Hamilton's Classics department faculty took five students to Union College for the first Classics Undergraduate Research Conference with Hamilton, Union, Skidmore, and Colgate. It was supported partly by a joint Mellon grant and partly by the four schools involved. Three students from each school presented papers and other students attended. Hamilton students presenting papers were Jessica Glidden, Sarah Schmidt and Brian Sweeney (all '06); attending were Chrissy Rubino '08 and Cassie Sullivan '09. Hamilton will host the conference in 2007.
Schmidt presented "Atalanta, Daphne and Camilla: Antiquity's Runaway Brides;" Sweeeny's paper was titled "Roaring Rampages of Revenge: Euripides' Medea and Tarantino's Kill Bill;" and Glidden presented "Egypt & Beyond: The Evolution of the Religion of Isis." Faculty attending wrere Barbara Gold, Carl Rubino, Shelley Haley, Mary McHugh and Karen Rosenbecker.
