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The sun was shining and temperatures were crisp on Oct. 11 for the inaugural Ham & Legs Fun Run/Walk sponsored by the Staff Assembly’s Wellness Committee. Ninety employees and students participated in the event that included a 5K walk, a 5K run, and 2-mile walk and a 1-mile walk. All events were non-competitive and not timed.

Using examples from today’s political landscape, Professor of Government P. Gary Wyckoff examined elements of critical thinking in an essay titled “What Exactly Is Critical Thinking,” published by InsideHigherEd in its Oct. 11 edition. “As I prepared for the start of classes this fall, I tried to pinpoint the critical thinking skills I really want my students to learn,” wrote Wyckoff.  “And as I listened to public debates on everything from tax policy to Obamacare, five essential thinking skills seemed to be missing, again and again.”

An article by Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara K. Gold was reprinted in a collection from Oxford University Press. “The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius" appears in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, Propertius, edited by E. Greene and T.S. Welch.

For the 29th year in a row, the ecology class (Bio. 237) went up Whiteface Mountain to look at how and why the composition and structure of the forest changes with elevation. The 23 students on the Oct. 7 trip were led by Associate Professor of Biology Bill Pfitsch and Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology.

Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was selected to be a co-editor for the International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW). Wu previously served on the editorial board.

Hamilton’s Staff Assembly Committee on Wellness will sponsor the inaugural Ham & Legs Fun Run/Walk on Thursday, Oct. 11, on campus. Ninety employees have registered to compete in one of the four events:  a 5K walk, a 5K run, and 2-mile walk and a 1-mile walk. All events are non-competitive and not timed.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert was interviewed about America’s middle class for CNBC.com and for l'Unità, an Italian newspaper. Gilbert is the author of The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality (Sage, 2011)

Amit Taneja, director of the Days-Massolo Center, facilitated a conversation on inclusion at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica on Oct. 4. Taneja was invited by MVCC leaders to help create a dialogue on inclusive practices and strategies, and the presentation was also live-streamed to the MVCC Rome campus.

In a Religious Dispatches essay, “‘Cult’ Cinema Comes of Age,” Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate examined recent films that focus on cults including The Master, the latest in the group. In the Oct. 7 article, Plate described The Master as “emblematic of a new, more nuanced treatment of cults in the movies,” and “more or less … the story of L. Ron Hubbard and the birth of Scientology.”

What We Mean by Experience by Professor of Philosophy Marianne Janack was recently published by Stanford University Press.