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Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890-1948 by Kevin Grant, the Edgar B. Graves Professor of History, was recently published by the University of California Press.

Students on the Hamilton NYC program were busy with a rather unusual activity last week - The NYC Rat Safari. Under the guidance of Dr. Robert ‘Bobby’ Corrigan, a world-renowned authority on urban rat behavior, we went around the city looking at rat habitats and learning more about these interesting creatures. Accompanying us was Matt Combs '13, now a graduate student in Biology at Fordham University; Dr. Corrigan is his thesis advisor.

Madeline Carlman ’19 has been awarded the college’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Creating Community in Book Places.” She’ll examine how book places such as libraries, book shops, book clubs, and book fairs work to create community.

Samantha D'Angelo ’21 has been awarded a Coccia Foundation Scholarship for study in Italy. She is a physics major and Italian and history minor who plans to pursue her passions for Italian language and culture by studying in Taormina, Sicily, through the API Babilonia Institute Program.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley recently presented classics lectures at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference and Wake Forest University.

Associate Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research and Assessment Gordon Hewitt and Michael Sprague, director of business intelligence and web services, recently presented at the EDUCAUSE Analytics Summit in Long Beach, Calif.

During the Three-Minute Thesis competition, each student only had three minutes to explain their topics and findings to a non-specialist audience.

When part of a 25-year-old press at Hamilton’s Print Shop unexpectedly broke down, the machine quickly became inoperable. Townsend Industries, the manufacturer of this T-51 printer, closed down in mid-2010, making it nearly impossible to find replacement parts for the press. Thanks to help from LITS and a student though, the machine is now back in service.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Rodriguez-Plate presented at several universities this spring. At each institution, he met with students who are using his 2014 book A History of Religion in 5½ Objects in their courses.