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Professors Dave Bailey, Ernest Williams, Barbara Gold, John Eldevik, Jonathan Vaughan and Brent Plate.

Faculty Honored With Dean's Scholarly Achievement Awards

May 13, 2013 

Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds during Class & Charter Day on May 13. The awards recognize individual accomplishment but reflect a richness and depth of scholarship and creative activity across the entire faculty.

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Sarah Andrews, John Wildman and Emma Geduldig.

Student Researchers Seek Answers to Human Movement

Emma Geduldig ’13, Sarah Andrews ’14 and John Wildman ’15 Look at Motor Control

June 20, 2012 

The ability to pick up an object without knocking it over is something that most people take for granted, but Emma Geduldig ’13, Sarah Andrews ’14 and John Wildman ’15 are more inquisitive when it comes to movement and motor control. Why, they ask, do we move to pick up a coffee cup from the side as opposed to the front? Such simple questions on human motion have yet to be entirely answered, and these researchers hope to shed more light on this seldom- researched subject.

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Sarah Dreyer-Oren '12 with a student at NECC.

NECC and Hamilton Have Strong Ties

New England Center for Children Was Founded by Vincent Strully '69

April 6, 2012 

Fifteen Hamilton students and three faculty and staff members traveled to the New England Center for Children (NECC) in Southborough, Mass., on March 30.  Students who had expressed interest in pursuing internships and careers at the center were invited to tour the facility and meet members of the staff.

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Professors David Gapp (left) and Jonathan Vaughan.

Professors Gapp and Vaughan Named to Endowed Chairs

September 6, 2011 

Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Biology David Gapp was appointed to the Silas D. Childs Chair, and Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan was appointed to the James L. Ferguson Chair. Both appointments were effective July 1.

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Robert Hawkins '13 and Elin Lantz '13

Lantz ’13 and Hawkins ’13 Work with Prof. Vaughan on Human Movement Study

June 5, 2011 

As much as science has uncovered about the human brain, the relationship between brain and movement remains relatively unclear. For example, when attempting to point to or touch a specific, moving target, response times vary based on a wide variety of factors. This  summer, Elin Lantz ’13 and Robert Hawkins ’13 along with Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Jonathan Vaughan will study how speed and accuracy of movement are different in the right and left hands.

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Taylor Adams 11 and Deborah Barany '11

Taylor Adams '11 and Deborah Barany '11 Awarded NSF Fellowships

Four Recent Alumni Also Receive Graduate Research Fellowships

April 11, 2011 

Taylor Adams '11 and Deborah Barany '11 have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. Adams, a chemistry major, and Barany who is majoring in neuroscience, will both receive a three-year annual stipend of $30,000 and a $10,500 cost-of -education allowance for tuition and fees, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. or foreign institution of graduate education they choose.

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Deborah Barany '11 and Anthony Sali '10

Neuro and Psych Students Publish in Experimental Brain Research

October 29, 2010 

In 2009, Deborah A. Barany '11 and Anthony W. Sali '10 participated in Hamilton's Summer Science Research Program. Under the supervision of Psychology and Neuroscience professor Jonathan Vaughan, they investigated how people control movements in complex environments. A poster about the work was presented at the annual Psychonomic Society meeting in 2009.

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Deborah Barany '11 and Anthony Sali '10

Students Researching Posture-Based Movement Model in 3-D Space

June 23, 2009 
Deborah Barany '11 and Anthony Sali '10 describe motor control in a way that would remind a listener of flip-book animation. An action consists of smaller, partial movements, that when assembled together and in the right fashion, trigger the complete maneuver. Similarly, flip books rely on persistence of vision to create the illusion of fluid motion, when in reality, they are just discontinuous images stapled together. More ...
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