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Alumnus Walter Cronkite IV will appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, also on Thursday, July 11, to discuss Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home which he co-authored with Professor of History Maurice Isserman. The segment is scheduled to air at 7:40 a.m. Tracy Adler, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art director, will talk with WAMC's The Roundtable host Joe Donahue about the museum and its current and future exhibitions. on Thursday, July 11, at 10:35 a.m.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper at a Guyana conference to mark the 250th anniversary of the 1763 Guyana revolution where slaves rose up and controlled the territory of Berbice for more than a year against Dutch colonists. The paper was titled “Comparing Berbice (1763) and the Haitian (1791-1804) Slave Rebellions: Context, Course and Outcomes."

An article by Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Joel Winkelman has been published in the current issue of The Review of Politics. His article, "A Working Democracy: Jane Addams on the Meaning of Work" examines the relationship between work and democracy in the political thought of the activist and reformer Jane Addams.

William Marsden ’14 is helping Arkadium, a professional game development company, become more environmentally conscious this summer. Working as the business operations intern, Marsden is overseeing the company’s Go Green initiative to implement more sustainable practices.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, attended the annual meeting of the faculty advisory group for a multi-year grant from the Teagle Foundation.  The grant is titled “Assessing Undergraduate Outcomes within Disciplinary Contexts: A Longitudinal Study of Critical Thinking and Post-formal Reasoning.”

The Hamilton College Arboretum will host an English Tea on the Elihu Root House porch and in Grant Garden on Saturday, July 13, from 9 to 11 a.m. The event will feature refreshments and music and is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Ian Rosenstein attended the National Organic Symposium from June 25-28 at the University of Washington in Seattle.  This biennial conference, held by the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, features invited talks on cutting edge research in all aspects of organic chemistry plus several hundred poster presentations.

An article by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Christiane Gannon appears in this month's issue of English Literature in Transition 1880-1920. In "Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan: Literary Professionalism and the Female Author as Priest," Gannon argues that Corelli was partly responsible for popularizing an idea of literary professionalism as a form of living the examined life.

Information, regardless of its accuracy, spreads rapidly through social media, reaching and influencing millions of readers.  In special instances, stories achieve viral status, where a large number of people receive the material within days, if not hours. Unfortunately, oftentimes information is incorrect, yet people accept it as true.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented invited lectures at the Institute of Classical Studies in London and at the University of Cambridge.