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Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano published an article, "Passing Shadows: Melancholy Nationality and Black Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins' Of One Blood, in a collection edited by David Eng and David Kazanjian titled Loss: The Psychic and Social Contexts of Melancholia (University of California Press, 2002).

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Astrid H. Helfant successfully defended her dissertation titled "The Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle pole body (SPB) and its importance in maintaining genomic stability via SPB duplication and nuclear positioning," at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

In a recent article published in the Dallas Morning News, Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck discusses the importance of showing appreciation simply by saying “thank you.” “Saying ‘thank you’ reinforces a membership in a community and ‘a shared regard for one another’” the article explained. It not only acknowledges debt, but it is also a connector for something that was done for you.

In a recent article published in the Dallas Morning News, Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck discusses the importance of showing appreciation simply by saying “thank you.” “Saying ‘thank you’ reinforces a membership in a community and ‘a shared regard for one another’” the article explained. It not only acknowledges debt, but it is also a connector for something that was done for you.

"Finance and Macroeconomic Volatility," a paper by Assistant Professor of Economics Ann Owen, was published in Contributions to Macroeconomics. The paper was a joint work with Murat Iyigun at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Cevdet Denizer at the World Bank.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ram Subramaniam published a paper, "Cellular oxidant stress and advanced glycation endproducts of albumin: caveats of the dichlorofluorescein assay" in Archives Biochemistry and Biophysics. His co-authors are Xing-Jun Fan, Vincenzo Scivittaro, Jianqi Yang, Chung-Eun Ha, Charles Petersen, Witold Surewicz, V. Bhagavan, Miriam Weiss, Vincent M. Monnier, at al.

Hamilton College is closed for the Thanksgiving Recess. Classes resume and offices will re-open on Monday, Dec. 2.

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Three Hamilton College students ran the 9th Citizen's Bank Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 24. In a 26.2 mile race with 4,724 competitors, the three students finished in the top 3 percent of this world-class marathon. This top finish qualified the students to run the prestigious Boston Marathon. Chris Dunn '05, 2:53.21 - 6:38 mile pace - 98th overall, Runner-up in the 19 and under age-group Paul Jones '03, 2:56.53 - 6:44 mile pace - 127th overall, 25th in the 20-24 age-group Andrew Matlack '03, 2:56.40 - 6:44 mile pace - 124th overall, 23rd in the 20-24 age-group

Esther Kanipe, Marjorie and Robert W. Ewen Professor of History, was selected for the Speakers in the Humanities Program of the New York Council on the Humanities for 2003-2005. She will offer two lectures: "What is Disability Studies?" and "The Disabled Veteran in the 20th Century: The Wages of Sacrifice." Kanipe will speak about five times per year to various groups around the state.