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Five students in the Hamilton College Public Policy department posed a question at the outset of their thesis presentation on May 2: are the columnists you read and talking heads you watch better than a coin flip?

A dinner and reading by author Colum McCann was the culminating event for students in this semester’s Program in New York City.  The event was part of the Eat, Drink & Be Literary series sponsored by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The Hamilton students’ attendance was underwritten by Arthur Levitt  P’81, HD ’81, Brooklyn native and BAM enthusiast, and Bill Lynch ’82, vice president for development at BAM.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover published a paper "Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility" (co-authored with Adriana Camacho)  in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 3, Issue 2, May 2011.

Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society and the Hamilton College Choir will perform a combined Spring Concert on Tuesday, May 3, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.  

Hamilton hosted the 13th annual AIDS Hike for Life on May 1,  and Mohawk Valley residents raised $36,275 to support AIDS Community Resources in its efforts to prevent the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. The amount of money raised was $2,000 more than last year, according to AIDS Community Resources.

Rem Van Aiken Myers, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Indonesia.

Five seniors directed by Professor of Government Gary Wyckoff have analyzed the predictions of 26 prognosticators and have found that most of them were not significantly different, in a statistical sense, than a coin flip. Their findings were presented via webcast on Monday, May 2.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells presented a paper titled “Varieties of Pastoral Experience: The Reception of Vergilian Pastoral in Contemporary American Poetry” at the annual meeting to the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics,  gave a paper at the Classical Association meeting in Durham, United Kingdom, on April 17.  The paper was part of a session on "Late Antique Constructs" and was titled "'And I Became a Man':  Gender Fluidity and Closure in Perpetua's Fourth Vision."

Arpita Banerjee, visiting assistant professor of economics, gave an invited seminar at the Political Economy Workshop at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on April 26.  Her talk was titled “The Different Economy of Indian Self-Employed Sector.”