All News

Research performed by Eugene Domack, Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies, and his students during a recent expedition to Antarctica is highlighted in the National Science Foundation’s 2006 annual report along with a photograph taken by geosciences technician Dave Tewksbury.

An article titled “How Old is the New SDS?” by history professor Maurice Isserman appears in the March 2 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Chronicle Review. Isserman discussed the history of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organization in the 60s and compared the new incarnation of the organization with that of the previous era. He suggested that the current generation might be better off shifting its focus away from the past.

The Diversity and Social Justice Project and the Dean of Faculty sponsored a visit and talk on Feb. 20 by three men who were among the 3,800 “Lost Boys of Sudan” resettled in the United States after being orphaned during the Sudanese civil war. Dut Deng, Machar Majok and Majer Anyang, along with thousands of other young Sudanese boys, were forced to flee their homes and live as refugees in the late 1980s during the conflict and were eventually resettled in Syracuse, N.Y. Deng spoke about the struggles of the Lost Boys, his gratitude to those who brought him to America, and his hopes for further American attention directed towards Sudan.

Soggy, the word that best described last year’s Febfest, was not applicable to Febfest 2007. In a case of feast or famine, with more than three feet of snow over a five-day period, the campus had too much snow to allow for several Febfest events, and classes were cancelled for a day and a half.

As members of a panel sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) at the National Press Club, Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren and neuroscience major Kateri Whitebean ’08 spoke on the value of undergraduate research. The event, held on Feb. 21, was organized to spark a national conversation on the topic by introducing CUR's new publication, Developing and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices. Elgren and Kerry Karukstis, professor of chemistry at Harvey Mudd College who was also a presenter, co-edited the volume.

Dan Sloan, Jesse Thomas & Gretchen Maxam, members of Hamilton’s Desktop Integration Services Team in ITS, presented the imaging system they use to manage the installed software and keep Windows XP up to date in the ITS public labs and technology enhanced classrooms to a group of peers at a Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Special Interest Group workshop on February 5. Their presentation, titled "From Inventory to Ctrl-Alt-Delete," illustrated how imaging can be automated almost to the push of a single button.

British artist Steven Pippin will speak on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 4:15 p.m in the Red Pit in the Kirner Johnson Building. His presentation will be followed by a reception in Café Opus on campus. Both the presentation and reception are open to the public and free.

Hamilton football alumnus Sean Ryan '94  recently went to work for the National Football League (NFL) as an offensive quality control coach for the New York Giants, according to The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.). 

Ten Hamilton College students traveled to Boston to participate in the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) from Feb. 15 -18. The students are members of Model United Nations, an organization that orchestrates student-run Model U.N. conferences throughout the year. The purpose of the organization is to assist students in improving their public speaking and writing skills while learning about the official U.N. procedures and issues. As members, students assess the problems and possible solutions to regional problems throughout the world.

The Mock Trial Team qualified to attend the national championships for the first time in the team’s history this past weekend in Syracuse. Hamilton’s qualifying team faced Harvard University, Brown University, SUNY Binghamton, and Syracuse University during its four rounds of competition and handed the Harvard team its only two losses of the competition. The members of Hamilton’s qualifying team are Josua Agins '07, Michael Blasie '07, Scott Iseman '07, Ben Johnston '07, Wenxi Li '10, Dillon Prime '07, Alia Rehman '10 and Stacy Sadove '07.