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An article on “The Child-Rearing Scale as a Measure of Authoritarianism in a Non-Western Context,” co-authored by Sidney Wertimer Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera, was recently published in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Two experts examined freedom in online speech through two distinct lenses – public accommodation vs. the First Amendment – in the second installment of the Common Ground series themed around technology. Panelists were Shoshana Weissmann, the digital director of R Street, a think tank engaged in policy research in support of free markets and limited, effective government, and David Brody, managing attorney of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Digital Justice Initiative. Professor of Government Robert Martin moderated the conversation.

Get your scorecards ready to tally some impressive statistics for the Hamilton Continentals this winter in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) play.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a co-authored paper titled "Grounding 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa': Walter Rodney and the rupture in Guyana" at a workshop held at Columbia University on March 10 to 11.

Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz recently presented research at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Las Vegas. The research focused on developing a new way to interpret data from a network of connected resonators to uncover the underlying physical system. Trevor Scheuing ’23 was a co-author.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, gave keynote speeches at two conferences in London during Hamilton’s spring break.

It's been quite the season for the Buff and Blue! Check out some of the top images photographer Josh McKee captured of all the Continentals teams this winter.

Four students were awarded prizes in three categories in the annual Public Speaking Competition held on March 4. Presentations were either persuasive or informative in nature, and in one category, students addressed an assigned topic.

“Too many Americans know little history and less civics, but efforts to correct those deficits have collapsed because of partisan differences over what should be taught and why,” President David Wippman and Cornell Professor of American Studies Glenn Altschuler stated in the opening of their recent op-ed titled “Getting to ‘Yes’ on civics education.”

Associate Professor of History Celeste Day Moore recently gave a public lecture in French at the Bibliothèque Municipale in Lyon, France, to mark the donation of Louis Thomas Achille's collections of African American religious music to the municipal library.