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Jay G. Williams '54, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religion, published an online article, "A Liturgical Enigma," on bibleinterp.com. The article is a discussion of the Megilloth and its theological implications.

Professor of Economics Ann Owen, along with a senior fellow from the Brookings Institution and the chief economist at FTN Financial, was interviewed by American Public Media’s Marketplace program on the nation’s current jobless recovery. The March 17 syndicated broadcast, heard across the nation on public radio stations, referenced Brookings research that determined, “this recovery has been more jobless at the two-year mark than the recoveries from any of the last three recessions.”

Hamilton’s campus is cited as one of the “Most (Overlooked) Beautiful Campuses” in an article on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Web site, Chronicle.com (3/15/10). The Chronicle list was in response to a Forbes magazine article, “The World’s Most Beautiful College Campuses.”

Eleven Hamilton students have been awarded Levitt Summer Research Fellowships for 2010. The students receive a stipend and spend 10 weeks in the summer working intensively with a faculty mentor. Among this year’s projects are a study of U.S. auto industry reform, contraception in Rwanda, and the changing state capacity of post-Communist states.

Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald's interview with Indonesian/Dutch filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich appears in the current issue of Film Quarterly, and his essay on Russian montage filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian appeared in the February issue of Artforum.

Throughout the spring semester, students of Chinese 495 Language Practicum are participating in a BOCES-sponsored program that supports Chinese language instruction in local schools. The program, which collaborates with the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services, is funded through a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant.

Six Hamilton students were honored for their photography in the fourth annual Worldview Photo Contest, which challenges students studying abroad to capture unique images of their surroundings.

Sixteen Hamilton seniors were elected to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society, in March.

Garrett Armbruster ’10 presented a poster titled “ Forecasting Lake Effect Precipitation for Upstate New York” at the 35th Annual Northeastern Storm Conference held in Saratoga, N.Y., on March 6. The American Meteorological Society, the National Weather Service, and Lyndon State College sponsored the conference. The work Armbruster presented was based on his senior thesis with Prof. Cynthia Domack in the Hamilton College Geosciences Department and an internship with meteorologist Adam Musyt at WKTV, Utica.

The Hamilton Board of Trustees’ unanimous vote to adopt a need-blind policy in admission received broad national and local media coverage. Beginning with The New York Times in its print edition and on its education blog "The Choice," news of the policy change spread quickly on Monday, March 8. Both Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education also released online articles on the decision.