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Robert Spiegelman, sociologist, multimedia artist and writer, will present a lecture in the Speakers in the Humanities series on Friday, Dec. 5, at 11 a.m. and again at noon in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium at Hamilton. The lecture, titled "The Wild, Wild East: New York's Drama of Westward Expansion," is free and open to the public.

Allison Eck '12 contributed a column to The Buffalo News titled "Tips for success: Highlighters, to-do lists, naps" (11/26/08). Eck writes occasional columns for the newspaper about her experiences as a college freshman. In the most recent piece, Eck wrote "College requires time management because it is several times more difficult to get all your work done than it was in high school. Each professor will expect that you place his or her class at the top of your priority list. Obviously, this is impossible, and so the challenge is to balance quality and efficiency when you study."

Robert Morris '76, founder of private equity firm Olympus Partners and member of the Hamilton Investment Committee, was profiled in The Deal Newsweekly in its Dec. 1 issue. The publication is an "award-winning business and financial newsweekly offering insightful coverage of the business transactions that fuel corporate growth," according to the magazine's Web site. "Power of Regeneration" focused on Morris' philanthropic projects and specifically his work with the Polio Foundation.

Science Magazine published a study titled "Multi-University Research Teams: Shifting Impact, Geography, and Stratification in Science" in its Nov. 21 issue that included Hamilton in an analysis of research trends in higher education. Hamilton was ranked 15th in a group of 662 colleges and universities in citations per faculty member and 24th in citations per paper in science and engineering.

Five Hamilton alumni have been chosen for awards recognizing "exceptional accomplishments and leadership" by Hamilton Ventures, Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized to bring together individuals with an interest in private investment and entrepreneurship. The alumni will be honored at the Venture Symposium and Conference to be held at the United Nations on Feb. 7, 2009. Award criteria includes vision, leadership, achievement and maintaining the College ideals of honor and integrity.

Beginning her lecture with something of a riddle, Sustainable South Bronx founder Majora Carter read a mystery quote and asked the attendees to figure out the original speaker: "I have been wondering for a long time why some of our own defense officials do not put more emphasis on finding a good substitute for oil and worry less about where more oil is to come from. Our people are ingenious. New discoveries are all around us, and when we have to make them, we nearly always do… If it is essential to find a substitute for oil or rubber or any other material, I have faith that it can be done, because it has been done in the past."

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh had artwork featured in the Metro UK November 26 edition. Sophie Freeman authored the article which featured three photographs from the installations "To Mark a Significant Space."  Metro UK is Britain's first urban national newspaper, which is distributed to more than 1.3 million readers in 16 of Britain's major cities.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck attended the Middle East Studies Association Conference held in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22-25. She presented a paper titled "Of Prophets: Exploring Christian-Muslim Spaces in Early Modern Spanish Muslim Texts." The paper looked at the anonymous 16th-century Muslim-authored text, "The Hadith of the Death of Muhammad," written in aljamiado (Spanish transliterated through the Arabic alphabet and seasoned with Arabic words and phrases).

An article by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 was recently published in the Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (Volume 108, Issue 2, 2008). In the paper, "Approximation by Weighted Composition Operators on C(X)," Kantrowitz and co-author Michael M. Neumann of Mississippi State University investigate bounded linear operators between Banach algebras of continuous functions.

Senior Eric Kuhn interviewed Ron Alsop, author of the recently published The Trophy Kids Grow Up, for a Dec. 2 article titled "Trophy Kids in the Workplace" in the Huffington Post. Alsop, a freelance journalist and consultant and former Wall Street Journal editor, discussed this generation's unprecedented entitlement, demand for a work-life balance, optimism and parental involvement with Kuhn.