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National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. September’s news topics included varied subjects from President Steven Tepper’s inauguration to politics.

Associate Professor of Psychology Rachel White and Kate Bruno ’23 recently presented a poster at the Society for Research in Child Development conference in Salt Lake City.

“A lot of the research I do on self-control is focused on the preschool age range,” White said. “If we are going to create interventions to build children’s skills, we want to do it while the prefrontal cortex is developing the most.”

Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen recognized 14 faculty members with Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards in three categories at the May 3 faculty meeting.

Five Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the College’s Board of Trustees at its March meeting. They include Vikranth Bejjanki (psychology, neuroscience), Kira Jumet (government), Celeste Day Moore (history), Claire Mouflard (French and Francophone studies), and Rachel White (psychology).

From questioning whether a coup should ever be labeled “good” to protesting recent immigration policies, opinions expressed by faculty appeared in major national publications via essays and letters to the editor throughout the year.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White recently published a paper on a method for adaptively coping with anxiety in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion.

Research by Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White was cited in the article “Throw On a Cape to Get the Job Done!,” in the March 2018 issue of Parents magazine.

Superhero Costumes Come to Parents' Rescue, a Feb. 8 Wall Street Journal article, featured a recent study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White titled The “Batman Effect”: Improving Perseverance in Young Children.