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Works by Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight is on display at Gallery Kayafas in Boston. A solo exhibition, Rated G will be on view Jan. 11 - Feb. 16.

A new building and events at Hamilton drew much interest from local media during 2012. The opening of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art and the all-alumni celebration of Hamilton’s bicentennial garnered significant attention, and faculty members offered expertise on timely news topics throughout the year.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a lecture titled “The Intimate Universe: Landscape Paintings of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties” on Dec. 7 at the Institut National des Langues et Civilization Orientales (Inalco) in Paris.

Co-ed a capella group Duelly Noted is preparing for its third annual concert tour over Hamilton’s winter break.   The four-day tour will include performances in New York State, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Alex Thompson ’13, who interned at biotechnology company Genentech in San Francisco last summer, coauthored a paper in The Journal of Organic Chemistry as a result of his research.  The paper, “The Cyanide Anion as a Leaving Group in Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution: Synthesis of Quaternary Centers at Azine Heterocycles,” was co-authored with his supervisor, research associate Malcolm Huestis. Thompson worked as an intern in the Small Molecule Drug Discovery Department.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Association will present a series of free workshops in January through May on the Hamilton campus. These events are open to the public and sponsored by the College and its Arboretum Association. All will take place from 10 a.m.  to noon in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center (GO27), unless otherwise noted.  Pre-registration is requested by calling (315) 859-4657.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson was an invited speaker and panelist at several recent conferences.

Lecturer in Music Performance Jeff Stockham had a role in Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln. According to an article in JazFax, Stockham was a member of the U.S. Marine Band that played at a ceremony at which President Lincoln delivered a speech.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article on "Literary Patronage" in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (ed. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A Erskine, and S. Huebner; Blackwell 2013).  This appears in the Wiley Online Library.

On Dec. 15, students from the Hamilton College Junior in France (HCJYF) program visited several covered passages, or arcades, in the heart of Paris.