All News

Elena Filekova ’08 (Gabrovo, Bulgaria) is a double major in mathematics and economics and has taken numerous Hamilton economics courses in which she learned, understandably, a great deal about the U.S. economy. She is also well-read in EU economic development. She was surprised, however, to learn how little had been published about her own country of Bulgaria, set to enter the EU in 2007. What was the preparation for this entry doing to Bulgaria’s economy? What effects would this have on states already in the EU or future members? No one had dealt with these questions and Filekova, interested, applied for and was granted a Levitt Research Fellowship to study the macroeconomic effects of the Bulgarian integration into the European Union.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has work exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. The group exhibition titled “Everson Biennial: Beauty is in the Eye of the Artist” features the work of Central New York artists who address nature, people, dreams and abstraction. Claire Schneider, associate curator of contemporary art at Albright Knox curated the exhibition which runs until August 20. For directions and more information visit www.everson.org.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and ACCESS Project coordinator Sharon Gormley were among panel presenters at a conference, "How Class Works," at SUNY Stony Brook on June 9.  Other presenters were former welfare recipients Professor Jackie Pope, Dr. Jillyn Stevens and Bich Ha Pham, Esq., all of whom are featured in the ACCESS Project photo exhibit The Missing Story of Ourselves. All of the panel members spoke about the exhibit, welfare reform and access to higher education.

Allie Massaro ’07 (Lewiston, New York) and Wendy Doster ’08 (Basking Ridge, New Jersey), both new to summer research, are working on three different projects in the physiology lab with Professor of Biology David Gapp.

Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca, Reference Librarian Lynn Mayo and Instructional Technology Specialist Krista Siniscarco presented a session during the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) Conference being held at Hamilton this week. The session, titled “Turn On, Tune In, Print Out: A Professor-Technologist-Librarian-Student Experiment in Multimedia Collaboration,” reported the results of an “experiment” on conducting an entire seminar around multimedia.

Photographs of  the nearly 1300 members of the Hamilton family who attended Reunions '06 are available on HOLAC. The weekend provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us on the Hill.Photgraphs of many of the nearly 1300 members of the Hamilton family who attended Reunions '06 are available on HOLAC. The weekend provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us on the Hill.

Kevin Donegan ’07 (Oneida, New York) applied for and received an Emerson Foundation grant to work on a summer research project in geosciences with Associate Professor of Geology Todd Rayne. Donegan’s project is titled “Determining the special and temporal variability of recharge in the Sauquoit Creek Basin (Oneida County).”

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin gave a teacher development workshop on Chinese language acquisition and pedagogy to teachers from all over the country at National Capital Language Resource Center, administered by Georgetown and George Washington University, in May. The workshop is part of the efforts to meet the increasing demand of Chinese language interest and the demand of qualified teachers and professionals.

Information technology (IT) professionals from 62 highly selective liberal arts colleges nationwide will gather for the annual meeting of the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) at Hamilton College on June 13-15.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Su Ortabasi participated in a conference, "National History as Otaku Fantasy: Kon Satoshi's Millennium Actress" at ACAG 2006 (International Conference on Asian Comics, Animation and Gaming), at York University in Toronto in May.