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Hamilton will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with several campus and community events in January.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Cannarelli Peck attended the Middle Eastern Studies Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., from Dec. 1-4, where she participated in the panel "Sufism and the Occult Sciences." Her paper was titled “Morisco Mysticism and Magic: The 16th Century Leaden Texts of Granada, Spain.”

The homepage of New Deal 2.0, a project of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, featured “FDR Wants You to Combat Misinformation About Progressive Policies,” a blog post by James S. Sherman Professor of Government Philip Klinkner, on Jan. 12. In his essay, Klinkner recounted FDR’s efforts to inform and engage the public to fight back against anti-New Deal attacks and compared these efforts to the strategies that will be essential to President Obama’s reelection campaign.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin and Associate Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn recently published their joint work "Geometric Graph Homomorphisms" in the Journal of Graph Theory.

Barbara Gold, the  Edward North Professor of Classics, attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Philadelphia on Jan. 5-8, where she delivered a paper titled “Juvenal: The Idea of the Book,” at a session on “Roman Satire.”

Members of the women's basketball team took a break from games and practices to volunteer at United Cerebral Palsy on Jan. 9. The students helped out in the Pre-K rooms. One teacher commented “the girls were wonderful, and would they please come back?!”

The national news media focused its attention on Hamilton on many occasions in 2011, perhaps most intensely upon the release of a senior thesis written by five graduates. “Are Talking Heads Blowing Hot Air? An Analysis of the Accuracy of Forecasts in the Political Media” was presented on May 2. The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Financial Times and dozens of other national and international outlets reported the results almost immediately. Reference to the study continues in various publications.

Hamilton faculty participated in the 2012 STARTALK Winter Workshop hosted by the Associated Colleges in China at Hamilton on Jan. 6 and 7.  Hamilton participants included Hong Gang Jin, Ming De Xu, Lian Xue, Ying Gao, and Xiaoming Hou. The workshop was held in preparation for the 2012 STARTALK Program which will be held at Hamilton for two weeks in the summer of 2012.

Thanks to the generous support of young alumni, Hamilton is pleased to name Conor Collins '14 of Brookfield, Conn., as its 39th GOLD Scholar.  

People and events at Hamilton drew much interest from local media during 2011. The celebration of Hamilton’s Bicentennial garnered significant attention, student volunteering was the subject of positive news stories and editorials, and faculty members offered expertise on timely news topics throughout the year.