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The Wellin Museum will host an opening reception for Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, oil paintings that explore our relationship with the media landscape and a graphic memoir based on the architecture of urban playgrounds in the 1970s, on Feb. 18.

Professor of Government Robert W.T. Martin's essay titled “What Did the Founding Fathers Think of Fake News?” appearing on the History News Network site called on Americans to take the role of the press more seriously.

In an essay published by Inside Higher Ed, Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss observed that on the day after the election and for the rest of the semester his students were “as committed to learning as any students I’ve seen in 40 years of college teaching.”

Superhero Costumes Come to Parents' Rescue, a Feb. 8 Wall Street Journal article, featured a recent study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White titled The “Batman Effect”: Improving Perseverance in Young Children.

“Mexico is one of the most important countries in the world for the United States,” began this year’s Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs E. Anthony Wayne in his essay, “Why US should treat Mexico as vital partner, not a punching bag,” published on Feb. 8 on theconversation.com.

Climate Change and Trump’s Board-Game Patriotism, an essay on The Huffington Post website by Associate Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavo begins by quoting from President Trump’s inaugural address.

“President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership weakens America’s strategic-economic position in East Asia.” So begins “The Death of TPP: The Best Thing That Ever Happened to China,” an opinion piece written by senior Oliver Magnusson and this past fall’s Linowitz Professor of International Affairs E. Anthony Wayne.

A New York 6 (NY6) consortium faculty group has been planning a conference at Hamilton for April 7-9 that has become acutely relevant in recent days.

Hamilton College charter trustee Linda E. Johnson, a 1980 graduate, has established the Johnson-Pote Museum Director Fund in support of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art director’s position.

Bill Moyers, well known journalist, documentarian and former White House press secretary, interviewed Professor of Government Philip Klinkner and historians from Princeton, Yale and Harvard’s Kennedy School for a program titled "Lest We Forget - Bill Moyers and four historians on the big lie behind the rise of Trump" for the Moyers & Company website.