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National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. November’s news highlights ranged from challenges faced in higher education to Dolly Parton to heart disease.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Ian Rosenstein has been appointed to a five-year term on the Board of Editors of the monograph series Organic Reactions.

“Can a Woman Be a Cinaedus? Interrogating Catullus 10 and Roman Social Norms,” by Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics and Greek Literature Emerita, is included as a chapter in Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome.

Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz co-authored a paper that was recently published in the journal Micromachines.

“Dolly Parton’s Dreambox,” on The Atlas Obscura Podcast, features an interview with Lydia Hamessley, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Music.

Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta recently published a paper in the journal Development. Titled "Multi-level regulation of even-skipped stripes by the ubiquitous factor Zelda*", the paper examines how particular, short, DNA sequences are regulated so that gene expression can be precisely controlled during embryonic development.

Professor of Economics Emily Conover presented a paper at the Governance and Development Seminar Series of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas, and Alissa Trotz from the University of Toronto, recently co-authored an article featured in the November 2023 issue of Small Axe: Caribbean Journal of Criticism.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, is one of the authors of a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for a three-year ASIANetwork’s AAPI Voices and Stories Project Pilot. Here Trivedi talks about the project.

Work from Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh’s Dietrich Inchworm Grant (DiG) project is featured in a New York City exhibition at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center at Governors Island.