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Hamilton community service programs HAVOC and COOP collected food, gifts and other items to make the holidays a bit happier for some local families in need.

Daniel Feinberg ’12 presented the results of his original research on Permeable Reactive Barriers, systems that can remove nitrate pollution from groundwater, on Dec. 17, at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass. Feinberg was one of 16 students from around the country who spent the fall semester in the MBL Semester in Environmental Sciences (SES) program.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin recently published a research article titled "More Results on r-inflated Graphs: Arboricity, Thickness, Chromatic Number, and Fractional Chromatic Number" in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea.

Levitt Center Director and Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics Ann Owen was interviewed for a Dec. 11 MarketWatch article titled “Fed to take a rest -Meeting expected to be uneventful with few changes to statement.” Quoted in the article, Owen discussed the intense and unanticipated opposition generated by the Fed’s announced asset purchase plan as well as the Fed’s commitment to it.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus published a book review in The APA Newsletters (Fall 2010). Marcus reviewed The Ontological Argument from Descartes to Hegel, by Kevin J. Harrelson (Amherst NY: Humanity Books, 2009).

“A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog,’” by Corinne Bancroft ’10 and Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has been published in Digressions in European Literature: From Cervantes to Sebald, edited by Alexis Gromann and Caragh Wells and published by Palgrave/Macmillan.

Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali presented “What Would It Take to Bring an End to the Congo Holocaust?” at the 2010 Achebe African Colloquium held Dec. 3-4, in Providence, R.I. He was a member of a panel titled “Congo-Why the Resolution of the Congo Crisis Must Be Regional.” His talk was focused on three areas: truth and resolution, democracy and strategies to achieve durable peace. Mwantuali suggested that the resolution of the Congo crisis should be international as well as regional.

Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman performed with the trombone section of the Rochester Philharmonic in a trombone quartet and organ holiday concert on Dec. 12. The program, held at the United Church of Phelps (N.Y.), included works by Gabrieli as well as arrangements of both traditional and contemporary holiday music.

The Levitt Center under the umbrella of Rust to Green, Utica, has received a grant for $21,200 from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc., to support a research group to study the refugee population in Utica and its unique potential to be a driver of economic development. Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart accepted a check on behalf of the College on Dec. 14 at the Green Century Building in downtown Utica.

“The LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica, LARISSA a Model for Antarctic Integrated System Science (AISS) Investigations using Marine Platforms,” was presented at the American Geophysical Union fall conference in San Francisco on Dec.14. Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, was the poster’s first author.