Smythe Teaches Taxonomy Workshop in Japan

April 2, 2008
Ashleigh Smythe, visiting assistant professor of biology, co-taught a workshop on the taxonomy and identification of free-living marine nematodes at Kyoto University's Seto Marine Biological Laboratory in Shirahama, Japan, March 21-24. The workshop was sponsored by the NaGISA Project, an international Census of Marine Life field project. 
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Boutin Gives Talk at SIAM Meeting

April 2, 2008
Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a talk titled "Determining Sets, Resolving Sets, and the Exchange Property" at a section meeting for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) held at the University of Central Florida March 14-15. In her talk Boutin described two types of subsets of a network that capture its symmetries. Further she discussed when such subsets are analogous to a basis, a set that is fundamental to other areas of mathematics.

Hamilton Curlers Win Second and Third National Championships in Two Years

April 1, 2008
Hamilton sent two curling teams to the 2008 National College Curling Tournament at the North Shore and Chicago Curling Clubs in Glenview, Ill., from March 14-16. Returning curlers Katherine Alser '09, Yuqi Mao '09, Tom Irvin '09 and Dave Hamilton '09 comprised Team Hamilton Blue, and competed in Division 3. New curlers Jack Li '08, Andrew Harris '11 and Will Welles '08 teamed up with Mike Lindsay of Yale University, to form Team Hamilton Buff, and competed in Division 4. For the second straight year Hamilton returned successful with both teams bringing home the gold medals from their respective divisions.
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MacArthur Fellow Jonathan Shay to Present Winslow Lecture

April 1, 2008
Jonathan Shay, a MacArthur Fellow and clinical psychiatrist, will present a lecture titled "Homer on Military Leadership" as part of the Winslow Lecture Series at Hamilton College. Shay's talk will take place on Thursday, April 3, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. 
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Nancy Rabinowitz Presents Paper at British Classical Association

April 1, 2008
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper, "Viewing Courtship Again" in a panel titled "Sex and the City" at the annual meeting of the British Classical Association in Liverpool on March 29.   More ...

Bayolo's Great Noise Ensemble Named Best Chamber Group by D.C. Music Association

April 1, 2008
The Great Noise Ensemble, a group focusing on the performance of contemporary classical music founded and directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo, has been named Best Chamber Ensemble of 2007 by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA).
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Pixar Animation Scientist to Lecture on Math in the Movies

April 1, 2008
Tony DeRose, a senior scientist and lead of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios, will lecture at Hamilton College as part of the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture series. His talk, "Math in the Movies," will take place on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. 
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Associated Press and InsideHigherEd.com Detail Hewitt Research

April 1, 2008
A national study that examined faculty influence on the political views of college students and that found no evidence of faculty indoctrination was the subject of an Associated Press article and another in InsideHigherEd.com. Hamilton Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Mack Mariani, a government professor at Xavier University, were the study's authors.   More ...

Peter J. Rabinowitz's Before Reading Reprinted Electronically

April 1, 2008
Having sold out one hardback and two paperback editions, Comparative Literature Professor Peter J. Rabinowitz's Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation has been reissued in the "Open Access Initiative" of Ohio State University Press.   More ...

Krueger Presents Paper at Colgate

March 31, 2008
Roberta Krueger, professor of French and Burgess Chair of the French Department, spoke at a Medieval Colloquium on Interpreting the Middle Ages: Manuscript, Text, Exegesis at Colgate University on March 28. Her paper was titled "A medieval love debate in a Renaissance court: Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche."  Krueger examined the interplay of text and image in a manuscript of the poem that was illustrated in 1541 according to the author's explicit instructions.