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Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has artwork featured in the traveling exhibition “Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things” at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. For this exhibition the museum seeks to illuminate four aspects of design that include innovation, production, evolution and inspiration.

Jon Sanford '11 scored in the 71st minute to lift Hamilton College to a 1-0 win against SUNY Institute of Technology in a non-league men's soccer game on a sweltering afternoon at Hamilton's Love Field on Sept. 2.

Throughout the summer, internships funded by alumni and friends of the college have been featured on Hamilton’s news site. Described below are a few paid internships that also provided Hamilton students with valuable career experiences. There undoubtedly were many more, and we invite students to send the media relations office descriptions of their experiences so that we can expand this list.

Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state under George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series at Hamilton College. She will give a lecture on Monday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate recently published the chapter "Film" in the four-volume Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by Charles Lippy and Peter Williams (CQ Press/Sage Publications). The encyclopedia is a multidisciplinary examination of the role of religion in North American life.

Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori authored the lead essay, titled "Mystery" (Misuteri), in the volume The Diversity of Occupation Period Literature (Senyo-ki bungaku no tamen-sei), published by Iwanami Shoten in Tokyo.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen Goldberg delivered two presentations about tradition and modernity and participated in a panel discussion at the Summer Institute on The Silk Road: Early Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identities, held May 24-June 25 at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas has published an article in the newly released issue (July –December 2009) of the Caribbean Studies journal. His article, “1968 and the Social and Political Foundations and Impact of the "New Politics" in Guyana” examines the activism and collective action of groups and individuals in Guyana between 1968-1978, and argues that the emergence and convergence of these forces and politics changed the equation and brought into being the 'new politics' dramatized in the birth and activity of the Working People's Alliance (WPA), a Guyanese political party.

While women have made significant strides in the past decades, the culture at large continues to place a great emphasis on how women look. These beauty standards, largely proliferated through the media, have drastic impacts on young women and their body images. Arielle Cutler ’11, through a Levitt grant, spent the summer evaluating the efficacy of media literacy programs as a remedy to this vicious cycle.

Donald Carter, professor of Africana studies, has been appointed chief diversity officer by President Joan Hinde Stewart this summer to “oversee efforts in the area of diversity and help us to build the most inclusive and welcoming community possible.” Carter hopes “to develop a broad diversity plan based on what’s going on today - the problems and successes we are having - and to build organically from the bottom up on what is already here.”