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Hamilton will host a TEDx event on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Center Barrett Lab Theatre. This year’s topic is Rethinking Today, Reinventing Tomorrow. A TEDx talk is a showcase for speakers presenting great, well-formed ideas in under 18 minutes. 

A review by Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman was recently published on Canadian Writers Abroad, a website that promotes, shares, and records the work of Canadian writers who are working or have worked outside of Canada.

Hamilton’s Model United Nations team participated in the annual Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) conference from Feb. 15 to Feb. 18, in Boston. Over 300 schools, including more than 60 from abroad, competed along with Hamilton.

An article co-authored by Professors Derek Jones and Jeffrey Pliskin, and Matthew Poterba ’12 was recently published online in the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity.

When Americans hear of 1956 in the Soviet Union, if anything comes to mind it is usually the uprising in Hungary and the Soviet intervention to suppress it. This association is far different from the liberalization movement that Russians associate with 1956. Kathleen Smith, professor of teaching at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, discussed this disparity in a lecture, “Rebellious Soviet Students in 1956: A New Generation of Political Prisoners.”

Ted Pitcher ’68 is endowing a scholarship in honor of Bill Hoyt ’59. 

The Hamilton in NYC program continued its exploration of urban ecology on Feb. 7 with a guest presentation from Andrea Townsend, Hamilton assistant professor of biology. Townsend, whose research deals with urban bird ecology, gave a talk titled "The Urban Exploiter: what makes an urban animal?"

Andrea Mitchell, NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, will moderate the discussion between two foreign policy experts and former national security advisors, Condoleezza Rice and Susan Rice, at Hamilton on Wednesday, April 11. The program is free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Ticket information about tickets will be released in March.

Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was recently invited to become a member of the World Wellbeing Panel, a research program that promotes “wellbeing as the ultimate purpose of all major decision makers, particularly government.”

Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Daniel F. Chambliss, a professor whose classes are always in demand and who is known beyond the campus for his prize-winning research and books, is the winner of the American Sociological Association’s 2018 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching.