and Civic Virtues

Matt House '08
Matt House '08
When Tom Brokaw visited the Hamilton campus, Matt House was a sophomore. The talk had such an effect on its listener that House, now a rising senior, used Brokaw's correlation between military service and political responsibility as a jumping-off point for his senior project. Although he has already begun working on the thesis, House applied for and was granted a Levitt Fellowship to do additional historical research this summer into the decline of the citizen-soldier in modern American. More ...

Levitt Fellow Steven Beale '09 Researching Russia/U.S. Relations

Steven Beale '09
Steven Beale '09
Steven Beale '09 (Durham, N.C.) is a world politics major with a long-standing interest in international security and the War on Terror. This summer, he combined these two fields with a newer interest in Russian policies to design research on the Russian reaction to the U.S.-led War on Terror, for which he has a Levitt Fellowship. Beale worked with Lecturer in Government David Rivera. More ...

Chris Sullivan ‘09 Goes Back to the Land, Researches Community Farming

Chris Sullivan '09 (center, with sign) with Fairshare members in Kansas City.
Chris Sullivan '09 (center, with sign) with Fairshare members in Kansas City.
Chris Sullivan '09 (Shutesbury, Mass.) has a research grant for this summer, but he won't spend his time in a library. Sullivan, an environmental studies major, has been awarded a Levitt Fellowship to spend his summer traveling across the country on a motorcycle as he researches community-sustained agriculture in the U.S. More ...

Community Garden Seeks Volunteer Workers

Jenney Stringer '08 Spearheaded Project Through Her Levitt Summer Fellowship

Thanks to the generosity of Home Depot and the Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties, Inc., the cooperation of the Utica Municipal Housing Authority and the organizational skills of Hamilton College student Jenney Stringer '08, a community garden will be created for and by public housing resident families at Utica's F.X. Matt Apartments, on Tuesday, Aug. 21. Volunteers are needed and invited to particpate in the initial preparation of these permanent garden beds.
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Economics and Ecology Fuel Research for Ethan Woods '09

Ethan Woods '09
Ethan Woods '09
Ethan Woods '09 (Stratford, N.Y.) started out his summer with a research survey into sustainable fuels, but he quickly decided to narrow his topic and focus on biofuels instead. The rising junior has a Levitt Fellowship this summer to combine his interests in environmentalism and economics in research on biofuels as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. More ...

Levitt Fellow Emily Pallin Studying Reconstruction of New Orleans School System

Emily Pallin '08
Emily Pallin '08
Last March, Emily Pallin, a rising senior from Grisworld, Conn., was a leader for Hamilton's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip where she and a group of students traveled to New Orleans to help the reconstruction effort. Pallin remained concerned with the city's rebuilding process, and she returned this summer as co-coordinator of Hamilton's first Summer Service Trip. Pallin, however, went back to New Orleans in two capacities; a dedicated volunteer, she also has a Levitt Fellowship to study the reconstruction of the New Orleans school system. More ...

Abhishek Maity ’08 Researching Alternative Foreign Reserves

Abhishek Maity ’08
Abhishek Maity ’08
Internships took Hamilton students all over the globe this summer, from rural Vermont to Delhi, India, where Abhishek Maity '08 (Kolkata, India) spent his summer interning with Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS), a government policy think tank. Maity also had a Levitt Fellowship for the summer to research optimal foreign reserve holdings – a topic which is closely related to his internship. More ...

Jerome Noel ’09 Researching Lincoln’s Politics and Rhetoric

Jerome Noel '09
Jerome Noel '09
Abraham Lincoln is one of this country's most popular presidents, standing out in the middle of the nineteenth century -- not a good period for memorable presidents, said Jerome Noel '09 (Carmel, Ind.), who has a Levitt Fellowship this summer to research Lincoln's rhetoric. The history major hopes to prove that it was Lincoln's extraordinary gift with words which made our 16th president one of our most famous. More ...