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The Corporation for National and Community Service named Hamilton as one of the colleges included on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America's communities. Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement.

Chaise LaDousa gave a paper, "Constriction of the Mother Tongue: School and Language Ideology in Northern India," at a conference hosted by the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication. The conference took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in December. Conference participants hailed from Abu Dhabi, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Reunion, Russia and South Africa.

Eric Kuhn '09 published a story on Huffington Post titled "The 2008 Google Docs Campaign." In the article, he described how "Google Docs" - best described as a free Microsoft Office for the web - revolutionized the grassroots movement in political organizations.

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer discussed Hamilton's proactive response to the economic challenges affecting the families of some students attending the College in a Wall Street Journal article, "Families Appeal to Colleges for Extra Aid," published on Feb. 5.

Since November 2008, Hamilton has been producing power from the wind turbine on the South Campus and its two photo-voltaic solar arrays located on the roofs of Kirner-Johnson and the Outdoor Leadership Center, according to Associate Vice President for Facilities and Planning Steve Bellona.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg published an essay, "Modern Woodcuts and the Rise of a Chinese Avant-garde," in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language, ed. by Jaochim Hormann, with an interview with Xu Bing and contributions by Stephen J. Goldberg, Renee Covalucci and Leslie Eliet.

Hamilton has joined the academic consortium of UNAVCO, a non-profit, membership-governed consortium that supports and promotes Earth science by advancing high-precision techniques for the measurement and understanding of crustal deformation. As a result of the College becoming a UNAVCO member, Hamilton faculty, students and staff may participate in workshops, internships and short courses to help develop understanding of the technologies of measuring crustal motion.

Maegan Carberry, a well known columnist, blogger, radio show host and Arianna Huffington's former chief-of-staff for The Huffington Post, ran three workshops for the Hamilton College Media Board on Saturday, Jan. 31.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was interviewed by National Public Radio business reporter Jim Zarroli for a Morning Edition segment, "Fed Could Buy Up Long-Term Treasury Bonds," that aired on Jan. 29. American Public Media's Marketplace reporter Jeremy Hobson also interviewed Owen for a segment, "Fed digs into toolbox for more solutions," that aired on Jan. 28.

Performer, installation artist and alumnus Curt Confer '02 will perform "The Length of the Look," an "endurance work" using text, image and sound to speak on themes of sexuality and anxiety, on Friday, Jan. 30, and Saturday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. in List Art Studio (room 104). Confer creates spaces that are both meditative and unsettling and that reference the space in one's head "where connections between desire and memory circulate in endless patterns of words."