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Assistant Professor of Economics Javier Pereira recently presented a paper and chaired a panel on market stability at the 15th Western Economic Association International Conference in Tokyo.

It was January of 2018 when the two women happened to sit together at the Crucial Conversations Training program. They spoke about their respective experiences teaching philosophy and working as a life coach. And a year later they began teaching a class together.

Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown presented “Jackson Pollock, Lightning Rods, Quantum Mechanics” at Harvard earlier this semester. Her talk was part of a seminar on “Widely Applied Mathematics.”

The lights go up. A timer goes off. Someone laughs. A dark, obscured figure walks behind the stage. A voice speaks from above, and the audience looks up, searching for a speaker in the dim lighting. There’s a collective silence as everyone holds their breath, waiting for the verdict. The lights go down. The crowd claps.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages Zhuoyi Wang recently gave invited lectures and presented a webinar about the Chinese sci-fi film, The Wandering Earth (2019).

Susan MacTavish Best ’95 has found her niche in cultivating connections and spreading ideas. After more than two decades working in Silicon Valley public relations, this year she founded Posthoc, which she describes as a “petri dish for ideas and thought-leaders.”

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair - International Affairs and Professor of Government; Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown; Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas; Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill; Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Jane Springer; and Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner were honored.

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented to Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz ’82, Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams, and Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were announced at Hamilton’s annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 13, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, David Gagnidze ‘20 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Jonathan Stickel ’19 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Rebecca Loescher recently presented her research at an invited talk for Colgate University’s Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series.