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On Sept. 4 the participants in the Hamilton in New York Program went on a food tasting and culture tour of the Chelsea Market and Meatpacking District.

A panel of Hamilton College faculty experts will discuss “What’s Going on in Syria,” on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 8 p.m., in the Red Pit (room 127), KJ.  The panel will feature former U.S. Ambassador Edward Walker, Jr., Professor of History Shoshana Keller, and Visiting Instructor of Critical Languages Mireille Koukjian. The discussion is free and open to the public.

Senior Chemistry concentrator Leah Krause is a co-Principal Investigator on a successful  proposal through the National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program. Acceptance of her proposal grants Krause 100,000 hours of computational time on the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s “Stampede” supercomputer, currently the 6th fastest supercomputer in the world.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera led a workshop on using active learning techniques in higher education at the Moscow State Institute of International Affairs (MGIMO) in August.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson presented a paper on Confucian rituals at a conference on the “Spiritual and Intellectual World of 16th- and 17th-century China.”

Like so many other Hamilton students who take advantage of the academic freedom the open curriculum offers, recent graduate David Schwartz ’13 sort of accidentally fell into his major and academic passion: sociology.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Fall Faculty Concert on Friday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.  The concert will feature Hamilton College faculty artist performing solo, duo, and trio pieces for piano, voice, strings, brass and winds.

Economists explain that a fundamental problem in our world is that resources are finite, and this is especially true for developing countries that lack the most basic resources necessary for survival.  According to the World Bank, more than 80 percent of poor Tanzanians live in rural areas and have limited access to arable land, water, food and tools.  In his project funded by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, Eren Shultz '15 researched development in Tanzania to understand the current and future roles of cooperative organizations.

Routledge, a publisher of academic books, journals and online resources, named Professor of Communication Catherine Waite Phelan its “Author of the Month” for September. Her book, The Digital Evolution of an American Identity, is highlighted on the publisher’s website. An interview with Phelan is also featured.

Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali recently edited a book of Werewere-Liking teachings titled L’Enseignement de l’Éveilleuse d’Étoiles, (“Tôrôl Tchôrôt”). Fragments d’expériences d’une tradition initiatique Africaine.