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Professor of Physics Emeritus Philip Pearle published a paper titled “Cosmogenesis and Collapse,” in the January edition of the journal Foundations of Physics. The article presents a quantum theory way of creating the universe out of a state of nothingness.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche was featured in White Charity: Blackness and whiteness on charity donation posters, a documentary about German charity aid posters. Piesche contributed research for the film by Carolin Philipp and Timo Kiesel that analyzes the posters from a postcolonial perspective.

During this bicentennial year of Hamilton College, a unique and entertaining way of looking back at the college’s history is through the eyes of Half-Century class annalists. Their letters, invaluable in recording Hamilton’s past and recounting life on the Hill, have now been posted on a new web page. The five most recent are also available as videos.

Three photographs from Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight's Class of 2015 series will be included in a MassArt Alumni Show at the Fountain Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., from Feb. 4 - March 3.  The Class of 2015 project is a longitudinal portrait project utilizing photography and video to examine identity development in 39 members of Hamilton's Class of 2015. 

Although the co-curricular program of the Semester in Washington focuses primarily on meetings and networking with policy makers and shapers, students also explore the cultural assets of the nation’s capital.

Professor of Biology Ernest Williams gave an invited lecture, "Population Trends and Overwinter Survival in Monarch Butterflies," to the Biology Department at Boston University on Jan. 23.

An article by Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck titled “Antichrists, Saviors and Turks in Lope de Vega’s El Otomano famoso” was published in the 2011 edition of the journal Renaissance Drama.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate’s co-edited journal issue, "Keywords in Material Religion," was awarded an honorable mention for the Best Special Issue of the Year from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.  The 500+ member CELJ gives its annual awards at the Modern Language Association's annual meeting. This year it was held in Seattle.

Lauren Howe ’12 spent the fall semester conducting an independent study project in which she researched and recorded campus food purchasing at Hamilton.  She collaborated with Bon Appétit and Real Food Challenge (RFC), a student-led organization based in Boston advocating “real food” on more college campuses.

The Hamilton English and Creative Writing community was privileged this week to have a visit from 2011 spring writer-in-residence Terrance Hayes. Hayes, an acclaimed author of four collections of poetry—Hip Logic, Muscular Music, Wind in a Box and Lighthead—is a professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.