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The fourth edition of Daniel Chambliss' book, Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation, co-authored with Russell Schutt, has just been published by Sage Publishers. Chambliss is the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology. 

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold published an article titled “Gender Fluidity and Closure in Perpetua’s Prison Diary” in the 2011 edition of the international journal Eugesta. The article focuses on gender ambiguities and fluctuations in Perpetua’s Passio (prison diary) as she awaits martyrdom. 

Hamilton co-hosted the second annual Utica Curling Club Collegiate Bonspiel on Feb. 24-25 at the Utica Curling Club.  Thirteen teams from Boston University, Bowling Green, Colgate, Harvard, MIT, RIT, RPI, SUNY Binghamton, UMass, and U Penn competed along with three teams from Hamilton.

Actor and screenwriter Nat Faxon ’97 won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants during the Feb. 26 Academy Awards. The award, which he received with co-writers Alexander Payne and Jim Rash, is given to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, short story, or TV show but also sometimes another film). Faxon, who majored in theatre at Hamilton, started comedy troupe Bobby Peru. He was profiled in the Spring 2007 Alumni Review article “Roll Credits.”

Performance artist Marina Abramovic will give a lecture on “The Past, Present and Future of Performance Art” on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 6 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Michele Paludi, Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, has edited and contributed a chapter in a four-volume book set for Praeger titled The Psychology of Love.

Four Hamilton economics professors published “The influence of social relationships on pro-environment behaviors” in the January issue of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. The article was co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Julio Videras, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics Ann L. Owen, Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover and Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu.

On athletic practice fields and team buses and in the Kirner-Johnson atrium, large groups of students joined in writing thank you postcards to donors throughout S.T.O.P. Day. The celebration of “Starting Today Others Pay” Day began with a presentation by Vice President of Administration and Finance Karen Leach, ended with remarks by alumnus John Werner ’92 and resulted in more than 2,000 thank you cards penned by students to donors.

For the eighth year, students from Boston’s Citizen Schools are visiting Hamilton as members of 8th Grade Academy. Citizen Schools is a growing national network of after-school education programs for middle school students.

On February 16, participants in Hamilton's New York City program attended a performance of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. Aida, an opera of four acts by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, tells the love story of an Ethiopian princess enslaved by the Egyptians and an Egyptian war captain.