Faculty News
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National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. June’s news topics included varied subjects from Ukraine and the economy to summer reading and admissions essays.
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Debra Boutin, the Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Emerita, gave an invited presentation entitled "Geochromatic Number in terms of Chromatic Number" in the Graph Colouring and Homomorphism Minisymposium at the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Discrete Math Conference in Spokane, Wash.
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Hamilton President David Wippman announced the promotion of four faculty members to the rank of professor, as approved by the College’s Board of Trustees at its June meeting. They include Mark Cryer (theatre), Robert Knight (art), Michelle LeMasurier (mathematics and statistics), and Nigel Westmaas (Africana studies). All were effective July 1, 2024.
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Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer plays the role of Sheldon in Trouble in Mind, by Alice Childress.
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Major national and international media outlets and leading publications turned to Hamilton College faculty, staff, and alumni for their expertise and thought leadership on a broad range of topics during the 2023-2024 academic year.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams was admitted to the state bar of Arizona earlier in June and is now a licensed attorney in that state.
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Work by Professor of Art Katharine Kuharic is included in I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, on display in Detroit through June 30.
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Hamilton alumni, students, and colleagues send well-wishes and thanks to five members of the faculty who entered the world of retirement at the conclusion of the 2023-24 academic year. We asked them to reflect on their time on College Hill and what’s next.
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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of International Affairs and Professor of Government, was recently a guest commentator for Voice of America.
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Julian Damashek, visiting assistant professor of biology, and Reilan Garczynski '26 both presented research conducted at Hamilton at the 2024 Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) conference in Madison, Wisc.
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