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An essay by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz and Mary B. O'Neill, academic support coordinator and director of the Quantitative Literacy Center, was published by The Mathematical Association of America in the recent volume Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy. The essay is titled "The Quantitative Literacy Program at Hamilton College" and outlines the history and development of Hamilton's quantitative literacy program. It explains the present quantitative literacy requirement at Hamilton and details the operation of the quantitative literacy center. This issue is part of the MAA Notes series and "presents a wide sampling of efforts being made on campuses across the country to achieve our common goal of having a quantitatively literate citizenry."

Elizabeth Economy, the CV Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, presented a lecture titled “The Environmental Challenges to China’s Future” on Monday, Oct. 16 in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Dr. Economy, who is an expert in Chinese foreign and domestic policy, U.S.-China relations and global environmental issues, spoke about the current environmental situation in China and how the nation’s people and government are reacting. The event was part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center’s fall 2006 speaker series.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) in Towson, Md. on Oct. 5-8. She is a former president of CAAS. At the meeting, she co-presided over a session on "Gender, Cult and Identity in Greek Literature and Society," led a discussion group with a colleague from Emory on how to integrate scholarship on Vergil and Augustanism into high school Latin courses (especially AP Latin courses on Vergil), and attended a session on "Undergraduate Research in Classics 2006" to accompany her former Hamilton Greek student, Brian Sweeney (now at graduate school at the University of Chicago), who gave a well-received paper on "Roaring Rampages of Revenge: Euripides' Medea and Tarantino's Kill Bill."

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Emily Rohrbach spoke on October 16 at Harvard University as part of the Barker Humanities Center’s monthly seminars on Romantic Literature and Culture. She was one of three young scholars on the October panel, organized to explore "New Scholarship on Romantic Poetry." Her paper was titled “Metric Sexuality and Narrative Inversion in Byron’s Don Juan.” The other speakers were Robert Koelzer (Harvard) and Heather Braun (Boston College). 

The Emerson Gallery will host an artist’s talk by Native Perspectives artist Shelley Niro (Mohawk). Niro will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 4:15 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

The Huffington Post published an article written by sophomore Eric Kuhn titled “Coming Up at the Bottom of the Hour: Global Warming” on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Other articles included on that day’s political group blog were written by U.S. Senator John Kerry, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson and Arianna Huffington among others. Besides the main blog, Kuhn’s article was also featured on Eat the Press, a blog on The Huffington Post that examines the media.

John Stewart ’64, P’07, curator of the current Emerson Gallery show WPA Artists: Prints from the Amity Art Foundation and founder and president of the Amity Art Foundation, presented a gallery talk and tour about the show on Saturday, October 15.

Sharon Williams, director of the Writing Center, participated in the Ivy League Plus Consortium's annual meeting, a gathering for writing program faculty and administrators from Ivy League and selective liberal arts colleges at Cornell University on Oct. 7. She gave the keynote presentation: "Hamilton College's Longitudinal Study of Student Writing: A Tale of Choice and Consequences."

Renowned choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones presented the annual Hansmann Lecture in the Hamilton College Chapel on Saturday, Oct. 14. In Jones’s lecture, titled “The Persistence of Questioning: A Survival Technique Finding a Place Where Thought and Action Meet,” he spoke about his career in dance and the meaning of modern art. The event was part of the weekend’s dedication ceremonies for the new Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin wrote an article that was published in the peer reviewed Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, October, 2006, Vol. 41;3 PP35-56. The article, titled "Multimedia Effects and Chinese Character Processing: An Empirical Study of CFL Learners from Three Different Orthographic Backgrounds," concerns a study that examined the effects of multimedia presentation on Chinese character recognition.