Hamilton in the News

During this maple-sugaring season, local media have featured the work of sophomore Michael Spicer who has taken over the operation of Cedervale Maple Syrup Company in nearby Onondaga County.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury was recently quoted in an article on Space.com about how NASA astronaut candidates train for space exploration.

Engaged Philosophy, a website highlighting what is sometimes called experiential philosophy, interviewed Russell Marcus, associate professor of philosophy.

Students, alumni, faculty, and staff as well as the College’s many centers, activities, and achievements were regularly noted and celebrated in 2018 by national media outlets.

From September through December, the Wellin Museum’s Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day exhibition attracted a continuous flow of media attention.

Anne Dinneen, Hamilton’s Chief Investment Officer, received Chief Investment Officer (CIO) magazine’s CIO Innovation Award for endowment management on Dec. 14 at a gala at the New York City Public Library.

“An engaging account of the rise, fall, resurrection and legacy of the Weavers, the Greenwich Village-based quartet of left-leaning musicians founded near the end of 1948,” was how Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, described Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America in The New York Times Sunday Book Review section.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate’s letter, written in response to The Atlantic’s America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches, outlined the “surprising reuses” of old Christian churches in Utica.

Scientific American published an essay titled How Capital Influences Attitudes toward Capital Punishment by Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams in which she explained, “When people think the economy is poor, support for the death penalty rise.”

In a story titled “Shining a Light on Life Behind Bars,” The Nation featured the American Prisoner Writing Archive, comparing its legacy to that of the slave narratives in its offering of non-establishment perspectives on incarceration in the United States.