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Obesity and diabetes are serious issues that public health officials are focusing on.  A bulk of the scientific literature blames sedentary lifestyles for the increase in obesity.  However, the developing trend of people becoming categorized as obese is increasingly steep and Hamilton student researchers believe there are more biological and chemical components to the issues.

Stephen J. Goldberg, associate professor of art history, presented a lecture titled “The Intimate Universe: Landscape Paintings of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties” on June 14 at Italy’s Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Dipartimento Asia Africa Mediterraneo.

The ideal of a liberal arts education involves taking courses over a wide and varied curriculum, especially when that means taking some risks. Kina Viola ’14, a creative writing major, is embodying that ideal by pursuing a research project that combines writing and math, a subject she’s always been interested in despite a proclaimed lack of familiarity.

Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones presented “How employment responds to changes in assets at U.S. banks and credit unions” at the Fourth Euricse International Workshop on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Development held June 20-21 in Trento, Italy.

Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman and his former student Walter Cronkite IV ’11 discussed their new book Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home during an interview with Bob Edwards, host of The Bob Edwards Show on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, broadcast on June 19 and again on June 22.

During her four years at Hamilton Diane Paverman ’13 worked on multiple computer science projects using technology to analyze human emotions. Now a recent graduate, she’ll be turning that experience into a career, beginning as a technology consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton as part of a team dealing with cybersecurity.

An article written by several members of the Hamilton community was published in the May issue of The SAA Archaeological Record, the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology.

The first five pages of Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven’s book The Self Beyond Itself were published on AlterNet.org.

Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman, co-author of Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home, discussed the book on Think, KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show on June 20.  KERA, North Texas’ public radio station, reaches the fourth-largest population area in the country and is heard by two million listeners weekly.

Hamilton emphasizes its students’ ability to write and edit effectively, and this summer Olivia Valcarce ’15 is taking advantage of those skills through an internship at Writers House Literary Agency. Valcarce, a Writing Center tutor on campus, is receiving financial support from the Joseph F. Anderson ’44 Internship Fund, administered through Hamilton’s Career Center, to pursue a long-term career interest in editing.