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Russell Marcus, the Truax Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy, presented a paper titled “The Explanatory Indispensability Argument” on Jan. 17 at the 3rd Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Russell’s paper argues that the new explanatory argument, because of its equivocation between two senses of ‘explanation,' either is unsound, or fails to extend the standard indispensability argument.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published an article, "New Technology for Language Instruction and Film Studies-Combination of DVD with PowerPoint Presentation," in Studies on Teaching Chinese Under Different Circumstances, (ed., the Center of Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University; pub., Press for Researches on Foreign Language Teaching, Beijing, 2010. )

John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Art, contibuted to the most recent volume of the Pseira excavation reports published by the Institute of Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) press. Originally excavated in 1906-1907 by Richard Seager, Pseira was an important Bronze Age harbor town located on an islet just off the north coast of Crete. McEnroe was the project architect for the collaborative Greek-American team that devoted many years to the exhaustive reinvestigation of the site.

Stephen J. Goldberg, associate professor of art history, published an essay in the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy titled “The Gestural Imagination: Toward a Phenomenology of Duration in the Art of Chinese Calligraphy.” The essay appeared in the November 2009 issue.

Aishwarya Lakshmi, assistant professor of English, has published an essay in an edited volume on postcolonialism. The essay titled “Re-presenting the Empire: the Picturesque Aesthetic in Satyajit Ray's ‘The Chess Players’” appears in Colonization or Globalization? Postcolonial Explorations of Imperial Expansion (Lexington Books).

Susan Mason, director of Hamilton’s Oral Communication Center, recently became one of two executive coaches supporting the UBS Investment Bank Women Executive Director (ED) Coaching Program. Mason is working with her executive coaching colleague Judith Katcher P’98, whose daughter Betsy Katcher Freedman ‘98 was one of Mason’s advisees.

Five Hamilton students were recently given the opportunity to experience a week in the life of a medical resident at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica, New York. Sam Cho ’10, Thomas Coppola ’10, James Langan ’10, Sven Oman ’10 and Kendra Wulczyn ’10 took part in the Health Experience Learning Program (HELP) from January 11 to 15. The five day internship consisted of shadowing a medical student and various first, second, and third year residents of St. Elizabeth’s Family Practice Residency Program.

Heather Otis '10, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, and Ken Bart, director of the microscopy and imaging facility, published an article, "Sickle blade life history and the transition to agriculture: A case study from Southwest Asia," in the Journal of Archaeological Science. The article appeared online on Dec. 21 and will be published in the March issue of the journal. The study examines the importance of sickle technology during the transition to agriculture in the Middle East at an early Neolithic community occupied circa 11,500 years ago in Jordan.

LOOK UP, four concurrent exhibitions featuring works by Hamilton College alumni, faculty and students will open in the Emerson Gallery at Hamilton on Monday, Jan. 18.

Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a number of campus and community events in January.