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Ten students have been named the inaugural Kirkland College Scholars at Hamilton College. The new scholarship recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to the needs and interests of women. It perpetuates the legacy of Kirkland College, which was the women’s college, coordinate with Hamilton, from 1968 to 1978.

“Do all countries follow the same growth process?”, a paper co-authored by Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Associate Professor of Economics Julio Videras with Union College professor Lewis Davis, was published in the Journal of Economic Growth in December 2009.

Ken Herold, director of library information systems, published a short commentary on information ethics in the Fall 2009 APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers (vol. 9, no. 1, 22-23) of the American Philosophical Association. Herold is a correspondent with IEG, a collaboration between the Oxford University Computing Laboratory and the faculty of philosophy within Oxford, investigating the philosophy of information. He is currently researching the origins of digital objects in the works of Alan Turing.

Eight local organizations have been selected to share $30,000 in grants from the Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund. The fund targets educational, cultural and public safety organizations in the Town of Kirkland. It has now distributed more than $266,000 since grants were first made in 2001.

Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo presented a paper titled “Faulkner’s Pedagogy” at the 125th Modern Language Association annual conference in Philadelphia. The panel was sponsored by the William Faulkner Society and chaired by Hamilton Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat.

Anna Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, presented a paper at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) held in Philadelphia on Dec. 28-30. Her presentation was titled “Laughter and the Anxiety of Ethnicity: The New Caucasian Woman in Kavkazskaia Plennitsa and Qayinana.” 

Village of Clinton Mayor Robert G. Goering and Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart announced today that Hamilton will make a single contribution of $250,000 toward the purchase of new ladder truck for the Clinton Fire Department.

This past fall semester, seven Hamilton students participated in the Government 202 quarter-credit service learning course titled “Immigrants and Refugees in the U.S.” taught by former Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley. The course met once a week to discuss refugee resettlement experiences, policies and procedures, especially those specifically related to local Utica’s large refugee population.

The Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach and Charity (HAVOC) helped bring a lot of holiday happiness to some local children. The organization sponsored a holiday mitten tree, bearing gift requests from children with a need. HAVOC director Laurel Emurian ’11 reported that 99 mittens were taken with wishes fulfilled. The children’s gift requests came through the House of the Good Shepherd, Johnson Park Center, Upstate Cerebral Palsy and Hospice.

Happy holidays from the Hamilton College community.