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Today members of the class of 2013 gathered at the historic Kirkland Cottage to sign the College Register symbolizing their matriculation at Hamilton.  This tradition, established in 1975, represents the beginning of their college career and their membership in the Hamilton community.

Yinghan Ding ’12 is an international student at Hamilton, and so are some of his friends. When it comes time to head home for winter break, they might want to heed his advice about buying airline tickets.  By the end of the summer, Ding will be practically an expert on the topic. In the spring, he received an Emerson Grant to study price fluctuations in the airline industries. Because the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 eliminated most of the U.S. government’s interference in the economic standing of airlines, Ding is curious to see whether or not the government needs to become reacquainted with airline regulation in order to achieve stable prices that will benefit both consumers and the industry.

Journalism is the world’s transcript – the records accumulate but never disappear, even if we persistently try to ignore them. Julia Mulcrone ’11 says that in this way, journalism is “extremely important because it is the medium through which people learn about the world—it’s hard not to care about.” This summer, in preparation for a career in journalism, she is interning for Today’s Chicago Woman magazine, which has a target audience of women in their 30s to 50s. They offered her an unpaid position, however, so she applied for and received a stipend from the Joseph F. Anderson '44 Internship Fund, which helps students who have full-time, unpaid internships cover outside expenses.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg, in collaboration with Melissa Davies, Picker Art Gallery educator, Michael Holobosky, Colgate University graphic artist and imaging specialist, and Kathryn Sabino, AP global history and social studies teacher, Hamilton Central School, conducted “Frames of Engagement: Looking at Asia through Art,” a professional development seminar for teachers, at Colgate University’s Picker Art Gallery, from August 17-21. This was co-sponsored by the gallery and Madison-Oneida BOCES/Mid-State Teacher Center. K-12 teachers participating in the weeklong seminar received 30 hours in-service credit hours.

The debate over health care is not solely bound to the United States. Neither is it confined to migration via land – medicinal issues wash ashore on continents like Africa. In the spring, Caroline Davis ’11 and Laura Gault ’11 were awarded a Davis Peace Project Fellowship program grant amounting to $10,000. They spent it on a research project titled “Empowering the Hadzabe as Agents of Peace: Health for Cultural Preservation.” Its goal to devise a strategy to improve healthcare in the Hadzabe communities of Tanzania. They believe promise lies therein for mobile health care labs and improved ambulatory care during pregnancy complications.

The Emerson Gallery presents three exhibitions: “private(dis)play: Contemporary Artists’ Sketchbooks,” “Oliver Herring: Video Sketch” and “William Palmer: Drawing from Life” from August 24 through January 3. All three exhibits examine the working processes of artists via multiple media.

This summer, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez Plate published several scholarly works. Plate's article “Words, Images, and the ‘Peoples of the Book’: Re-Reading, Re-Writing, and Re-Hearing the Word of God in Western Religious Traditions” appeared in the experimental journal Corona, published at Montana State University. He also published a review of the Museum of Biblical Art (New York City) exhibit “Reel Religion: A Century of the Bible and Film.”

A written assignment can be deceiving. Even if the finished product is immaculate, the student might have put in many hours of work in order to get it to that point. On the other hand, holes in a student’s argument indicate that he either rushed through that portion of his analysis or toiled over its synthesis for longer than necessary. Matt Russell ’11 sees this as a problem for educators who are trying to help their students understand classroom material. If they cannot see what areas on which their students are spending an inordinate amount of time, they cannot help them improve. This summer, Russell worked with Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey to design a computer program that will visually represent the time spent on certain aspects of computer programming. 

Anne E. Lacsamana, assistant professor of women's studies, recently had her essay "Identities, Nation, and Imperialism: Confronting Empire in Filipina American Feminist Thought" published in the anthology Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping, and Resistance, co-edited by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Isidor Walliman.

Anna C. Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, has published a book review of Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s translation of Hoshruba: The Land and the Tilism in the Annual of Urdu.