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Six Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College’s Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The board granted tenure to Emily Conover, economics, Andrew Dykstra, mathematics, John Eldevik, history, Nathan Goodale, anthropology, Adam Van Wynsberghe, chemistry, and Zhuoyi Wang, East Asian languages and literatures. The tenures are effective July 1. With the granting of tenure comes the title of associate professor.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, was featured on a June 11  American Public Media Marketplace broadcast. Referencing U.S. Commerce Department figures that showed May retail sales were up 1.2 percent, Owen warned not to pay too much attention to monthly vacillations.

Daniel Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, was recently elected to serve as an at-large member of the Council of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The Council is the 15-member governing board of the ASA and the organization’s top policy-making body.

Assistant Professor of Economics Judit Temesvary published an article titled “Foreign activities of U.S. banks since 1997: The roles of regulations and market conditions in crises and normal times” in the Journal of International Money and Finance.

Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn presented "Preimages of Geometric Cycles" on June 1 at the fifth biennial Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

An article titled “A Good Forgetting” by Professor of Philosophy Marianne Janack was published online on June 4 in Aeon Magazine. In the article, Janack discussed the pros and cons of both remembering and forgetting, and the influence of emotion and other factors on how the brain processes memories.

Associate Professor of Psychology Tara McKee presented a poster on May 30 at the 5th World Congress on ADHD in Glasgow, Scotland. The poster, titled “Social-Emotional Correlates of ADHD Symptomatology in College Students,” presented the results of research conducted last summer with the help of Joshua DeVinney ’15 and Courtney Hobgood ’15

Hamilton College welcomed 3rd grade students from Oneida’s Seneca Street Elementary School to the Taylor Science Center on June 3 for a number of educational presentations on psychology, biology, physics and chemistry.

“Class of 2015,” a longitudinal portrait project comprising photographs and video interviews that examine the development of personal identity among a group of students from Hamilton's class of 2015, will open at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art on June 4. Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight began this series in 2011, when he started teaching at Hamilton. A reception will be held on Thursday, June 4, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Maria Willstedt, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, presented "Martin Sarmiento: A Medievalist at the Court of the Spanish Bourbon Kings," at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held May 14-17 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.