Faculty News

Professor of Government Robert Martin recently published a research article in the French scholarly journal, Participations.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, recently attended the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS). The event took place in Toronto Jan. 5th to 8th.

In the email below sent to the Hamilton community on Jan. 17, 2017, President David Wippman announced the death of Lecturer in Communication Tom Phelan. "I write with the very sad news that Lecturer in Communication Tom Phelan suffered a heart attack this morning and passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Professor Catherine Phelan, and family."

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons was the co-organizer and co-chair of a session at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). The meeting took place in Atlanta Jan. 4th to 7th.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presided over a roundtable discussion during the annual joint meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Toronto on Jan. 7.

Seniors Brett Bracco, Sara Purinton and Dan Farina presented posters based on their senior theses at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs presented “Correlates of Immune Defenses in Golden Eagles” at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

In a Guardian article titled "Paintings reveal early signs of cognitive decline, claims study," Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown firmly disagreed with the researcher’s findings. In her 2006 paper published by the journal Nature, Brown debunked a previous theory that fractal analysis could be used to authenticate Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald was interviewed in a seven-minute video about The Qatsi Trilogy that launched on FilmStruck, a subscription-based on-demand film service, on Jan. 6.

Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich presented her work, “Controlling Images: Slave Women in Roman Comedy,” at the recent meeting for the Society for Classical Studies in Toronto, Canada.