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Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient presented a talk on the Hamilton College Mathematics Senior Seminar Program at the Annual Mathematics Meetings in Boston in January.  The talk was part of a session on “Capstone Courses” and described the Hamilton seminar program as a whole, but focused on the Seminar in Topology which Bedient has taught for many years.

The Buffers, Hamilton’s oldest and only all-male a cappella group, completed their annual tour of the Northeast over winter break.

The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures hosted a Chinese New Year Celebration on  Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the Annex. The Year of the Dragon was celebrated with student performances of the lion dance, music and skits.  

Hamilton’s Program in New York students along with faculty director Daniel Chambliss and co-director Susan Morgan celebrated Chinese New Year at Nancy Lee's Pig Heaven, before taking the first guided group tour given of the newly opened American Art Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Jan. 25. This semester’s program theme is Health and Health Care in a Global Society.

Professor of Physics Emeritus Philip Pearle published a paper titled “Cosmogenesis and Collapse,” in the January edition of the journal Foundations of Physics. The article presents a quantum theory way of creating the universe out of a state of nothingness.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche was featured in White Charity: Blackness and whiteness on charity donation posters, a documentary about German charity aid posters. Piesche contributed research for the film by Carolin Philipp and Timo Kiesel that analyzes the posters from a postcolonial perspective.

During this bicentennial year of Hamilton College, a unique and entertaining way of looking back at the college’s history is through the eyes of Half-Century class annalists. Their letters, invaluable in recording Hamilton’s past and recounting life on the Hill, have now been posted on a new web page. The five most recent are also available as videos.

Three photographs from Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight's Class of 2015 series will be included in a MassArt Alumni Show at the Fountain Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., from Feb. 4 - March 3.  The Class of 2015 project is a longitudinal portrait project utilizing photography and video to examine identity development in 39 members of Hamilton's Class of 2015. 

Although the co-curricular program of the Semester in Washington focuses primarily on meetings and networking with policy makers and shapers, students also explore the cultural assets of the nation’s capital.

Professor of Biology Ernest Williams gave an invited lecture, "Population Trends and Overwinter Survival in Monarch Butterflies," to the Biology Department at Boston University on Jan. 23.