The winter issue of Champion Magazine, the official magazine of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), published an opinion piece titled “Are educational and institutional values at odds?” in which Hamilton’s athletic program was highlighted. Scott Kretchmar, the author of the piece, referenced the college as an example of an institution that promotes “educational values related to participation over institutional values tethered to big-game weekends.”

“Retreat of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the last glacial termination,” a paper authored by Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences Eugene Domack along with 11 co-authors, was published on Nature Geoscience’s website on Jan. 16. The paper will appear in print in the near future. Other co-authors include Caroline Lavoie, who recently completed postdoctoral research at Hamilton.

On January 12, the first anniversary of the horrific Haitian earthquake, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was a guest on WRFG (Radio Free Georgia, Atlanta) 89.3.

The New York Times featured Hamilton’s marathon reading of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost in an article in the Education Life section of the Sunday, Jan. 9, edition. Orchestrated last spring by Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English Margaret Thickstun, the 12-hour Milton fest drew some 60 students, faculty and community members.

Hamilton College attracted the media’s attention quite often this year in feature stories and news reports. Among the areas most often addressed by the media in covering Hamilton were topics related to the admission process.

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio in Albany will feature a reading by Associate Professor of History Chad Williams on Tuesday, Dec. 28, as part of the public radio station’s Academic Minute. The program airs each weekday at 7:37 a.m. and 3:56 p.m. at 90.3 FM in the Clinton.

Director of New Media J.D. Ross was quoted in a New York Times article titled “A Facebook ‘Welcome’ That May Not Be” on Dec. 8. The article, which also appeared on the paper’s “The Choice” blog, described the activities of a firm called Roomsurf.

“Every indicator we have shows that the country is becoming more and more unequal,” said Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert in an interview with a New York Post reporter for a Nov. 14 article. In “Class dismissed: Why middle income jobs are not coming back,” Gilbert continued, “When people are asked which class they belong to … the bulk of the population says middle class, as they have since WWII.”

Junior Yinghan Ding  was featured in The New York Times' Education Life section on Nov. 7 in an article titled “The China Boom.” Dean of Admission Monica Inzer was also quoted in The New York Times’ Education Life section on Nov. 7 as well as in the education blog The Choice on Nov. 4.