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Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, participated in an American Public Media Marketplace segment titled “The administration has based its budget on 3 percent GDP. What happens if we don’t get there?” on May 25.

“A chip-firing variation and a Markov chain with uniform stationary distribution,” co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Dave Perkins, was recently published in The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.

Associate Professor of Psychology Tara McKee presented a poster at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston on May 26. The poster was co-authored with Kyndal Burdin ’18 and Isabel O’Malley ’18.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was recently awarded an International Senior Research Fellowship at Ustinov College, the postgraduate college of Durham University, U.K.

Professor of French Cheryl Morgan recently published an essay in La Littérature en bas-bleus. Romancières en France de 1870-1914, the third and final volume in a series devoted to 19th-century French women novelists.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz recently participated in a panel on “Ethical Engagement and the Study of Antiquity” and a follow-up workshop at the University of Southern California.

It's become a tradition for Hamilton students to visit nearby Clinton Elementary School to help children there learn Spanish. Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Edna Rodriguez-Plate launched the volunteer program in 2012.

A new book titled f, p, e & i, by Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Dave Perkins, was recently published by MAA Press. It is Perkins’ second book published in the Mathematical Association of America’s Spectrum series.

Eleven members of the Class of 2017 were recently elected into the Hamilton College Chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.

Edmund A. Lefevre Professor of Literature Steven Yao has contributed an essay to the recently published volume, A New Literary History of Modern China