The goal of the first TEDx talk at Hamilton College, sponsored by the Oral Communication Center and Dean of Faculty’s Office, was to leave the conformity of our everyday lives and return to no-strings attached inquisitive nature of youth in order to achieve uninhibited curiosity and creativity.
Hamilton College Professor of Economics Steve Wu and 2012 grad Kendall Weir analyzed five years of NFL draft data and discovered that the performance of NFL players who had an arrest record but no charges was better than those without an arrest and those arrested and charged performed as well as those with clean records - but they cost less.
Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, was born 200 years ago on Nov. 6, 1814. Audio and video interviews with some of the world’s outstanding sax players in today’s musical world as well as past eras, are freely accessible online via the Hamilton College Fillius Jazz Archive.
Hamilton College’s Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art presents “Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature” opening Saturday, Oct. 11, from 4 – 6 p.m. This eponymous exhibition features new and recent work by Alyson Shotz, an abstract artist who creates monumental sculptures, photo-collages and installations.
Dickey, foreign editor of The Daily Beast, gave the address at Hamilton’s commencement on Sunday, May 25, in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House where 500 students received bachelor’s degrees.
Hamilton College Professor of Economics Steve Wu and 2012 grad Kendall Weir analyzed five years of NFL draft data and discovered that the performance of NFL players who had an arrest record but no charges was better than those without an arrest and those arrested and charged performed as well as those with clean records - but they cost less. The study, Criminal Records and The Labor Market for Professional Athletes: The Case of the National Football League, is forthcoming in the Journal of Sports Economics.
Award-winning author and journalist Christopher Dickey will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Dickey will be awarded an honorary degree, along with Deborah Bial, founder and president of the Posse Foundation, and Thomas Schwarz, a 1966 Hamilton graduate and president of Purchase College.
Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, a compilation of 71 essays written by prisoners from across the U.S., edited by Hamilton College Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson, has just been published.
Despite the fact that most high school students feel relatively safe in their schools, a significant number are concerned about the possibility of a mass shooting in their school or community, according to a new national poll of high school seniors conducted by Hamilton College’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center in conjunction with Knowledge Networks.
Some may have wondered about about a series of pink flags that were later supplanted by white chalk designs on the area between the Admission office and the Taylor Science Center at Hamilton College. It was all part of a project for “Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology.”
Hamilton College Professor of Government Philip Klinkner is the co-author of The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of America's Commitment to Racial Equality, which received the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award from Harvard University’s Afro-American Studies Department and W.E.B DuBois Institute. In this opinion piece, Klinkner focuses on white America’s fears and need for social stability, rather than a commitment to higher moral ground, as the motivation for support of civil rights for black America.
Will Newman, a rising senior at Hamilton College, is working with Burke Library’s Special Collections to organize the manuscripts and other writings of poet Agha Shahid Ali so that they are accessible to scholars, ensuring that Shahid’s legacy at Hamilton lives on.
During her semester abroad in Kenya, Abby Martin, a rising senior at Hamilton College, saw first-hand the effects of many terrible diseases, which strengthened her resolve to become a doctor and motivated her to learn more about health issues in Africa. This summer, is researching and helping to produce radio and video segments on health-related issues in Africa.
When Deanna Perez, a rising senior at Hamilton College, looks at a bookshelf, she doesn’t just see a row of book spines. Instead, she sees unwinding possibilities that can be unlocked both through reading and through art.
A Hamilton College, NSF-funded, professor of geosciences and a trainer of NASA astronauts, Barbara Tewksbury seems an unlikely candidate to lead a kiltmaking workshop. Equally surprising, her teaching partner is a male, former U.S. Army helicopter pilot from Vancouver. The workshop, which is full and closed, has attracted participants from around the world.
Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, will hold its fourth yearly test of its emergency preparedness plan on Monday, July 29th, ensuring the readiness of its emergency response team. The Hamilton exercise is also one of the most extensive operations in fulfillment of the yearly Clery Act mandate that every college conduct a test of its crisis systems.
Despite the hope that President Obama’s clear victory last November might lead to a reduction in partisan polarization, the results of new survey conducted by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College indicate that American are as divided as ever.
Hamilton College poll shows majority of Americans would support a New York City Council proposal to allow non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center survey shows that 60 percent of Americans supported allowing legal immigrants to vote in local elections.
May 2 has been the National Day of Prayer since 1952, but, according to Hamilton College History Professor John Ragosta, Americans have been called to days of prayer since the American Revolution. Author of the newly published Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed, Ragosta explains the evolution of the use of prayer by elected U.S. officials.
Hamilton College Professor of Economics Steve Wu and 2012 grad Kendall Weir analyzed five years of NFL draft data and discovered that the performance of NFL players who had an arrest record but no charges was better than those without an arrest and those arrested and charged performed as well as those with clean records - but they cost less. The study is forthcoming in the Journal of Sports Economics.
In a Huffington Post essay titled “The New Washington Economics,” Hamilton College Government Professor P. Gary Wyckoff questioned the financial soundness of the sequester.
While butterflies appear to be weathering the change, bird populations may not fare as well.
Transitioning to college can be tough, and international, first-generation and historically-underrepresented students may face additional challenges. Recognizing the possible need for extra support, Hamilton College created the Multicultural Peer Mentoring Project (MP²).
American young people say that the top two causes of poverty are a lack of jobs (82.8 percent) followed by a lack of health insurance (69.4 percent) according to a new national survey of young Americans’ attitudes on poverty, conducted by Hamilton College. The full results of this survey will be available online and presented by webcast on Monday, Dec. 12, at 11 a.m. EST at www.hamilton.edu/poverty
Hamilton College Professor of Biology Ernest H. Williams co-authored an article presenting the results of a study showing that the number of monarchs overwintering on the mountains in Mexico has declined significantly over the past 17 years. He and his co-authors feel that this decline calls into question the long-term survival of the monarchs’ migratory phenomenon.
Influenza viruses spread quickly, are quite common and can have devastating consequences. Thus, drugs that help restrict the spread of influenza not only shorten the sickness, but save lives. This summer three Hamilton College students are conducting research to examine the chemical interactions on which these important drugs rely to combat the flu.
Solar cells hold the potential to provide an efficient and environmentally-clean energy source. With the recent interest in alternative forms of energy, solar power is gaining importance, and so is research on solar cell efficiency. Over the summer, Hamilton College rising senior Sarah Fobes is working on an innovative method of improving solar cell efficiency using rare earth elements. She is collaborating with Hamilton College Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith on their project, “Quantum Cutting to Enhance Solar Cell Efficiency.”
A new national survey of Americans’ attitudes on immigration, race, ethnicity and religion, conducted by Hamilton College, shows a large majority of Americans (60%) support allowing legal immigrants to vote in local elections, with the strongest support coming from young Americans and opposed only by a majority of those over age 60.
Op-ed columnists and TV’s talking heads build followings by making bold, confident predictions about politics and the economy. But rarely are their predictions analyzed for accuracy. Now, a class at Hamilton College led by public policy professor P. Gary Wyckoff has analyzed the predictions of 26 prognosticators between September 2007 and December 2008. Their findings? Anyone can make as accurate a prediction as most of them if just by flipping a coin.
The happiest countries and happiest U.S. states tend to have the highest suicide rates, researchers from the UK’s University of Warwick, Hamilton College in New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, have found.
Be mine. Yours forever. You hold the key to my heart. Hamilton College Classics Professor Barbara Gold can’t help but notice the difference between modern Valentine’s Day cards filled with sentimental sayings and ancient Romans’ wrenching expressions of love.
Two Hamilton College seniors presented posters at the December American Geophysical Union Meeting highlighting research related to the National Science Foundation-supported LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) project.
Hamilton College computer science professor Stuart Hirshfield has received a $458,900 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to establish the Hamilton College Next-Generation Usability Laboratory.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hamilton College $800,000 in support of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), a research and teaching collaboration in which new media and computing technologies are used to promote humanities-based research, scholarship and teaching, including curricu¬lum development, across the liberal arts.
Hamilton College will conduct a large-scale emergency drill on its campus in conjunction with the New York State Police (NYSP) and local emergency responders on Tuesday, July 20. This undertaking will allow both organizations to test their emergency preparedness in an economical and effective manner.
A new national survey of high school students’ attitudes toward the U.S. economy, conducted by Hamilton College, shows more than two-thirds of African-American teenagers believe they’ll be more prosperous than their parents. In contrast, a little more than a third of white students believe their standard of living will be better than their parents.
"The Greek debt crisis has exposed the underlying contradictions of Europe's economic monetary union-- a single currency and market absent a single government--at a time when the EU is beset by growing conflicts among the member states."
Hamilton College Classicist comments on modern vs. ancient expressions of love.
"Woodstock has become a favorite Sixties memory, the Sixties as they might have been, shorn of all that unpleasantness about the war, racism, etc.," says history professor and Woodstock eyewitness Maurice Isserman. Co-author of "America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s," Isserman frequently provides expert commentary on Woodstock and other significant events of the era.
To thrill-seekers, the roller coaster represents the ultimate in death-defying rides. But to physicists, the ride that's celebrating its 125th birthday on June 13 is a classic illustration of gravity, G-force and the law of conservation of energy. Hamilton College professor Amy Lytle describes how the principles of physics are used to power these increasingly thrilling amusement park rides.
Hamilton College researchers have identified molecules that have been shown to be effective in the fight against breast cancer. A paper detailing the research, "Computational Design and Experimental Discovery of an Anti-estrogenic Peptide Derived from Alpha-Fetoprotein," will be published in the May 16 issue of the Journal of American Chemical Society.
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
Hamilton College will no longer offer merit scholarships, beginning with the first-year class that enrolls in the fall of 2008.
Each year, Hamilton College conducts a national phone survey to take the pulse of American youth. This year's topic was climate change and Hamilton economist Julio Videras found that despite an emphasis in schools and in the media about climate change and environmental issues, American high-school students do not understand climate change issues well.
Classicist comments on modern versus ancient expressions of love.
Author Anna Quindlen told Hamilton College graduates to put fear aside and fight the tyranny of homogeny. "The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield," Quindlen said. "It takes place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations and yes, your soul by listening to its clean clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world."
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist Anna Quindlen will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 21, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
A strong interest in integrating green design into its 200-year-old campus has led Hamilton College to incorporate environmental sensitivity and sustainable design in its renovation projects. As Earth Day approaches, Hamilton announces that Skenandoa House, an 84-year-old residence hall renovated in 2004, has been awarded a Silver LEED® Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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