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American young people say that the top two causes of poverty are a lack of jobs (82.8 percent) followed by a lack of health insurance (69.4 percent) according to a new national survey of young Americans’ attitudes on poverty, conducted by Hamilton. The full results of this survey will be available online and presented by webcast on Monday, Dec. 12, at 11 a.m. EST at www.hamilton.edu/poverty. Questions during the presentation can be posed via Twitter using #povertypoll.

Since its formal dedication at Fallcoming in October, 2006, The Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center has established itself as the hub of campus fitness and wellness activities.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Chinthaka Kuruwita co-authored an article titled “Generalized varying coefficient models with unknown link function” in the September issue of the journal Biometrika.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a concert by the College orchestra on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The performance, featuring Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major,  is free and open to the public.

Students in the Program in Washington attended a working lunch at the World Bank hosted by Hasan Tuluy P ’08 on Dec. 1. Currently the World Bank Group’s vice president for human resources, Tuluy will become vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean in January.

Ten students from Hamilton's Mathletics team competed nationally on Dec. 3, in the William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition.  The participants were Jeremy Adelman ’13, Abrar Ahmed ’13, Yinghan Ding ’12, Adam Fix ’13, Robert Huben ’15, Maribeth Johnson ’13, Sunrose Shrestha ’14, Josh Snyder ’13, Yonghun Song ’13 and Shichen Xu ’12. They had trained for the competition throughout the fall semester with Assistant Professor of Mathematics Andrew Dykstra.

Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori presented a paper titled “Analysis of Silent Cinema and Benshi Narration in Digital Humanities" at a meeting in Kyoto, Japan, on Nov. 18.  The conference was organized by the INKE group (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) in Canada, a major collaborative research initiatives program led by scholars at the forefront of computing in the humanities, text analysis, information studies, usability and interface design. It was hosted by Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

Created with the help of 44 student writers and photographers working with 15 alumni mentors and editors, among others, the special “200 Days” issue of the Hamilton Alumni Review marks the College’s Bicentennial by documenting 200 days on (and occasionally off) the Hill.

An opinion piece titled “A Liberal Education: Preparation for Career Success” written by Board of Trustees Chair and former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley ’69 was published on Huffington Post’s site on Dec. 6. In addressing the question often asked by college students, “What subjects and what majors should I choose to ensure their long-term success?,” Lafley replied, “…pursue a liberal arts education. For most people, it's the best foundation for a successful career.

On Friday Dec. 2 at 11:30 p.m., student filmmakers gathered for the commencement of the annual 24-Hour Film Festival. In the past, the event has taken place in the spring, but this year, Film Production Guild President Taylor Coe ’13 wanted to see the Festival through before going abroad to Edinburgh for the spring 2012 semester.