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Chinthaka Kuruwita, assistant professor of mathematics, published a paper titled "Non-iterative Estimation and Variable Selection in the Single-Index Quantile Regression Model" in Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation journal.

As a Hamilton College neuroscience major, Marina Palumbo ’17 has had to learn, retain, and access plenty of tough material. Befittingly, this summer Palumbo is working alongside Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology and director of the Neuroscience Program, to investigate long-term potentiation: the biological underpinning of learning and memory in the brain

Professor of Communication Catherine W. Phelan presented a paper last month at the 16th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association (MEA) in Denver, Colo. Her work explored the varied ways in which our experiences of community are redefined by the digital communication revolution.

Adam Evertz '17 is delving into the limits of human verbal interaction this summer with a research project titled "Failures of Language: Literature and the Indescribable." Evertz is undertaking this research with funding through an Emerson Summer Cooperative Research Award, and under the advisement of The Carolyn C. and David M. Ellis '38 Distinguished Teaching Professor of Comparative Literature, Peter Rabinowitz. 

Shea Patrick ’16 is exploring inter-governmental work this summer as an intern for the Public Affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Patrick’s internship is supported through the Career Center’s Summer Internship Fund.

Jake Meserve Blount ’17 is spending his summer pursuing a fieldwork project under the advisement of Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley titled “Fiddles in the North Country: Uncovering the Ithaca Sound.” Blount’s research is funded through an Emerson Foundation Grant.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a research talk titled "Determining and Distinguishing Cartesian Products" at the 8th Slovenian Graph Theory Conference at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, held June 21-27.

Glynis Asu, Lisa Forrest and Tanapat (Ice) Treyanurak ’17 discussed the LITS Peer Research Tutor program during a conference on “The Art of Librarianship” presented last month by the SUNY Librarians Association.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a paper titled “Narrativity Without Narrative: Topoi and the Prefiguration of Visual Narrativity in Chinese Pictorial Art” on June 23 during the Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus recently published his first book, Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument. In it, Marcus examined autonomy platonism and indispensability platonism and then defended a third view – intuition-based autonomy platonism.