Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate participated in the American Academy of Religion (AAR) annual meeting in Montreal, Nov. 7-10, where he was awarded a research grant, moderated a session and served as jury chair for a "Religion and the Arts" award. More ...

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan of Ohio State University gave a joint paper titled “The Rhetoric of the River: Space and Setting in Huckleberry Finn” at Ohio State University on Nov. 13. More ...

Hamilton hosted a Community-based Research (CBR) program on Friday, Nov. 6, arranged by New York Campus Compact, at which four CBR models currently in use as part of Hamilton courses were presented. Faculty members from Colgate and SUNY/IT as well Hamilton faculty and two Levitt Vista workers attended this roundtable which included discussions of best practices for student learning and community outcomes. More ...

Sharon Werning Rivera, associate professor of government, participated in a roundtable titled “Categories and Individuals in Political Science—An Assessment” at the 2009 Annual Convention of the American Association of Slavic Studies on Nov. 13 in Boston. More ...

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, dissects the collapse of the Soviet Empire in “Reds, Menaced - Taking measure of the unlamented socialist paradise, twenty years after its demise,” the lead feature article in the December/January issue of Bookforum magazine. More ...

De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, is collaborating with the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) on a grant-funded project to support Chinese language instruction in elementary schools. The project is funded by a three-year U. S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant. More ...

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover and Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen participated in CeMENT, an NSF-funded workshop organized by CSWEP (the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) held on Nov. 19 and 20 in San Antonio. Conover was accepted as a participant in the workshop and Jensen was invited as a mentor. More ...

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, has published "Is Bella Cohen Jewish? What's in a Name?" in Volume 18 of European Joyce Studies (New York: Rodopi, 2009).
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Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel recently took part in a panel exploring the role of research at primarily undergraduate institutions at Washington College, host of the 43rd meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers. Kinnel and his co-panelist, Shaun Murphree (Allegheny College), discussed the experiences of their departments in the significant growth in publications that was described in a recent article in the Journal of Chemical Education. More ...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells recently published two translations in the literary journal The Connecticut Review, Fall 2009, Vol. XXXI No. 2. The translations are titled "Olympian 14" and "Pythian 7," composed originally in ancient Greek by Pindar. More ...