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Professor of Music Michael “Doc” Woods received an award from the ASCAPLUS Awards Program sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). According to ASCAP, the award program provides recognition and a cash award “for writer members whose catalogs have prestige value for which they would not otherwise be compensated.”

The center for the study of 18th-century studies at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway, has published the invited paper Professor of French John C. O’Neal gave in December of 2008.

Four Hamilton students recently went on a “graduation” trip to the Adirondacks to complete the last step in their process to become a Hamilton Outing Club (HOC) Trip leader.

Hamilton’s HANSA nonprofit management program enters its third year with three Student Fellows: Holly Donaldson '11, Michael "Dayne" Harris '11, and Xiaohan Du '12. The HANSA program, launched in 2008, partners with non-profit agencies in the Mohawk Valley on specific projects and staffs the agencies with student fellows interested in pursuing non-profit leadership roles.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hamilton College $800,000 in support of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi at http://www.dhinitiative.org), a research and teaching collaboration in which new media and computing technologies are used to promote humanities-based research, scholarship and teaching, including curriculum development, across the liberal arts. This is one of the largest humanities grants ever received by Hamilton.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Contemporary Voices and Vision Series opens on Friday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall with the Javon Jackson Band.

 Hamilton Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury spent several days in August near Los Alamos, N.M., teaching NASA's latest group of astronaut candidates how to do geologic field work and mapping.

Associate Professor of English Tina May Hall's collection of short stories, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The collection is the winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation's most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. It was selected from a field of nearly 350 entries by esteemed author and film critic Renata Adler.

 Matthew Kahn ’88 spoke to the Hamilton community about his latest book, Climatopolis on Sept. 21. His book offers an unusual approach to dealing with climate change: because little is currently being done to stop climate change, the world should switch its focus on adapting to the changes that have already been created and show no sign of slowing down.

Andrew Rogan ’10, Cristina Garafola ’11, and 13 students from colleges across the country participated this summer in the Hamilton-run Associated Colleges in China (ACC) Field Studies Program. The program aims to provide American undergraduates with opportunities to interact with rural children and educators in China in order to further advance their cultural understanding and improve their language proficiency.