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The Society of Italian Historical Studies has awarded Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley the 2019 Cappadocia Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript. She received this award for her doctoral dissertation, "Animal Empires: The Perfection of Nature between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1630," completed at Stanford University in 2018.
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As the organizer of the Mohawk Valley Correctional Facility community college program in 2014, it only seems appropriate that Doran Larson, the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, delivered the address at the program’s first commencement ceremony on Dec. 19.
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From September through December, the Wellin Museum’s Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day exhibition attracted a continuous flow of media attention.
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Anne Dinneen, Hamilton’s Chief Investment Officer, received Chief Investment Officer (CIO) magazine’s CIO Innovation Award for endowment management on Dec. 14 at a gala at the New York City Public Library.
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Hamilton’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center has joined the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP), a collaboration among 26 other colleges and universities that integrates classroom study of poverty with summer internships and co-curricular activities.
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Having traveled 80,000 feet into the stratosphere and 345 miles across three states, the Hamilton weather balloon finally came to rest in a tree on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire but not before capturing spectacular campus footage as it ascended.
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A new economic impact study commissioned by the Albany-based Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) for its members found that Hamilton College’s estimated economic impact in the Mohawk Valley for 2016-17 totaled $322 million, nearly half of the total $683 million that all private non-profit colleges in the Mohawk Valley contributed.
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Today marks the 100th birthday of jazz singer Joe Williams (1918-1999), Hamilton honorary degree recipient in 1988 and co-founder of the Fillius Jazz Archive.
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“An engaging account of the rise, fall, resurrection and legacy of the Weavers, the Greenwich Village-based quartet of left-leaning musicians founded near the end of 1948,” was how Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, described Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America in The New York Times Sunday Book Review section.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate’s letter, written in response to The Atlantic’s America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches, outlined the “surprising reuses” of old Christian churches in Utica.
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