All News

Hamilton’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center has joined the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP), a collaboration among 26 other colleges and universities that integrates classroom study of poverty with summer internships and co-curricular activities.

Having traveled 80,000 feet into the stratosphere and 345 miles across three states, the Hamilton weather balloon finally came to rest in a tree on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire but not before capturing spectacular campus footage as it ascended.

A new economic impact study commissioned by the Albany-based Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) for its members found that Hamilton College’s estimated economic impact in the Mohawk Valley for 2016-17 totaled $322 million, nearly half of the total $683 million that all private non-profit colleges in the Mohawk Valley contributed.

Today marks the 100th birthday of jazz singer Joe Williams (1918-1999), Hamilton honorary degree recipient in 1988 and co-founder of the Fillius Jazz Archive.

“An engaging account of the rise, fall, resurrection and legacy of the Weavers, the Greenwich Village-based quartet of left-leaning musicians founded near the end of 1948,” was how Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, described Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America in The New York Times Sunday Book Review section.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate’s letter, written in response to The Atlantic’s America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches, outlined the “surprising reuses” of old Christian churches in Utica.

The Mindful Elite - Mobilizing from the Inside Out by Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas is a sociological account of the spread of mindfulness in science, healthcare, education, business, and the military.

Forecasting Private Consumption with Google Trends Data, a paper co-authored Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, and alumnus Jaemin Woo ’17, appeared in the Journal of Forecasting in October.

Scientific American published an essay titled How Capital Influences Attitudes toward Capital Punishment by Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams in which she explained, “When people think the economy is poor, support for the death penalty rise.”

In a story titled “Shining a Light on Life Behind Bars,” The Nation featured the American Prisoner Writing Archive, comparing its legacy to that of the slave narratives in its offering of non-establishment perspectives on incarceration in the United States.