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Lisa McFall, associate director, metadata and digital initiatives in LITS, published a chapter in Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers, recently released by Indiana University Press.

A self-translated and revised version of Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang’s scholarly article, titled “Transforming the Liminal Hero: Border-Crossing Interconnections in The Taking of Tiger Mountain and Its Textual Pedigree,” recently appeared in Cinema and TV Culture (Yingshi Wenhua, no. 22: 126-138, June 2020), a journal of Chinese National Academy of Arts.

Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi was recently selected to serve on a committee assembled by the American Association of University Professors to look into academic governance issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oliva Rissland, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Colorado, read a scientific paper every day for 899 days. At the end of that stretch, she picked her favorite: “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers,” written in 1989 by Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton.

Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing Emerita Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz recently published an article on Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in the two-volume Brill’s Companion to Euripides (2020).

Hamilton is one of six institutions — the only undergraduate college — to share a $2.7 million National Science Foundation grant to investigate big questions about climate, tectonics, and the evolution of life at a rich location in Kenya.

Assistant Professor of Government Erica De Bruin recently participated in a roundtable discussion titled “Everything Looks Like a War: State Security Forces and Citizen Security.”

Crafting Criminal Justice Reform in Response to Black Lives Matter, an experiential learning practicum in the government department, is a timely offering in this evolving environment.

The Physics Department is taking learning out of the lab and into the field. Physics 100/200 and Physics 190 classes have been experimenting with launching pressure rockets behind the campus athletic fields. Faculty members Kristen Burson, Viva Horowitz, and Seth Major, and Director of Laboratories/Head Technician Adam Lark are making the most of this outdoor lab to teach the concepts of pressure and distance.