Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya recently gave an invited talk, “Japanese children's interpretation of numerals; pragmatically derived vs. lexical ones,” at the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University. More ...

Susan Mason, director of the Oral Communication Center and Education Studies, is advising the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) on using curriculum mapping strategies to build their professional education programming. More ...

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Donald Martin Carter has published a book titled Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility. More ...

Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper titled “Kyndness of blude”: Kinship, Patronage, and Politics in Gavin Douglas" at a conference on "Border Families and their Books" held April 23-24 at the University of Oxford. The paper examined the role of family in the production and circulation of the works of the late medieval Scottish poet Gavin Douglas, as well as in his subsequent political career. More ...

Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on May 7 to three faculty members. Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology and director of the Neuroscience Program, was awarded the Samuel & Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole Snyder received the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award; and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Angel David Nieves was honored with the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award. More ...

Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu is joining the editorial board of the International Journal of Wellbeing. This is a blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely original high-quality scholarly articles and book reviews focused on scientific and philosophical investigations into wellbeing. More ...

Five members of the Hamilton faculty were recognized for their research and creative successes through the Dean's Scholarly Achievement Awards at Class & Charter Day on Friday, May 7. The Awards were established in three categories by Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo in 2008. More ...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ashleigh Smythe was recently invited by students from Utica College’s Asa Gray Biological Society to give a lecture in their research seminar series. She presented a seminar titled “Neptune’s Nematodes: Searching for the Root of the Nematode Phylogeny in the Sea.” The talk described Smythe’s on-going research into the evolutionary relationships of free-living marine nematodes. More ...

“Bonanza!,” an artist book by Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant is on display in Fit to Be Bound through July 11 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. More ...

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas has been appointed to the board of directors of the Guyana Institute of Historical Research (GIHR). The Institute, which collaborates with the History Department of the University of Guyana, conducts programs and research on labour history, women’s history and other histories of Guyana and the Caribbean. More ...