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Hamilton College women's soccer player Erica Dressler '09 (Farmington, Conn./Miss Porter's School) has been selected to the 2008 all-region team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Professor of French John C. O'Neal has been elected to the board of directors of the American Society for French Academic Palms (ASFAP), a group of scholars who have received recognition from the French government for their teaching and research. An officer in the Order of the French Academic Palms since February 2008, O'Neal will chair the committee for the ASFAP's scholarship fund.

Hamilton College posted a 3-1 record in its own three-day round robin held at the Little Squash Center from Dec. 5 to Dec. 7.

Hamilton College posted a 2-2 record in its own three-day round robin held at the Little Squash Center from Dec. 5 to Dec. 7.

Robert Spiegelman opened his lecture in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium Friday by asking what comes to mind when someone mentions the "wild, wild West." Audience members offered obvious images such as cowboys, Indian tribes, and buffalo. Spiegelman, noted sociologist, multimedia artist and writer, admitted that the old West did have a certain amount of the cowboy and Indian drama, the kind that has been dramatized in the movies. But, before the days of wagon trains and cattle ranges, the wild, wild West was actually the wild, wild East. New York, said Spiegelman, was the first frontier, the conquering of which helped lay the framework for manifest destiny. Spiegelman was a guest at Hamilton through the Speakers in the Humanities series, made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

From an early age, Leeann Brigham has had an astute fascination for and a deep interest in science. As a child, she recalls playing with mini-microscopes and rock collections and having "an obsession with" the Nancy Drew mystery book series. Like the mystery books she so deeply loved as a child, today, Leeann views neuroscience, her major here at Hamilton, as "the ultimate mystery – asking questions like 'why do we behave the way we do' and 'how we have become the individuals that we are.'" To Leeann, neuroscience gives her "the perfect opportunity to explore those answers."

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover was invited to attend and present at a conference held Dec. 6-7 at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. The conference convened a group of economists to present and discuss their work on assessing productivity levels, dispersions and growth in different Latin American countries. The work Conover presented used firm level data to assess productivity levels in Colombia.

Bowie Sievers '11 helped lead Hamilton College to second place out of six teams at Wesleyan University's two-day Cardinal Invitational on Dec. 6 and 7.

A handful of athletes from Hamilton College's indoor track & field team competed in the multi-divisional non-team scoring Cornell Relays at Barton Hall on Dec. 6.

Megan Gibbons '12 finished first in five individual events to help lead Hamilton College to second place out of six teams at Wesleyan University's two-day Cardinal Invitational on Dec. 6 and 7.