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Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Biology David Gapp was appointed to the Silas D. Childs Chair, and Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan was appointed to the James L. Ferguson Chair. Both appointments were effective July 1.

In impoverished countries such as Guatemala, education and other opportunities for women and girls could help substantially in improving the state’s overall economic health. However, Guatemalan women, particularly those belonging to the Mayan tribe, are all but ignored when it comes to proper education and healthcare. Rebecca Ross ’14 spent the summer in Guatemala, analyzing the conditions facing Mayan women and studying the concept of battling poverty through gender equality.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman published a review of Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen, by Anthony DiRenzo, in the Fall 2011 issue of Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture.

Members of the Archaeology of Hamilton’s Founding course broke ground at a site just off College Hill Road on Thursday, Sept. 1. Selected because of its possible association with key figures in Hamilton’s past, the site will be excavated by the students during the next seven weeks. Local NBC affiliate WKTV taped the first day’s digging for a news broadcast.

Hamilton students gathered on Thursday at the Glen House for a party hosted by the Outdoor Leadership Center. The party, which was thrown in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Glen House’s dedication, featured refreshments and a variety of outdoors-themed games and competitions.

The Hamilton College Music Department has an exciting calendar of student and faculty performance scheduled for the Fall 2011 semester. All performances are general admission and take place at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. Admission is free and all performances begin at 8 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Assistant Professor of Physics Natalia Connolly recently participated in a summer outreach program with four high school students and their physics teacher, Jeff  Rodriguez, at Anderson High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Professor of French John C. O'Neal presented a paper at the meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which took place this year in Graz, Austria, from July 24-30. O'Neal's paper was titled "Cultivating Critical Readers through Complex Narrative Time Frames in Crébillon's Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit."

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg published an essay, “On the Contemporary Art of Chinese Calligraphy,” with André Kneib, a professor in the Chinese Department at the École des Langues Orientales in Paris. The essay appears in English and German in the exhibition catalog Bilder werden geschieban, The Art of Writing: Contemporary Art from Three Cultures.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover presented a paper at The Econometric Society Australasian Meeting which was held in Adelaide, Australia, in July.