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Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer recently published the instructor’s and student’s solutions manuals for the introductory chemistry textbook Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach.

Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin was a panelist at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association held February 26-29 in Chicago. The discussion focused on ethical assessments of Abraham Lincoln.

Since it started in 2011, the Community Outreach and Opportunity Project, or COOP, has been buzzing with activity. It’s a win-win relationship. Hamilton students want to help their neighbors and effect positive change; and their neighbors, in the greater Mohawk Valley, provide numerous opportunities for activities like tutoring, working in soup kitchens or building houses, to name a few. In fact, the number of interactions with local organizations has grown annually, requiring the COOP to increase the number of it senior fellows.

Students in the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C. recently met with Robert (Bobby) Herman, vice president for regional programs at Freedom House, for a discussion of the organization’s efforts to promote human rights and democratic change. Freedom House was founded in 1941 as an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.

Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino's paper, “Wounds That Will Not Heal: Heroism and Innocence in Shane and the Iliad,” was published in the inaugural issue of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (1.1, Spring 2014).

Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan contributed a chapter in La Littérature en bas-bleus. Tome II - Romancières en France de 1848 à 1870 and several entries in Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices.

“This room holds many ghosts,” Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson ’72 said as he began his talk in the Chapel on Tuesday, March 11. “Ghosts in every corner.” Nelson delivered the Tolles lecture titled “The Peculiarity of Theater.”

On the eve of its release, A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects, written by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate, was given a starred review by the Library Journal. The publication described Plate’s work as “an elegant and sensitive book … highly recommended to general readers open to a different perspective on religious practice.”

Students from the Hamilton College Program in New York City, directed by history professor Maurice Isserman, took a "Big Onion" walking tour of Harlem that included sites associated with the Harlem Renaissance. They also visited the last home of Alexander Hamilton.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages & Literature, participated in the National Chinese Education Conference on literacy of Chinese language, at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, from March 7-9. As a plenary speaker she presented on “Component Skills of Chinese Literacy: Character Recognition and Reading Comprehension.”