All News

Hamilton juniors Stephanie Anglin and Michael Amaral presented a poster with Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology John Edlund at the annual conference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Feb. 5-7, in Tampa, Fla. Their research examined abortion decisions.

Northern Arizona University Professor David Schlosberg will give a lecture, "From Environmental Justice to Ecological Justice: Human Communities and Natural Systems," on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium in Hamilton College's Science Center. Sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project as part of its Environmental Justice series, it is free and open to the public.

Hamilton's 9th annual winter carnival, FebFest, will take place on Feb. 7-14 on campus. This year's theme is Walley Goes Green. Highlights will include a Light Side vs. Dark Side snowball fight, snow touch football, a snoccer tournament and a Mr. Hamilton contest. .

Two Hamilton students were among participants at a Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts presentation at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., on Feb. 2. Kira DesJardins '10 and Kelsey Rice '10 participated in panel discussions at the workshop with Professor of English Vincent Odamtten and Instructional Technologist Janet Simons. The session was developed by Simons and David Baird of Colgate University.

On February 4, students in the Semester in Washington Program visited the Newseum, a 250,000 square foot interactive museum of news. Students in Washington this semester are juniors Mia Cakebread, Katie Donlevie, Kenya Lee, Brandon Leibsohn, Wenxi Li, Kye Lippold, Michael London, Sanjana Nafday, Eric Nehs, Stephen Okin, Charlotte Olcay, Chris Risi, Charles Ruff and Charles Warzel, and sophomores Colleen Callaghan and Emily Gerston.

Tim Minella '09, a double major in government and physics, has been honored with the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). These awards are given to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the American Astronomical Society. Minella presented results of his research at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, Calif., in January. The awardees receive a Chambliss medal and a certificate.

Hamilton's Nordic Ski Team is making a name for itself in competitions in the Northeast. Emily Stinson '09 has been instrumental in organizing a team that travels and competes every weekend.

Twelve Hamilton students participated in the McGill Model United Nations Conference (MCMUN) Jan. 29-Feb. 1 in Montreal. The conference consisted of approximately 1,400 delegates. The keynote speaker at the opening ceremonies was the right honorable Joe Clark, a former Prime Minister of Canada and a member of the Canadian Parliament for 25 years.

Jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding will perform with her band on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $18 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $5 for students. All seating is general admission. For tickets or more information, call the box office at 859-4331 or visit www.hamiltonpa.org.

Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received a stream of accolades in a review that appears in the Friday, Sept. 26, edition of the International Herald Tribune and the Sunday, Sept. 28, issue of The New York Times Book Review. "Fallen Giants is the book of a lifetime for its authors, an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling," wrote the reviewer.