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Associate Professor of Art History Stephen Goldberg delivered two presentations about tradition and modernity and participated in a panel discussion at the Summer Institute on The Silk Road: Early Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identities, held May 24-June 25 at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas has published an article in the newly released issue (July –December 2009) of the Caribbean Studies journal. His article, “1968 and the Social and Political Foundations and Impact of the "New Politics" in Guyana” examines the activism and collective action of groups and individuals in Guyana between 1968-1978, and argues that the emergence and convergence of these forces and politics changed the equation and brought into being the 'new politics' dramatized in the birth and activity of the Working People's Alliance (WPA), a Guyanese political party.

While women have made significant strides in the past decades, the culture at large continues to place a great emphasis on how women look. These beauty standards, largely proliferated through the media, have drastic impacts on young women and their body images. Arielle Cutler ’11, through a Levitt grant, spent the summer evaluating the efficacy of media literacy programs as a remedy to this vicious cycle.

Donald Carter, professor of Africana studies, has been appointed chief diversity officer by President Joan Hinde Stewart this summer to “oversee efforts in the area of diversity and help us to build the most inclusive and welcoming community possible.” Carter hopes “to develop a broad diversity plan based on what’s going on today - the problems and successes we are having - and to build organically from the bottom up on what is already here.”

Hamilton’s student production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival received a three star rating in Edinburgh Festival Magazine. The cast performed August Wilson's Ma Rainey for Hamilton’s annual Martin Luther King Day celebration in January, and took the show to Edinburgh on Aug. 11-22. It was directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole Snyder and Kevin W. Graepel ’11 published a chapter in Named Reactions for Carbocyclic Ring Formations edited by Jie Jack Li of Bristol Myers Squibb and E. J. Corey of Harvard University (Nobel Prize 1990). The chapter, “Ring Closing Metathesis,” focuses on the use of the Grubbs and Schrock catalysts (Nobel Prize 2005) to prepare carbocycles (ring structures containing only carbon atoms).

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones has been awarded a two-year, $198,000 National Science Foundation grant for the development and evaluation of a course in solid state chemistry for seniors majoring in chemistry and chemical physics. The course will be the first of its kind among Hamilton’s peer institutions.

Environmental studies major Pat Dunn ’12 left for Tanzania on Aug. 25 to study wildlife conservation and political ecology on a School for International Training program run by the Institute for World Learning. He is part of a group of approximately 20 U.S. students who will travel as a unit, reading, listening to lectures and visiting sites that are significant to current ecological issues in the country. On the eve of his departure, Dunn began a blog which, when access is available, he will maintain throughout the program.

Since first-year students arrived for Adirondack Adventure and the Urban Service  Experience on August 13, the Hill has come to life, as Hamilton begins its 199th year. Move-in day, Hamilton Serves and Convocation were among highlights of opening week, pictured here.

Several prints by William R. Kenan Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead and Professor of Art William Salzillo have been selected for juried, national exhibitions in Annapolis, Cincinnati and Hawaii.