Faculty News

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.

The Dead of Winter Classic Comedy Festival for the Young and Young at Heart, presented by the F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series, continues on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m., with Buster Keaton’s The General (1926).

David Gapp, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Biology, led a conversation about Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World as part of the Kirkland Town Library series “Hamilbrary: A Year of Reading with Hamilton College Professors.”

“Mexico is one of the most important countries in the world for the United States,” began this year’s Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs E. Anthony Wayne in his essay, “Why US should treat Mexico as vital partner, not a punching bag,” published on Feb. 8 on theconversation.com.

Climate Change and Trump’s Board-Game Patriotism, an essay on The Huffington Post website by Associate Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavo begins by quoting from President Trump’s inaugural address.

The F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present a “Dead of Winter Classic Comedy Festival for the Young and Young at Heart” beginning Sunday, Feb. 5, at 2 p.m., with Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer (1915) and The Kid (1921).

Kassandra Zaila ’15 was the lead author of an article published last week in the journal Frontiers of Microbiology. The article was based on research supported by the Casstevens Family Fund.

An article titled “Across the Great Divide: Classical Epic and the Poetics of Fantasy” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner was recently published in Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy.

Some 40 students, faculty and administrators gathered in the Fillius Events Barn on Jan. 28 for a new event, Teach the Teacher, to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Phyllis Breland, Director of Opportunity Programs and Interim Director of Diversity and Inclusion, said the purpose of the event was “to bring to the forefront some of the other messages and passions of MLK…. (his) support of creativity, taking care of one another, and youth working with elders so that both can contribute to a better future.”

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.