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Members of the Young People’s Project hosted the third semi-annual “Math Bash” on Saturday, Dec. 11, in the Annex.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cynthia Tower engaged a few students in a project to transform the snow-covered tables in the KJ/McEwen courtyard into a confectionery illusion. Artists included Andrew Quinney '11, Andrea Wrobel '13, Rem Myers ’11, Julia Wilber '11, Amanda Pichardo '14 and Michael Arroyo '14.

Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender, and the Self  includes the essay "The Politics and the Metaphysics of Experience," written by Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy.  The book is edited by Charlotte Witt of the University of New Hampshire and published by Springer Press.

Associate Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin has published a paper titled “Schoolin’: Critical Consciousness, Black Consciousness and the Pedagogies of Transformation,” in The International Journal of Learning, Volume 17, Issue 8, 2010.

Students from the Hamilton Mathletics team participated on Dec. 4 in the nationwide William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition. With 13 students taking part, it was one of the strongest turnouts in Hamilton's history.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has published a chapter titled “Do Innovative Workplace Practices Foster Mutual Gains? Evidence from Croatia” in Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms. The chapter, co-authored with Srecko Goic of the University of Split, presents results from a study of worker participation in and the benefits of innovative workplace practices such as teams, employee ownership and incentive pay at one Croatian manufacturing company.

James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman was presented with the University of Rochester’s Andrew Eiseman Writer’s Award for Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes on Dec. 10, in Rochester. Isserman and co-writer Stewart Weaver of the University of Rochester will share the award and its $1,000 prize.

The Brass Ensemble performed its annual last-day-of-class moveable concert on Dec. 10. The 12-piece ensemble, led by Heather Buchman, associate professor of music and director of the orchestra, spread some musical holiday cheer at McEwen, the KJ Atrium, Commons and the Science Atrium.

Professor of Cinema and New Media Studies Scott MacDonald participated in a Futures Seminar at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, on Nov. 18 and 19. He was one of three guests invited to the seminar.