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In the News - Summer 2008Hamilton Engage '08 Focuses on ElectionLocal TV Stations Report on Student Views(August 29, 2008) Nearly 300 students registered to vote and completed absentee ballot requests on Tuesday, Aug. 26, as a result of the efforts of Hamilton Engage 08. Two local television stations, NBC-affiliate WKTV and all news cable station News10Now, have reported on the group's success in registering students. More ... Hamilton One-Mile Run Held to Celebrate National RunCNN and Stars and Stripes Tell Story(August 26, 2008) Hamilton's Run for the Fallen mile-long memorial tribute on Sunday, Aug. 24, took place simultaneously with the national Run for the Fallen final run to and ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. More than 100 alumni, students, employees and community members joined in the event organized by Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient and Emma Woods '09. Both CNN and Stars and Stripes, the daily paper published for the military, covered the event nationally. More ... Isserman Interviewed by Former Secty. of Education BennettMorning in America Focuses on Himalayan Mountaineering(August 18, 2008) Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, participated in a 45-minute discussion and call-in show with former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett on Bennett's nationally syndicated radio program, Morning in America, on Friday, August 15. Bennett contacted Isserman after reading Isserman's op-ed that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, August 10, in which he compared the recent avalanche on the Himalayan mountain K2 with a similar accident that occurred in 1953. More ... Isserman Op-ed Appears in The New York Times(August 11, 2008)The New York Times published an opinion piece written by Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, titled "The Descent of Men" in its Sunday "Week in Review" section. Isserman wrote the op-ed following the recent avalanche in Pakistan on K2, the world's second-highest peak, that took the lives of 11 climbers. Isserman is the co-author of the forthcoming Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes published by Yale University Press and available in book stores next month. More ... CNBC Intern Klein '09 Participates in China SpecialProduction to Air on Aug. 3(August 2, 2008) "What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's the perennial question at family reunions and holiday dinners. When rising senior and communications major Stacey Klein was asked that question by her boss at CNBC this summer, she had the answer. After spending nine weeks at CNBC's Global Headquarters, she replied, "a television news producer." On Sunday, Aug. 3, the first television production in which she has played a role, "Made in China: The People's Republic of Profit," will air on CNBC at 10 p.m. ET. More ... Two Networks Feature Run for the FallenCBS Evening News/NBC Nightly News Offer Weekend Coverage(August 2, 2008) Run for the Fallen, the 4,113-mile cross-country relay run created by Hamilton alumnus Jon Bellona '03, was featured on CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News on Sunday, Aug. 3, and Saturday, Aug. 2, respectively. Bellona organized the run in honor of Michael Cleary '03, his Hamilton roommate who was killed in Iraq, and all of the soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. More ... Chambliss Quoted in The Chronicle of Higher EducationSpellings Commission Meeting Focus of Article(July 21, 2008) Daniel Chambliss, Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education in a July 21 article titled "Spellings Campaign Runs Low on Time and Power to Persuade." As a member of the executive committee of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Chambliss was invited to the previous week's Spellings Summit in Chicago. More ... Kuhn '09 Interviewed on WNYC on Social Networking(July 17, 2008)Senior Eric Kuhn was interviewed on Wednesday, July 16, on WNYC-FM 93.9, New York's flagship public radio station, on its morning program,"The Takeaway." The segment, "Future politicians will have to face the ghosts of their Facebook pasts," addressed the permanent trails left behind by users of social network Web sites, trails that may embarrass or possibly sabotage future opportunities. More ... InsideHigherEd Features Hamilton's Aid DecisionArticle Highlights College's Admission Successes(July 3, 2008) "Doing the Right Thing – and Thriving," an article in the July 3 edition of InsideHigherEd.com, highlighted Hamilton's decision to eliminate merit aid and the subsequent rise in traditional measurements of academic quality in the incoming Hamilton class. In the article, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer discussed the fact that the college was doing a better job of attracting the kinds of applicants it wanted without merit aid offers. More ... USA Today Features Run for the Fallen(July 3, 2008)Run for the Fallen, the 4,113-mile cross-country relay run created by Hamilton alumnus Jon Bellona '03, is featured in the July 3 issue of USA Today in an article titled "Runners mark miles for fallen troops." Bellona organized the run in honor of Michael Cleary '03, his Hamilton roommate who was killed in Iraq, and all of the soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. More ... Kuhn '09 Interviews Authors in Huffington PostChronicles Day in the Life of a British MP(July 3, 2008) Hamilton rising senior Eric Kuhn '09, who spent the academic year at the London School of Economics, has recently written several articles for The Huffington Post. In his latest, "Political-Ish Summer Reads," Kuhn selected six top political fiction books and interviewed the authors, who range from the former executive director of the Christian Coalition to the author of the new Indiana Jones novel. More ... Isserman Featured on American Public Media Interview(June 21, 2008)"Weekend America," a nationally syndicated radio show produced and distributed by American Public Media via NPR, will feature an interview with Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, on the weekend of June 21. Part of an ongoing series titled "This Weekend in 1968," the interview includes Isserman's account of how on the night of his high school graduation in June 1968, he boarded a train for Washington, D.C. and joined a rally in support of the Poor People's Campaign. America Public Media is the nation's second-largest producer and distributor of public radio programs. More ... Klinkner Included in NPR InterviewSenator Obama's Candidacy Discussed(June 20, 2008) In a National Public Radio segment titled "Obama Scapegoat Fears," James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner spoke about how the senator's candidacy brings out some conflicted feelings among African-Americans. "The concern expressed by African-Americans reminds me of after 1928. Al Smith was the first Catholic to run for president and lost. I'm sure a lot of Catholics after the crash, the Depression, said thank God he lost over Hoover, otherwise they'd blame us for it," said Klinkner. More ... Associated Press Features Run for the FallenStart of Run Also Aired on CNN(June 13, 2008) Run for the Fallen, the 4,113-mile cross-country relay run created by Hamilton alumnus Jon Bellona '03, is featured in an Associated Press article on the eve of the event's start date and will be covered by CNN on June 14 at noon. Bellona organized the run in honor of Michael Cleary '03, his Hamilton roommate who was killed in Iraq, and all of the soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. More ... Stringer '08 Op-ed Published in Observer-Dispatch(June 11, 2008)Last summer Hamilton alumna Jenney Stringer '08 was awarded a Levitt Community Service Fellowship to create and facilitate a community garden in Utica for refugees living in public housing. Stringer recently penned an opinion piece for the Utica Observer-Dispatch thanking the many organizations that contributed to the project's success. More ... Klinkner Quoted in Christian Science Monitor(June 4, 2008)Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, got the last word in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "In Sealing Nomination, Obama Makes History" published Wednesday, June 4. The article chronicled Barack Obama's route to securing the Democratic presidential nomination and analyzed its unconventional nature. Klinkner observed that never before had a candidate attracted such a diverse coalition of supporters. More ... Kuhn '09 Publishes Video on Huffington Post(June 3, 2008)With presidential candidacy seemingly decided for both Republican and Democratic parties, Eric Kuhn '09 took his camera and hit the streets of London to ask British citizens how they feel about Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. His video is posted on The Huffington Post. More ...
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Upcoming Events9/08 - Informational Sess... 9/08 - Informational Sess... 9/08 - Informational Sess... More ...News Highlights Students in New York Program Visit Whitney MuseumStudents in Hamilton's program in New York City visited the Whitney Museum on Sept. 3, where they toured the exhibit, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe." According to the Whitney Museum Web site, "Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts and sciences."Environmental Justice and Sustainability Panel to Be Held on Sept. 9The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and the Diversity and Social Justice Project are focused on related themes this year: "sustainability: environment, health and poverty" and "environmental justice," respectively. Together they are sponsoring a panel discussion titled "Environmental Justice and Sustainability" on Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 4:10 p.m. in the K-J auditorium. More ... |
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