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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper in January at the American Philological Association on "Male Medea," as part of the panel on Performance and Sexuality, sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP). It focused on cross-dressing in Charles Ludlam's version of Euripides' play, Medea.

Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan presented a paper, “PsySquash X: A Utility Program for Analyzing PsyScope Data Files,” on November 16, 2006 at the Society for Computers in Psychology. The paper’s co-authors were Associate Professor of Psychology Penny Yee, Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton and Virginia Vaughan. Jonathan Vaughan serves as an elected member of the society’s steering committee.

Five Hamilton seniors are participating in a week-long internship working with medical residents in the St. Elizabeth Family Practice Residency program in Utica. Hamilton’s Coordinator of Health Professions Advising Leslie North set up the program, and this is the second group of Hamilton students to participate. The students interning at St. Elizabeth’s are Alyson Fuhrer, Sarah Fuzesi, Rebecca Levinn, Matthew Palascak and Lucas Thornblade.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper at the American Historical Association conference held January 4-7 in Atlanta. His paper, “Scholarship and Resistance: Walter Rodney’s Impact and Influence on student rebellion in Guyana” evaluated the role of the author of Groundings with my Brothers and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa on the student movement in the South American republic before and after his assassination in 1980. Westmaas’s paper was part of a panel under the theme: Race, Repression, and Resistance: Postwar Student Movements in International Perspective.

Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin will join other Alexander Hamilton scholars and authors on a panel presentation on Thursday, Jan. 11, as part of the first Alexander Hamilton Symposium at the Museum of American Finance in New York City. The event is part of the museum’s commemoration of the 250th birthday of Alexander Hamilton, our nation’s first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

Richard Bernstein '80, chief U.S. strategist at Merrill Lynch, was interviewed in The Wall Street Journal (1/2/07), The New York Times (1/2/07) and USA Today (1/3/07) about stock performance predictions for 2007. The Wall Street Journal noted: "Richard Bernstein, Merrill Lynch & Co.'s chief U.S. investment strategist and a longtime stock skeptic, has become downright bullish, forecasting a rise of 10.7% for the S&P 500 this year. Mr. Bernstein said he thinks the index will finish the year at about 1570, which would mark its first record since it finished at 1527.46 during the euphoria of March 2000. "Before stocks reach those heights, Mr. Bernstein said, they could suffer some growing pains. "'I just don't think everything is going to play out according to the perfect Goldilocks scenario that so many people expect,'" he said. "'People are overly optimistic. Even the average guy is putting money into emerging-market funds.'"  In USA Today Bernstein predicted that if the momentum stays positive on Wall Street, the biggest gains may be generated by large-cap stocks.

The Hamilton College board of trustees has taken the next step leading to the creation of new arts facilities on the Hamilton campus.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Victoria Rivera-Cordero presented a paper at the Modern Languages Association meeting in Philadelphia on December 28. titled "The Silent Space of the Text: Conceptualizing Deafness in Teresa de Cartagena," the paper explored the links between deafness and knowledge in Teresa de Cartagena’s treatise "Arboleda de los enfermos" (c. 1453) as a hybrid text in which medical discourse is intertwined with religious, philosophical and autobiographical elements. The usage of a hybrid genre allows her not only to palliate her physical and psychological suffering, but also to acquire agency. This is a new approach to the text which brings together phenomenological studies of illness and embodiment in order to question the very notion of normalcy and disability using Cartagena’s text as an example. Cartagena confers a new meaning on illness while visualizing it in her work in order to highlight a new state of self-awareness as an intellectual.

Visiting Professor of Film Studies and F.I.L.M. Director, Scott MacDonald, is featured in the current issue of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Volume 24, No. 1) in an article titled “Nathaniel Dorsky and Larry Jordan on Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, and Bruce Conner: A Conversation Edited by Scott MacDonald."

Alumnus and charter trustee Joel W. Johnson '65 and his wife Elizabeth B. Johnson have established the largest endowed professorship in the college's history with a $2.5 million gift. The Joel W. Johnson Family Professorship will advance research and teaching in the physical sciences, especially as they pertain to the study of the environment.