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Nikki Reynolds, director of instructional technology support services, Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, and Susan Mason, director of the Education Studies Program, presented a paper in January at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting in San Antonio. The paper was titled "Building the Scaffolding: Supporting Student Use of Technology in the Learning Process." 

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was interviewed for an Albany Times Union article titled "Pavlovian patter" about our automatic verbal personal exchanges and what they say about us (2/3/08).  The article quotes Adams, "There is cultural meaning attached to utterances even when we know the words to be literally meaningless." 

Antarctic research work by Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, is cited in a new book, Earth under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, by Gary Braasch (University of California Press). Published in late 2007, it is a comprehensive look at the worldwide effects of climate change. The book includes Domack's research work at Antarctica's Larsen Ice shelf in 2002. Braasch also accompanied Domack to Larsen in 1999.

Fourteen years after roaming Steuben Field for the Hamilton College Continentals, Sean M. Ryan '94 was patrolling the sidelines for the New York Giants during Super Bowl 2008, in which the Giants defeated the New England Patriots 17-14. Ryan, a former Continental defensive back and outside linebacker, is now an assistant coach for the champions of the National Football League.

A group of Hamilton College faculty and administrators presented a case study exercise at the Collaborative Pedagogy and Instructional Design Session of the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) held in Southbridge, Mass., on Jan. 25. James Helmer, director of the Oral Communication Center; Lynn Mayo, reference librarian; Sharon Werning Rivera, assistant professor of government; and Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, discussed the election campaign simulation used in Rivera's comparative politics course and helped participants design personalized course projects.

The Green Democracy Roundtable, hosted by the Hamilton Environmental Action Group and the Hamilton College chapter of Democracy Matters on Jan. 31, brought together a distinguished panel of students, staff, alumni and politicians to discuss potential solutions to the problems of climate change. The event, concluding Hamilton's participation in the Focus the Nation global warming teach-in that took place at more than 1,000 schools that day, was notable for the depth of the speakers' knowledge and for their universal commitment to address climate change.

Peter Cameron '82 was a featured reader at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and book fair held Jan. 30-Feb. 2 in New York. He is the author of several short story collections and novels, most recently Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2007).

Hamilton College was named in a new report released by the Campus Ecology program of the National Wildlife Federation earlier this month. The report, "Higher Education in a Warming World: The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus," illustrates the ways in which more than 100 colleges and universities are making significant cuts in CO2 emissions while reaping financial, educational and other benefits.

Several national Youth Polls conducted at Hamilton through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center continue to be cited in recent national news stories on related topics.

Assistant Professor of Physics Natalia Connolly published an article in the February 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The article, titled "A New Determination of the High Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys," presents a new measurement of how often huge stellar explosions, called Type Ia supernovae, occur in the universe. Type Ia supernovae are special because they allow cosmologists to study the way the universe is expanding.