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Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a number of campus and community events in January. On Monday, Jan. 15, from 8 a.m. to noon, 20 Hamilton employees will participate in Employee Community Service Day at various sites around greater Utica. Hamilton’s 9th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Day will take place on Saturday, Jan. 20, from 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Hamilton students and employees will perform volunteer work at various sites throughout Greater Utica.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego in January. In her capacity as vice president for outreach of the APA, she oversaw several committees and their activities (Outreach Committee, Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance, and the Committee on the Classical Tradition). Each committee sponsored a panel and in addition CAMP sponsored a full performance of Aristophanes' Birds (in English) complete with music and costumes.

Hamilton lost an outstanding teacher and friend when Professor Russell Blackwood died Friday morning (Jan. 12). He was a member of the faculty for nearly 50 years. Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart sent news of Professor Blackwood’s passing to the College community.

Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu delivered the ninth annual Waino Pihl Lecture at Wayne State University in November 2006.  The lecture was titled "Incorporating Behavioral Factors in Economic Research" and cited work that he had published in this area. In October 2006 Wu was invited to participate in a panel titled "Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future.”  This panel was part of the annual policy research conference sponsored by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya and Seiki Ayano (Mie University in Japan) presented a paper titled "Multi-level nominalization: evidence from Verbal Noun in Japanese" at the 81st annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Anaheim on January 4 -7.

Carl Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, published a paper titled "It Was their Destiny: Roman Power and Imperial Self-Esteem" in Amphora 5.2 (Fall 2006) 10-11 and 19. Amphora is a publication of the American Philological Association. Rubino, along with Caroline Winterer of Stanford University, presided over a panel that he organized on "Alexander Hamilton and the Classics" at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego on January 6. The panel was sponsored by the APA Committee on the Classical Tradition. Frank Anechiarico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton, was among presenters.

A paper co-authored by Stephen Wu, “The Search for Economics Talent: Doctoral Completion and Research Productivity,” was one of the key research sources referenced in a Jan. 9 story in InsideHigherEd.com. Titled “Defining What Makes an Economist,” the article discussed what factors might play a role in predicting student success in ultimately completing a Ph.D. in economics, publishing and landing a tenure-track job at a top-20 program.

In a note to the Hamilton community on Tuesday, Jan. 9, Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart announced the tragic death Monday evening of sophomore Andrew Sheridan while playing soccer near his home outside of Boston. She described his passing as "a terrible loss for his family, friends and our community."

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, chaired a session and presented a paper at the Association of Comparative Economics Conference, part of the Allied Social Sciences Conference, in Chicago on Jan. 6.The paper, titled “Teams, Performance-Related Pay, Profit Sharing and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from a Food-Processing Plant” was co-authored by Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen, both members of the Helsinki School of Economics faculty. The authors assembled and analyzed new panel data to investigate the impact of important changes in human resource practices on firm performance for a food-processing plant.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen participated in two sessions at the American Economic Association's annual meeting in Chicago during the first week of January.