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Before coming to Hamilton, Sam Reider ’14 created a decision tool on a whiteboard to help organize his college choices. During his first year on campus, he converted his process into an automated program and loaded it onto his site www.CollegePick.us. The New York Times’ The Choice, a site designed to “demystify college admissions and aid,” featured Reider’s site in a March 8 article, Online Aid for Making ‘The Decision,’ From a College Freshman.

Sophomore Galia Slayen was featured on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Say Something website, described by the publication as a collection of “stories from college students about what they’re up to and why.” In the March 7 story and linked audio recording, Slayen described the recent National Eating Disorder Awareness Week activities on campus and her motivation for engaging in the project. A committee of students, headed by Slayen and Perry Ryan ’12 provided the impetus for Hamilton’s participation in the national awareness week.

Professor of Anthropology Charlotte Beck was quoted in the journal Science, in LiveScience, in The Oregonian and in U.S. News & World Report about a study, published in the journal Science on March 4, that raised questions about how prehistoric peoples, upon their arrival from Asia, journeyed south to the Americas. Beck and Professor of Anthropology Tom Jones published a paper in 2010 that concluded that the initial colonization of the intermountain region of the Great Basin was probably by populations from the Pacific coastal area and not, as conventional wisdom holds, from the Great Plains.

Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, presented A Chemotrophic Ecosystem beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf: Discovery and Demise following Ice Shelf Collapse to a team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) on Thursday, Feb. 24.  In the evening, Domack presented a public lecture titled Earth's Dynamic Climate Part 1:Icehouse to Greenhouse Transitions in Earth History: Lessons from Deep Time to Recent for the public as part of the LPI Lecture Series titled Cosmic Explorations.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate’s perspectives on this year’s Oscar nominees and the themes conveyed by them appear on several major media sites including CNN.com, Religion Dispatches and beliefnet.com. “It’s kind of an unusual year – almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,” said Plate. “But these films are asking the same questions that religions ask: Where did we come from, how did we get here, where are we going and who are we?”

Hamilton’s Emerson Gallery, in conjunction with the college’s art department, will screen David Wojnarowicz’s 1989 film, A Fire In My Belly, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 5 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Red Pit (Room 127). A panel discussion will follow. Both events are free and open to the public.

CNN’s State of the Union program will again feature Ambassador Edward Walker ’62, the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, on Sunday, Feb. 13, for the third consecutive week for a discussion of the situation in Egypt with CNN’s Candy Crowley and former U.N. Ambassador John Negroponte. Richard Bernstein ’80, Richard Bernstein, CEO and chief investment officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors, on Friday, February 11, and Walker will also be interviewed on Friday, Feb. 11, by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball at 7 p.m.

The journal Nature published a paper on Feb. 9 co-authored by Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies; alumna Amelia Shevenell ’96, his former student who is now a lecturer at the University College London; Anitra Ingalls, University of Washington professor; and C. Kelly, a University of Washington graduate. Titled “Holocene Southern Ocean surface temperature variability west of the Antarctic Peninsula,” the paper is also featured in the journal’s News and Views section which highlights papers of special note.

Edward S. Walker, Jr., '62 former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel and the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, was interviewed this morning on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Walker spoke with host Steve Inskeep about the violent clashes in Egypt and the challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's authority.

P•P•O•W  will present new work by Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, in an exhibition opening at its new space on West 22nd Street in New York City on Jan. 27. The following day, Jan. 28, the Philip Slein Gallery will show more of Kuharic’s work in its St. Louis, Mo., space.