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.
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.
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.
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.
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