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Sixteen sophomores and juniors have begun the spring 2012 Semester in Washington, which combines academic seminars, independent research and internships. Internships this semester include the House, Senate, Department of Justice, Republican National Committee, and a variety of thinks tanks, consulting firms and non-profits. The Semester in Washington also has a rich co-curricular program, including meetings with those who make and influence policy and excursions to take advantage of Washington’s educational and cultural assets.

Susan Mason, director of Education Studies, in partnership with AKLearning and the American Management Association International (AMA) recently served as content expert, instructor and an instructional designer for a SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) compliant online learning pilot program.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald’s interview with filmmaker Pawel Wojtasik, “Perception as Transcendence,” has been published in the winter issue of Film Quarterly.  

A Chilean movie co-subtitled by Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Virginia Gutierrez-Berner premiered Jan. 20 at the Sundance Film Festival. Joven y alocada (Young and Wild) is director Marialy Rivas’ first feature film and will also be shown at the Berlin Film Festival in February.  

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer joined New York Times    education senior editor Jacques Steinberg, on The Today Show to discuss issues related to financial aid on Friday, January 20. Video of this segment can be found on the Times’ admission website, The Choice.

Robert Kantrowitz ’82, professor and chair of mathematics, was a speaker at the Joint Mathematics Meetings held Jan. 4-7, 2012, in Boston.   

Hamilton’s co-ed a capella group Duelly Noted completed its second annual concert tour over the college’s winter break. Three of the performances on the four-day tri-state tour were held in the hometowns of current Duelly Noted members: Queensbury, N.Y., home of Madison Malone Kircher ’14; Newtown, Conn., home of Andrew Nichols ’14; and Kinnelon, N.J., home of Mackenzie Leavenworth ’15. The group also performed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published the article “The Evaluation of Web Participatory Learning Tools and the Criteria for Selecting Virtual Classroom Software” in Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2011, P. 1-22.

The M-Theatre production of The Last Minstrel Show by John D. Davidson concludes its run tonight with another sold-out performance.  The dinner-theatre show is a musical treatment of the 1920 lynchings of three black circus workers in Duluth. This 5th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day production is aimed at promoting diversity and serving as an entertaining way to educate on culture and history.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz chaired a workshop titled “Classics in Action” at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association Jan. 5-8 in Philadelphia. The session as a whole raised the question of how Classics as a discipline engages with the wider society.