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As Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley tells it, she was preparing dinner when she was seduced by a quaint fiddle tune emanating from the living room. To her surprise, she found the television showing a "Human Element" advertisement for Dow, the multibillion dollar chemical giant. The company's $20 million print and TV campaign inspired Professor Hamessley to explore the techniques that Dow uses to rebrand itself as a responsible corporate citizen that focuses on people.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "Fed's tough call: how far to cut interest rates" on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The article discussed the choices faced by the Fed in determining what might stimulate the economy.

Hamilton has received a four-year grant totaling $800,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create five postdoctoral fellowship positions in the arts and humanities.

The New York Times on Jan. 27 reported on the publication of The Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette, by Hamilton's Richard W. Couper Press. The book reveals the private thoughts of Chester Gillette, convicted murderer of his pregnant lover Grace Brown in the Adirondacks in 1906. The diary was written while he awaited his execution at Auburn State Prison in 1907-1908. The content of the book came from papers donated to the College last year by Gillette's grandniece, Marlynn McWade-Murray.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article titled "After South Carolina: Can Obama capture a wider swath of voters? "(1/28/08). Klinkner was among experts providing analysis of what Sen. Barack Obama needs to do to be successful on Super Tuesday, when 22 states vote for a Democratic presidential candidate. According to the article "'He needs to run better among older voters, more blue-collar and middle-class voters, and more downscale white voters,'" says Philip Klinkner, a government professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. 'That's where he's losing.'"

Hamilton College's expertise in exercising the mind has been well-documented, but the College's ability to exercise the body has proven to be more than adequate as well.  Though the spring, summer and fall months offer the Hamilton community ample opportunity to enjoy more hospitable weather for outdoor activities, the College's Campus Wellness program –  led by director Dave Thompson – provides many alternatives, both indoors and outside, to continue beneficial workouts throughout the year. Participants may engage in activities that allow them either to avoid or to embrace this region's harsh winter… proving once again that there really is no excuse for not working out.

A one-hour documentary titled "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism" and produced locally by WCNY will be shown for the first time on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 9 p.m. Included in the documentary footage are shots of the recent Emerson Gallery exhibition "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist" as well as images of the Root Glen and the Root homestead.

Hamilton's Action Volunteer Outreach Coalition (HAVOC) hosted the 10th annual Martin Luther King Service Day on Saturday, Jan. 26. Students as well as other members of the Hamilton community volunteered at several non-profit agencies throughout and around the Utica area. Those who did not volunteer in Utica hosted children from the Neighborhood Center on the Hamilton campus.

An article by Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was reprinted in Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years (Parlor Press 2007). Adams' article, titled "Let's Re-enact Rhetoric's History," is one of 29 scholarly articles published in the journal. The collection covers a range of periods and topics in the history of rhetoric, including Greek and Roman rhetoric, rhetoric and religion, women in the history of rhetoric, rhetoric and science, Renaissance and British rhetorical theory, rhetoric and culture and the development of American rhetoric and composition.

Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton was interviewed for a New York Times article about a lack of innovation in visual designs in ballet today (1/27/08). In the article "Time to Retire Those Sets and Tutus," Norton said, 'As far as anything innovative in art, it's not happening in ballet the way I think it's happening in modern dance. Ballet is in a very conservative mode right now.' The article continued, "She cited productions like American Ballet Theater's new 'Sleeping Beauty' last spring, which drew unfavorable comparisons with Thomas Kinkade's paintings and Disney animation."