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Hamilton students, employees and alumni demonstrate their commitment to the college and the surrounding community in many ways. They contribute their time and expertise, and their activities often attract local media interest. Local stories about Hamilton in 2009, some of which were featured by Central New York media, included:

Comparative Economic Studies recently published a paper co-authored by Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones titled Corporate Governance and Liquidity Constraints: A Dynamic Analysis. Co-authored by Bersant Hobari and Niels Mygind of the Copenhagen Business School, the study had an advance online publication date of Dec. 3.

Will Eagan '11 presented a poster at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 4. The annual meeting of the AAS is the main conference for professional astronomers in North America. Eagan's poster was titled "Comparison of Properties of High- and Low-Redshift Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies." It resulted from research he conducted last summer in collaboration with Assistant Professor of Physics Natalia Connolly and Dr. Brian Connolly, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and scholar-in-residence at Hamilton.

Ten students have been named the inaugural Kirkland College Scholars at Hamilton College. The new scholarship recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to the needs and interests of women. It perpetuates the legacy of Kirkland College, which was the women’s college, coordinate with Hamilton, from 1968 to 1978.

“Do all countries follow the same growth process?”, a paper co-authored by Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Associate Professor of Economics Julio Videras with Union College professor Lewis Davis, was published in the Journal of Economic Growth in December 2009.

Ken Herold, director of library information systems, published a short commentary on information ethics in the Fall 2009 APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers (vol. 9, no. 1, 22-23) of the American Philosophical Association. Herold is a correspondent with IEG, a collaboration between the Oxford University Computing Laboratory and the faculty of philosophy within Oxford, investigating the philosophy of information. He is currently researching the origins of digital objects in the works of Alan Turing.

Eight local organizations have been selected to share $30,000 in grants from the Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund. The fund targets educational, cultural and public safety organizations in the Town of Kirkland. It has now distributed more than $266,000 since grants were first made in 2001.

Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo presented a paper titled “Faulkner’s Pedagogy” at the 125th Modern Language Association annual conference in Philadelphia. The panel was sponsored by the William Faulkner Society and chaired by Hamilton Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat.

Anna Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, presented a paper at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) held in Philadelphia on Dec. 28-30. Her presentation was titled “Laughter and the Anxiety of Ethnicity: The New Caucasian Woman in Kavkazskaia Plennitsa and Qayinana.” 

Village of Clinton Mayor Robert G. Goering and Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart announced today that Hamilton will make a single contribution of $250,000 toward the purchase of new ladder truck for the Clinton Fire Department.