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From providing a virtual look at India’s sacred centers to collecting oral histories in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Hamilton’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) provides students an interdisciplinary — and often interactive — approach to collaborating with faculty.

“Gender Differences in Episodic Encoding of Autobiographical Memory” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Azriel Grysman appears in the March issue of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Assistant Professor of Geosciences Catherine Beck recently traveled to the University of Minnesota to sample from the 216 meters of core collected through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project in 2013.

The Journal of Conflict Resolution has published a paper by Assistant Professor of Government Erica De Bruin titled Preventing Coups d’état – How Counterbalancing Works on March 7.

The Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Princeton, N.J., awarded Associate Professor of History John Eldevik a one-semester membership in the School of Historical Studies for the spring 2018 term. He also recently received a DAAD research grant.

Praised by The Wall Street Journal, the Natural History Magazine and the Library Journal, among others, “Continental Divide – a History of American Mountaineering,” has been released by W.W. Norton in paperback. A National Outdoor Book Award honorable mention recipient, the book, written by Professor of History Maurice Isserman, has been excerpted in publications including The Alpinist and The Oregonian.

New York Times quoted Professor of Economics Paul Hagstrom and referenced his research focused on refugees in a Feb. 22 article in the Times titled “A Surprising Salve for New York’s Beleaguered Cities: Refugees.”

Following the donation of an atomic absorption spectrometer last summer, ICON, plc, has again added to the instrumentation capability of the Taylor Science Center.

Superhero Costumes Come to Parents' Rescue, a Feb. 8 Wall Street Journal article, featured a recent study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White titled The “Batman Effect”: Improving Perseverance in Young Children.

A New York 6 (NY6) consortium faculty group has been planning a conference at Hamilton for April 7-9 that has become acutely relevant in recent days.