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Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin has been awarded a $192,757 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the causes and consequences of global police militarization-- the process by which police forces come to adopt the weaponry, organizational practices, and accountability structures more typical of military forces.
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Associate Professor of Geosciences Catherine “Cat” Beck and students, Sara Shedroff ’23 and Marcella Winget ’24, traveled to the Loperot Camp in the Turkana Basin of Kenya’s Rift Valley in June and part of July to conduct research as part of the Turkana Miocene Project funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Associate Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck has been awarded a major research grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new types of reagents, materials that are used in chemical reactions that can include the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
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Associate Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson recently presented “The Right to Know: The Political and Legal Components of Government Transparency” at the annual Midwest Political Science Association Meeting.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded Associate Professor of Geosciences Cat Beck, along with University of Dayton geoscientist Zelalem Bedaso, a three-year, $289,094 grant to study seasonal rainfall variability over the last 200,000 years in East Africa.
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Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera recently presented “New Findings from the 2020 Survey of Russian Elites” at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) in Stockholm.
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Hamilton is one of six institutions — the only undergraduate college — to share a $2.7 million National Science Foundation grant to investigate big questions about climate, tectonics, and the evolution of life at a rich location in Kenya.
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Willa Mihalyi-Koch ’19 and Hannah Zucker '15 have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. This is a highly competitive, prestigious, nationally recognized fellowship that is awarded to just under 2000 students in the natural and social sciences and engineering.
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Assistant Professor of Geosciences Catherine Beck is hosting a conference this weekend, April 20 – 22, titled Drilling Deeper for Connections between Environmental Change and Evolution that will address rates of paleoenvironmental change and their impact on hominin evolution.
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Earthrates, a National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Coordination Network has funded a workshop proposed by Assistant Professor of Geosciences Catherine Beck titled Drilling Deeper For Connections Between Environmental Change and Evolution to be held on campus in April 2018.
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